March 1, 2001, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Serbia: A Crisis of Identity. Western media coverage of Serbia in recent years has shown us a region gripped in crisis, often erupting in violent confrontations such as that which led to the NATO bombing campaign in 1999. A Newsweek article described the Serbs as "Europe's outsiders, seasoned haters, raised on self-pity, expert haters." The Serbian people seemed to perpetrate and tolerate a level of violence that Europe had not seen since the holocaust. By the end of the wars, however, little had been done to advance a broader understanding of Serbia and Serbian history or to understand Serbian perspectives. Join the Minnesota International Center as Dr. Tom Emmert, professor of history at Gustavus Adolphus College, offers a view of Serbia and the Serbs, their history, their tragic fate since the mid-1980's, and the prospect for the future after the recent political defeat of Slobodan Milosevic.
Dr. Emmert has taught history at Gustavus since 1973. He is the author of Serbian Golgotha: Kosovo, 1389, a study of the battle between the Serbs and the Ottoman Turks and its role in the evolving historical consciousness of the Serbian people. He is currently completing a one-volume History of Serbia for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Emmert has been a frequent commentator on MPR and NPR during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. He holds a B.A. in History from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Balkan and Eastern European History from Stanford University. Registration and social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. Free for MIC members and students (with valid student I.D.); Non-members $5. Advance registration required. To register: complete MIC's online registration form at http://www.micglobe.org/forms/prereg.cfm or call MIC's 24-hour activity line, (612)626-6204.
Location: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium, 2nd floor, 1000 LaSalle Ave., downtown Minneapolis. This program is cosponsored by the University of St. Thomas' Master of International Management(MIM) program.
March 1, 2001, 6:00 p.m.
"Under the Volcano." The Minnesota Women's Center on the University of Minnesota campus invites you to an event celebrating Women's History Month. The event will be a benefit for a developing program called Women Encouraging Women. The program will primarily assist low-income women and first generation students to find resources and support to acquire a post-secondary education. The night will be kicked off with the evening's keynote speaker, Dr. Rose Brewer, Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies department and continue with performances by Proyecto La Plena, who play plena music of Puerto Rico, a fusion of African, Spanish and Indigenous roots; Teatro Latino with Joy Cheverria in the critically acclaimed, "Rosita's Jalapeno Kitchen;" Theater Mu, a combination of Western and Asian Style Drumming: The East Bank Singers, traditional Native American song, drum and dance; Drumheart, a women's drumming group; and Xperimental Theater's Lisa Arnold, a graduate student in Theater program with her program "addendum, ad infinitum." Refreshments will be served.
For location details, contact: Minnesota Women's Center, University of Minnesota, 125 Klaeber Court, 320 16th Ave. SE, Minneapolis or email to [email protected] http://www.umn.edu/mnwomen or call 612-626-8242.
March 2, 2001, 3:35 pm
"Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History." Professor
Mike Allen from the School of History, Science and Technology of Georgia Institue
of Technology will address modernization from the history of technology using
the Holocaust as his case study. Refreshments at 3:15 in Physics 216.
Location: University
of Minnesota, East Bank Campus, Main Mall, 210 Physics building.
For more information, contact: Barbara Eastwold at 612-624-7069.
March 3, 2001, 3:00 p.m.
Acid Burnings in Bangladesh, Rape in U.S. Prisons, and More. A speaking
tour to stop the torture of women featuring: Nasreen Huq, women's health project
coordinator of the women's activist organization Naripokko, will speak about
her work to stop brutal and disfiguring acid violence. Nancy Bothne, the Midwest
Regional Director of Amnesty International-USA, will discuss sexual violence
in U.S. prisons, including Minnesota, where sexual contact between guards
and inmates is still legal. Additional speakers to be announced.
Location: Todos Los Santos Church, Lyndale & 28th Street, Minneapolis.
Sponsored by Amnesty International.
For more information, contact: 612-301-3580 or email [email protected].
March 8, 2001
"We Will Stand." There will be a gathering of National and Local Civil
Rights and Human Rights Champions. This is the MN event of this 50-State Tour,
called "We Will Stand." Participants include Dr. Hycel Taylor, former National
Director of Operation PUSH, Billy McCormack, civil rights pioneers Walter
Fauntroy, James Bevel, Wyatt T. Walker, and Milton Reid, and theologian Dr.
Paul Swanson. Also slated for the program are George Stallings of Washington,
DC, Wiley Drake of Los Angeles, CA, T.L. Barrett and Leroy Elliot of Chicago,
IL, Jesse Edwards of Philadelphia and David Billings and William Robinson
of New York. A number of legislators such as Donzella James (D-GA) and Mark
Anderson (R-AR) will also participate. Local heros include Jesse Griffin,
Charles Ford, Eugene Wright, Kenneth Garnier, Jerry McAfee, Alphonse Reff,
Arthur Agnew, James Muhammad, John Tranberg and Adam Nhotsavang. "The community
must take a leading role in making a better reality for all our citizens.
Divided by race and religion, we lack the power to stop the ...suffering in
our communities." Grassroots champions of reconciliation and harmony will
be honored in each city. With an invitational committee including hundreds
of religious, educational and legislative leaders, the tour enjoys broad support.
Symposium on Armenian History, Culture and the impact of the Armenian Genocide.� A symposium for teachers and the general public: "Armenia and Armenians: 10,000 Years of History in One Day."� Free workshop for teachers and would carry 3 CEU's for those who attend.� Presentation includes discussion of the Armenian Genocide.� Pre-registration required.� Please RSVP.
Location: 2620 Moos Tower, 515 Delaware Street SE, East Bank Campus.����������
Parking available in Washington Avenue Ramp.
Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, The Armen and Bersabe Jerejian Foundation and Diocesan Armenian Language Lab and Resource Center, New York (ALLARC).�
For more information, contact Nairy Digris at 651-639-9346
or the Center for Holocause and Genocide Studies at 612-624-0256. See website
for more information: http://chgs.hispeed.com/Educational_Resources/Events/events.html
The True Cost of Energy. Xcel Energy buys more than 10 percent of its
energy from Manitoba Hydro, a state-owned and -regulated subsidiary of the
Canadian province of Manitoba. This hydroelectricity is generated by nine
dams and reservoirs that have forever altered millions of acres of fragile
boreal forest and more than 3,000 miles of lake and river shoreline, and devastated
the subsistence communities of five Cree nations. A 1977 agreement with the
Cree, which promised to mitigate the environmental and social damages and
support economic development in the area, has not been realized. Medora Woods,
who traveled to Manitoba and met with the Pimicikamak Cree, shows slides that
document the destruction. Joining her are Nikki LaSorella and Penny Scheffler.
They address how we, as energy consumers, can support indigenous people and
the environment. $4 ($3 members). Free refills on fair-trade coffee.
For more information, contact [email protected], 612-276-0788 ext.
23, or visit www.americas.org. For a half-hour before and after each coffeehour,
join the Resource Center for an activist letter-writing effort with Resource
Center-supplied ideas, background, addresses, and envelopes.
Address by Bennett Freeman on corporations and human rights. International
economic integration brings ethical as well as economic challenges. American
companies that seek out lower labor costs and expanding markets in the developing
world come face to face with oppressive government practices including corruption,
suppression of political participation, and discrimination on the base of
race, ethnicity or gender. Corporations themselves have been criticized for
wages that are too low, for working conditions that are abusive and even for
turning a blind eye to the human rights issues that face their workers. What
responsibilities do transnational corporations have to ensure that basic human
rights of their workers and the communities in which they operate? Are voluntary
codes of conduct enough or should governments and international organizations
set stricter standards to guide corporate actions? How would such standards
be enforced? Bennett Freeman served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from April 1999 until January 2001.
His responsibilities focused on conducting bilateral diplomacy on behalf of
human rights and democracy around the world, as well as on promoting global
corporate responsibility and labor rights. Mr. Freeman previously served as
Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and
Agriculture Affairs from May 1997 to March 1999. Mr. Freeman worked with the
Under Secretary to direct the State Department's diplomatic strategy and historical
research addressing the unfinished business of the Holocaust. Beginning in
1993, Bennett Freeman served four years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Affairs and Chief Speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Before joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Freeman spent eight years with
the General Electric Company working for both the Corporate Headquarters and
the Government Relations office.
March 12, 2001, 6:20pm
Center for Scandinavian Studies
and Center for Holocaust: Guest Lecture by Gunnar Sonsteby
Sonsteby was the Number 2 Norwegian spy against Nazi Germany during the occupation
of WWII and was involved in the rescue of Norwegian Jews into Sweden, which
prompted eventually a change in Swedish policy. Sonsteby will speak for the
first part of the "History of the Holocaust" class.
Location: Physics Building on the Main mall, East Bank Campus of the University of Minnesota.
The event is free and open to the public.
March 12, 2001, 5:00-7:00p.m.
"Bearing Witness: Volunteerism in the Face of Today's Refugee Crisis."
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights joins with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate
organization Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders for a panel
discussion and reception on volunteerism in the face of today's refugee crisis.
Panelists include Dr. Morten Rostrup, International President of Medecins
Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders; Hawa Kamara, Liberian refugee and
Field Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator for MSF-USA; and Lynn Thomas, Executive
Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. The panel discussion will
be moderated by Douglas Johnson, Executive Director of the Center for Victims
of Torture. The panelists will discuss the current state of refugees around
the world and as they build new lives in Minnesota, as well as the impact
volunteers play in assisting refugees both locally and internationally.
Location: Law Firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, 28th Floor Conference Center, 800 LaSalle Avenue, downtown Minneapolis
This event is free and open to the public.
March 13, 2001
Frontiers of Change: Navigating the Human Genome Map.�This conference
will engage both the public and scientific community in a dialogue about the
scope, breadth, benefits of and concerns related to human and animal genomics.�
It will: highlight the University's investment and its intent to implement
genomics research and education; engage the opinions of industry and community
representatives; broaden University-wide interactions around these issues;
enhance understanding of the public and scientific perspectives on these critical
issues.
Location: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota Gateway, 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis.
Sponsors and participating units: Academic Health Center,
Medical School, Colleges of Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Schools of Nursing,
Dentistry, Public Health, Microbiology, Center for Bioethics, Law, Biomedical
Genomics Center, Cancer Center, Medicine - Duluth, Office of the Vice President
for Research
For more information, contact: Regents Professor Ashley Haase, Head, Microbiology at 612-624-4442.
March 14, 2001, 12:15p.m.
Universalism and
Cultural Relativism in the Context of Child Labor. University of MN Professors
Vinay Gidwani (anthropology), Deborah Levison (Hubert H. Humphrey Institute).
And Karen Brown Thompson (Institute for Global Studies) will discuss the human
rights aspects of universalism and cultural relativism in the context of child
labor. Free.
Location: University of
Minnesota Law School, Room 50, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis.
Sponsored by: Institute for Global Studies and Amnesty International
Legal Support Network.
For more information, contact Rosalyn Park at [email protected].
March 14 - April 15
Spinning into Butter. This searching new play, set in a small Vermont college, explores the edgy issue of racism and political correctness with fresh vitality and exposes the unexpected places that racial conflict hides.
Location: Park Square Theater, 20 West Seventh Place, St. Paul
Location: 1114, 1109 Social Science Tower, University of MN, 267 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis.�
March 17, 2001, 10am-11:30am
Community Organizing in Northeastern Brazil.� Popular movements inspired by the likes of Dom Helder Camara, professor Paulo Freire, and the political scientist Josu� de Castro have risen amidst the mangroves, slums and streets of Recife since the late 1950s. Following 25 years of military rule, the past decade has been one in which social and cultural movements throughout Brazil have re-discovered the fundamental importance of affirming the rich and diverse cultural heritage as an invaluable instrument towards establishing positive and combative grass roots organizational strategies. Dan Chaves Aamot, a free-lance social entrepreneur and visual anthropologist, has actively participated both in the life of community organizations and the politicized artistic community in Recife during the last sixteen years. He shares his slides, impressions and experiences regarding the fundamental role of a people�s cultural and artistic heritage in the process of building effective community identity and organization.� $4 ($3 for members).
Location: Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis.
For more information or to give suggestions for speakers, contact Kristi Papenfuss, 612-276-0788, (ext. 23). For a half-hour before and after each coffeehour, join us for an activist letter-writing effort with Resource Center�supplied ideas, background, addresses, and envelopes.
March 23, 2001 Transnationalism: Then and Now.� A lecture given by Dr. Nancy Foner,
Professor of Anthropology from SUNY-Purchase. Sponsored by Race,
Ethnicity, and Migration.� For more information,
contact 612-625-4800 or
email to [email protected]. "Good
News About Injustice: Hope for Women Caught in the International Sex Trade". March
23, 2001, 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Maclaurin
Institute and Christ Presbyterian Church Location: Christ
Presbyterian Church of Edina (Hwy 100 and 70th St) For more Information,
call: 612-378-1935 Location:
St Paul Jewish Community Center, 1375
St. Paul Avenue St. Paul, MN 55116 Location: Park Square Theater 20, West Seventh Place,
St. Paul April 23, 7:15pm Location: Bell Museum
Auditorium (17th & University Aves SE) April 25, 7pm, Location: Bell Museum
Auditorium (17th & University Aves SE) Location: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota,
333 East River Road. Minneapolis. For more information contact Charlotte Voight, Center
for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of MN, [email protected]. April 21, 2001, 8:00pm
Location: Ted Mann Concert
Hall, University of Minnesota, 2106 Fourth Street South. This event is free and open
to the public. April 25-27, 2001 Upheaval and Change
in Ireland's Past.� Upheaval has often struck Ireland. These eras of simultaneous
opportunity and tumult can lead to fundamental changes in the landscape.
Ethnic identities are forged. Communities are transformed. Environments
are altered.� Times of upheaval also
produce obstinate continuity as disquieted populations search for ties to
their own past.� Inspired by Ireland's
current economic and social upheaval to reconsider similar periods in the
past, researchers are redefining which of these transitional periods were
widespread and long-lasting and which were mirages born of modern interpretations
of the past. This conference draws together Irish and North American scholars
to explore how archaeology and texts illuminate the perception and reality
as well as the origin and consequences of upheaval in Ireland. Conference
events will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Patrick Wallace, Director of
the National Museum of Ireland and Viking-period scholar.� Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center
for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota. For further information contact John Soderberg of the
Department of Anthropology at 612-625-3400 or email to: [email protected].� Young Peacemakers.� Gandhi
said, �Non-violence cannot be preached. It must be practiced!� A group of
friends inspired by the words of Gandhi, King, Location: SteppingStone
Theatre, 314 Landmark Center, 75 West 5th St., St. Paul, MN. Contact the Box office: 651-225-9265. May 8-9, 2001 Dalai Lama Visit.� May 8 9:30am-11:30am: Teaching
�Generating a Good Heart� Northrop Auditorium 5:30pm-7:00pm: Public
Address �Compassion and Universal Responsibility in a New Century� Williams
Arena, U of MN, 1925 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis. May 9 5:30pm-7:30pm:� Interfaith Dialogue Northrop Auditorium, U
of MN, 84 Church St. SE, Minneapolis. Tickets range from $28-$152.� To order tickets, call the U of MN Arts Ticket Office at 612-624-2345.�
For more information, visit www.DalaiLamaMinnesota.org, email
to [email protected],
or leave a message at 612-871-9393. May 9 - 10, 2001 Location: Hubert H. Humphrey
Center, University of Minnesota, 301 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis. For more information, contact
Maggie Potapchuk at (202) 789-6361 or [email protected]. June 6,
2001, 12:30 June 7, 2001, 7:00-9:00 pm To register, call 651-697-0440
or 1-800-477-3660. Location: Colonial Church
of Edina, 6200 Colonial Way June 8, 2001, 7:30-3:00 pm June 10, 2001, 7:00 - 9:00
pm For more information, contact
Larry Olds. email: [email protected]; phone: 612/722-3442; or the Freire Center:
[email protected]; phone: 612/722-5790. June 10-12, 2001 Conference: Deterring
and preventing Genocide: Missed Opportunities, Contemporary Issues, and Future
Possibilities.� The Fourth Biennial Conference of the Association
of Genocide Scholars.� Abstracts and
Panel Proposals (limit 500 words) due by February 15, 2001.�
Location: Radisson Metrodome
Hotel, 615 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis. June 12, 2001, 7:00pm Location: Moos Tower 12-168
(McKelvey Seminar Room) For more information, contact
Sarah Herzog, Outreach Coordinator Institute for Global Studies, 214 Social
Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 555455. Phone: 612-624-7346
of Email: [email protected]. June 26, 2001, 4:00-6:15 pm July 13,
2001, 8:30 am-12:00 noon September
13, 2001, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. September 13, 2001, 3:00 p.m. September 19, 2001, 11:30a.m.-1:30p.m.
Location: Windows on Minnesota,
50th Floor, IDS Tower, 80 S. 8th Street, downtown Minneapolis To register: call Elaine
at 612.626.4987. September 20, 2001, 12:30 p.m. September 24, 2001, 6:00-7:00
p.m. September 25 - October 19,
2001 September 26, 2001, 12:00-1:00p.m. Location: Minneapolis Hilton
and Towers, 3rd Floor, Salon C, 1001 Marquette Avenue, downtown Minneapolis.
Cost: Free, but firm reservations
are required. Space is limited. To register: Visit the
UNA's website at www.unamn.org, or call 612.879.7512. September 28 - October 27,
2001 September 28, 2001, 4:30-7:00p.m. Location: University of
St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium, 2nd Floor; 1000 LaSalle
Avenue, Minneapolis Cost: Free for MIC members,
Amnesty International USA members, University of St. Thomas students (with
valid ID); advance registration required; Non-members $10 To register: call Nancy
at 612.625.4138 September 28, 2001, 4:30-7:00
p.m. October
1, 2001, 2:00p.m. October 2-23, 2001, 6:30-8:30
p.m. October 2, 2001, 5:00-7:00p.m. Location: Fitzgerald Theater,
10 E. Exchange Street, downtown St. Paul Cost: Free, but space is
limited. Advance registration is required by Sept. 28. To register: call Elaine
at 612.626.4987. October 4, 2001, 6:00p.m.-8:30p.m. October 8, 2002, 7:30 p.m. Location: Cowles
Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center October 12, 2001, 12:30p.m. Location: Mayo
Building 100, Academic Health Center, East Bank Campus of University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis October 19, 2001, 12:00p.m. Location: Hubert H. Humphrey
School of Public Policy, Virginia Cowles Auditorium October 20, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-1:00p.m. October 25, 2001, 12:45p.m.-2:00p.m. October 25, 2001, 7:00 p.m. October 26, 2001, 6:30p.m. Location: Westminister
Presbyterian Chruch, Nicollet Mall and 12th Street. October 27, 2001, 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Location:
The Millennium Hotel, 1313 Nicollet Mall, Mpls For more information: University
of Minnesota Law School . 415 Law Center 229 19th Avenue South . Minneapolis,
MN 55455 Telephone: (612) 625-8071 . Fax: (612) 624-8890 October 28, 2001, 12:15p.m/2:00p.m./3:45p.m. For more information:
call Erica Giorgi at 612.625-8837 October 28, 2001, 2:00p.m. October 29, 2001, 12:20p.m. Location: 140 Wulling Hall
86 Pleasant Street SE EAST BANK CAMPUS. Parking in Northrop Garage, 4th Avenue
Ramp. November,
1, 2001, 12:45p.m.-2:00p.m. November 7 - December 5, 2001,
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. November 11, 2001 November 13, 2001, Day Trip
(6:30a.m. - 8:30p.m.) November 10, 2001 Yiddish vaudeville , as recalled
in the history of the amazing Burstyn family, one of the last remaining icons
of Yiddish theaters Golden Age, comes to life in The Komediant at 5:l5 and
9:l5 p.m.Saturday (l0th). The film, featuring Fivish Finkel and other stars
of the Yiddish stage, repeats 3 pm following Sunday (11th) (free parking 4th
St.SE ramp) An inside view into the dilemmas at the center of religious and
ideological debates stirring Israeli politics is captured in the controversial
Time of Favor,(Haseder) , a compelling thriller about religious nationalist
settlers who conspire to blow up the Dome of the Rock mosque on Jerusalems
Temple Mount. Scheduled for 7:l5 p.m. Sunday, Nov.ll. Heartthrob Israeli actor
Aki Avni as Orthodox army officer and yeshiva student, and popular Israeli
sensation Tinkerbell,his love interest, opposed by her fanatical rabbi father
(Asi Dayan) , helped win six Israeli "Oscars" this year for 27-year-old debut
director Joseph Cedar. Film will repeat 7:l5 p.m. Thursday,Nov. l5. ( Film
was held up for New York and national release because of sensitivity over
the Sept.ll World Trade Center repercussions. Politically correct or not,
the film is now due to open late January.) Israel will also be the focus
of "Promises," , in which U.S.filmmaker B.Z.Goldberg convinces seven articulate
Israeli and Palestinian ll-to-l4-year-olds to try honestly to come to grips
with their daily religious and national conflicts. Living within a 20-minute
radius of one another but having little direct knowledge of the other's lives,they
visit each other's homes and come up with poignant insights,which may offer
"promises." Winner, audience award,Rotterdam Film Festival,"Promises " was
recently termed "the most honest Mideast movie ever made," by a Vancouver
arts weekly .( 7:l5 p.m. Tues,Wed.,Fri., Nov.20-21,23.) Roots of the Israel-Palestine
conflict,with new insights on their origins are chronicled in the stirring
and inspirational "In Search of Peace: 1948-l967", a sequel to the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's Oscar-winning l997 "The Long Way Home".( 5 p.m. Sat - 7:l5 p.m. Sun.,Nov.l7-18).
("..Does an excellent job of sorting through and clarifying the complexities
of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The plight of stateless Palestinian refugees
is duly recognized"commented NYTimes reviewer Stephen Holden) .The scrupulous,
factual account of two decades ending with the l967 victory, recorded in voice
and rare archival images ,from Papa Ben-Gurion to his quarrelsome sons, as
well as narration by Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Anne Bancroft, does
not fade out on a "happily ever after" note, but acknowledges the heavy price
triumph paid. Provocative also is the film,"Trembling Before G-D", which concerns
the profound desire of homosexuals to find a place for themselves in Orthodox
Judaism. Faith, sexuality and religious fundamentalism are put on the dock
in these compassionate stories affirming the universal struggle to belong
. (7:l5 p.m. Fri.,, 7:l5 ,9:l5 p.m.Sat., 5:l5 Sun.,Nov. l6-l8). " Love-in-conflict " is also a
theme ( with comic overtones) in "Make Me a Match,"on the trials and tribulations
of Jewish singles looking for a catch in today's America.(U of Minn.American
Studies Prof. Riv-Ellen Prell was film consultant), Diverse styles of matchmaking
for the cyberage meet "old style" probing from rabbi and rebbetzin, while
some very organized suburban housewives tell how they promote Jewish survival
by guaranteeing l00% Jewish babies. Shown with "The Last Jewish Town", the
story of a Sephardic community surviving in the mountains of Azerbaijan. (7:l5
p.m. Mon thru Wed., Nov.l2-l4.) International matchmaking is the
center of "Russian Doll," a new Australian feature about a young Jewish woman
from St.Petersburg arriving in Sydney in response to an ad, only to discover
the prospective groom dead. Starring Hugo Weaving (Priscilla,Queen of the
Desert)),the film captures Sydney's Bondi Beach Russian-Jewish immigrant invasion
as backdrop to the bride's search for a "marriage of convenience". The film
will run the last week of November.( Dates tba) Nostalgia for old Jewish values
(including matchmaking ) can be found in "Molly: the Goldbergs,"a l950 film
based on the famous radio series as it became television, with sharp,comic
writing we see now in shows like Seinfeld. Molly tries to match a young couple
while in a quandary herself over her old childhood sweetheart. ( 7:l5 p.m.
Mon,. Nov.l9, 5 p.m. Fri.,23d,) Little-known chapters about Jewish
bravery in World War II are included in "The Second Front," about the underground
resistance movements in the forests and swamps of Eastern Europe. By veteran
Holocaust researcher Deborah Freeman, using never-before-seen footage, photos
and interviews, she sets the record straight on who was a fearless freedom
fighter. (5 & 8p.m. Sat.,Sun. ,Nov.24-25). "Terrorists in Retirement" also
recalls unheralded heroism . Polish-Jewish resistance brigades during the
Nazi occupation were organized in Paris during WWII whose 200 members carried
out dangerous assassinations and sabotage. This recently available documentary,
banned by French television, finds seven surviving members,with unFrench sounding
names like Mitzflicker,Rayski or Gronowski, still making their living in Paris,
as tailors. (5 & 8 pm Sat.,Sun. Nov.24,25.) Admission to films are $7 gen'l,
$6 students and seniors, and $5 Film Societiy members. (Tickets available
at door); a 6-film pass will be good for $30 (genl). Members,students : $25.
U Film Society website www. ufilm .org (for complete descriptions ) . UFS
hotline 612-627-4430. Group rates for schools, classes available. Call 612-627-4431.
Saturday November 17-Tuesday
November 20, 2001 Sat Nov 17 2:15 and Mon November
19 at 7pm. THE SPRING TO COME (Przedwiosnie, 2001) directed by Filip Bajon.
Love story set against backdrop of the Bolshevik revolution. 144 minutes.
Sunday, Nov 18 1PM and Tuesday
Nov. 20 at 9:15 PM MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING (Pieniadze to nie Wszystko, 2001)
Comedy about modern Polish life. 107 minutes S Sunday, November 18 3:15 PM PHAROAH
(Faaon, 1965) Nominated in 1967 for best Foreign Film at Academy Awards 184
minutes Saturday, Nov 17 12 Noon and Tuesday
Nov 20 ANGELUS (110 Minutes) story about fictional society of magicians and
alchemists from town of Janowo between the wars. Sunday, Nov. 18 12 Noon. IF YOU
BUY ME A COUCH, DARLING (1988) Free screening. American short film, slapstick,
shot in Poland. 40 minutes Saturday November 17 at 5PM and
Monday Nov 19 at 9:45PM IF LIFE MAKES SENSE (Ze Zycie Ma Sens, 2000) Film
about amateur filmmakers who get into mind altering substances. WEB SITE: www.polfilm.org November 29, 2001, 12:00p.m.-4:00pm
Please email Barbara McDonald
at [email protected] if you want to come. Location:
Center for Continued Learning Conference room located in ICC's Student Center. December
2, 2001, 2:00p.m. Thursday, December 13, 2001,
4-6 p.m. Location: University of
Minnesota, Folwell Hall 306. For more information: contact
Terri Klegin at 6-7579 or [email protected]. January
14, 2002, 5:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Location: Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium, 301 - 19th Avenue S., University of
Minnesota, West Bank. Parking ramp at 3rd Street S. and 19th Avenue S. Cost: MIC members and students
$5; Non-members $10. To register: Respond to
this e-mail or call Elaine at 612.626.4987. January 15, 7:30 p.m. Location: Ted Mann Concert
Hall on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Series tickets are $100 ($75 for
U of M faculty and staff). Single tickets go on sale December 17 for $25 ($20
for U of M faculty and staff). "Great Conversations" is produced by the College
of Continuing Education with the generous support of the University of Minnesota
McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment. For further information:
visit www.cce.umn.edu/conversations or call the box office at 624-2345. January 25, 2002, Time TBA. January 25, 2002, 12:00pm Sponsored by the Department
of History, the Department of French and Italian, the European Studies Consortium
and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Location: room 20, Hubert
H. Humphrey Center January 29, 2002, 4:30 pm January 29, 2002, 8:30am -12:30pm January 30, 2002, 12:30 pm Location: West
Bank Auditorium of Willey Hall, University of Minnesota. February
1, 2002, 3:15 pm Location: The lecture is
on Friday, February 1st at 3:35 p.m. in Room 131 of the Tate Laboratory of
Physics. Refreshments to be served at 3:15 p.m. in Room 216 of the same building.
For further information,
please contact Barbara Eastwold at 612/624-7069 or [email protected]. February 7, 2002, 12:00 pm Location: Briggs
and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center. For more information, please
contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Please R.S.V.P. to
Amelia Buttress at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday,
February 5th. Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107 Email: [email protected]
February 19, 2002, 7:00pm Location: Room
25 of the Law School, 229 19th Ave. S. For more information call
Hillel at 612-379-4026. February 20, 2002, noon February 21, 2002, 7:00p.m. For more information call
Hillel at 612-379-4026 February
21-22, 2002 Location: Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs For more information on
the symposium and registration forms, see http://esc.cla.umn.edu/ArmsAvailability.htm.
February 23-24, 2002 For registration and more info.
Email [email protected] or call Joe Kirchhof at 612.301.0768 with any questions
or visit http://waste.org/amnesty/connection/ February 24, 2002, 10:00 a.m. March 1-2,
2002, 10:00am - 4:00pm. Free and open to the public. March 7-9, 2002 For more information, contact
the Center for Great Plains Studies at 402/472-3082 or [email protected] for complete
details. March 14, 2002, 12:15pm - 1:15pm For more information call
612-625-0055 Location: William G. Shepherd
Room, Weisman Art Museum April 30,
2002, 7:00 p.m. Location: University of Minnesota,
Ford Hall, Room 150 For more information: call 612-301-0768
or email [email protected] March 16
� May 5, 2002 We will also present work by Keith
Holmes, who extensively photographed people and places throughout Croatia
and Bosnia following the conflict in these areas during the 1990s. He printed
these images on bricks that were coated with photo emulsion and reconstructed
them into sections of destroyed walls. The resulting "Brick by Brick" project
metaphorically speaks to the fragmentation of the individual psyche and the
shattering of the ethnic identity of a people subjected to "ethnic cleansing". pARTs also commissioned new work
informed by the landscapes where mass killings took place during genocidal
conflicts European Americans waged on Native Americans in the 19th century.
Photographer Doug Beasley visited Wounded Knee South Dakota, the site of the
mass hangings of the Dakota at Mankato, Minnesota in 1862, and the site where
the U.S. Army distributed smallpox infected blankets to Native peoples, possibly
the first instance of biological warfare in Location: pARTs Photographic Arts,
711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408 For more information: 612-824-5500
www.partsphoto.org Admission: $3 May 9, 2002,
5:00 p.m. Reception Location: Humphrey Institute.
RSVP by May 1; call 672-3852 May 10, 2002, 12:15-1:30 p.m. May 10-12, 2002 Friday, May 10, 3:00 reception,
3:30-5 lecture Claudia Koonz, "Engendering Ethnic Warfare" Claudia Koonz is
professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of Mothers in the
Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics. Claudia Koonz will use Rwanda
in the 1990s and Germany in the 1930s as sites within which to examine the
state-sponsored diffusion of knowledges about "others." Against the promise
of authenticity held out by gendered ethnic identity, she will look at the
claims of citizenship embodied in human rights discourses. A comparison of
victim memory in post-genocidal Rwanda and Israel will set the stage for further
discussions of the dilemmas inherent in each of the three sessions of this
conference. Saturday, May 11, 3:30-5:30 Gender
and South Asian Nationalism Ritu Menon, "Muslim Women and Citizenship in India"
Ritu Menon is an Indian writer and activist and co-founder of Kali for Women,
India's first feminist publishing house, in New Delhi. She is the co- author
of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition (1998), and has co-edited
several anthologies of women's writing in translation. There will also be workshop sessions
where participants discuss papers which have been circulated in advance. How
does a gender analysis transform our understanding of politics in a comparative
perspective? This conference looks at the fields of knowledge that open up
when feminist analyses move beyond our initial task, which was including women
in the body politic, to examine how gender and sexuality lend meaning and
materiality to such fundamental notions as citizenship, national identity,
and national mission. Speakers will explore how gender and sexuality mobilize
ethnic and national violence. The conference will also examine how citizenship
reproduces normative genders and sexualities and how it can be turned against
such norms. We look at how gender and sexuality transform human rights and
civil rights goals, and how those projects are at once an excuse for nation
building and a means to contest national identities and boundaries. Cultural
citizenship, cultural production and consumption as practices of nation-building
and resistance to national power will also be a focus. To register for the workshop
sessions: please send $10 (which will cover coffee, snacks and lunch on
Saturday) by April 28, to CAFS, 425 Ford Hall/224 Church St. SE Minneapolis,
MN 55455-0110. For more information, email
CAFS at or call Susie Bullington at 612-624-0305. Organized by the Center for
Advanced Feminist Studies, and sponsored and funded by the Institute for Global
Studies and the Humanities Institute, additional funds from the Center for
German and European Studies, the European Studies Consortium, the History
Department and the Center for Austrian Studies. May 29, 2002,
7:00 p.m. Shawn Lewis Agency Resource Associate
Agency Services Department Greater Twin Cities United Way Work Phone (651)
291-8366 Fax Number (651) 291-5353 General Info (612) 340-7400 Pager (612)
299-0434 Website http://www.unitedwaytwincities.org June 2002 Requirements: Each applicant
must be entering his/her senior year of college or have already completed
an undergraduate degree. The student must display a strong interest or have
a background in one or more of the following fields: Modern Jewish history,
Jewish communal service, or informal Jewish education. Interest in eastern
Europe and museum work will also be highly considered. The student must be
fluent in English. Knowledge of a second language is a plus (i.e., Hebrew,
German, Yiddish, Polish, etc.). Application: All candidates
must submit a current resume, 1 letter of recommendation (either from a professor
or an employer), 2 additional references (including names and contact information),
and a personal statement (not to exceed 1000 words) identifying his/her interest
in the internship. Application must arrive in our NY office via E-mail,
mail or fax by Friday, April 12, 2002. Orientation and Program Dates:
The program will run for approximately eight weeks. There is a required Orientation
to take place in New York in June 2002. The internship dates are somewhat
flexible between June and August. Scholarship: The following
expenses will be covered by the Foundation: Airfare (NY-Poland-NY), Housing
in Krakow and Oswiecim, Orientation-related expenses in NY, Pre-approved work-related
expenses, Completion stipend. Contact Information: For
more information, please contact Nadine Greenfield or Renata Nowak-Garmer
at (212) 575-1050 or at [email protected]. June 6, 2002, 12:00 P.M. This is the eighth in a series
of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women's human rights
issues. Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.
For more information, please contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights. R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress at
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, June 4th. Phone:
(612) 341-3302 ext. 107 email: [email protected] Location: Briggs and Morgan, PA,
2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis (lunch will be served) June 22-27, 2002 For information and application,
contact Kathryne Walls Snyder at 612-624-0256. June17 - July 5, 2002 July 10
& 11, 15-18, 2002. 6 days 9-3PM. August
6 to August 16, 2002 * The history of genocide, its
causes, methods and mechanics. * The theoretical and comparative approach
to genocide (with emphasis on the Armenian Genocide, the Jewish Holocaust,
and the Rwandan Genocide as case studies). * Uniqueness vs. universality.
* Genocide Denial (methodology and psychology) and countering it. * The development
and the future of diasporas resulting from genocide. * International politics
and genocide. * The legal aspects of genocide. * Psychological consequences
of genocide. * Artistic expressions as a response to genocide. * Approaches
to genocide and human rights in school curricula. * The possibilities of dialogue
and reconciliation between perpetrator and victim groups. * Prevention of
genocide. The Zoryan Institute, recognizing
the importance of these issues and the effects of genocide on survivors and
their descendents, announces an intensive, two-week university program on
Genocide & Human Rights. This program provides a unique opportunity for students
who have completed a minimum of one year of university studies to take part
in a university level program in the field of Genocide and Human Rights. The
course will analyze genocide through a multi-disciplinary approach and provide
the intellectual framework for understanding emotional responses to genocide,
as well as explore the universality of the issues related to genocide. The
course will run from Tuesday, August 6 to August 16, 2002, and will be held
at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. More detailed information
is available through the link: http://www.zoryan.org/. August 5-10, 2002 August 11-16, 2002 September
6-7, 2002 For more information, contact
the International Medical Education and Research Program of the University
of Minnesota Medical School Mayo Mail Code 293 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis,
MN 55455-0374 September 12-13, 2002 September 12, 2002, 7:30-9:00
p.m. September 13, 2002 8:30-9:10 9:10-9:50 9:50-10:05 10:05-10:45 10:45-11:25 11:25-12:00 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-1:40 1:40-2:40 2:40-3:00 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-3:55 3:55-4:35 4:35-5:30 Cultural Program (evening): TBA
September 13-14 The symposium will take place
on Friday September 13 and Saturday September 14 in the Thrust Theater of
Rarig Center at the University of Minnesota. Friday, September 13 features
an evening showing of Peace of Mind, a documentary created by Palestinian
and Israeli youth who spent several weeks together at the Seeds of Peace summer
camp in Maine. The award-winning documentary, filmed and edited by the youth
under the guidance of the Global Action Project, tracks a year in the their
lives between 1997-98. One of the featured youth, Amer Kamal, a Palestinian
student now living in the US, will speak following the showing. On Saturday, September 14, guest
artist Gaby Aldor will present on her work with the Hebrew-Arabic Theater
of Jaffa, Israeli. The theater is one of the few in the region bringing together
Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. Aldor will discuss the theater's latest project,
Longing/Exile at Home, a collaboratively developed site-specific piece exploring
diaspora, space, and memory with a group of Jewish and Arab Israeli performers.
The production, featured in the New York Times, recently won an award as the
best performance and play of the year in Israel. Both Peace of Mind and Aldor's
presentation on Longing will be followed by University of Minnesota respondents
from a variety of disciplines including theater arts, dance, visual arts,
political science, cultural studies, Anthropology, Jewish studies, and geography.
The event is co-sponsored by the Arts Quarter, the Space and Place Research
Group of the Humanities Institute, and the Institute for Global Studies with
support from Jewish Studies. For further information contact
Sonja Kuftinec at 612-626-9238 or [email protected]. September 18, 2002 September 23, 2002, 11:30-1:30
p.m. September 26, 2002, 4:30-6:00
p.m. September 26-28, 2002 For More Information, please contact
Werner Reutter * E-mail: [email protected] * Telephone: (612) 626-0594
September 28, 2002, 9:00 a.m.
- 4:30 p.m. CHILDREN WELCOME! Youth activities
for elementary and junior high children will take place througho ut the day,
concurrent with the Summit. LUNCH: There will be a lunch break
between NOON-1:30PM. You may lunch at one of many restaurants nearby, or bring
your own. During this break, activities, displays, information tables & discussion
groups will be ongoing. LOCAL HOST SPONSOR: Soka Gakkai
International-USA/Minnesota OTHER SPONSORS INCLUDE: Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers (43 organizations); Alliance for Sustainability; North
American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology; Alliance for Democracy-Minnesota;
United Nations Association-Minnesota; University of Minnesota, Human Rights
Center; Great River Earth Institute; Green Alliance-Minnesota PLACE: University of Minnesota,
Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis (corner of 19th Avenue So uth and
4th Street South, near Cedar and Riverside intersection). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Nancy
Dunlavy, 651-647-1631, [email protected] October
5-8, 2002. For more information, to register
or submit proposals for conference presentations, visit TRACES.org, or October 8, 2002 - February
11, 2003 Course Dates ----------------
The class meets on the second Tuesday in October, November, January and February
from 4:30-7:00 p.m. at the Resource Center of the Americas in Minneapolis.
On-street parking is available. Tuesday, October 8, 2002, The
Universality of Cultures and Human Rights? Tuesday, November 12, 2002, From
Civil Rights to Human Rights Tuesday January 14, 2003, Economic
Rights in a Diverse Classroom Tuesday, February 11, 2003, Visioning
the Future: Best Practices The four workshops are being offered
as a course, but each may be taken separately. The registration fee covers
instruction, guest speakers, written materials and food. Earn 1 CEU with completion
of four-workshop course. Cost for Four-workshop course: $50. Cost for Individual
workshops: $15 For More Information Contact:
Sarah Herzog October 24, 2002 6:00 p.m. Location: Radisson Riverfront
Hotel in St. Paul. November
1-4, 2002 For more information, contact
the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Minnesota November 2, 2002, 1:00 - 5:00
p.m. November 12, 2002, 6:30 p.m. CONTACTS: Mary White, MAP president Thursday,
January 9, 2003, 6:30-9:00pm Monday, January 13, 2003, 5:30-7:45pm Location: Humphrey Institute,
Cowles Auditorium, 301-19th Avenue S, U of M West Bank Wednesday, January 15, 2003,
5:30-7:00pm Location: MIC,
711 East River Road, Minneapolis. Wednesday, January 15, 12:00-2:00
p.m. Thursday, January 16, 2003,
6:30-8:30 p.m Location: Resource
Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis Contact: 612-276-0788
(ext. 23), [email protected]; http://www.americas.org. Location: Minnesota
Trade Office, 10th Floor, 30 East 7th Street, downtown St. Paul Wednesday, January 22, 2003,
6:00-9:00pm Location: MIC,
711 E. River Road, Minneapolis. Saturday,
January 11-February 9, 2003 Location: Dorsey
& Whitney LLP 50 South 6th Street Minneapolis, MN 55402 Saturday, January 25, 2003,
10:00-11:30pm Saturday, January 25, 2003,
11:00am Tuesday, January 28, 2003,
7:00pm Thursday, January 30, 2003,
6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, January
30-31, 2003, 3pm - 8am Friday, January 31, 2003, 6:30
pm Location: First Universalist
Church 3400 Dupont Ave. South February
1, 2003 Tuesday, February 4, 2003,
7-9pm Friday, February 7, 2003, 7:30pm Location: Ted Mann Concert
Hall 2128 4th Street South West Bank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
February 8, 2003, 10-11:30am. Contact: 612-276-0788 (ext.
23) or [email protected] or
http://www.americas.org or http://www.alexandrastein.com. Tuesday, February 11, 2003,
12:15-1:15pm. Location: Law School,
N204 Wednesday, February 12, 2003,
7:30pm. Location: Macalester Plymouth
Church, 1658 Lincoln Ave., St. Paul February 14-15, 2003. Friday, February 14- Saturday,
February 22, 2003. Location: Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, ATRIUM, University of Minnesota, 301 - 19th Avenue
South, Minneapolis February 20-21, 2003 Location: Cowles Auditorium
at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center West Bank Campus University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tuesday, February 25,
2003, 11:30-1:00pm All are welcome! Beverages will
be served February 25, 2003, 7:30pm. Location: Northrop Auditorium,
University of Minnesota Contact: To order tickets,
call 612-624-2345. February 26-27 and March
3, 2003 see http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/duluthfilmfest-2003.doc. Contact: [email protected] Thursday, February 27,
2003, 12:15 - 1:15pm February 27, 2003, 3:00pm Monday, March 3, 2003,
12:00 Noon Location: 710 Social
Sciences Building, U of M Thursday, March 6, 13
and 20, 2003, 7:00 - 9:00pm Contacting the Education Office
at 612.317.3414. Thursday, March 6, 2003,
12:00p.m. Location: Briggs and
Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis Please R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress
at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, March 4th. March 7, 2003 March 8, 2003, 9:00am-4:00pm Inspired by the 1995 U.N. Fourth
World Conference on Women held in Beijing, the local celebration was designed
to celebrate the diversity For a schedule of events and to
pre-register, please visit: For Driving information and Parking
maps visit: Institute for Global Studies,
through a Title VI grant in International Studies from the U.S. Department
of Education, Human Rights Center, MacArthur Program/ICGC, College of Liberal
Arts, Department of Political Science, Department of Women's Studies, Office
for University Women, European Studies Consortium, and the Center on Women
and Public Policy Program of the Humphrey Institute of Public Location: March 14-16, 2003 The Amnesty National Youth Summit
on Indigenous Rights will be held in Minneapolis this year. Visit this website
for more information and Come and hear Irene Bedard (the
voice of Pocahontas) perform with her band. Date: Saturday, March 15th A popcorn fundraiser will be held
during the concert to raise money for the Human Rights Center's Indigenous
Peoples' Youth Project. Come hear great music and support a great program!
Sunday, March 16, 2003,
7:00 p.m. Beginning in New Zealand, this
will be a rolling wave of candlelight gatherings that will quickly cross the
globe. It's up to you to make this It's time for the world to come
together in this moment of darkness and rekindle the light of reason -- and
of hope. It's time to renew our Contact: Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org P.S. You can make your local vigil
as small or as big as you wish. The important thing is to act now and to add
your efforts to the efforts of Immediately afterward, please
report your vigil to our web site or to [email protected], with digital photographs
if possible. If you know how, P.P.S. Yesterday, we delivered
to the 15 United Nations Security Council members anti-war comments from one
million people around the world, gathered last week in just five days. 180
boxes of your petitions were delivered, which drew extensive media attention.
It now appears that the Bush administration's resolution on Iraq will fail
to garner Security Council support, and world public opinion has been a key
part of this. Thank you! March 18-21, 2003 Dates/Times/Locations: March 19, 7:00 pm March 20, 7:00 pm March 21, 7:30 pm Book signing at all events. At the end of November, 1999,
an important new movement against "globalization" emerged in massive
protests against the World Trade Diana Johnstone is the author
of several books, including Fool's Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions,
just released. As a journalist, she has written many articles on the current
conflicts in Europe and its Eastern neighbors and the militarism spawned by
the Cold War. She has chapters in Media and the Kosovo War edited by Ed Herman
and Phil Hammond and Masters of the Universe: A Reader on NATO's Humanitarian
War. Her articles have been published in the Covert Action Bulletin and, locally,
in Pulse, among many publications here and abroad. Her career has included
reporting for In These Times and serving as press officer for the Green members
of the European parliament. Ms. Johnstone was born in St. Paul and received
her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota. March 22, 2003, 1:30 p.m. Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace
in St. Paul would like to invite the faculty, staff, and students of your
department or office to take a public The power of this event will lie
in diverse Twin Cities and Minnesota neighborhoods joining together in one
place to raise a united voice against this war. We encourage all communities--whether
they are actual neighborhoods, cities, families, businesses, religious congregations,
ethnic groups, schools, unions, or other organizations--to attend the Neighbors
March for Peace and carry a banner or sign or wear a shirt, button, or hat
that identifies their community and their disagreement with the war and the
sanctions against the civilians of Iraq. The Neighbors March for Peace
is endorsed by many Twin Cities organizations, including the Anti-War Committee,
Friends for a Non-Violent World, Mac Iraq, Minnesota AlliantAction, Pax Christi
Twin Cities, St. Joan of Arc/WAMM Peacekeepers, Twin Cities Campaign to Lift
Sanctions, United Steelworkers of America - District 11, U of M Students Against
War, Veterans for Peace, Welfare Rights Committee, Women Against Military
Madness (WAMM), and the Women's Political Alliance. If your organization would
like to be added to the list of endorsers on our web site, please e-mail me
at [email protected] with your information. For more information about Merriam
Park Neighbors for Peace or this event, or to download and print flyers and
posters, please visit our web site at http://www.mppeace.org
or contact: Rachel Goligoski Anne Benson Krista Menzel March 24-28, 2003 The War on Drugs needs to be reexamined.
Issues surrounding this subject will be examined in an upcoming exhibit and
speaking engagement entitled "Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's
Drug War." Some specific areas of focus will be the Drug War's violation
of human rights and destructive force on families and communities, as well
as sacramental use of substances and the Dutch drug policy. The exhibit will be on display
in the upper concourse of Willey Hall at 225 19th Avenue S on the Minneapolis
West Bank campus of the University of Minnesota, March 24-28. It features
a number of photos and accompanying stories of individuals negatively affected
by the Drug War, providing a poignant and emotional look at the human rights
abuses that are occurring. The display will be free and open to the public
during regular building hours. A one-night-only speaking engagement
will conclude the exhibition on Friday, March 28th from 7-10 pm in the auditorium
of Willey Hall, room 175. It is free and open to the public. The keynote speakers
for the evening are the husband and wife activist team from California, Mikki
Norris and Chris Conrad, co-authors of the book Shattered Lives: Portraits
From America's Drug War. The following members of the community and educators
will also present on related issues: Minneapolis City Council person Natalie
Johnson Lee, Mary Gaines of Federal FORUM, University of Minnesota Department
of Philosophy Professor and Career and Community Learning Center Director
Carl Brandt, Hamline University Department of Religion Professor Mark Berkson,
and University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing Senior Lecturer
Dennis McKenna, PhD. The event is sponsored by the
University of Minnesota chapter of the National Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws, and is made possible by the Minnesota Student Association's
Diversity Events Fund, and by Administrative Grants for Student Initiatives.
Representatives from other student and community organizations will also be
available at the event. For more information on the exhibit, speakers, or
NORML, e-mail [email protected] or call Jason
Samuels at 651-247-8327.
Tuesday, March 25, 7:00
- 9:00 p.m. Date: Tuesday, March 25 March 27-30, 2003 Date: March 27-30 This is a major scholarly and
public event. The seminar hopes to have 26 scholarly participants and almost
50 observers attending the restricted scholars workshop (not open to the public),
and the public session at 9AM (all day) on Saturday. The Turkish-Armenian
Workshop was initiated by Professors Suny and Gocek. The first meetings were held at
the University of Chicago in 2000 and the University of Michigan in 2002.
They have been controversial, both in the substance of the matters with which
they dealt and in their form of organization. Some individuals and groups
continue to oppose the use of the term genocide to describe the fate of Armenians
in the late Ottoman Empire; some people oppose any form of dialogue about
the history and its consequences. Others were disturbed by the closed nature
of the Workshop, a complaint that Professors Suny and Goek tried to address
at the second meeting by holding a press conference as the concluding session.
Whatever the difficulties to date, the Workshop has proved vitally important.
It has provided a setting in which Turkish, Armenian, and other scholars,
as well as some members of the interested public, can talk to one another
about the difficult history and its contemporary ramifications. It has also
served to encourage and showcase major scholarly research on the history of
the Armenian genocide and the late Ottoman Empire. Professors Suny and Gocek
and various Centers and Departments at Minnesota are committed to maintaining
and even expanding the conversations and research that the Workshops have
fostered. In line with these commitments, we expect the Minnesota Workshop
to have a greater public resonance than the previous two meetings at Chicago
and Michigan. We will have a more active and more widely advertized public
program on Saturday, March 29, which will include a report on the proceedings
of the workshops, a keynote address by Professor Elazar Barkan of Claremont
Graduate School, an open discussion, and a reception. We will have significantly
more observers present from outside of academe, incuding two well-respected
journalists in Turkey, Hrant Dink and Cengiz Candar. The public is invited
to the Saturday session. March 28-29, 2003 Date: Saturday, March 29th Purposes of the Forum To raise
public awareness of the extent to which corporations now shape our culture
and communities and define what is of value, what news we hear, what jobs
we work at, what technologies are developed and how they are used, what environmental
damage will occur, and especially what laws are made. To mobilize people to
actions that will help restore our democracy. KEYNOTE SPEAKER - John Nichols
As national political writer for The Nation, Nichols has been a frequent commentator
on domestic and foreign affairs, appearing on PBS' Lehrer Report, MSNBC's
Donahue, CNBC news programs, National Public Radio programs and Pacifica's MASTER OF CEREMONIES - Rep. Keith
Ellison Rep. Ellison is a freshman DFL legislator representing House District
58B in North Minneapolis. He is a practicing attorney with Ellison Law Offices.
Together with co-host Resma Menakhem, Keith has hosted a public affairs program
on KMOJ for the past eight years, focusing on issues of concern, including
domestic violence, police-community relations and youth sports. His previous
work includes Executive Director of the Legal Rights Center and private law
practice. Friday,
March 28, 2003, 7:30pm Saturday, March 29, 2003 Location Moderator: Eric Weitz (University
of Minnesota) 1:45 2:30 2:45 Historical Crimes, Political Realism,
and Morality, with Reflections on Elazar Barkan (Claremont Graduate
School) 3:30 The keynote address and the panel
discussion are free and open to the public. We do ask that those interested
in attending any of the public March 30, 2003 Our guest will be Jerry Dearly,
a Lakota of the Oglala Band on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
For the past 13 years he has been a Cultural Teacher for the St. Paul Public
School Indian Education Secondary Program. Jerry also teaches Lakota language
to adults and he is a seasoned Powwow Emcee. He will share with us his thoughts
about sacred lands and speaking the Lakota language. KFAI¹s broadcast signal has
a range of an 8-mile radius from the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis and 5.3 miles
from the Robert Street Water Tower in St. Paul. KFAI programs can also be heard
through the Internet. The radio station's homepage, at www.kfai.org, offers
access to KFAI¹s live broadcast, as well as an archive of locally produced
programs (online for up to two weeks after broadcast). To find Indian Uprising: o Click Program Archives KFAI welcomes your comments! You
can contact the producer and host of Indian Uprising, Chris Spotted Eagle,
by email at [email protected]; by mail
in care of KFAI Fresh Air Radio, Box #61, 1808 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis
MN 55454 or by calling 612-341-3144 Ext. 818 to leave a message. KFAI Fresh Air Radio is a volunteer-based
community station established to broadcast information, arts and entertainment
programming for a Twin Cities audience of diverse racial, social and economic
backgrounds. KFAI is a non-commercial FM radio station operated by a full
and part time staff with over 300 volunteers. FFI: 612-341-3144. April 3, 2003 You and any guests you may care
to bring are cordially invited to attend. Dr. Glossop, a Professor Emeritus
of Philosophical Studies at the University of Southern Illinois, is an acclaimed
author and one of the leading thinkers of the World Federalist movement. He
is the author of two major books (among many other works) advancing the WFA
perspective: CONFRONTING WAR: AN EXAMINATION OF HUMANITY'S MOST PRESSING PROBLEM,
McFarland, 4th ed., 2001; and WORLD FEDERATION? A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF
FEDERAL WWORLD GOVERNMENT, McFarland, 1993. Date: Thursday, April 3. MENU: Roasted pork loin medallions
or grilled vegetable panache. COST: $18.00 per person or $9.00
for students and persons with limited income. RESERVATIONS: Send check, payable
to WFAMN, to Barbara Knudson, 1823 DEADLINE is March 28, 2003. QUESTIONS? Call Barbara Knudson
at 612-378-2634. Thursday, April 3, 2003 Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003 Ann Towns, originally from Sweden,
recently returned from Peru where she is conducting research on globalization,
notions of multiculturalism and women's rights. She is using Peru and Sweden
as case studies. She has lived and travelled extensively in Latin America,
doing research and also working to promote human rights. She is currently
a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. This is one in a series of lunchtime
speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women's human rights issues.
Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation. For
more information, please contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Please R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress
at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Saturday, April 5, 2003,
1:00-4:00 p.m. Date: Saturday, April 5 The Science Museum of Minnesota
celebrates the third annual American Indians in Science. Visitors can check
out live science demonstrations by guest presenters. They'll become aware
of the contributions Amerian Indians are making to science and technology,
working from within both the European and native traditions. Some of the presenters are: - Faith Bad Bear, Science Museum
ethnologist Scientists and educators who would
like to volunteer presenters should For additional information call
(651) 221-94444 Free with a purchased museum admission. Tuesday, April 8, 2003 April 10-12 Date: April 10, 11, 12 Contact: [email protected] Pizza Luce and Anodyne Artists
Company present the explosive energy of Hayor Bibimma Dance Theatre in a Dance
Drama "Deka Enye Nuse (Unity and Strength)" . A stranger's presence
in an African village brings conflict and confusion. It takes the power of
dance and the wisdom of the ancestors to unearth the resolution. Saturday, April 12, 2003,
9:00-2:30 p.m. Contact Sarah Herzog at 612-624-7346
or at [email protected] for registration
materials or register online at http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/Seminars.htm April 12-13, 2003 Dates: APRIL 12, 8PM, APRIL 13,
7PM For reservations after April 7th,
call 612-871-4444 Women Of Lost Homes: This piece
is inspired by the struggles of women across the world whose children have
"disappeared" due to political violence. Making Rain: This piece is based
on and inspired by the untiring work of women leaders in anti-violence and
peace movements. Encounters: Collaboratively created
and performed by Ananya Chatterjea, Thomas DeFrantz, and Akili Jamal Haynes,
this work examines Africanist and South Asian diasporic movements in terms
of the political struggles that immigrants endure. Sunday, April 13, 2003,
11:00 a.m. Test your speed against Dean Alex
Johnson as he sprints to the Courthouse! Date: Sunday, April 13th Monday, April 14, 2003 Date: April 14 For additional information contact
Elaine Hargrove-Simon at (612) 625-3421. Jujitsu
Films needs extras for the movie JUSTICE that will begin filming April 2 in
the Twin Cities. We need you and anyone you know
who would interested in participating. Filming will take place Wed-Sun in
either St. Paul (Courthouse or Mayor's office locations on the weekends) or
Minneapolis (Mpls Institute of Arts (April 12 - big scene); 2110 Nicollet
Avenue; and others near downtown Mpls during the week). Please let us know
if you or others can help out! Either email me at this email or call us at
home (651.222.6845). You can provide people with the following information: General information: Feature Film "JUSTICE"; Cast includes Roger Guenveur Smith
as the male lead, Monica Calhoun as the female lead, and Anna Maria Horsford
in one of the principal roles (check out these names at www.imdb.com); Working
with Lou Bellamy at Penumbra and Jack Reuler at Mixed Blood Theater and local
theater actors (Allen Hamilton, T. Mychael Rambo, Kevin West, Clyde Lund);
Eric Tretbar, who directed Snow (Minnesota independent film that went to Sundance),
is part of the directing team; Greg Winter, Director of Photography on Detective
Fiction (just accepted at the Sundance Film Festival), is DP on this project;
Michael Alan Stein, who was costume designer on Son of Sam is costume designer
on this project; Particulars of being an Extra - Be on the big screen Synopsis of movie: When an African-American public
defender (Carter) is pressured by a white judge (Judge Bennett) to accept
a plea bargain resisted by a street-wise client, Carter decides to leave the
defender's office. Carter must choose between a job with his wife's Uncle
in a fancy law firm, on the one hand, and opening his own law office with
funding from his cousin, a drug dealer, on the other. Surprisingly, Carter
chooses the latter, and fights to change the criminal justice system. As Carter
clogs the system by refusing plea bargains and insisting on trials, even for
minor cases, Judge Bennett and other public officials react by cracking down
on Carter and his team. In the end, Carter and his wife Sharice are able to
expose the corruption that underlies the criminal justice system's oppression
of working class African-Americans. For more information,
email [email protected]. April 18-19, 2003 The mission of the Arab-American
Cultural Institute (AACI) is to foster understanding of Arab and Arab-American
culture, inform the public of This event is free and open to
the public, but space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible and preferably
no later than April 12, The Minneapolis College (formerly
the Minneapolis Community and Technical College) is located at 1501 Hennepin
Avenue. Parking is You can find the detailed event
schedule at: www.aaci-us.org For information on participating
in this event contact- Akosua Addo, School of Music, [email protected] or phone:
(612) 624-8516. This program is funded by the
Scholarly Events Fund. Saturday, April 19, 2003,
1:30 p.m. Location: Coffman
Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. For more information: email
[email protected] or call
612-625-2995 or visit http://www.umn.edu/~espon001/juarez.html April 22, 2003 (Earth Day)
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd Please remember to bring a donation
for pizza and soda and to RSVP by Tuesday, April 22nd by 10:00 am if you plan
to attend. Location: Lockhart Hall (Room
25) Wednesday, April 23, 2003,
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Write a postcard to help free
Jingjiang Chen! Location: Anderson 270
April 23-26, 2003 This year, the Conference will
convene in Minneapolis, MN with the theme Weaving the Fabric of Community:
A Celebration of Service-Learning." The Conference will be held at
the Minneapolis Convention Center in beautiful downtown Minneapolis on April
23-26, 2003. P105 -- Service-Learning for Human
Rights At the same time that service-learning
has been growing in popularity in the United States, people around the world
have come to recognize human rights as the fundamental cornerstone for achieving
human dignity, equality, and social justice. While the civil and political
rights enshrined in documents such as the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution are familiar to most U.S. Citizens, human rights are not
as well known. Not only do human rights include civil and political rights,
but also less familiar economic, social and cultural rights such as the right
to a nationality, to employment, and to an adequate standard of living. A human rights perspective can
prompt change in how participants define service, specifically from direct
service to advocacy or a social justice approach to service. So that participants
can experience a variety of human rights issues and teaching strategies, we
will devote part of the workshop to a human rights education �marketplace,�
with stations where participants can engage in a number of activities addressing
such issues as children�s rights, women�s rights, environmental rights, gay
and lesbian rights, economic rights - and then connect these activities to
ideas for service or reflection on service-learning projects. Rebecca CapeNational Youth Leadership
Council1667 Snelling Ave. North, Ste. D300 St. Paul, MN 55108651-999-7365Fax
651- 999-7399 www.nylc.org Friday, April 25, 2003,
6:00 p.m. Armenian Genocide Remembrance
Day will be observed on Friday, April 25, 6pm at St. Sahag Armenian Church.
Dr. Taner Akcam, visiting professor of Turkish and Armenian History at the
University of Minnesota will be keynote speaker. Dr. Taner Akcam, the foremost
Turkish advocate of truth and reconciliation about the Armenian Genocide,
will be the keynote speaker at Minnesota's Armenian Remembrance Day, April
25, at 6 p.m. sharp. Sponsored by the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota,
the 88th anniversary commemoration takes place at St. Sahag Armenian Church,
203 N. Howell St., St. Paul. This event is free and open to the public. The Armenian Genocide of 1915
was the first of the modern era. Under cover of the First World War, the Ottoman
Empire deported 2 million Armenians, of whom 1.5 million were killed and 500,000
were permanently expelled from their ancient homeland in present-day Turkey.
Though widely reported at the time, these horrific events were soon forgotten--causing
Adolf Hitler to remark just prior to the beginning of the 1939 campaign in
Poland that produced the genocide of the Jews and others in Europe: "Who
today remembers the extermination of the Armenians?" To this day, the
Turkish government aggressively denies that such a genocide occurred. A former Amnesty International
prisoner of conscience, Taner Akcam is an outspoken, lifelong advocate of
human rights and democracy in his native Turkey. Between 1982 and 1995 he
was a founding organizer of the immigrant movement within the German Green
Party. Now Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota,
Dr. Akcam is the author of "Dialogue Across an International Divide"
and the forthcoming "Foundations of the Turkish Republic: Essays on Turkish
Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide." The Armenian Cultural Organization
of Minnesota, established 1980, is an independent cultural and educational
organization headquartered in St. Paul. Armenians first settled in the Twin
Cities in 1899; today, approximately 1,150 Minnesotans claim Armenian ancestry. Contact: Lou Ann Matossian, Armenian
Cultural Organization of Minnesota, (612) 359-8991 Potluck dinner to follow at 7pm.
Presented by the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. Free and open
to the public. April 29, 2003, 7:00-9:00
p.m. Location: University of Minnesota
Law School, Room 25 This timely community forum will
feature a panel discussion on issues related to hate crimes and discrimination
since September 11. Panelists include: Amardeep Singh, a researcher from Human
Rights Watch who authored We are Not the Enemy: Hate Crimes Against Arabs
and Muslims and those Perceived to be Arabs and Muslims after September 11,
as well as local panelists Sharon Sayles Belton, former mayor of Minneapolis
and Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute (invited),
Nadifa Osman from the Somali community, and Rajinder Singh from the local
Sikh community. For more information, contact
Therese Gales, (612) 341-3302, x 116 or [email protected]
Wednesday, April 20, 2003 The Native American Connections
Committee of First Universalist Church is again recruiting volunteers to work
at the Eighth Annual Indian Health Fair. Time: Volunteer shifts are available
from 10 am through 4 pm (most volunteers are needed between 11:30 a.m. and
4:00 p.m.) Location: Minneapolis American
Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave. Last year was the first year that
they used volunteers from the community and it was a great success. We're
needed again this year. More than 50 local health agencies and community groups
provide information and health screenings to over 800 Indians who attend this
event. Last year was the first year volunteers
outside the community were used and it helped the fair run smoothly and allowed
the planning task force to concentrate their efforts on the venders and programs. 50 volunteers is a lot to find
during the daytime. If you, or any people you know who do not work during
the day, or could get released from work for several hours, please call Beth
Brownfield 612-824-7213. A quick response is appreciated as recruitment must
be complete at least a week before the event. Wednesday, April 30, 2003,
7:30 p.m. Dr. Power is currently doing journalist
research on the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Saturday,
May 3, 2003, 9:00-2:30 p.m. Contact Sarah Herzog at 612-624-7346
or at [email protected] for registration
materials or register online at http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/Seminars.htm May 5, 2003 Saturday,
May 24, 2003, 2:00 p.m. Ø Knowing Your Rights This training will be presented
jointly by CUAPB and the National Lawyers Guild--MN Chapter. We'll also be
presenting information on what to do if you are brutalized by police and about
our class action lawsuit. Be there! Location: IATP Building, 2104
Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis
May 30, 2003 Courses: Gender and Global Politics An Austrian Journey: 1945 to the
Present Teaching about the Holocaust and
Genocide History of War and Trauma: Psychological,
Spiritual, Social Effects of War COST PROFESSIONAL CREDIT AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS AND LODGING REGISTRATION May 30, 2003 The Zoryan Institute is pleased
to announce that an anonymous US corporation will provide full scholarships
for five students to attend the The scholarships will cover the
cost of tuition and accommodation. The candidates will have to pay for their
travel to and from Toronto and meals. According to the terms of the special
grant, the applicants must be US citizens. The applicants must also be university
graduates or at least upper class undergraduates majoring in history, sociology
or political science. Selection will be based on a combination of strength
of interest, scholastic aptitude, and relevance of the course to the candidate's
future. Knowledge of the Armenian language will be helpful. The application deadline is May
30, 2003. Applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter setting forth
their qualifications and their interest in the course to the address shown
below. This two-week course places genocide
in historical context and examines its relation to human rights. The course
will cover topics such as development of the concept of human rights and genocide,
comparison of genocides, genocide denial, international politics and genocide,
legal aspects of genocide, psychological consequences of genocide and denial
on survivors and their descendents, the development and the future of diasporas
resulting from genocide, challenges to dialogue and reconciliation between
perpetrator and victim groups, and the prevention of genocide. For more information regarding
the course and instructors, please visit www.zoryaninstitute.org
or contact George Shirinian,
Global Reach Out for Women. GROW holds a training and action planning
session for participants to develop a clear understanding of how U.S. international
development programs and trade-investment policies affect women in developing
countries and to develop working relationships and action plans for local
public-education campaigns. Participants include Minnesota individuals and
organizations who can dedicate time and effort to a grassroots campaign to
influence public policy and public opinion on behalf of women's needs globally.
"Rwanda Revisited: A Christian Response to Genocide." Gary Haugen,
President of the International Justice Commission and recently featured on
Oprah and 60 Minutes, as well as in Christianity Today magazine. With a J.D.
from the University of Chicago, Gary Haugen led the UN's genocide investigation
in Rwanda. He has worked for the US Department of Justice in its Civil Rights
Division, and before that for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He has
authored "Good News About Injustice". The work of International Justice Commission,
an international human rights agency that provides hands-on field response
to cases of human rights abuses reported by faith-based agencies, has recently
been featured on "60 Minutes" and "Oprah".
"Punch Me in the Stomach."
"The Inextinguishable Symphony":
talk by author Martin Goldsmith.
"No More Rwandas." A
survivor of the Rwandan genocide, Alphonse Nkunzimana
"Tracing the Origins of Human Rights." Lecture
given by Professor Lynn Hunt of the Department of History, UCLA. This lecture
is part of the Humanities Institute's speakers series "Critical Issues
in the Art and Humanities".
The Diary of Anne
Frank. �Unwelcome in their own country after Hitler seized power, the Frank
family moved to Holland, only to find that the danger had followed them.�
From 1942 till 1945, the Frank and the Van Daan families lived hidden
in the top of an Amsterdam warehouse.� Before her tiny voice was silenced by Nazi
jackboots the young Anne Frank recorded a story both universal and intensely
personal in her precocious, funny, and insightful diary.� Goodrich and Hackett's play allows Anne's story
to unfold with simplicity and grace, a story of courage and tenacity under
repression, and of the endurance of the human spirit.
Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair. This career fair includes: a reception
for nonprofit recruiters and representatives from local college and university
Offices of Career Services, the fair itself, where job seekers can distribute
resumes and speak with organizational representatives about current and future
employment and internship opportunities, and a series of workshops for job
seekers. Free for jobseekers. Location: Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota,
301 Nineteenth Avenue South, Minneapolis. Sponsored by the Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits,
MAP-the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits, The University of Minnesota
School of Public Health.
For more information and registration, visit http://www.idealist.org/ip/cfAllFairs?MODULE=CAREER_FAIR
EAST TIMOR: Independence without justice? When East Timor voted for independence
from Indonesia in August 1999, the departing Indonesian military killed thousands,
raped hundreds, forced three-quarters of the population from their homes,
and destroyed 70% of all buildings. Today, as East Timor prepares for full
independence, one-eighth of its population remains in military-patrolled Indonesian
refugee camps and no military or militia leaders have been held responsible
for their crimes. Join Diane Farsetta, field organizer with the East Timor
Action Network and an United Nations-accredited observer of the 1999 vote
for independence, for a discussion on current conditions in and issues facing
East Timor.
BEST OF FEST SHOWCASE (APRIL 22-26) The 19th Annual Minneapolis/St Paul
International Film Festival is almost at an end, but great world cinema
keeps rolling on with the Best of the Fest showcase, running Sunday, April
22 through Thursday, 26. This year�s Best of Fest package includes three
powerful and provocative Holocaust-related films. Tickets are $7 general,
$6 students/seniors, $5 U Film Society and Walker Art Center members.
For more information: full schedule available online at www.ufilm.org
or call the hotline at 612-627-4430.
FIGHTER Amir Bar-Lev�s debut feature follows a pair of Czech-American
Holocaust survivors on an unforgettable trek of remembrance across Europe,
when Jan Wiener, now 77, recounts escaping a concentration camp and fleeing
the country cramped under a Nazi troop train�s toilet chute. With Wiener,
is seventy-two-year-old Arnost Lustig, whose return to Czech soil calls
up nightmarish memories in Terezin � the place where he saw his father led
away to the gas chambers. These two stubborn, vibrant souls handle a painful
visit to former haunts, arguing all the way as an Odd Couple but allowing
friendship to help ease the pain of history�s greatest horrors. (88 min.)
THE LAST NAZI w/THOSE WHO LOOKED AWAY A shocking and penetrating study
of an unclosed chapter of WWII history, The Last Nazi is the story of an
international hunt for justice. Alois Brunner is a Nazi war criminal, a
former SS commander who sent more than 128,500 European Jews to their deaths.
Brunner now lives in Syria, making a living as an intelligence expert counseling
government officials in Damascus. In March of this year, France convicted
him in absentia for crimes against humanity. (57 min.) Those Who Looked
Away investigates one of the most contentious issues of WWII: why did the
Allies not destroy Nazi death camps and rail lines when they had the chance?
There is ample evidence that a number of camps would have been relatively
easy targets for bombing raids, so why did the Allies not put a halt to
the genocide? This probing documentary seeks answers to these disturbing
questions. (55 min.)
Departures: New Feminist Perspectives on the Holocaust.� Conference.�
Planned events include a Holocaust Film Festival and exhibit by artist
Carolyn Manosevitz, a Second Generation Survivor.�
Holocaust Remembrance Day - Commemoration
of Yom HaShoah. Free special concert.
Performing the music of the composers of Theresienstadt with a power point
display during the performance about the life and culture of Theresienstadt.
"In the Shadow of Your Wings,"
a performance by Ellen Jewett (violen), Doris Lederer (viola), and Clyde
Shaw (cello). This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required.
For more information: 612-624-0305.
April 24, 2001, 7:30pm
Armenian Remembrance Day. The
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota
is a co-sponsor of the following memorialization event. The massacres and
deportation of the Armenian people, is now considered a "genocide" by academics
and institutions of higher learning that use the United Nations Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (1946/1948) as a guideline
for definition. The massacre of Armenian leaderhsip and intellectuals began
in Istanbul on April 24, 1915. The Armenian Genocide, which was conceived
and carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, resulted in the
deportation of nearly two million Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women,
and children were killed and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their
homes. These centrally planned, premeditated acts eliminated the over 2,500-year
presence of Armenians in their historic homeland. On the 86th anniversary
of the onset of the Armenian Genocide, it is fitting that people of goodwill
join the Armenian-American community in commemoration of this crime against
humanity. Special guests His Excellency Arman Kirakossian, Ambassador of
the Republic of Armenia to the United States, The Hon. Susan Kimberly, Deputy
Mayor of Saint Paul, The Hon. Colleen N. Moriarty, Deputy Mayor of Minneapolis.
Cosponsors: Armenian American Action Committee of Minnesota (Armenian
Assembly), Armenian Dance Ensemble of Minnesota, Armenian Ensemble, Cafesjian
Family Foundation, St. Sahag Armenian Church and Community Center, University
of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Location: St. Sahag Armenian Church and Community Center 203 Howell
Street North, Saint Paul
For further information call (612) 359-8991.
China in Turbulent Times. Dr. Carol Lee Hamrin, former senior China affairs
specialist with the US State Department, speaks on the political and social
climate of a changing China.
For more information, call the China Center at 612.624.1002 or the
MacLaurin Institute at 612.378.1935
Exploring Trends, Building Skills and Strengthening Networks. North
Central Conference of the Network of Alliances Bridging Race and Ethnicity
in collaboration with Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social
Justice. Registration is due by April 27, 2001.
Medical Ethics: What We Can Learn from the Past. The Program in Human
Rights and Medicine in conjunction with Center for Holocaust and genocide
Studies announces a lecture by Robert O. Fish, MD, Professor of Pediatrics.
Critical assessment of contemporary developments in any field requires knowledge
of the past. In addition to being an eminent physician, Dr. Fisch is a Hungarian
survivor of the Holocaust and of the suppressed 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
He is also an internationally exhibited artist whose work integrates graphic
expression with historical and ethical reflection. (His exhibitions include
"Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust" and "The
Metamorphosis to Freedom.") His research and clinical expertise includes the
genetically based pediatric disease phenylketonuria.
Location: Moos Tower 2-530
Arab Society and the Role of Women. Dr. Andrea Rugh, anthropologist specializing
in Arabic women, explores the differences between Islamic and Western cultures
focusing on the conduct of private life. Edina Cost: MIC, MPA & MWP Members
$15; Non-members $30; Students $5.
Full-day Symposium Japan at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities. Join
us on June 8 at Medtronic�s new world headquarters as leading scholars and
specialists address the most important issues facing Japan and its relations
with the United States today. At this daylong seminar, topics for discussion
include the future of the Japanese economy and ramifications for the U.S.,
the U.S.-Japan relationship under the Bush Administration and the state of
political and business leadership in Japan. This daylong seminar is an excellent
source of information for those with an interest in Japan. The exclusive CEO
panel on Minnesota-Japan partnerships will have particular value to anyone
with business interest in Japan.
Location: Medtronic World Headquarters, 710 Medtronic Parkway, Minneapolis,
at I694 and Central Avenue. Parking is free.
Cost: Full symposium (includes continental breakfast, lunch, briefing
materials) - MIC and members of cooperating organizations $65; Non-members
$110 Lunch and Afternoon session only - MIC and members of cooperating organizations
$40; Non-members $80
To register, call 612.625.4421
Fundraising Event for the Highlander Center: an evening with Suzanne Pharr,
Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, and Friends of Highlander.
Musical contributions
and stories by the Granary Girls and Larry Long. Highlander has never been
just about what happens at the center itself but about what people do when
they go back to their own communities. In this spirit, after hearing from
Suzanne about the current situation at Highlander, there will be an open mic
for the evening participants to ask questions and to add their own stories
about Highlander and how it has touched their lives. Other musicians and cultural
workers are encouraged to add their contributions to the evening during this
time. The Highlander Research and Education Center is a popular education
center that brings grassroots leaders and community groups together to learn
from each other and develop strategies for social change. It was founded in
1932 in the highlands of East Tennessee; its work has been source of inspiration
to many people and communities around the world. Suzanne Pharr, before becoming
the director of Highlander last year, was the founding director of The Women's
Project of Arkansas. She is known for her work as a feminist theorist, for
her work against domestic violence, and on understanding the Right wing in
the US. She is the author of "Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism" and "In the
Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation". All Donations to the Highlander
Research and Education Center.
The guest speaker for the banquet is St. Paul native Judge Gabriel Kirk McDonald,
former President of the International Criminal tribunal for Bosnia and Rwanda.
Cost of the banquet on Sunday, June 10 is $45. This is open to the public
with prior payment.
If you are interested in attending, please reply by May 25 to Kathryn Snyder:
612-624-0256.
For more information, visit http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Events/events.html�
"The Ziagen AIDS Drug License: University Commitments and Constraints." University
General Counsel Mark B. Rotenberg will address constraints and commitments
regarding licensing the University AIDS drug Ziagen. Professor
Rotenberg has represented the University in a wide variety of contexts and
has had the distinction of being admitted to the bar of the United States
Supreme Court. This will be the second seminar by the Program in Human Rights
and Medicine concerning pharmaceutical access and the AIDS crisis.
June 18-22, 2001, 8:00am-5:00pm
Western Civilization, Genocide, and the Holocaust This
2-credit workshop sponsored by the European Studies Consortium offers K-12
and community college educators and in-depth look at the Holocaust and aspects
of contemporary genocide in its relation to Western civilization. Participants
will be familiarized with a number of issues, including representations of
genocide in art, culture, memory, how to deal with atrocities in the classroom
and discuss methodologies for teaching genocide and how it fits into the State
Guidelines for the Social Sciences. The workshop is taught by Professor Stephen
Feinstein, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the
University of Minnesota.
Participants are legible
for $280 of tuition reimbursement for 2 CLA credits.
Russia: Facing the Future. Join MIC for an in-depth look at Russia�s
future with Dr. Blair Ruble and Dr. Kate Schecter, participants in the Carnegie
Corporation�s Russia Initiative Program. Dr. Ruble has served as director
of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at The Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars since 1989. Dr. Schecter is a program officer
with the American International Health Alliance, responsible for the implementation
and management of health care facilities in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus.
We also invite you to join us before the discussion for a special video presentation,
featuring Dr. Ruble, Dr. Schecter and other participants in the Russia Initiative.
This program is cosponsored by Connect/U.S.-Russia and the Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs, and is made possible through a grant of the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, in cooperation with the World Affairs Councils of America. Free
event, advanced registration in required.
Location: Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium,
301 - 19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota, West Bank. Parking ramp
at 3rd Street South and 19th Avenue South.
For more information, email Minnesota International Center [email protected].
Twin Cities Youthwork Coalition Summer Forum: Working With Immigrant and Refugee
Youth.
8:30 - Networking, Display Tables
9:00 - Immigration Laws and Issues, Oficina Legal
9:45 - Helping People Group Activity
10:10 - Refugee Camp Experiences, Center for Victims of Torture
10:40 - Small Group Discussion
11:30 - Sharing our Discoveries
Program sponsored by the Youth Development Leadership Program, the Center
for 4-H Youth Development, University of Minnesota Extension Service, the
College of Education & Human Development, the College of Continuing Education,
and University of Minnesota. Free event. No pre-registration required.
Location: St. Marks's Episcopal Cathedral, 519 Oak Grove Street (at Loring
Park), Minneapolis, MN 55403
For more information, contact: Patty Armstrong 612-668-1357, Vant Washington
612-372-8435, or Elee Wood 612-624-1972.
Minnesota African Immigrant
Conference. A conference
Location: University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute
For conference registration information call 612-302-3479.
A Reflective Celebration of the United Nations with Panel of Experts.
Macalester College presents a panel discussion of the United Nations and the
contributions of newly re-elected Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a 1961 Macalester
graduate. Participants include Ambassador Wegger Strommen of the Norwegian
Mission to the U.N.; Louise Kantrow of the United Nations Association-USA;
Patrick Hayford, director of African Affairs for the Executive Office of the
Secretary-General; Emily Rosenberg, DeWitt Wallace history professor at Macalester
and Federal Magistrate Jack Mason, a 1960 Macalester graduate. The program
will be moderated by Macalester President Michael McPherson.
Location: Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Policing in Northern Ireland: An Insider's Perspective. Come hear Sir
Ronnie Flanagan, chief constable of Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary,
as he addresses the issues of policing and efforts to restart the peace process.
Cost: MIC members $25; Non-members $35; program only seating $10
Speaker on Korean Comfort Women. Dr. Yun Chung-OK, who lives in Korea
and is a retired Professor from Ewha Woman's University will speak at the
University of Minnesota through The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
on Thursday, September 20 at 12:30 PM. Prof.. Chung-OK Yune has led the justice
movement for victims of military sexual slavery by Japan ("comfort women")
since 1988. She is the co-founder of the Korean Council of Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan ("The Korean Council"-1990) which formally initiated the
justice movement for victims of military sexual slavery by Japan. During Japan's
war in Asia, 1931-45, approximately 200,00 women from the occupied countires
in Asia were taken as sex slaves. CHGS believes this is a particular important
subject as The Hague Tribunal has now recognized rape as a war crime during
the Bosnian Wat of the early 1990s. Prof. Yune will speak about the subject
and the struggle for recognition and rights for the Comfort Women. The talk
will also focus on the justice movement, responses of the international community,
the UN and the ILO and possibilities for reparations. The public is invited.
Location: Room EESCI 3-230 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Building on the East Bank Campus at the U of M.
President Mkapa Of Tanzania To Visit The Twin Cities. President Benjamin
Mkapa of Tanzania
Location: Radission Riverfront in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
For more information and to RSVP, call 651-602-9844 or visit
the Books for Africa website at http://www.booksforafrica.org
Displaced: Photos of DP Camps by Maxine Rude. Nash Gallery Sept. 25-October
19, 2001 Reception: Thursday, October 4 6-8PM.
Location: Katherine Nash Gallery Wiley Hall, West Bank (adjacent to
Law School: parking in Law School Lot or Holiday Inn West Bank).
The State of the World Population Report. Join the United Nations Association
of Minnesota (UNA) and Minnesota Internation Center as we host Timothy E.
Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, for an address on the release
of the State of World Population Report 2001. Issued by the UN Population
Fund, this year's report focuses on population and environmental change.
Children's Art from Prague. An exhibit of art and literary works drawn,
painted and scripted by some of the 11,000-15,000 children of the Terezin
Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1945.
Location: CSPS Hall, 385 Michigan St., St. Paul
In Our Own Best Interests - A Global Human Rights Update. Please join
Minnesota International Center as Dr. Schulz addresses the current state of
human rights violations around the world and discusses his recent book, In
Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. Dr. Schulz
was appointed executive director of Amnesty International USA in 1994. He
has extensive international experience, including fact-finding missions to
Romania, India, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and has frequently been
interviewed on national TV and quoted in the press. This program is co-sponsored
by Amnesty International USA, local
group #37 and the University of St. Thomas' Master of International Management
(MIM) program.
In Our Own Best Interest; A Global Human Rights Update. As the executive
director of Amnesty International USA, William Schulz has many times heard
the question "What do global human rights have to do with me in my U.S. hometown?"
While many people see an ethical and moral reason to be concerned about abuses,
Dr. Schulz also notes political, economic, environmental and health consequences
affecting our own backyard if worldwide abuses are ignored. Please join MIC
on Friday, September 28, as Dr. Schulz addresses the current state of human
rights violations around the world and discusses his recent book, In Our Own
Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All Dr. Schulz was
appointed executive director of Amnesty International USA in 1994. He has
extensive international experience, including fact- finding missions to Romania,
India, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and has frequently been interviewed
on national TV and quoted in the press. This program is co-sponsored by Amnesty
International USA, local group #37 and the University of St. Thomas' Master
of International Management (MIM) program.
Location: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium,
2nd Floor; 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis >
Cost: Free for MIC members, Amnesty International USA members, University
of St. Thomas students (with valid ID); advance registration required; Non-members
$10
Registration: call Nancy Kolb at 612.625.4138; Email to [email protected]
"A Search For Justice: Austria, the holocaust and other Issues of Assets Recovery
and Forced Labor Compensation." Austrian Ambassador Hans Winkler, JD,
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs will speak. Reception after the lecture.
Parking is available at the municipalramp next to the Holiday inn Metrodome,
1500 Washington Avenue S. Presented by Center for Austria Studies, College
of Liberal Arts.
Location: Room 15, LAW CENTER Mondale Hall, West Bank, sub-plaza level
Post Holocaust Jewish and Christian Thought. CSCH 0370 taught by Rabbi
Joseph Edelheit, Reverend James Gertmenian, Reverend Michael Michael O'Connell.
6:30-8:30 PM Tuesday October 2-23 (4 meetings) $115 tuition.
Location: Blegen Hall Room 425 West Bank Campus, U of M.
For registration: http:www.cce.umn.edu/scholars/ or 612-625-7777.
Reducing the Nuclear Threat - A Local Dialogue for Global Security. Minnesota
International Center invites you to participate in this free town meeting
on U.S. nuclear policy. Confirmed speakers to this non-partisan dialogue include:
Ted Turner, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Charles Curtis,
president and COO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and former undersecretary
and deputy secretary of energy. Other invited speakers include members of
the Minnesota Congressional delegation and a Bush administration official.
Displaced: World War II in Europe, 1945-1946-Jewish Refugees and Other Displaced
Persons. Opening of Exhibition. Photos are by Maxine Rude, native of
Viroqua, Wisconsin, who was a US Army Photographer in 1944, transferred to
UNRRA in 1945 to photograph the DP Camps. Ruse now lives in Arizona. Parking
in Law School lot or Holiday Inn Metrodome, across the street.
Location: Nash Gallery, Willey Hall, West Bank.
Anthony Lewis: "Terrorism and Freedom".
Anthony Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, will present a lecture in the
Cowles Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center. He has entitled his lecture, "Terrorism
and Freedom." Lewis is author of three books dealing with First Amendment
and civil rights issues: "Gideon's Trumpet"; "Make No Law: The Sullivan Case
and the First Amendment"; and "Portrait of a Decade." Lewis has taught a course
entitled "The Constitution and the Press" at Harvard Law School for 15 years,
and has been a visiting professor at numerous other universities. Lewis won
his first Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for a series of articles in the Washington
Daily News about a US Navy employee who was dismissed for being a security
risk. From 1956-57 he was a Nieman Fellow and spent the academic year studying
at Harvard Law School. When he returned to Washington, he covered the Supreme
Court, the Justice Department and other legal events including the government's
handling of the civil rights movement. In 1963, he won his second Pulitzer
for his coverage of the Supreme Court for The New York Times. In 1964, Lewis
became the chief of the Times London bureau, and began writing his column
from there in 1969. Since 1973 he has been based in Boston.
Refugees/Immigrants: Unrecognized Torture Sequelae Affects the Health of Many.
Speaker is Kathi Antolak, MD, Center for Victims of Torture. The
Twin Cities has had a long history of welcoming immigrants and refugees from
harrowing circumstances, many of whom have suffered under political oppression,
including torture. Frequently such persons originate from a context in which
ongoing medical care is scant at best. Of which physical and psychological
sequelae should physicians and other health care providers be aware? Kathi
Antolak, MD, has been a staff physician with the Center for Victims of Torture
in the Twin Cities from 1993 to the present. She has also served as a Clinical
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health
at the University of Minnesota. Her presentation "Refugees/Immigrants: Unrecognized
Torture Sequelae Affects the Health of Many" will be invaluable for medical
professionals and for those who wish to better understand a crucial context
with ongoing effects in the lives of our immigrant neighbors. Sponsored by
Program in Human Rights and Medicine.
Day seminar on Japan's War Time Atrocities and Questions of Reconciliation.
There will be featured a list of prominent speakers from Japan, China and
the United States on this question of reconciliation. Japan was exempted by
reparations because of the San Francisco Treaty of 1951, unlike the case of
Germany. This session promises to be interesting in light of the recent unfortunate
events in New York, Washington and Pittsburgh and how one reconciles terror
and grief.
Japan's War Crimes: Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731 (Biological Unit), Comfort
Women, Slave Labor. The first workshop for teachers on the question of
how to teach about issues in the Pacific War and Japan's War Crimes.
Location: Moos Tower, University of Minnesota East Bank Campus
A Midwestern Response to the Holocaust: the Scattergood Hostel Story.
Dr. Luick-Thrams will give a multi-media presentation of this little-know
"Schindler's List on the Prairie." Michael Luick Thrams is a historian, writer,
teacher and public speaker based in Berlin, Germany. He has written three
books, including OUT OF HITLER'S REACH: THE SCATTERGOOD HOSTEL STORY FOR EUROPEAN
REFUGEES. From 1939 to 1943, nearly 200 refugees from Nazi occupied Europe
>found a safe haven at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what once had been
a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. The speaker has also done
research about Camp Algona, a World War II prisoner of war camp in Iowa. The
camp operated from 1943 to 1946 and housed 10,000 German prisoners of war,
most of them captured in North Africa or Italy. The event is sponsored by
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, College of Liberal
Arts, Mark and Muriel Wexler Lectureship Fund, and Dworsky Endpowment for
Jewish Studies. Open to the public.
Location: EECSI 2-250 Electrical Engineering, Computer Science East
Bank, University of Minnesota
Precarious Legacy: The Exlibris Bookplate Collection of Dr. Fritz Stransky,
murdered in Auschwitz. Over 1100 EX LIBRIS Bookplates were donated to
CHGS by Walter and Anita Schwartz of St. Paul. The collection belonged to
her father and was donated to the Center for Holocaust and genocide Studies.
Location: Weisman Museum of Art.
Yolanda Becerra, Director of Women's Popular Oganization of Colombia will
speak. Sponsored by Colombia Support Group of Minnesota, tel. 612-276-
0788 ext. 10.
" A Citizen's Call to Justice : Creating a New Democracy." The Institute
on Race & Poverty (http://www.umn.edu/irp) is sponsoring a local conference.
Examine the fallout of the 2000 election and its place within our history
as a democracy. Organize progressives and devise strategies that would make
our elected officials accountable the people. Connect with liked-minded groups
around the country. Provide a truer democratic vision for a more perfect union.
Cost is free.
"Long Night's Journey Into Day." The Alumni Society of the College of
Liberal Arts of the U of M is holding a special symposium as part of its Critical
Dialogues series, featuring the two film makers of the Academy Award-nominated
documentary "Long Night's Journey Into Day." Two video showings of the film,
which focuses on post-Apartheid South Africa and its struggle toward reconciliation,
will be held at 12:15 pm and again at 3:45 pm. U of M Humanities Institute
Director Robin Brown will moderate a 2:00 pm panel discussion among award-winning
film makers Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman, CLA History professor Eric Weitz,
and local human rights expert Judge Lajune Lang. The discussion will focus
on issues of nationhood, human rights, racism, and the many moral and ethical
questions raised by the film, and give audience members a chance to ask questions
of the film makers about their experiences. Both the film showings and the
discussion, held at the A.I. Johnson room in the Alumni Gateway Center, at
Oak and University, are free and open to the public, with plenty of parking
in the nearby ramp on University Avenue.
"Objects and Issues: The Question of Restitution of Looted Art from the Nazi
Era and the Holocaust." Dr. Stephen Feinstein, CHGS and Dr. Lyndel
King, Weisman Museum.
"Afghanistan after the Taliban?" Professor Iraj Bashiri, Department of
Slavic and Central Asian Languages and Literatures at the U of M will speak.
Public is welcome.
"The Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responses." Professor Taner Akcam to
speak at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Akcam, now Visiting Scholar at
the University of Michigan-Dearborn has a permanent position as Research Scientist
in Sociology, Hamburger Institut fr Sozialforschung. He is well known in the
debate about the Armenian Genocide. He is one of the few Turkish historians
who has read original documents and has concluded that the term "genocide"
is appropriate for the events that overtook the Armenian population of the
Ottoman Empire from 1915-1922. As a result, he has been labeled a "criminal"
by both government and press officials in Turkey. To some human rights groups,
the attack on Akcam is a measure of the direction of human rights policies
in today's Turkey. Akcam will speak in "History of the Holocaust" class on
"The Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responses." at 12:45pm; Room: Electrical
Engineering CSI 2-250 First Floor Free and Open to the Public. Also will speak
at 7:30 PM. Talk on "Rereading Turkish History from the Human Rights Perspective"
Site. U of M School of Law. Room 50 Law School Free and open to the public.
Issues in Contemporary Genocide. CSCH 0302 Wednesday November 7-Dec 5
(4 meetings, no class November 21). Taught by Dr. Stephen Feinstein. Tuition
$115. 7-9PM.
Location: St. Paul Jewish Community Center.
For registration: http:www.cce.umn.edu/scholars/ or 612-625-7777.
"The Architecture of Auschwitz." Robert Jan Van Pelt is co-author with
Devorah Dwork of "Auschwitz: 1258 to the Present," and has finished another
comprehensive history of the Holocaust with Dwork entitled: "A Carnival of
Death," soon to be published. He was also the chief witness at the Irving-Lipstadt
Trial in London earlier in the year and is writing his own book on the subject.
He will be giving other lectures from November 8-11 as well. Sunday, November
11 at the
Location: Weisman Museum, 2PM.
The Jewish Community Relations Council Announces: Trip to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum. This one-day trip begins at 6:30a.m departing
from the Hubert H. Humphrey Terminal and returning at approximately 8:30 p.m.
The cost of the trip is * $295 which includes round trip airfare and bus transportation
to and from the Museum. *If possible we recommend that the staff development
funds in each school support one-half of the cost for teachers and staff.
The trip's price is based on the rising cost of fuel and airline travel. The
trip is open to all individuals 12 years of age and up. An adult must accompany
children under 18. Reservations are on a first come first served basis and
must be accompanied by registration, waiver and full payment no later than
October 12, 2001. Cancellations with full refund will be honored until October
30, 2001. There are no refunds after this date.
For more information: please contact Jodi Elowitz at 612-338-7816.
5th Annual Mpls/St.P.
Jewish Film Festival. Opens Sat., Nov.l0 At UFilm Society Bell Aud.;
17th and University Ave SE. Parking in the 4th Avenue Ramp. A dozen films
reflecting the rich range of Jewish experience,from love-in-conflict (matchmaking
vs. assimilation) to the search for peace in the Mideast ---with some new
hot-button titles--- will be premiered at the 5th Annual Minneapolis/St.Paul
Jewish Film Festival opening Saturday, Nov. l0, The series is being presented
again by the University of Minnesota Film Society. Screenings will run nightly
and weekends through November at the UFS East Bank campus Bell Auditorium
venue,l7th and University ave. SE.,Mpls. Fest opens with two comedies, the
Mel Brooks l968 classic,The Producers,at 7:15 p. m.Sat.(l0th), a retrospective
look at the original piece of insanity inspiring the new Broadway play,with
the legendary,irrepressible Zero Mostel as hard-luck Broadway schemer Max
Bialystok and Gene Wilder as his hapless assistant. (Repeat 5:l5 p.m.Sun.
llth)
Twin Cities Polish Film Festival.
Indigenous People's Movements: A Global Perspective. ICC will be sponsoring
a Global Education Workshop in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's
Institute for Global Studies and the Education for Global Learning Consortium
(MnSCU) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 from 12-4 pm in the Center for Continued
Learning Conference room located in ICC's Student Center. There is NO COST
for registration, although we ask that you RSVP as soon as possible if you
plan to attend as space is limited. Snacks and coffee/tea will be provided.
The topic of the workshop, Indigenous People's Movements: A Global Perspective
, will focus on examining the legal and social issues facing indigenous people's
movements as they work to regain their homelands. Kristi Rudelius Palmer and
William Means will be co-presenters. Kristi is a human rights educator who
has been involved in the field of Human Rights Education since 1986 and is
the co-director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota.
Bill Means of the Oglala Lakota Nation is one of the founders of the International
Indian Treaty Council and currently serves on the Board of Directors. He is
the co-founder of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations,
is an expert on United States and Indian Treaty relations, and is presently
CEO of the Indigenous Trading Company.
"Fritz Stransky: The Several Worlds of a Jewish Lawyer in Early 20th Century
Vienna." Dr. Gary Cohen, History Dept. and Center for Austrian Studies.
"Writing the War". The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing
will host "Writing the War," a reading from various rhetorical perspectives
on the World Trade Center attack and "America's New War." We invite faculty
members, students, and staff to participate by reading excerpts from their
own writing about these events. We are particularly interested in writing
that can be useful as we all rearrange our lives and adjust to new realities.
We especially invite critical or analytical essays that help us to understand
the role that government and the media play in shaping and controlling our
understanding of these events. Several key speakers will be invited to read
from their work for about 45 minutes; at that point, all participants will
be invited to read from open microphones around the room, with about a 5-minute
limit per speaker. To promote a free exchange of ideas in a limited time,
we also invite participants to bring along copies of their own writing to
share with audience members, in case time does not permit readings from all
in attendance. CISW will set up tables where participants can leave their
own work and collect copies of others' work. We will not have space for publications
from organizations or political fliers, but participants are welcome to hand
these out on their own. CISW will consider publishing a collection of selected
essays presented at this event.
Update on the war on terrorism. Sir Eldon Griffiths, national chairman
of the World Affairs Councils of America, will offer insight on what lies
ahead in addressing terrorism worldwide. Registration and reception 5:30 p.m.;
program 6:15-7:30 p.m.
The Minnesota public is invited to enjoy "Great Conversations." This new multidisciplinary
series brings prominent members of the University community together with
a roster of influential thinkers from around the world to discuss some of
the most complex and compelling issues of our time. The series begins on January
15 and features President Mark Yudof engaged in conversation with legendary
political strategist Paul Begala. Begala studied law with then Professor Yudof
at the University of Texas at Austin and gained national prominence as a driving
force in the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign. He went on to be a top presidential
advisor and has just published a book with his former partner James Carville.
The series continues monthly with conversations between: Thomas Fisher, Dean
of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and Steven Holl,
Time magazine's Architect of the Year (February 19); Dr. Catherine Verfaillie,
Director of the Stem Cell Institute, and Dr. Austin Smith, Director of the
Centre for Genome Research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (March
26); Professor Jane Kirtley, Director of the Silha Center for the Study of
Media Ethics and Law, and Brian Lamb, Founder and CEO of C-SPAN (April 2);
Professor John Wright, Principal Scholar for the Givens Collection of African
American Literature and Life, and Cornel West, Harvard Professor and best
selling author (May 7).
Two Armies and the Jews: The Italian Effort to Save Jews during the Holocaust.
Jonathan Steinberg, chair of the History Department at Penn and a leading
historian of Italy and Germany, will be in town in January in a visit sponsored
by Hillel. He will speak Friday, January 25, time TBA. Probable topic is:
Two Armies and the Jews: The Italian Effort to Save Jews during the Holocaust
(probably in conjunction with a documentary by Joseph Rochlitz called "Righeous
Enemy).
La Questione della Lingua: Nationalism and the Invention of the Language.
Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European
History at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Department of History.
His publications include Why Switzerland? (1976), All or Nothing: The Axis
and the Holocaust (1990) and "The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions
during the Second World War" (1999). All or Nothing tries to explain why Fascist
Italy in its zones of occupation in Greece, Croatia and Southern France systematically
refused to assist Nazi Germany, its nominal ally, in the extermination of
the Jews. By using German and Italian sources he attempts to compare the two
faces of Fascism.
"Juve contre Fantomas: Capturing the Fantom Criminal." Dr. Nanette Fornabai
of Brown University and a candidate for Assistant Professor of French in the
Department of French and Italian will present "Juve contre Fantomas: Capturing
the Fantom Criminal" on Tuesday, January 29th at 4:30 p.m.
Location: 46 Folwell Hall.
"The Law and Ethics of Public Health Responses to Bioterrorism." The
University's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life
Sciences will sponsor a half-day symposium. The prospect of a bioterrorist
disaster forces us to ask whether law and ethics authorize aggressive triage,
isolation and quarantine, compelled treatment, and access to private medical
records, among other public health measures. One of the toughest questions
is the proper role of force. The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
have commissioned a Model State Emergency Health Powers Act now being debated
and slated to be introduced in the Minnesota legislature. This symposium will
tackle the full range of legal and ethical issues raised by efforts to protect
the public's health in the face of bioterrorism. Confirmed speakers and panelists
include Prof. Larry Gostin, JD, LLD (Georgetown and Johns Hopkins), principal
author of the Model Act; Prof. Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director of the
University's Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy; Jan Malcolm,
Minnesota's Commissioner of Health; Terry O'Brien, Esq., a former Assistant
Attorney General in Minnesota; Prof. Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Director of the
University's Center for Bioethics; and John Hick, MD, Faculty Physician, Hennepin
County Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. The symposium will
be free and open to the public.
Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center
For more information: visit www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/conferences/
or call 612-625-0055.
"A Twice Promised Land: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Dr.
Steven Derfler will give a PowerPoint presentation entitled "A Twice Promised
Land: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" on Wednesday, January 30 at 12:30
p.m. The The talk is free and open to the public. For more information contact
Amy Olson of the Hillel Center at 612/379-4026.
"Rethinking the History of Species: Why a Cynical View Might Help." Gordon
McOuat of Kings College in Halifax will speak as part of the History of Science
and Technology's Spring Colloquium.
Domestic Violence and Human Rights: An Introduction Presented by the Honorable
Mary Lou Klas. Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and Minnesota
Advocates for Human Rights present Women's Human Rights Speaker Series Domestic
Violence and Human Rights: An Introduction Presented by the Honorable Mary
Lou Klas Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 12:00 P.M. at Briggs and Morgan, PA,
2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis (lunch will be served) In July, 2000 Judge
Mary Lou Klas retired from fourteen years on Minnesota's Second District trial
court bench. As a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court's Committee on Gender
Fairness in the Courts since 1989, Judge Klas chaired the Committee's Family
Law and Domestic Violence Curriculum Committee. She has served as adjunct
professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law, and chair of the Family
Law Section of the Minnesota Bar Association and the Minnesota Chapter of
the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She received a Distinguished
Humanitarian Award from the Ramsey County Bar Association, a Pro Bono Public
Attorney Award from the Minnesota Bar Association, a Distinguished Alumna
Award from William Mitchell College of Law and a Doctor of Humane Letters
degree from The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN. This is the fourth
in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women's
human rights issues. Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a
new presentation.
Israel and the Palestinians: Is There Still a Chance for Peace? Linda
Gradstein, National Public Radio Israel Correspondent, will speak. The talk
is free and no tickets are required.
Cloning and the Challenge to Human Dignity. Please join us for a noon-hour
lecture by Jean Bethke Elshtain, PhD, on Wednesday, 20 February in Mayo 125.
The lecture is generously cosponsored by the Department of Political Science,
the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (MacArthur Program),
and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies. Prof. Elshtain is the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University
of Chicago. Her work, reflected in 20 volumes, authored or edited, intensively
explores the relationship between ethical and political convictions and the
ethical implications of political and social policies. On the present complex
of issues she has also provided congressional testimony. (A biographical link
is at www.umn.edu/phrm)
In Celebration of Purim: The Great Latke Hamentash Debate. President Yudof
will moderate this all-important debate as four distinguished faculty members
present academic papers on the virtues of the latke and the Hamentash. Defending
the latke will be Professors Judith Katz and Azzan Yadin. Defending the Hamentash
will be Professors Les Block and Elaine Tyler May. Latkes and Hamentashen
will be served! Free and open to the public.
Location: Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey Center, 301 19th Ave. S.
"Arms Availability and Human Rights." The conference at the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis will bring together an interdisciplinary group
of experts on arms issues to address some of the unanswered questions surrounding
the effects, transfer, and misuse of small arms and light weapons in the context
of human rights, such as: How are human rights affected by the availability
and misuse of weapons? How should international human rights obligations affect
state responsibility regarding the transfer and use of small arms and light
weapons? Does the increased availability of weapons constitute a proximate
cause of violations of human rights and humanitarian law? What further national
and international standards or actions are needed to address human rights
violations that result from the misuse of small arms and light weapons? This
groundbreaking conference aims to bring together the human rights and arms
control movements to strategize about legal and diplomatic means to curb the
human rights violations that result from the arms trade. The Human Rights
Program and the European Studies Consortium at the University of Minnesota
organized the conference. The objectives of the Human Rights Program, which
was established in fall 2001, include bringing together faculty, students,
and international human rights experts to create opportunities for research
and action on issues of common interest. The public program will take place
on Friday morning, February 22, at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The public event will also feature
members of the domestic gun control movement in the United States, including
a keynote address by Mary Leigh Blek, National Director of Million Mom March.
Upper Midwest Connection at the University of Minnesota Law School. This
is a weekend long exchange of information and ideas designed to strengthen
our abilities to work together as members of Amnesty International-USA's Midwest
region. As Amnesty International faces the challenges of defending human rights
in a period of rapid globalization and the post Sept. 11th "New World Order,"
what has been and will continue to be the backbone of this organization is
the power of its grassroots activism. The Upper Midwest Connection will focus
on harnessing this power to continue to strengthen this region. We do so as
we stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow activists across this country
and around the globe. Strength comes in numbers. So too can knowledge, understanding,
and unity. On Feb. 23rd and 24th we will share our knowledge, broaden our
understanding, and become more united. Please join us! Pre-registration is
not required (except for free housing), but it will help us to make the conference
more enjoyable for everyone.
FACULTY AND GRAD STUDENT BRUNCH PROGRAM. Robert Lavenda, Professor of
Anthropology at St. Cloud State University will speak on the topic Anti-Semitism
at St. Cloud State University. The cost is $5 for students and $10 for non-students.
RSVP by email by Thursday, February 21. The admission includes brunch. Reply
to Hillel Foundation: 612-379-4026. Hillel at the University of Minnesota
1521 University Ave. SE. Minneapolis, MN 55414 Parking on University Avenue
is free on Sundays
The Future of Southern Sudan: Differing Perspectives. The Sudan spans
territory greater than all of Western Europe. This enormous African nation
is richly diverse in geography and climate, race and ethnicity, history and
religioun, and is characterized by a largely Islamic north and largely animist
and Christian south. Yet since independence from Great Britian in 1956, the
Sudan's diversity has largely been a cruse. Armed conflict and related famines
have claimed two million Sudanese lives since the start of its second civil
war in 1983. Recent expansions in its globally connected oil industry supplies
the Sudanese government even more means and motivation for its continued assault
on southern peoples. The Sudanese Symposium at Macalester College brings together
four leading experts on the Sudan's ongoing war: Francis M. Deng, a renowned
scholar who is Sudan's former minster of state; Jemera Rone, the Sudan expert
at Human Rights Watch; Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, a distinguished northern Sudanese
legal scholar of Islam and human rights; and Donald Petterson, a top State
Departments Africanist who formerly served as U.S. ambassador to Sudan. The
two-day conferenc, highlighted also by public responses by Macalester faculty
and students, will grapple with questions of identity, religion, violence,
the state, and hitory - all in the context of the future of southern Sudan.
Location: Weyerhaeuser
Memorial Chapel, on Grand Avenue just West of Snelling Avenue, Saint Paul.
The Great Plains Migrations 26th Annual Symposium. The symposium will
take place in Lincoln, Nebraska. Advance registration fee for the symposium
is $75 and must be postmarked by February 28, 2002. To receive the special
conference rate at the Cornhusker Hotel, the hotel must have your registration
by February 9, 2002.
Human Molecular Genetics and the Subject of Race: Contrasting Theory and Rhetoric
with Practical Applications in Law and Medicine.
Prof. Troy Duster, University of California at Berkeley, will give a presentation.
Prof. Duster is Professor of Sociology at New York University and Director
of the American Cultures Center at the University of California, Berkeley,
where is he also Chancellor's Professor of Sociology. He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Germ-Line
Intervention and has been a member of the Assembly of Behavioral and Social
Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1995-98, he served as member
and then chair of the joint NIH/DOE advisory committee on Ethical, Legal,
and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (the ELSI Working Group). Publications
include Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge (1984) and Backdoor
to Eugenics (1990), a book on the social implications of the new technologies
in molecular biology. Regarding his presentation, Prof. Duster writes, "In
recent years, a consortium of scientists across a range of disciplines have
declared that the concept of race is of no utility in science. However, there
have been simultaneous developments in the practical uses of the new molecular
genetics technologies in medicine and law that indicate just how difficult
it will be to purge science, medicine, and clinical genetics of an idea that
is so deeply embedded in the routine practices, the practical applications,
and the ever-recurring 'proxies for race.' In medicine, the new field of pharmacogenomics
is attempting to fine-tune the delivery of drugs to specific populations based
upon DNA profiles--ethnicity and race primary among them. In law, forensic
science is moving ahead to use genetic markers to predict whether a criminal
suspect is from a particular ethnic or racial group. This presentation will
examine some of the social and political implications of these developments."
Join Amnesty International to end Police Harassment and Beatings of Peaceful
Protestors in India's Narmada Valley. Many
protesters, especially women, have been targeted by Indian police for peacefully
protesting the environmentally destructive Narmada Valley Development Project.
The Narmada Valley Development Project is a large series of dams for a hydro-electric
project that threatens destroy valuable forests and agricultural lands, wipe
out biodiversity, and displace 1.5 million people. The local populations speaking
out against it have been subject to police arrest and beatings while their
concerns about inadequate relocation plans have been ignored. As part of our
Just Earth! campaign to defend those who defend the environment we will be
hosting speaker Patrick McCully, Campaigns Director of International Rivers
Network, who has worked closely with this issue for many years. Please join
us to find out more about this pressing issue, and find out what you can do
about it.
Silent Witness: Genocide in the Landscape. Silent Witness: Genocide in
the Landscape is a photography exhibition featuring work that addresses how
the landscape holds on to evidence of atrocities committed on it. We discovered
the work of Simon Norfolk collected in his book For most of it I have no words:
Genocide � Landscape � Memory. The title is a quote from Edward R. Morrow
upon viewing the horror of Buchenwald just after World War Two. Likewise,
without words, his landscapes describe the horror of eight sites where genocide
occurred in the 20th century. The photographs are sequenced chronologically
from latest incident in Rwanda proceeding back through time until the crime
against the Herero in the Namibia desert. Covered between those two are the
incidents in Cambodia, Vietnam, Auschwitz, Dresden, the Ukraine and Armenia.
The photographs document the relentless march of entropy as it works to erase
the evidence of the crimes and with it the persistence of memory; it is nature
returning to its innocence. But can the landscape, or can we, ever return
to innocence? Despite their haunting beauty, the essence of what happened
in these landscapes still remains, referring metaphorically to the indelible
scars these acts have left on our collective psyche.
Location: history. Instead of making landscape documents of these places,
Beasley seeks out the small and simple acts of devotion that contribute to
the sacredness of the site.
"Slavery Reparations". Presentation and book signing by Randall Robinson
at 6:00 p.m..
"Health Care in Nazi Germany: Meanings and Morality". Andre Mineau, PhD
Department of Religious Studies and Ethics University of Quebec, Rimouski.
Location: Shepard Room, Weisman Art Museum
For more information: call 612-624-9440.
Impossible Citizens: Engendering Politics in a Comparative World Perspective.
The conference will present two lectures and discussions open to the public,
both in Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School, West Bank, University of Minnesota:
Public Lecture and Book Signing "Teaching for Unity and Diversity in a Time
of National Crisis" . Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum University of
Minnesota. Free Admission. Reception to follow in the adjacent Fiterman Gallery.
James A. Banks is Russell F. Stark University Professor and Directer of the
Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle.
He is past President of the American Research Educational Assoication and
past President of the National Council for Social Studies. Professor Banks
is a specialist in social studies education and in multicultural education,
and has written many articles and books in these fields.
Student Scholarships in Poland. Jewish
educational and cultural center in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland seeks students
for a unique and educational internship summer 2002. The Auschwitz Jewish
Center is offering scholarships for two to three ambitious, creative, and
talented students to work with a dynamic team in Poland on a variety of projects.
The Center houses an exhibit, a genealogy center, a survivor testimony film,
classroom space, and a restored synagogue. The newly opened Auschwitz Jewish
Center receives thousands of visitors from around the world. Student Scholars
will work in Oswiecim and Krakow. In addition to many interesting projects
at the Center, student scholars will have the opportunity to work on independent
research projects or volunteer with a local Jewish community. The Jewish Center
will assist the students in finding resources and contacts, or a topic for
independent research. Projects must be approved by the Foundation.
Bringing Women' s International Human Rights Home.
Presented by Aviva Breen. Aviva Breen recently retired from her position as
the Director of Minnesota's Legislative Commission on the Economic Status
of Women. During her 18 years as the Executive Director, she worked to pass
important pieces of legislation, including Minnesota's parental leave law
(one of the first in the country), and Minnesota's Pay Equity law, (the first
and only in the country). Prior to her work at the commission Aviva represented
the interests of low-income clients before the Minnesota legislature. She
worked on passing the first domestic violence legislation in Minnesota in
1979. She has taught Legislative Advocacy and Women's Human Rights at the
William Mitchell College of Law. As the co-chair of the Women' s Program at
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, She has participated in training workshops
in Bulgaria and Nepal. She has received many awards for her work, including
Minnesota Advocates' volunteer award and Minnesota Women Lawyers' Myra Bradwell
award.
Holocaust Education Summer Institute at Colombia University. The Jewish
Foundation for the Righteous, based in New York and concerned with Holocaust
Education announces its Summer Institute at Columbia University, June 23-27,
2002. CHGS is designated as a "Center of Excellence" and has been awarded
two scholarships for nominated pre-college teachers, preferably on high school
level. The Institute allows teachers to utilize a new textbook, meet with
some of the best scholars, and exchange methodologies with other teachers.
CHGS has applications for the program and will send them to interested teachers.
Applications are due by March 1. Decisions will be made by March 15, 2002.
Continuing Education program for Teachers in Wittenberg, Germany. K-12
teachers of German who teach in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest will study
in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, with special overnight excursions to Berlin
and Weimar. Particpants will be invited to arrive in Wittenberg on June 16,
2002 and depart July 5, 2002 ESTIMATED COST TO PARTICIPANT: $800. Balance
subsidized by Center for German and European Studies at U of M and DAAD Program
of the German Government. FEATURES: Experience German life, language and culture
intensively for 3 weeks. Visits to East german schools and meeting with German
counterparts; expanding and renewing German language skills; examine world
wide web as learning tool; developing new teaching materials. CEU's offered
through College of Education.
For information contact: Center for German and European Studies at [email protected]
U of M Summer Workshop: Art, Aesthetics and Visual Representation of the Holocaust.
The course will focus of visual responses to the rise of Nazism, the issues
of aesthetics in Germany history and culture that led to the Holocaust, representations
from the camps, post-Holocaust art, monuments and some issues that are posed
by films viewed from an artistic view, rather than feature-length movie quality.
In essence, the focus of the course is the encounter between the Holocaust
as event and post-Holocaust visual representation in the realm of popular
culture. Designed for teachers who are interested in introducing art and film
into their courses about the Holocaust. Other genocides will be considered
as well. Instructor: Stephen Feinstein & guest speakers, artists TUITION FELLOWSHIP:
50% tuition reduction courtesy of a grant from the Minneapolis Jewish Community
Foundation. REGISTER EARLY: SPACE IS LIMITED.
Reply to Sarah Herzog, Center for West European Studies at [email protected].
Genocide and Human Rights Summer University Program by the Zoryan Institute.
Under the auspices of its Genocide Studies Division, the Zoryan Institute
has invited internationally renowned scholars to participate in this unique
course, including Taner Akam, Yair Auron, Frank Chalk, Vahakn Dadrian, Lorne
Shirinian, Roger Smith, and Khachig Tllyan. These specialists will explore
these topics and others, in depth, in their seminars:
"Dreaming of a New Reality" The Third International Conference on Conferencing,
Circles and other Restorative Practices. August 5-7, 2002 for Pre-Conference
Workshops. August 8-10, 2002 for the Conference. Pre-Conference Trainings
and Conference will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Howard Johnson
Thunderbird Hotel and Conference Center. Conference Speakers include: Tim
Newell, Governor of Grendon Prison, United Kingdom, on using conferencing
in correctional facilities. The Honorable Heino Lilles, Judge, Yukon Terrritorial
Court, Canada, on running sentencing circles with offenders. Vidia Negrea,
Psychologist, Hungary, on developing a restorative school for delinquent youth.
Dave Piperato, Principal, Palisades High School, Pennsylvania, USA, and Joe
Roy, Principal, Springfield Township High School, Pennsylvania, on using restorative
practices in education. Liz Quinnett, San Diego County Children's Services,
California, USA, on the experiences of conducting hundreds of family group
conferences for children. Proposals for Presentations have been coming in
from such countries as: United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Hong Kong, Italy,
Germany, Rwanda, Phillipines and the United States. Pre-Conference Workshops:
Real Justice Conference Facilitator Training Restorative Practices in the
Workplace Serious Offenses Seminar Real Justice Training of Trainers Introduction
to Restorative Practices Restorative Supervision
Human Rights for Educators Summer Institute. Spend five dynamic days
in sunny Southern California, with a wide range of experts and fellow educators
from all levels, learning human rights and how to transform your students
with these values, as mandated by California law. Learn how to integrate human
rights in the classroom so as to comply with the California Education Code
and the Standards for Social Science. Learn what your human rights are. Learn
the legal rights of teachers, parents and children in the educational system.
Connect with other human right educators. Promote tolerance and cultural sensitivity
at your school. Empower your students and build their self-worth.
Location: University of California - Irvine
Tuition (including room & board): $850 or Tuition only $500
For more information contact Professor H. Victor Conde: Human Rights
Institute for Educators, P.O. Box 1634, Costa Mesa, California 92628-1634
Phone: 714.730.2789
Email: [email protected]
http://www.hvconde.com
The Access to Essential Medicines EXPO. Sponsored by Doctors Without
Borders. The interactive exhibit, which was awarded a 1999 Nobel Peace Prize,
is housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer. Using photographs and multimedia,
the exhibit highlights the need for more research and development into treatments
for diseases that affect the world's poor. The exhibit will be located on
Harvard Street at East River Parkway, across from the main entrance to Fairview-University
Medical Center. The event is free and open to the public. Click here http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/outreach/expo/
for more information on the EXPO.
Phone: 612-625-7933 Fax: 612-626-4200
[email protected]
September 9, 2002, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The World After September 11, 2001. MIC invites you to hear an international
leader with St. Paul connections on Monday, September 9. Baroness Williams,
leader of the Liberal Democrats in the British House of Lords, will share
a perspective on current world issues post- September 11th. This program is
cosponsored by the British American Business Council. Who: Baroness Williams,
leader of the Liberal Democrats, House of Lords When: Monday, September 9;
registration and reception 5:30 P; program 6:15-7:30 P Where: University Club,
420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. Valet parking available. Cost: MIC Members $10;
Non-members $15.
Conference on the Armenian Diaspora.
All events will take place at the Roy Wilkins Room Hubert H. Humphrey
Center West Bank Campus University of Minnesota. For more information on these
events, please e-mail [email protected] or call 612 626 7705.
Schedule
The Republic of Armenia: Does History Repeat Itself? This is a lecture
on the state of Armenia held in conjunction with a conference on the Armenian
Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Richard G. Hovannisian is the leading
historian of modern Armenia in the United States. For many years he has been
Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History at the University of California,
Los Angeles. His multi-volume study, The Republic of Armenia, was pathbreaking
when its first part was published in 1971 and has since become the standard
work in the field. He has written or edited many other books, including The
Armenian Genocide in Perspective (1986), and has published more than sixty
scholarly articles. Prof. Hovannisian has been honored with many awards, including
a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1982, he was honored by His Holiness Karekin II
of the Great House of Cilicia with the Medal of St. Mesrop Mashtots for his
advancement of Armenian studies. In 1998, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary
of the establishment of the first Armenian republic in 1918, he was presented
the Movses Khorenatsi (primary classical Armenian historian) medal and award
by the Republic of Armenia. In November, 2001, on the occasion of his 40th
anniversary in the field of Armenian Studies, Prof. Hovannisian received an
encyclical and the medal of Saints Sahak and Mesrop from His Holiness Garegin
II, Supreme Patriarch-Catholicos. Reception to follow.
Armenians Before and After the Genocide: History, Culture, and Memory. (Day
2 of Conference on the Armenian Diaspora)
The Armenian Merchants of Safavid
Iran Stephen Blake, St. Olaf College
Narrative, Memory, and Identity in the Armenian Diaspora
Lorne Shirinian, Royal Military College, Ottawa, Canada
Break
Armenians in France and the Genocide
Philippe Videlier, CRNS Lyons, France
Armenian Literature in the Diaspora
Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan
Commentary
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
The Armenian School in Cyprus
Theofanis Stavrou, University of Minnesota
Armenians in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s
Soner Cagatpay, Yale University
Commentary
Taner Akam, University of Minnesota
Moving Beyond Preservation: Literacy and Identity in the Making
Armin Yaghejian, McGill University
William Saroyan and the Armenian Diaspora Experience
Dickran Kouymjian, California State University at Fresno
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
Spaces of Possibility: Arts and Reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. As
part of a year-long lecture series addressing the Arts and Social Responsibility
the Department of Theater Arts and Dance will host a symposium presented in
conjunction with the Space/Place Research group's inter-disciplinary explorations
of place, memory, and identity and the Arts Quarter initiative for collaboration
among the arts with support from the Institute for Global Studies. Designed
to have resonance with while not attempting to memorialize the events of September
11, the symposium focuses on two artistic sites that bring together Arab and
Jewish participants. Both sites animate the complex relationships of place
and identity in Israel/Palestine, a terrain in which modernist notions of
the nation-state no longer adequately address connections among territory,
ethnos, and state.
Environmental Opportunities in Central & Eastern Europe. Join the Minnesota
Trade Office for an afternoon business conference on entry or expansion into
the Central/Eastern European markets for environmental services and technologies.
Speakers include trade and finance specialists from the U.S. Department of
Commerce, Small Business Administration and Ex-Im Bank. For more information,
contact 651.297.4650.
Jamaica and the U.S. MIC Ambassador Series Join MIC and the Organization
for Strategic Development in Jamaica (OSDJ) on Monday, September 23, as His
Excellency Seymour Mullings, Jamaica's ambassador to the U.S., addresses U.S.-Jamaica
relations highlighting recent changes in Jamaica's government and business
opportunities for Minnesota companies. Who: His Excellency Seymour Mullings,
Jamaica's ambassador to the U.S. When: Monday, September 23; registration
11:30 A.; lunch at noon; program 12:30-1:30 P Where: Windows on Minnesota,
50th Floor, IDS Tower, 710 Marquette Ave., downtown Minneapolis. Cost: MIC
members $25; Non-members $35; Limited program-only seating $10. Walk-in registrations
for lunch please add $5.
Finding Common Ground: Solutions for Middle East Peace. (MIC Cosponsored
Program) Throughout the last two years of the current intifada in Israel and
the West Bank, the media has focused on the conflict and violence. Join MIC
and Macalester College on Thursday, September 26, for a unique program focused
on finding a solution to the conflict, featuring a prominent Palestinian moderate
and an Israeli counterpart. Former Senator George Mitchell, author of the
Mitchell Committee Report on the Mideast, will moderate and offer his insights
on this issue. What: Panel discussion When: Thursday, September 26, 4:30-6:00
P Where: Macalester College, Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, Snelling/Grand
Aves., St. Paul Cost: FREE, tickets required from the Minnesota International
Center or Ruminator Books. For details, call Macalester College Relations
651.696.6203 or MIC 612.626.4987.
September 26-27, 2002, 8a.m.-3:30p.m.
Moving Towards Respect. This is a curriculum program aimed at middle
and high schools focusing on encouraging espectful attitudes and behavior
in students by examining the nature of stereotyping, scapegoating, and personal
responsibility. The lessons and activities have application for a wide range
of subject areas and educational programs. 10 Teaching modules will be examined,
such as The Holocaust, apathy, prejudice, intolerance. Workshop leader: Cor
Suijk, who has been the Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam for
27 years. During World War II, he was imprisoned by the Nazi occupation authorities
as a resistance fighter. Otto Frank allowed him to be the holder of several
pages of The Diary of Anne Frank that were not included in the original edition.
Barry van Driel. Educational Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
Ellen Fettner, Cincinnati Educator and guide for Historic Sites tour of Europe.
These three educators have been working together for the "Moving Towards Respect"
curriculum for several years.
Location: Buckham Memorial Library Conference Room 11 Division Street
E Fairbault, MN
FEE: $200 for educators outside District 656 includes lunchs, beverages, snacks
and curriculum materials for the 2 day workshop.
For CEU's and other information, contact Ellen Bisping at [email protected].
PHONE: 507-334-6827
Checks are payable to "DISTRICT 656" and may be mailed to: Ellen Bisping Fairbault
High School 330 SW 9th Avenue Fairbault, MN 55021
"Federal Elections in Germany 2002: The Government of the Red-Green Coalition
after Four Years in Office." A conference of the University of Minnesota
Department of Political Science and Center for German and European Studies
in cooperation with Washington Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch,
College of Liberal Arts (U of M).
Earth Charter Community Summit --Twin Cities: "A Declaration of Interdependence"
. Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd are the noted authors/speakers, this husband-and-wife
team promotes a philosophy of science-based cosmology in the tradition of
cultural historian Thomas Berry and cosmologist Brian Swimme. Paul Hawken:
(web-cast from Philadelphia): Paul is the best selling-author of The Ecology
of Business and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.
He is known around the worl d as one of the leading architects and proponents
of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices.
Local web site: http://www.c4cr.org/earthcharter.html
Earth Charter information: www.earthcharter.org
WWII-Era POWs. An international "Conference on WWII-Era POWs" will take
place 5-8 October 2002 in Muscatine, Iowa--the site of a former German POW
camp and a current exhibit, "The Third Reich in Iowa: German POW Art and Artifacts".
20 former German POWs and their families will be present, as will Iowa POWs
who were in Germany. Keynote speaker Lewis Carlson (Western Michigan U.) co-authored--with
Dresden museum director and panelist Norbert Haase--"We Were Each Other's
Prisoners/Warten auf Freiheit". Additional panelists include Heino Erichsen
(former German soldier and POW, now head of the adoption agency los Ninos)
and Howard Hong (one-time War Prisoners Aid of World YMCA representative who
toured most Midwest POW camps during WWII) and Mike Waters, a Texas A & M
anthropology professor who heads POW-camp excavations. The Monday Film Night
will feature at least 3 POW-related films and their makers. The exhibit will
feature some of the more than 1,500 items from TRACES' collection, including
many works of art, photographs, letters, journals, personal affects and other
relics, 6 October 2002 till 5 January 2003 at the Muscatine [Iowa] Arts Center.
contact http://www.eicc.edu/mcc/pows.html or
Kari Allen at Eastern Iowa Community College
306 West River Driver
Davenport/Iowa 52801-1221
1-888-336-3907
fax: 1-563-336-3350
Email: [email protected]
A Human Rights Culture: Bridging Classroom, Curriculum and Community. Minnesota
Global and Human Rights Education Network presents an exciting new course
for middle and high school educators. As teachers, we are asked to provide
a quality-learning environment for students who come from very diverse backgrounds.
Our students come from different cultural, economic, racial, and linguistic
backgrounds, and it can be a challenge to bring such diverse groups together.
This course will highlight a framework for addressing and teaching about international
and local issues that affect all of us in a multicultural school environment.
The course is for Minnesota middle and high school educators in all fields,
particularly social sciences and ELL.
Phone: 612-624-7346
Email: [email protected]
Web and online registration: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/ghrnetwork.htm
Twin Cities International
Citizen Award.
Lessons and Legacies conference at the Radisson Metrodome. It is sponsored
jointly by CHGS and The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Illinois. All
panelists and participants should register NOW for the conference. This includes
participants from the University of Minnesota. Checks ($40) should be sent
to the: Holocaust Educational Foundation, 64 Old Orchard Road, Professional
Building, Room 520, Skokie, IL 60077. Student registration is $20 but accomodation
can be made for any who cannot pay.
See our events web page: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Events/events.html
for the program. Some changes may occur. While the program is designed mainly
for scholars, it is open to the public and students. Teachers may attend the
conference, which is being held at the Radisson Metrodome, for a subsidized
registration fee of $20, thanks to a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation
of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. Teachers should bring identification
when registering. Checks should be made out to "Lessons and Legacies." CEU's
will be awarded for the sessions on Saturday and Sunday, which seem most appropriate
for teachers because of the workshops. The general public may register for
$40 for the conference. University students are welcome to register without
charge upon presentation of ID. Badges are necessary to attend all sessions.
Parking is available at University of Minnesota or Radisson Metrodome Lot.
The site of the conference, the Radisson Metrodome, is on Washington Avenue
on the main Minneapolis campus. Should you need a room, cheaper rates are
available at motels on University avenue. Registrations with meals ($160 +
$40 registration) are not available as all places have been taken. However,
there is room at all the sessions.
100 Nolte Hall West
315 Pillsbury Drive
Minneapolis, MN. 55455
Phone: (612) 626-2235
FAX: (612) 626-9169
WEB SITE: http://www.chgs.umn.edu
UMN College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Critical Differences: Japanese
Comfort Women. Please join us for the film/lecture event on the sexual
slavery by Japanese military during WWII. The survivors of this government-sanctioned
wartime system, known as the "comfort women," are still fighting to this day
to get apology from the Japanese government. It is crucial that we learn more
about the experiences of these Korean, Phillipina, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch,
and Japanese women, develop our understanding of their demands, and help their
voices be heard more broadly. This event aims to situate their struggle and
the 2000 Tokyo Tribunal broadly, understanding the issue both as a struggle
for human rights in the global setting, and as a personal struggle for healing
in the post-colonial era. We begin with a showing of "Breaking the History
of Silence," a recording of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal
for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Tokyo, December 2000. A
large number of "comfort women" survivors and former Japanese military men
testified at this historically significant Tribunal. For the first time, Japanese
former Emperor Hirohito was declared guilty for his war responsibility--a
verdict that the initial Tokyo war tribunal in the late 1940s avoided for
political reasons. The verdict of the 2000 Tribunal was endorsed at the Hague
in 2001. Two renowned scholars, who have been involved in the "comfort women"
issue, will speak and lead our discussion. Professor Lisa Yoneyama (UC San
Diego), participant in the 2000 Tribunal, will speak on the issue of redress
and justice to situate the 2000 Tribunal in historical and geopolitical perspective
in the post-Cold War world. Professor Chungmoo Choi (UC Irvine) will speak
on the Korean survivors of the wartime sexual slavery system, asking what
it means for the survivors to heal in the post-colonial, post-traumatic society.
This event is part of UMN College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Critical
Differences. The event is also made possible by support from the Humanities
Institute, the Institute for Global Studies, the Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Center for Advanced
Feminist Studies of the U of MN; as well as the H�n Qi�o Committee, and the
Korean-American Today & Tomorrow Center.
Location: William G. Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
For questions and further information, please contact Hiromi Mizuno,
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 612-626-7597
Co-sponsored by Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Annual Peace Celebration.
The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers,
43 individual organizations each working for peace in its own way, will hold
its annual Peace Celebration Nov. 12, 2002 at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist
Church, Lyndale and Hennepin Avenues, Minneapolis. "It's our annual event
at which we re-dedicate ourselves to working for peace in our many diverse
ways," says MAP president Mary White, Minneapolis. "All of our member organizations,
their staff, supporters, families and friends will be represented and let
me emphasize the event is open to the public. Our speaker promises to be enlightening
and compelling and it's a chance for people wishing to volunteer for involvement
in the local peace movement to meet MAP leaders and leaders of our member
organizations." Music will be provided by jazz pianist Larry McDonough and
The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, volunteering their services for the event.
Tickets at $5 may be purchased at the door. Music will begin the evening at
6:30 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. featured speaker will be Dr. Arjun Makhijani who
has written extensively on nuclear-related security and environmental issues
and is the principal editor and co-author of "Nuclear Wastelands: A Global
Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and its Health and Environmental Effects"
(MIT Press 1995, 2000), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He also
is the author of the highly acclaimed book "From Global Capitalism to Economic
Justice" (Apex Press, New York/London, 1992). The book's subtitle is "An Inquiry
Into The Elimination Of Systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction
In The World Economy." The title of Dr. Makhijani's speech is "Nuclear Roulette
In An Age of Terrorism." "Many people believe the Bush Administration's 'War
on Terror' and its nuclear policy are reducing nuclear risks but in reality,
several kinds of nuclear risks are rising, not declining, as a result of a
very misguided U.S. policy," Dr. Makhijani asserted. Based in Takoma Park,
Maryland, near Washington, D.C., Dr. Makhijani is the co-founder and head
of the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Its mission
statement reads in part: IEER "was formed in 1985 to provide the public and
policy makers with sound scientific information. The Institute produces technical
studies on a wide range of policy issues of importance to public safety and
the protection and restoration of the environment...IEER aims to bring scientific
excellence to public policy issues to promote the democratization of science
and a healthier environment." IEER's quarterly newsletter, "Science for Democratic
Action," offers easily accessible scientific information and analysis on a
variety of nuclear issues, reflecting Dr. Makhijani's academic background
in plasma physics as applied to nuclear fusion. Dr. Makhijani holds a Ph.D.
degree in engineering from the University of California/Berkeley; an M.S.
degree in electrical engineering from Washington State University/Pullman,
and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Bombay
in his native India. The editor of the newsletter as well as IEER's U.S. outreach
director, Lisa Ledwidge, currently resides in Minneapolis. She is a biologist
and an environmental scientist and also is involved in IEER's radiation and
health related work.
Phone: 612-374-3594
[email protected]
www.mapm.org
East Timor and U.S. policy. Dr. Dan Murphy, practicing physician in Dili,
East Timor, speaks of East Timor and how U.S. policy impacts the East Timorese.
Dr. Dan Murphy has been in East Timor through the Indonesian occupation, the
vote for independence, the brutal reprisals by the Indonesian army and militias
after the election, and now as Indonesia grapples with establishing a functioning
govt, dealing with some of the worst poverty in the world and protecting itself
and its interest in this U.S. dominated world. Many of you remember Dan's
last deeply disturbing but riveting report at 1st Universalist during the
time of Timor's elections. Dan is from Iowa and his sisters Ann OFallon and
Maureen Murphy live in the Twin Cities. Don't miss this chance to hear first
hand the situation in East Timor and how U.S. policy impacts the brave people
of East Timor.
Location: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave. S. Mpls. (Cummins
Room)
Contact: Sarah Standefer 651-429-4794
The War on Terrorism: The Importance of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
MIC Ambassador Series Join MIC on Monday, January 13, as Ross Wilson, U.S.
ambassador to Azerbaijan, addresses U.S. relations with the countries of Central
Asia and the Caucasus and their significance in the war on terrorism. Related
issues to be discussed include military cooperation and the region's oil reserves.
Cost: Free for MIC members and students; Non-members $5 Advance registration
requested.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 7:00pm
A Public Forum on Restorative Justice: What can Americans learn from the South
African Experience? Free and Open to the Public. Featured Speakers: Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela, clinical psychologist and former member of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, Human Rights Violations Committee in South Africa,
is a senior consultant for the Unilever Ethics Center at the University of
Natal, Pietermaritzburg. In January 2003 she joins the University of Cape
Town as Associate Professor of Psychology. Her first book, A Human Being Died
That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, will be published in January
2003. Charles Villa-Vicencio, theologian and former Director of Research with
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Currently he is Executive
Director, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, and Professor Emeritus,
University of Cape Town. He co-edited with Wilhelm Verwoerd, Looking Back,
Reaching Forward (2000), which explores the significance of the work of the
TRC. Joining the featured speakers as respondents are two Hamline University
School of Law faculty members: Robin Magee, Associate Professor of Law, and
Mary Jo Brooks Hunter, Supervising Attorney, Child Advocacy Clinic & Clinical
Instructor, as well as Kay Pranis, Restorative Justice Planner, Minnesota
Department of Corrections. What can Americans learn from the South African
Experience? Are some acts of violence unforgivable? What role may restorative
justice play in addressing deep cultural conflict such as that over Native
American sacred sites on public land? What role might restorative justice
play in addressing the dramatic racial disparities in the Minnesota criminal
justice system? How might the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) effort to secure national reconciliation in South Africa be drawn on
to address persistent points of conflict in American life? This program offers
members of the public an opportunity to gain a better understanding of, and
to participate in, conversation about the South African experience and its
relevance for Americans. The forum is designed to initiate an examination
of the South African experience from a humanities perspective that will contribute
to reshaping American public discourse on restorative justice.
Location: Hamline University, Sundin Music Hall
Contact: Deb Lange, Hamline University School of Law 651-523-2122 or
[email protected]
Great Decisions: China - New Leaders, Old Challenges Year of China Event.
Come to MIC to learn about and discuss current foreign policy issues in
a small-group setting. January's topic is China: New Leaders, Old Challenges
with Carl Goldstein, an independent journalist who covers national and international
economic and business issues. Great Decisions is sponsored nationally by the
Foreign Policy Association and coordinated in Minnesota by MIC. This program
is made possible in part with funding from the Minnesota Humanities Commission
in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota
State Legislature. New participants are welcome to attend this group, which
meets at MIC on the third Wednesday of each month. Please register in advance
- only 2 seats left! Parking available at nearby meters or ramps Cost: FREE
for MIC members; Non-Members $5
Elimination of Bias: Refugees in the Legal System. This two-hour CLE
will examine the role played by bias in the legal system with regard to refugees
and outline ways that lawyers can work towards appropriate representation
at the individual client level. The session will also address the larger context
of policy and law practice in light of refugee experiences. Two CLE credits
will be applied for. Cost: $50 ($10 for students) To register for the Jan.
15th CLE, you may print out the registration form from our website at www.mnadvocates.org.
If you have any questions, please contact Megan at [email protected],
612-341-3302 ext. 112.
Location: Seattle Room Dorsey & Whitney LLP 50 South 6th Street Minneapolis,
MN 55402
Movie: El Norte. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village, two
teenage Quiche Mayan siblings journey north through Mexico to start a new
life in the United States. Oscar-nominated for screenplay. With Alicia Del
Lago and David Villalpando. Directed by Gregory Nava. 1983. 139 Minutes. English.
This event continues a weekly Resource Center of the Americas series of educational
videos and discussions. Cost: Free
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 7:30am
Managing Finance and Credit Risk in Latin America. Join experts in international
finance and credit risk management for the second in a series of Latin American
Breakfast meetings presented by the Minnesota Trade Office. This seminar teaches
what you need to know to finance your Latin American sales successfully and
ensure that you get paid. Cost: $30 To register: Contact Rachel at [email protected]
or 651.297.4227.
Sunday, January 19, 2003, 7 p.m. - midnight
SALUDOS Y SALSA: Project Minnesota-Le�n fiesta. Conversation and dancing.
Stephanie Owen visits from her volunteer sabbatical in Nicaragua to discuss
PML projects in Le�n. Cost: $10 (not including food and drinks)
Location: Minneapolis Caf�, 11th and Hennepin.
Contact: RSVP to Susie, 952-546-9119, [email protected].
A Conversation on Terrorism MIC.
The Star Tribune and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT2) invite you to participate
in a discussion about terrorism. Gather at MIC to watch a TPT Special on terrorism,
followed by a discussion facilitated by MIC staff person, Catherine Born.
This will be one of a number of groups in Minnesota that will be participating.
Refreshments provided. Parking available at nearby meters or ramps. Cost:
FREE To register: call 612.625.4421 by Tuesday, January 21 Space is limited
- MIC's living room only seats 25 people!
COPENHAGEN by Michael Frayn. The Park Square Theatre is presenting the
play COPENHAGEN. The play explores aspects of a conversation between German
physicist Werner Heisenberg and Danish Jew Nils Bohr , both of whom were involved
in atomic physics but on different sides during the war. Bohr was removed
to Sweden in October, 1943 with the other Danish Jews. The exact discussion
between the two physicists remains obscure and all that is known for certain
is there was a violent disagreement between them. COPENHAGEN opens January
11 through February 9. Tickets: 651-291-7005 or www.parksquaretheatre.org.
Friday, January 24, 2004, 12:30-1:30
p.m.
CLE brownbag lunch on death penalty error rates. Minnesota Advocates for
Human Rights, the Minnesota Justice Foundation and the law firm of Dorsey
& Whitney will co-host a brown-bag lunch discussion with Professor James Liebman
for lawyers interested in death penalty work. The lunch discussion is free
and application for one hour of continuing legal education credits will be
made. James Liebman, a professor at Columbia Law School, is one of the nation's
top experts on death penalty cases. He has argued four death penalty cases
before the United States Supreme Court and is the author of many articles
and books on the topic, including A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital
Cases, 1973-1995. Professor Liebman will be in the Twin Cities as the featured
speaker of the Minnesota Justice Foundation's Legal Scholarship for Equal
Justice first annual symposium on January 24, 2003. As part of the symposium
at William Mitchell Law School, Professor Liebman will speak about how he
has been able to achieve real, life-and-death change in our justice system
through his scholarly work. To register for the Jan. 24th brown bag lunch,
please contact Ann Conroy at the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition: [email protected],
(651) 228-9105 ext.117.
Resource Center of the Americas Coffee hour, Gabriel Johnson-Ortiz: Chiapis
Under Fox. Resource Center of the Americas member Gabriel Johnson-Ortiz
has returned after four months in the southernmost Mexican state. He discusses
President Vicente Fox Quesada's policies, the Plan Puebla-Panama, indigenous
farmer struggles, military and paramilitary actions and the evolution of communities
backing rebel Zapatista communities. English with Spanish interpretation.
Cost: $4 ($3 members).
Location: Resource
Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis
Contact: 612-276-0788 (ext. 23), [email protected]; http://www.americas.org.
MOTADE. Togo has been ruled by the same General-dicatator called Eyadema
for more than 30 years. He has violated human rights and killed thousands
of people whose sole crime was to ask for freedom of speech and democracy.
We (MOTADE: Motade is an organization whose purpose is to help accelerate
the democratization of Togo) are having a forum on the situation in our country.
Please inform your organization about this event.
Location: 1800 Glenwood Ave.
Israel Ecological and Environmental Achievements 1947 - 2002. The Friends
of Israel will celebrate the 15th of Shvat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees,
with a free public lecture by Itai Tennenbaum, the Minneapolis Community Shaliach.
Mr. Tennenbaum, an educator and co-author of "Living the Dream: Israel at
50", will discuss Israel's major ecological and agricultural achievements
over the last 55 years. For information: Contact Omri at [email protected] or 612.209.6337.
Location: Humphrey Institute, Cowles Auditorium, 301-19th Avenue S,
U of M West Bank
Resource Center of the Americas, Movie: "Haiti: Harvest of Hope". This
powerful testimony to the Haitian struggle for democracy and freedom includes
interviews with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President Ren� Pr�val,
Jean Marie Vincent and Claudette Werleigh, as well as an in-depth look at
one of the worst massacres of a 1991 military coup. Directed by Kevin Pina.
Produced by Haiti Reborn. 1994 (final cut 1998). 57 minutes. Film and discussion
in English. This event continues a weekly Resource Center of the Americas
series of educational videos and discussions.
Location: 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis.
Cost: Free
FIGHT HOMELESSNESS. A peaceful campout will take place on the South Lawn
of the Hennepin County Government Center in Downtown Mpls. from 3p.m. Thursday,
January 30th throughout the night to 8a.m. Friday, January 31st. This is to
call for the Mayor of Minneapolis and the City Council to declare homelessness
a crisis requiring immediate action to resolve. They will also be presented
with a resolution calling for revocation of the ordinances that make it against
the law for people to sleep outside, camp or sleep in their car. As all of
you know, poverty and homelessness increase with many people forced to the
streets. The city of Mpls. (along with many other cities in this country)
has ordinances that make it a crime to sleep, camp or sleep in your car. Please
stop by, stay overnight, or contact Margaret Hastings for more information:
612-822-5745.
Native American Connections Committee of 1st Universalist Church FryBreadLove/Earth
Circles. Concert begins at 7:00. Cost: $6 advance, $7 door, $3 children
under 12 years Events: Concert with ANNIE HUMPHREY, The Long-Hairz Collective,
(and hopefully) Neil McKay; and Silent Auction & Native Arts Vendors. This
event is sponsored by the Native American Connections Committee of 1st Universalist
Church, FryBreadLove/Earth Circles. Project Off Streets is a program that
works with youth who find themselves on the streets. It meets their basic
needs with a safe and healthy environment and strong, positive adult role
models. It helps stabilize youth and help them figure what to do to move on
with the rest of their lives. It supports GLBT youth, youth with emotional
problems and helps youth leave the sex industry plus many other things. FryBreadLove
works with Project Offstreets to bring an ongoing American Indian presence
to Youth and Staff. Proceeds from this benefit will help offer summer activities
such as a one-week camp where Youth will get away from the city, and be provided
with the opportunity to learn about (and then use) native herbs as food and
medicine, make a buffalo hide hand drum (while learning about the drum), play
flutes, build and use a sweat lodge, etc. Just spending a week camping with
American Indian people of various tribes, professions, and places in the community
will be an event! A team of spiritual leaders, elders, storytellers, Lakota
language teachers, musicians, historians, and herbalists would accompany the
Offstreets staff. In addition a number of artists would join campers for certain
activities. IF YOU CAN ASSIST WITH THIS EVENING PLEASE CONTACT BETH @ 612-824-7213.
Invite your friends, bring a crowd! We are asking that if it is not a hardship
that you donate more than the ticket price for this event. The tickets are
priced low to allow everyone that wants to come the opportunity. Those that
can afford more are encouraged to be generous. Tickets are available at Earth
Circles, or at First Universalist on Sunday 17 and 26 following each service.
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Exemplary Lessons Initiative Deadline for submissions.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is pleased to announce
the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Exemplary Lessons Initiative. This program
is funded by a grant from the Belfer Foundation. Middle and high school educators
are invited to submit lessons for possible publication on the Museum website
and in print format. Lessons should illustrate or add to student understanding
of individual responsibility during the Holocaust as reflected in one or more
of the Tenth Anniversary themes: resistance, response, rescue, and renewal.
A panel of master teachers from USHMM teacher education programs will choose
between eight and twelve of the best lessons. Some winning entries will be
videotaped in the classroom for subsequent use on the Museum's website. Entries
will be judged based on the following criteria: * Historical accuracy * Engagement
of students * Innovative approach * Demand for student critical thinking *
Broad applicability: practical for most classrooms * Illustration of Tenth
Anniversary theme or themes * Use of USHMM materials * Consistent with USHMM
Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust (See A Resource Guide for Educators:
Teaching About the Holocaust, USHMM, p.3) WEB SITE: USHMM: http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/
In addition, the use of technology and/or interactive lessons that lend themselves
to videotaping are encouraged. Entries must be submitted in print and electronic
form (12 pt. font). Lessons may be for 13 class periods. Each lesson should
have the following labeled sections: title, theme, objectives, grade level,
subject, time required, procedure/strategies, evaluation, materials used.
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2003. Teachers whose lessons are chosen
will receive a certificate of achievement and a cash reward.
To sumbit lessons, email or mail to: Warren Marcus Education Division United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington,
DC 20024-2126 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (202) 314-7888
WEB SITE: USHMM: http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/
Resource Center of the Americas, Discussion: Cuban Five. The truth about
five Cuban political prisoners the United States has been holding since 1998.
Bruce Nestor, National Lawyers Guild president, speaks on their 2001 trial
and their life sentences on false charges of espionage. Jeffrey Damm of the
Minnesota Cuba Committtee speaks about their families.
Location: Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, 301 19th
Ave. S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Contact: 612-624-1512, [email protected]
RAGAMALA MUSIC AND DANCE THEATER's world premiere of AAVYA, with live music
by SPEAKING IN TONGUES. This will be followed by an encore performance
of THE TRANSPOSED HEADS, Ranee Ramaswamy's critically acclaimed collaboration
with Deaf actress Nicole Zapko. AAVYA (MEETING) Commissioned by Interplay,
a new music and dance series presented by the University of Minnesota School
of Music, Aavya is an exciting collaboration that pairs Ragamala Artistic
Director Ranee Ramaswamy's contemporary percussive and gestural dance with
a stunning original score by Twin Cities based cross-cultural musical ensemble
Speaking in Tongues. An unprecedented combination of musicians from four diverse
cultures, Speaking in Tongues features Ghanaian master drummer Sowah Mensah,
Mexican virtuoso bassist Enrique Toussaint, Twin Cities percussionist Marc
Anderson, and world renowned Chinese pipa player Gao Hong. THE TRANSPOSED
HEADS Aavya is followed by an encore performance of Ragamala's critically
acclaimed production The Transposed Heads. An interpretation of an ancient
Indian tale by Thomas Mann, The Transposed Heads is a very probable love story
with an impossible premise: that of a woman who loves one man's intellect
and another man's muscular body, and in a bizarre twist of events gets to
have the intellectual's head transposed onto the muscleman's body. What happens
then? This story is informed primarily by life's dualities, such as the relationship
between feminine and masculine energy in nature, or that between birth, death,
and re-birth. The goddess Kali also plays a small but significant role in
the story, which illustrates yet another duality: that between destruction
and preservation. Under the direction of Twin Cities playwright/director Zaraawar
Mistry, choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy and Deaf actress Nicole Zapko perform
this complex tale--Ms. Ramaswamy utilizing the intricate gestural language
of abhinaya (the narrative aspect of Bharatanatyam) and Ms. Zapko in American
Sign Language (ASL). Renowned South Indian vocalist Nirmala Rajasekhar and
internationally acclaimed Chinese pipa artist Gao Hong provide a stirring,
original score and live accompaniment for the performances. Mr. Mistry and
Twin Cities actress Aditi Kapil narrate the tale in English.
Cost: General admission: $16 - $23 ($6 student rush, the day of the
show)
Contact: Box Office: 612-624-2345 or www.northrop.umn.edu
Resource Center of the Americas, Coffeehour: Possible Pitfalls Of Global Justice
Activism. As a new generation of social justice activists emerges, older
activists need to pass on lessons learned from their experiences, especially
given the political and religious fundamentalism driving today's global politics.
Alexandra Stein, a Ph.D. sociology student at the University of Minnesota,
reads from her new book "Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking
Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult (North Star)" and discusses the historical
context of leftwing activism and how some sectarian political groups become
totalitarian. She explains why social justice activists need this information
to increase democratic participation and human rights within organizations
and strengthen the left. English. This event continues the Resource Center
of the Americas "coffeehour" series, a presentation and discussion everySaturday.
Free refills on fair-trade coffee. Join us a half-hour before and after each
coffeehour for our activist letter-writing effort.
Location: 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis
Cost: $4 ($3 members)
Human Rights Center Bi-monthly Pizza Lunch, Presentation by Intesar Elder.
Please join us as we listen to a presentation by former grantee of the Upper
Midwest International Human Rights Fellowship, Intesar Elder, who carried-out
her fellowship in Jerusalem. She worked at a Palestinian, Jerusalem-based,
independent institution committed to fostering the principles of democracy
and effective dialogues. Her presentation is sure to be powerful, as she shares
with us some of the realities of this part of the world. Please RSVP by February
11th at 10 am. A small donation for the pizza and soda would be much appreciated.
Louise Erdrich, The Master Butcher's Singing Club. Erdrich explores life
in the aftermath of war in her enchanting and poignant new novel, The Master
Butcher's Singing Club [HarperCollins]. After having survived World War I,
Fidelis Waldvogel marries the pregnant widow of his best friend and sets out
for America, settling in Argus, North Dakota. Bestselling author Erdrich has
created a set of memorable characters who grapple with the worst and best
impulses of human nature.
Lingering Dissonances: Wagner 2003. The
Music Department, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, College of Liberal
Arts, Minnesota Opera and Twin Cities Wagner Society announce a conference
on the work and legacy of Richard Wagner. As a collaborative effort between
the Minnesota Opera, the School of Music, various other departments on campus,
and the Twin Cities Wagner Society, this conference offers an unprecedented
opportunity to bring together scholars, students, musicians, and laypeople
interested in all aspects of Wagners life and works. Centered around the Twin
Cities visit of Gottfried Wagner (great-grandson of Richard Wagner), this
conference unites a variety of communities in examining current issues in
Wagner research. Scholarly presentations, many of which include film and/or
music will draw from the fields of Music, History, German, Jewish Studies,
and Queer Studies, among others. A keynote address by Gottfried Wagner, a
roundtable discussion, and a concert will fill out the weekends activities.
This is being held in conjunction with the February production of Wagner's
"The Flying Dutchman." The focus of the conference will be to examine the
current lingering dissonances in Wagner studies, to look back upon a rich
history of scholarship in various fields and to suggest paths for future research.
Coordinator for the program is Professor Matthew Bribitzer-Stull ([email protected]).
The "Gandhi--King--Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace" international exhibition
on nonviolence. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Daisaku
Ikeda, three men from three different cultures, religions and continents,
have followed a common path of profound dedication and achievement in improving
the lives of all people. Key themes of the exhibit: Importance of Mentors;
Common Belief in the Innate Dignity of Humanity; Principles into Action; Non-violence;
and Adversity and Resistance. CLOSING CEREMONY AND RECEPTION (free): Saturday,
February 22, 11am-1pm, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, COWLES
AUDITORIUM AND ATRIUM, University of Minnesota, 301 - 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., Dean of the Martin Luther
King Jr. International Chapel, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Carter
will speak and will then present the Morehouse College "Gandhi-King-Ikeda
Community Builders Award" to 10 Minnesota citizen "community builders", representing
the diverse array of populations in our state making a difference in our community
and world. OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC-FREE ADMISSION.
Times: M-Fri. 8:30 am - 11:00 pm; Sat. 8:30 am - 10:00 pm; Sun. 12:00
pm - 8:00 pm
Contact: Further information is available at www.gki.sgi-usa-mn.org,
or by contacting Nancy Dunlavy, 651-647-1631, [email protected].
"Teaching About the Holocaust". The Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, University of Minnesota and The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum present this educational seminar designed for pre-college educators
to expand, fortify, and enrich their teaching curriculums about the Holocaust.
February 21, Thursday 7:30 P.M.
Introduction by: Stephen Feinberg, Education Specialist, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. Remarks by Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz,
Member of the United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial Commission. Discussion
with Dora Zaidenweber, Native of Radom, Poland, survivor of Radom Ghetto,
Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen about survivors' memories and how teachers can convey
this memory.
February 22, Friday 9:00 A.M. "Use of Technologies in Teaching the Holocaust"
- Stephen Feinberg, USHMM educational director BREAK "German Methods of Education
and Propaganda in the Schools, 1933-1945" - Prof. Greg Wegner, University
of Wisconsin at LaCrosse Group Discussion of Recommended Teaching Methods
and State Guidelines, Introduction of Darryle Clott and Judy Bartel, Mandel
Fellowship Scholars at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Minnesota. They
will share their experiences about teaching the Holocaust in the classroom.
"Using Resourses and Outreach to Maximize Learning Experiences Related to
the Holocaust" - Vicky Knickerbocker, CHGS Educational Outreach Coordinator
"The Uses of Art in Teaching About the Holocaust: What Art Says and Does Not
Say" - Prof. Stephen Feinstein, Director of the CHGS Sessions will end at
4:00 P.M. To register: contact Vicky Knickerbocker at 612-624-0256 or by e-mail
at [email protected].
Parking: Available at any adjoining U of M Ramp
Professor Oren Gross, University of Minnesota Law School, will speak on: Economics,
Politics, and Power: Conflict and Peace in the Middle East.
What role does, can, and should economic considerations play in facilitating
a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Professor Grosswill
suggest that a possible (but by no means only) argument ties economic development
and welfare to the attainment of a long-standing peace betweenthe bitter enemies.
The economic dividends of peace may bolster political compromises and their
acceptance at both the individual and communal levels. But how will such development
and enhanced economic welfare be promoted? And to what extent do political
realities as well as social and cultural considerations constrain desired
economic solutions? How, if at all, has the ongoing second Intifada changed
the answers to these questions?
Location: 170 HHH Stassen Room
Robert J. Jones - Archbishop Desmond. South Africa's anti-apartheid movement
modelled its tactics on Martin Luther King's strategy of non-violent resistance.
Hear more about the international impact of King's ideas in this Great Conversation
organized by the University's College of Continuing Education. Archbishop
Desmond Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against apartheid,
the white minority rule of South Africa. As part of this struggle, he worked
for ten years with University of Minnesota faculty member Robert Jones to
provide a safe haven and education at the University of Minnesota for South
African students. Following the reform of the South African government in
1995, Archbishop Tutu lead the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, investigating
atrocities committed on all sides during the apartheid years. He is the author
of numerous books, including a memoir of his work on this Commission called
No Future Without Forgiveness. Robert Jones is Vice President and Executive
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Programs at the University of Minnesota.
He is one of the foremost authorities on corn physiology and for more than
ten years has served as a scientific consultant for the South African Development
Education Program in Johannesburg. This Great Conversation is an official
event of Founders' Day and part of the celebration of the inauguration of
Robert Bruininks as the 15th President of the University of Minnesota.
Cost: $25/ $20 U of M faculty, students & staff, UMAA and Presidents
Club members
International Film Festival, Duluth, Minnesota.
"Is an Attack on Iraq Legal under International Humanitarian, Human Rights,
and Other Norms of International Law?" Attorney
Peter Thompson has recently returned from Iraq where he was a member of the
Iraq Peace Team for 2 ½ weeks. He will review photos and events from
his trip that include an examination of the effects of the 1991 war and the
ensuing decade of sanctions on the Iraqi people. Peter will address questions
about the international legal implications of a war with Iraq including the
following issues:
· Is a preemptive strike a war crime under international law?
· Is targeting water treatment facilities legal?
· Are depleted uranium munitions a violation of international law?
Location: Room 30, Law School
Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye. Barbie Zelizer, associate
professor and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's
Annenberg School for Communication, will speak on "Holocaust Memory in
the Camera's Eye," Thursday, February 27 at 3PM, at the Frederick Weisman
Museum of Art. Zelizer won the Best Book Award of the International Communication
Association last year, the Diamond Book Award of the National Communication
Association in 1999, and the Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award of Simon Wiesenthal
Center and Museum of Tolerance that same year. Professor Zelizer earned a
Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication, and bachelor's and master's
degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is chair of the International
Communication Association Awards Committee and a member of several committees
representing major communications and journalism organizations.
Location: Weisman Art Museum
Adam Schesch Presents "Eyewitness to Destruction: The Overthrow of Chile's
Democracy and the Repression that Followed, 1970-1990."
Adam Schesch lived in Chile during the Popular Unity government of President
Salvador Allende (1970-1973). After the 1973 coup d'etat, he was imprisoned
by the military in the National Stadium where he witnessed mass executions.
He returned to the U.S. where he testified before U.S. Congressional committees
about these events. In May 2002 Dr. Schesch returned to Santiago to give a
deposition before Judge Juan Guzman Tapia as part of the investigations of
crimes of the military dictatorship. His deposition led to an officially filmed
reconstruction of his experience at the National Stadium. It helped initiate
a new investigation into the previously unacknowledged mass executions in
the stadium during the early days of the coup. While in Santiago, he met with
former members and leaders of the underground resistance movement.
Dr. Schesch's studies of popular mobilization have been enriched by 30 years
of organizing and leadership roles in the anti-Vietnam War and Chile solidarity
movements, his own professional unions (AFSCME, AFT) and other solidarity
and social change movements.
Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story
of the Death of Jesus. Come
join Father Michael O'Connell and Rabbi Joseph Edelheit for a three-session
course of the history of the gospel and how they contributed to the roots
of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism over the past 2000 years. We will also explore
how the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church since Vatican II have encouraged
the positive and on-going relationship between Catholic and Jews.
Registration deadline: Monday, March 3
Series cost: $30 in advance
Scholarships available.
Engendering Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Women and the United Nations
Human Rights System. Kasia
Polanska is a Research Director at the International Women's Rights Action
Watch, a women's human rights organization housed at the University of Minnesota's
Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs. She grew up in Poland and came
to the United States as a refugee in the late 1980s. She holds a Master's
degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and is currently
working on her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
In the past 6 years, she has written and presented at the United Nations more
than 20 country-specific reports for the UN human rights committees (Committee
on Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights). She has taught several workshops and given presentations
to both US audiences and international activists on issues related to the
United Nations human rights system, the human rights of women, and international
relations. (lunch will be served)
This is one in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness
of women's human rights issues. Please join us the first Thursday of each
month for a new presentation. For more information, please contact Amelia
at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107
Email: [email protected]
Norman E. Bowie and Thomas W. Dunfee: Business Ethics. U of M Professor
Norman Bowie is the Elmer L. Andersen Chair for Corporate Responsibility at
the Carlson School of Management. Thomas Dunfee holds the Joseph Kolodny Chair
of Social Responsibility in Business at The Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, the Human Rights Program of the University
of Minnesota and the Women's Foundation of Minnesota present: 8th Annual International
Women's Day Celebration. The
Eighth Annual International Women's Day Celebration will bring together scholars,
community activists, advocates for women's causes, and community members for
a day of reflection and celebration of women's issues. The event will be held
at the University of Minnesota's Walter F. Mondale Law School on Saturday,
March 8, 2003. The all-day celebration, which is free and open to the public,
will feature workshops on a variety of human rights issues facing women, the
work of local artists, dramatic performances, and an address from 4th District
Congresswomen, Betty McCollum.
of Minnesota women and to increase understanding and tolerance of the different
backgrounds of women living in our community. Workshops for the day are selected
to increase recognition of the relevance of international women's human rights
on the local level and to draw
attention to the twelve areas of concern articulated in the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action.
www.mnadvocates.org or contact Amelia
Buttress at: (612) 341-3302 x 107 or at [email protected]
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/MondaleH/index.html
For Bus Information please call: (612) 341-4BUS
Special Thanks to the following groups at the University of Minnesota and
our many co-sponsoring organizations for their generous contribution to the
day:
Affairs.
Free and Open to the Public
University of Minnesota Law School
Walter F. Mondale Hall
229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Amnesty International, National Youth Summit on Indigenous Peoples' Rights
(Includes a Free Concert!!! March 15)
Location: University of Minnesota Law School, Mondale Hall, 229 19th Avenue
South, Minneapolis
application material: www.amnestyusa.org/justearth/brochure.pdf
Also attend a FREE CONCERT!!!
Time: 9:30 PM
Location: University of MN Law School
Questions??? Call 612.626.0041
Candlelight Vigil for Peace. Please visit http://www.globalvigil.org
and plan a candlelight vigil for peace in your area on MoveOn.org and the
Win Without War coalition, together with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many
faith-based organizations, are calling this vigil, and we need your help.
happen. Today we are asking individuals, like you, to organize a vigil in
each community. We're hoping that thousands of small groups around the world
will be inspired to come together and stand for peace.
commitment to building a positive world for our children. With your help,
we will see the first candlelight vigil to sweep around the globe on the evening
of March 16th. Together, we will lead the nations of the world away from an
unnecessary war and toward a peaceful and prosperous
future.
Tom Andrews, Win Without War
thousands of others around the world. Whether you plan a gathering with just
your closest friends, or organize an event for thousands, you will be making
a difference. Register your event on our web site above.
please crop and resize your photos to approximately 200h x 150v pixels and
send them in .jpg format. Please include the city, location and country of
your vigil. We will compile the reports and photos for the media.
Diana Johnstone, "Fool's Crusade: From Kosovo To Iraq."
March 18, 7:30 pm
St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Brady Educational Center, Baumgaetner Auditorium,
off Cretin, between Goodrich & Summit
May Day Books, 301 Cedar Ave. So. Minneapolis
Ruminator Books, Macalester College Campus Center, Davis Lecture Hall, 1600
Grand Avenue, St. Paul
Borders Books, Calhoun Square, Lake & Hennepin Minneapolis
Contact: Sponsored by the Women Against Military Madness International
Committee. 612-827-5364, [email protected], worldwidewamm.org
Organization meeting in Seattle. . . . Only months earlier, when NATO launched
its first aggressive war by bombing Yugoslavia, there had been remarkably
little protest. Yet NATO's violent advance into southeast Europe was precisely
related to the globalization process opposed in Seattle. Few seemed to grasp
the connection. Was it really plausible that overwhelming military power was
being wielded more benevolently than overwhelming economic power? Or that
the two were not in some way promoting the same interests and the same "world
order?" -from the Introduction to Fool's Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and
Western Delusions
The Merriam Park Neighbors March for Peace: Macalester College. Marchers
will assemble at 1:30 p.m. at Macalester College 1600 Grand
Avenue at Snelling Avenue, St. Paul in the Bateman Plaza south of Grand Avenue
outside of the Student Center. At 2:00 p.m., the group will proceed east on
Summit Avenue and back west on Grand Avenue to return for a rally with music
and speakers at Macalester College.
stand against the war on Iraq and promote peaceful alternatives to war and
sanctions against Iraqi citizens. Formed only in mid-February, our
organization has grown quickly with the dedicated enthusiasm of its membership
and is now planning a Neighbors March for Peace with the help of the Iraq
Peace Action Coalition (IPAC) and the endorsement of many other Twin Cities
anti-war and social justice organizations. We cordially invite you, your colleagues,
and your students to attend.
Phone: (651) 644-0025
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (651) 647-0580
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (651) 641-7592
E-mail: [email protected]
"Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War." Exhibit
and Speaking Engagement by NORML, University of Minnesota.
Location: Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Date(s): March 24-28
Speaking engagement: Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455,
Friday March 28, 7-10 pm
Presented by: NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws) at the University of Minnesota
Contact: email [email protected] or call Jason
Samuels at 651-247-8327
"If Hope Were Enough". League of Women Voters of Minneapolis,
"Women in Times of War" presents video: "If Hope Were Enough"
Plus reaction panel:
Emina Peljto: Bosnian Women's Network
Nadifa Osma: U of M Refugee Population Study
Cheryl Thomas: MN Advocates for HR
Nadia Smith: Moderator
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Avenue South,
Minneapolis
Contact: 612.333.6319
Armenian-Turkish Historians' Dialogue at U of M, "Vectors of Violence:
War, Revolution, and Genocide"
Time: 9:00 am (all day)
Location: Cowles Auditorium at the Humphrey Institute
Vanishing Democracy, Defending Our Rights, Restoring Democracy: Challenging
Corporate Power.
Time: 9am -4:30 pm (register 8-9 am)
Location: 1ST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 3400 DUPONT AVE S, MPLS
Registration fee: $20 (lunch included). Attendees may pay whatever they can
- None turned away
Democracy Now. His most recent book, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic
Struggle Against Corporate Media (Seven Stories Press: 2002, with Robert W.
McChesney), is a critique of the failure of media in the U.S. to cover politics
and public policy in a manner that encourages citizen participation in the
democratic process. Barbara Ehrenreich considers it "essential reading
for anyone who cares about the future of American democracy."
The 2nd Concert Challenging Corporate Globalization and Militarism - Celebrating
a Movement. Featuring: David Rovics (With Special guest appearance by
Omar Jamal) Rachel Nelson and the Granary Girls Opening by Barb Tilsen The
concert will include original songs by Larry Long sung by his friends. Co-sponsorship
is open to all progressive peace and social justice organizations. Each co-sponsoring
organization must pledge to buy at least 10 tickets. Sponsoring organizations
can use the concert to fund raise for their group by purchasing them at $8
and selling them at face value of $12. They may also sell them at less than
$12 if they wish. Co- sponsoring organizations will be listed on the publicity
for the event and may set up an information table at the concert. Volunteers
are needed for the following tasks in addition to selling tickets and publicizing
within your organizations: to help set-up chairs, to be ticket takers and
ushers, to help clean-up, and to help prepare tables for tabling.
Location: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave So, Minneapolis
To Co-sponsor or volunteer contact Larry Olds at 612/722- 3442 or [email protected].
PUBLIC PANEL & KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Vectors of Violence: War, Revolution,
and Genocide
Cowles Auditorium & Atrium
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Noon Registration Opens
1:30 PM
Welcome: Associate Dean James Parente, Jr. (College of Liberal Arts)
Reports on the Scholars' Discussion
Mge Goek (University of Michigan)
Ronald Suny (The University of Chicago)
Coffee Break
Keynote Address:
the Armenian Genocide.
Public Discussion
17:00 Post-Discussion Public Reception
events register for the event. http://esc.cla.umn.edu/TurkishArmenianMeeting.htm
KFAI's Indian Uprising. Indian Uprising is a one-half hour Public
Affairs & Cultural program by, about and for American Indian people bringing
to you subjects of concern to Indian people and others. The program is broadcast
each Sunday at 4:00 p.m. over KFAI Fresh Air Radio, 90.3 FM Minneapolis and
106.7 FM St. Paul.
o If necessary, download RealOne/RealPlayer G2, QuickTime 6 or Icecast
o Click Listen to Archive Programs
o Scroll to and click Indian Uprising.
World Federalist Association sponsors Dr. Ronald Glossop, national 1st Vice
president of WFA, who will address, BEYOND PATRIOTISM, April 3.
Time: Reception at 5:45 pm, dinner at 6:30, program 7:15-8:45.
Location: Bistro Dining Room, basement of Humphrey Center for Public
Affairs, West Bank campus, University of Minnesota.
Franklin Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
(Specify vegetarian meal if desired.)
Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights present Women's Human Rights Speaker Series "The Tensions Between
Women's Rights and Multiculturalism in Peru" Presented by Ann Towns
Time: 12:00 P.M.
Location: Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center, Minneapolis
(lunch will be served)
by noon on Tuesday, April 1.
Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107
Email: [email protected]
The Science Museum of Minnesota, Third Annual American Indians in Science
Event
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: 120 W. Kellogg Blvd.
Downtown St. Paul
- Dr. Lori Banaszak, family practice physician
- Ben Blackhawk, math teacher and Jim Rock, science teacher
- Etc.
contact the museum's Community Relations Department, (651) 221-4745.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Trip. The Jewish Community Relations Council
announces a one day trip to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Tuesday April
8, 2003. Cost for the one day trip is $295 which includes round trip chartered
aircraft from the HHH Terminal and Twin Cities International Airport, chartered
bus to and from the museum. The trip is open to all individuals 12 years and
older. Those under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Tour is open to school
groups. Visit includes: Pre-trip orientation and materials, Permanent Exhibition
Remember the Children: Daniel's Story If desired, use of the Wexner Learning
ceter for research. For more information contact the JCRC at 612-338-7816
or [email protected]. The JCRC and CHGS are not affiliated organizations
but work together on mutually beneficial educational projects.
Pizza Luce and Anodyne Artists Company present "Deka Enye Nuse (Unity
and Strength)"
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Sheridan Global Arts & Communication School
1201 University Ave. NE, Minneapolis
Cost: $15 adult, $10 student
China in the Global Economy: Reform and Change. In 1979, Deng Xiaoping
opened China to the world and began a process of
economic reforms that have resulted in significant progress in the last twenty
years. Today, China is a country that has the largest population, the fastest
growing economy, largest foreign direct investment, and largest producer of
several commodities. Recent accomplishments include admission into the World
Trade Organization and maintaining good relationships with other countries.
But can China continue their current success in the 21st century? Join other
educators to examine economic reform in China, perspectives on China's recent
entry into the WTO, and an analysis of China' s internal political, legal
and social institutions. Teachers will learn new ways of teaching contemporary
China issues and receive resource materials to aid in teaching. Yijiang Wang,
Associate Professor in the Carlson School of Management, teaches the seminar.
CEU's available.
Registration: $20, lunch provided
Women In Motion presents DANCING FROM SHADOWS
Location: INTERMEDIA ARTS
2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis
Cost: $12; $10 for students
For inquiries or reservations before April 7th, call 612-626-2280
Join the University of Minnesota Law School for a 5K Fun Run/Walk to support
students who go into low-paying public interest careers!
Time: 11:00 AM
Start: University of MN Law School
Registration Donation: $20 ($15 for law students)
REGISTER TODAY AT www.law.umn.edu/students/lrap_run.html
2003 Silha Center Spring Forum SPJ Ethics in Journalism Week, Peter Y. Sussman,
Journalist and Author, "A New Kind of Warfare Demands a New Kind of Journalism:
Rethinking Journalists' Wartime Ethics"
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union, East Bank
Shooting this April (April 2 through May 4);
About criminal justice system and racism;
Being made by the Shulman Law Firm based in Minneapolis (civil rights lawyers);
Film is part of the firm's work and mission.
- Be a part of this unique, local film (civil rights movie if applicable)
- Come if you are merely curious to see what a movie set is like
- Will require a couple of hours time
- May require a meeting with make-up and wardrobe
- Could even get a "Screen Credit" depending on the role
"Celebrating a Mosaic of Arab-American Experience", the
inaugural event of the Arab-American Cultural Institute (AACI) which will
be held at the Minneapolis College on April 18 and 19, 2003. This event is
a journey through the culture, art, music and cuisine of Arabs and Arab-Americans.
It will feature Professor Yvonne Haddad who will be giving the keynote address
on "The Diversity and Culture of the Arab-American Community in the U.S.";
"Calligraphy" presentation by Adnan Shati; Poetry / Literary Readings
by Kathy Haddad and JoAnna Kadi; Music by Adrare Ammillal and Layali Sharque;
Debka dancers. Two films will be shown,"The Silences of the Palace,"
a Tunisian feature film, and"Destiny," a feature film by Egyptian
filmmaker Youssef Chahine. Both films will be followed by a discussion. Food
will be catered by the Holy Land Bakery & Deli and Cedar Bakery and Deli.
the societal contributions of Arabs and Arab-Americans, and promote tolerance
and cultural diversity. AACI is a non-political, non-sectarian, and non-partisan
organization that seeks to celebrate all cultures present in the Arab World.
2003:
By e-mail: [email protected]
By phone: (952) 922-0501
By mail: 5112 Bedford Avenue, Edina, MN 55236
available across the street and in the parking lot on Hennepin Avenue. Follow
directions to the College Center (also known as the Student
Center) in Helland Center.
April 19, 2003, 7:30 p.m.
African Arts Expressions in performance. You are invited to participate
in a one-week artist in residence workshop on African music and dance from
April 14 - 19, 2003. This will culminate with an interdisciplinary arts performance
event featuring artist in residence, Dr. Paschal Younge, Ghanaian Master drummer
and Director of the World Music Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
VA with CLA faculty and
students.
Location: Ultan Recital Hall, School of Music, Ferguson Hall
Justice Wanted: Ni una Muerta Más. Señorita Extraviada, a film
by Lourdes Portillo. Someone is killing the young women of Ciudad
Juárez, Mexico, since 1993. Over 270 women have been raped and murdered.
Señorita Extraviada is a haunting investigation into an unspeakable
crime wave amid the chaos and corruption of one of the world's biggest border
towns. Stay and talk to Mexican activist Esther Chávez Cano, founder
and Director of Casa Amiga, the only crisis center on the Mexican side of
the border.
Anne R. Kapuscinski and Margaret Mellon: Biotechnology and the Environment.
U of M Professor Anne Kapuscinski is the Director of the Institute for
Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability in the College of Natural
Resources. Margaret Mellon is the Director of the Food and Environment Program
at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D. C.
Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 12:15 - 1:15
Human Rights Center Film Series and Pizza Lunch, "Monsoon Wedding"
(continued)
Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Room: N-204, Mondale Hall
Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 12:15 p.m.
The National Lawyers Guild Presents Tim Wise, "Equity in the Balance:
Exposing the Right-Wing Assault on Affirmative Action". Anti-racist
Activist, Advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, and author
of Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White
Male and Great White Hoax: Responding to David Duke and the Politics of White
Nationalism.
University of Minnesota Law School
229-19th Ave.S. - Mpls (west bank)
The Unseen Crisis in China: U of M Student�s Mother Held In Prison for Practicing
Falun Gong. Come learn about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in China, including the persecution of Jingjiang Chen, the mother
of U of M student, Cheng Wan.
Weaving the Fabric of Community: A Celebration of Service-Learning.
Celebrating fourteen years of service-learning leadership, the National Service-Learning
Conference highlights and promotes service-learning as a way of teaching and
learning that builds academic and citizenship skills while renewing communities.
It is the only major national education conference that provides service-
learning professional development to a diverse audience of K-H educators,
administrators, pre-service teacher education staff and faculty, researchers,
policy makers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, national service
members, community-based organization staffs, and corporate and foundation
officers.
Presenters: Rahima Wade, Professor, University of Iowa; Kristi
Rudelius-Palmer, Co-Directors, University of Minnesota Law School�s Human
Rights Center; Dave Donahue, Assistant
Professor, Mills College (Oakland, CA)
Time: 1 - 5 p.m.
Adults: $100
Youths: $35
Human rights are basic standards people need to live in dignity. In claiming
these rights, we accept responsibility not to infringe on the rights of others
and to support those whose rights are abused. How can service meet these ends?
How can a human rights framework inform reflection on service?
Kristi Rudelius-Palmer University of Minnesota Human Rights Center 229 19th
Ave. So. Mpls., MN 55455 612-626-7794 FAX:612-625-2011
Armenian Commemoration.
St. Sahag Armenian Church
203 North Howell
St. Paul, 55104
(Off Marshall/Cretin-Vandal Exit)
Minnesota Advocates, "Confronting our Own Biases: Discrimination in a
Post-September 11 World".
Indian Health Fair Needs Volunteers.
Samantha Power to speak at U of M. Samantha Power won the National
Book Critics Award for non-fiction for her book, "A PROBLEM FROM HELL:
AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE (New Republic/Basic Books)," as reported
in the New York Times, Thursday, February 27. Power, executive director of
the Carr Center for Human Rights at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University will speak at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday,
April 30, at 7:30PM in Room 25 Law School. It will be free and open to the
public. The event is sponsored by The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Location: Room 25 Law School
Islam and the United States. One of the most frequently asked questions
by Americans, in recent times, has been "Why do they hate us so much?"
Experts have provided various reasons. Islam and the United States explains
the fundamentals of the Islamic faith and explores the areas of friction between
Islam and the West, including the United States, from a historical, cultural,
ideological, and socio-political perspective. It asks what caused a friendly
and trustworthy ally to the world to be transformed into a hated and untrustworthy
enemy of the Muslims? More importantly, it specifies what needs to be done
to restore the friendship and the trust of the Muslim world. Iraj Bashiri,
professor of Central Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota, is teaching
this workshop. CEU's available. Registration: $20, lunch provided
Orientation for Minnesota Peace Jam. In the mid-1990�s, Denver residents
Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff asked themselves: What do Nobel Peace Prize
winners do, after they have won their award, to pass on their wisdom and skills
to youth? It is a question and idea that makes a great deal of sense in the
current global situation. The Nobel winners are people who have shown exceptional
courage and skill in addressing complex social and political problems.
A project entitled PeaceJam was created that brought together 11 of the most
outstanding living Nobel Laureates, including the Dalai Lama and Bishop Tutu,
who all agreed to meet personally with high-school aged youth to explore peacemaking
skills. The program has now sponsored 50 programs in a series of affiliate
sites in the United States, South Africa, India, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
Minnesota PeaceJam is now one of the new American affiliate sites and will
sponsor its first full program featuring Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams
from Northern Ireland this year. Ms Williams shared the 1977 award with Mairead
Corrigan Maguire when the two combined to launch a peace movement of Catholic
and Protestant women after Ms. Maguire�s three nieces and nephews had been
killed on the streets of Belfast.
PeaceJam is a nonsectarian and nonpartisan educational project that focuses
on peace at four levels -- peace within yourself, peace in personal relationships,
creating the conditions for peace in your own community through service-learning
projects, and exploring issues of global peacemaking. It is open to high school
aged-youth from school classes, school clubs, and community-based organizations.
The program might be of extra interest to groups already involved in service-learning
who would like to rethink their service work in terms of peacemaking. PeaceJam
seeks to recruit and bring together 50 organizations from throughout Minnesota
that reflect our state�s diversity to dialogue and learn from one another.
The accompanying flyer provides all of the program details and timelines,
as well as contact information if you have questions. We are seeking to secure
money to scholarship some participants, but this is not yet available. The
Minnesota program director is Donna Gillen and its founders are James and
Pamela Toole of Compass Institute. As you can read in the flyer, a large number
of Minnesota organizations have come together to co- sponsor and bring this
program to our state.
For more information: view the peacejam
flyer or contact Program Director Donna Gillen at 651-646-8008 or [email protected]
or phone the Campus Institute at 651-787-0509.
NLG-Minnesota and Michelle Gross CUAPB presents, "Stop Police Brutality
before it Starts: Know Your Rights When Dealing with Police".
Community meeting and training session on how to protect your rights and survive
an encounter with police. Topics include:
Ø What to Say (and What Not to Say) to a Police Officer
Ø Dealing with Traffic Stops
Ø Your Rights Regarding Searches
Ø Your Rights Regarding ID Cards
Ø What to Do (and Not Do) if Arrested
Summer Institutes for Teachers - Institute for Global Studies and European
Studies Consortium. REGISTRATION DUE! The
Institute for Global Studies and the European Studies Consortium at the University
of Minnesota are pleased to announce its schedule of Teacher Summer Institutes.
The Institutes are provocative teacher summer seminars on global and international
topics for K-12 and community college
educators. Teachers learn content related to the seminar themes, explore related
curriculum materials, and learn new strategies and skills for
incorporating these global issues into their curriculum. Language teachers
are encouraged to participate in these opportunities to create exciting new
curriculum for language learners. The Summer Institutes are funded by a Title
VI grant from the Department of Education. For full descriptions of the seminars
listed below, go to http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/si.htm
http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/si.htm.
Register online at: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/siregistration03.htm
June 16-20, 2003; 9:00-3:00 p.m.
This course will employ cross-cultural, geographical and historical perspectives
to analyze questions of representation, voice, and agency. We
will explore the ways in which gender, class and other axes of social power
and difference shape the ways that "third world" women (and men)
determine their own cultures of resistance and praxis of empowerment. The
major themes of this workshop are grounded in the international political-economic
contexts that underscore the realities of global interconnectedness, as well
as the uneven ways in which different communities and nations get incorporated
into the "global." Richa Nagar, from the Department of Women's Studies
at the University of Minnesota, teaches the course. This is a non-credit course;
Professional credits and CEU's can be arranged. Registration fee: $125.
June 23-27, 2003; 9:00-3:00 p.m.
We'll explore post-World War II Austria through the reconstruction of an independent
Austrian nation, the socio-cultural changes in the 1960s and 1970s, and Austria's
membership in the European Union in the 1990s. Participants will become familiar
with Austria's literature, the situation of the Austrian media, and recent
Austrian films in order to examine the question of Austrian identity at the
turn of the twenty-first century. Gundolf Graml, from the Department of German,
Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, teaches the course.
This is a non-credit course; Professional credits and CEU's can be arranged.
Registration fee: $125
July 7-11, 2003; 9:00-3:00 p.m.
The age of terrorism in which we live was accompanied by an increased brutalization
of civilians during the 20th century. The word "genocide"
was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 and became the basis for the UN Convention
on Genocide in 1948. Among the many genocides of the 20th Century, the Holocaust
(extermination by Germany of Jews and Roma/Sinti) remains the archetypal event.
This course will examine major issues surrounding this topic, provide materials
to aid in teaching, bring together guest lecturers that will aid teachers
in establishing a format for introducing the subject to pre-college students.The
course is being taught by Professor Stephen Feinstein, Director of the Center
for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. This is a two
2-credit course. You will be billed for the credits. Participants can
register forCI 5150 Sec 1, GloS 5900 Sec 1, HiST 5960 Sec 1, or JwSt 5900
Sec 1.
July 14-18, 2003; 9:00-3:00 p.m.
This course exams the problem of how wars end. Teachers will address the issues
of how people live through and remember mass organized violence. We will read
and discuss various strategies of survival and autobiographies from Cambodians,
Vietnamese, Bosnians, and Tibetans. The course will combine a study of the
economic and social effects of war, understandings of the private psychological
and spiritual legacies, war/peace memorials, contradictions of responses to
war, and the different ways of looking at photographs of war. Richard Kagan,
Professor of History at Hamline University, teaches this course. This is a
non-credit course; Professional credits and CEU's can be arranged. Registration
fee: $125
FOR WHOM
K-12 and community college educators. Enrollments is limited to 30 participants.
WHERE
The Institutes are from 9:00-3:00 p.m. on the West Bank of the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
$125 for a non-credit course. The Holocaust Institute must be taken for credit.
Registration/tuition covers the cost of faculty instruction, guest
speakers, and a continental breakfast. Participants are responsible for textbooks,
travel andsome meals.
Participants have the option to register for professional credit. Tuition
is approximately $272 per credit, plus registration fees.
Scholarships of $60 are available to teachers to help with tuition for the
non-credit courses. In addition, we have reserved dorm accommodations on campus,
with air conditioning and shared bathrooms.
Registration is due May 30, 2003. You can register online at http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/si.htm.
QUESTIONS
Sarah K Herzog, Outreach Coordinator Institute for Global Studies
University of Minnesota
214 Social Sciences Bldg
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
A US CORPORATION PROVIDES FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR ZORYAN'S GENOCIDE AND HUMAN
RIGHTS UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
ZORYAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA, INC.
255 Duncan Mill Rd., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, Canada M3B 3H9
Tel: 416-250-9807 Fax: 416-512-1736 E-mail: [email protected]
www.zoryaninstitute.org
Genocide & Human Rights University Program in Toronto, August 5-15, 2003.
The Zoryan Institute is a non-profit, international center devoted to the
research and documentation of contemporary issues related to the history,
politics, society, and culture of Armenia and Armenians around the world.
Tel: 416-250-9807.