Events:
June 19-20 Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference including panel presentation by Professors David Hollenbach, S.J. and Daniel Kanstroom on "Deportation and Post-Deportation Participatory Action Research.
February 5 "Our Disappeared" a film by Juan Mandelbaum will be shown on Thursday, February 5 at 7 PM in Room 127 of the Merkert Chemistry Hall. The director will lead a discussion after the screening. Click here for more information.
February 7 Honoring Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, February 7, 7 PM, Trinity Chapel, BC Law School. Read more about Sister Rosemary here. Watch her CNN Heroes Award on youtube.
February 20 Conversations at Lunch with Jacqueline Bhabha, Director University Committee on Human Rights, Harvard University.
March 26
The Work of the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Uncovering the Hidden Story of the Korean War
Kim Dong-Chun, the Standing Commissioner, South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Human Rights and Peace Center, Sungkonghoe University. Held in the Heights Room. Click here to see the flyer.
‘Refugee Rights and the Transnational Good’
Center Director David Hollenbach, SJ will give the Monsignor Charles Owen Rice Lecture on ‘Refugee Rights and the Transnational Good’ atDuquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA on March 26, 2009. Click here for more information.
March 27
Conversations at Lunch with Amani El Jack
Professor Amani El Jack is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Click here fore more information.
CHRIJ Co-Sponsored Events
March 11
Lecture by Founding Peace Chair Rebecca Tinsley. A dessert reception will follow the lecture. Thompson Room, Burns Library.
March 19
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is co-sponsoring a lecture by Nobel laureate Loung Ung, survivor of the Cambodian genocide, on campus in Fulton 511. Click here for more information.
March 9-27
The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, The Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and The Center for the Arts and Social Responsibility are co-sponsoring Waging Peace's traveling exhibition of drawings created by refugee children from Darfur. Click here for more information.