[Mitai-announce] Reminder TODAY STARR FORUM: DARFUR/DARFUR

Karen Li karenli at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 15 14:03:48 EDT 2009


   The MIT Center for International Studies Invites You To A Starr Forum
                                     on

                               DARFUR/DARFUR
                          The Crisis | The Exhibit
          [1]http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
                         Thursday, October 15, 2009
                              MIT Stata Center
                        32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
                                      
                               7:00 - 8:00 PM
                                 THE CRISIS
                      Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center
           Robert Rotberg, Susannah Sirkin, and Marcus Bleasdale
                    The discussion concludes with a Q&A
                               8:00 - 9:00 PM
                                THE EXHIBIT
                          TSMC Lobby, Stata Center

   The free Starr Forum event commences in the Kirsch Auditorium with a
   panel discussion featuring Robert Rotberg, Belfer Center, Harvard's
   Kennedy School of Government; Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human
   Rights; and Marcus Bleasdale, member of the DARFUR/DARFUR team. The
   event concludes in the TSMC Lobby with the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibit and
   reception.
   DARFUR/DARFUR is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected images
   that provide visual education about the richly multi-cultural region
   while exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The
   exhibit is a product of Art Works Projects and curated by Leslie
   Thomas, founding director of Art Works Projects.
   Photographers include former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle and
   photojournalists Lynsey Addario, Mark Brecke, Helene Caux, Ron Haviv,
   Paolo Pellegrin, James Nachtwey, Ryan Spencer Reed, and Michal Safdie.
   The exhibit was edited by Matthew Jacob and is accompanied by Sudanese
   inspired music.

   A CIS Starr Forum event brought to you by MIT Center for International
    Studies and Boston International. Additional co-sponsors include the
    MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice; MIT Amnesty International;
                      and Physicians for Human Rights.
      The event was funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
                For more information, visit the event page:
          [2]http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html

--
Michelle Nhuch
Director of Public Programs
Center for International Studies at MIT
Room E40-443
(p) 617.253.1965
[3]http://web.mit.edu/cis/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

References

   1. http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
   2. http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_101509_darfur.html
   3. http://web.mit.edu/cis/



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