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January 29 The Betrayal of Srebrenica: A Commemoration  
Photographic exhibition presented by visiting professor Lisa DiCaprio (History Department), featuring photographs by Paula Allen. The exhibit comprises photographs of Srebrenica, Srebrenica survivors, and the July 11, 2005 commemoration of Srebrenica attended by over 30,000 survivors and their supporters. Opening Reception Tuesday, January 29, 4:30-7:00 p.m., Bapst Art Library Gallery. Opening Night Program Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 p.m., McGuinn 121. Speaker: Lisa DiCaprio, “The Betrayal of Srebrenica: A Commemoration.” Exhibit Viewing Hours: Monday – Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., and Sunday, 1:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

January 29 The Moral Imperative to Act: Working for the Common Good of Humanity
Michelle Lyden '92, CSON, '97, CGSON, Founder and CEO, Global Action Michelle Lyden will speak about her experiences since graduation. She received a master's degree in international relations and global health from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She founded her own "Global Action" consulting company. She receives funding from President Clinton’s Global Initiative for her program in Rwanda where she works on the “Micronutrient Malnutrition Program”, a project to address the state of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, as well as AIDS, in East Africa. 4:00 p.m. Murray Room, Yawkey Center.

February 1 Conversations at Lunch: Peter Uvin
Professor Uvin is Academic Dean of the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University, and author of Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda and of Human Rights and Development. Reservations required (humanrights@bc.edu). Boston Room at Corcoran Commons. 12:30-2 p.m.

February 7 Peace From Africa: The Mozambique Story 
A talk given by Archbishop Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, Archbishop of Beira, Mozambique and Professor Andrea Bartoli of the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.  The presenters will speak about the Mozambican peace process after the 16 year long bloody civil war. Thursday February 7, 2008.  7:30 p.m. lecture in Higgins 300, preceded by a 6:30 prayer at St. Mary’s Chapel.

February 13 Human Rights and a New U.N.: Academics, Practitioners, and NGOs
United Nations scholar Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project.  7:30 p.m., McGuinn 121, reception to follow 9 to 10:30 p.m. in the McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge.

February 27 Just Schools
Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, has taught at Harvard since 1981. She writes about human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities. Reservations required; please email Susan Richard at richarsh@bc.edu. 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., Boisi Center, 24 Quincy Road

February 29 Conversations at Lunch: Peggy Levitt
Professor Levitt is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wellesley College. She codirects the Transnational Studies Initiative and is a Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.  Her latest book, God Needs No Passport, is about how immigrants are changing the American religious landscape. Reservations required (humanrights@bc.edu). McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge 12:30 to 2 p.m.

March 15 Franco Majok: Sudanese Refugee:
A refugee from Southern Sudan who is currently working on a school building project in his home country will be coming to BC to share his storywith us. Majok will be speaking on "Genocide Awareness in Darfur," highlighting the similarities between the current genocide in Darfur and the genocide in South Sudan that forced him to flee his village in 1983. Fulton 511, 7:00pm.

March 18 What Do We Owe the Iraqis?
Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, Rev. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University / Archdiocese of Boston, and Rev. Paul McNellis, S.J., Boston College will discuss America's moral responsibility to the Iraqi people. The fifth anniversary of American military action in Iraq is rapidly approaching, and discussion of troop withdrawal dominates presidential primary debates. But what do American citizens owe the Iraqis? What does continued American action, reconstruction or withdrawal mean for our moral responsibility to a country that we invaded and to which we introduced radical change? Three distinguished professors will discuss the religious and moral implications of the American presence in Iraq. 5:00-6:30pm Location TBA

March 18 Electing Faith: The Intersection of Law and Religion in Politics Around the World Symposium featuring international and domestic scholars who will discuss the ways in which law and religion have an impact on the politics of their countries. Panelists include Paul Horwitz of University of Alabama School of Law, Talip Kucukcan of the Center for Islamic Studies in Istanbul, Lloyd Mayer of the Notre Dame Law School, Gerhard Robbers of University of Trier, Mark Scarberry of Pepperdine University School of Law, and Michael Troper of the University of Paris-Nanterre. Keynote address by W. Cole Durham, Jr., Professor of Law at Brigham Young University and Director of BYU’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies. RSVP to bc.law.religion@gmail.com. Boston College Law School East Wing 120. 9:00 am–5:00 pm.

March 25 Boston College Law School's Annual Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust / Human Rights Project Lecture: Andrew Tarsy: Recognizing Genocide: Lessons from the Past and Present. From January 2000 until December of 2007 Andrew Tarsy worked for the Anti-Defamation League, serving as its New England Regional Director for two and a half years. Formerly he served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and as a lawyer in private practice focusing in civil rights litigation. Throughout a career built around advocacy and education, Andy has worked to achieve results within the law and in the public discourse about diversity, discrimination and democracy. 5pm, Boston College Law School East Wing 115A 

March 28 Conversations at Lunch: Cutberto Garza 
Dr. Garza is Provost of Boston College and researches child nutrition in the developing world as an issue of social and economic rights. Reservations required (humanrights@bc.edu). McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge 12:30 to 2 p.m.

April 2: Human Rights and the Catholic Tradition
Political Science Professor David Deese and Theology Professor Tom O’Meara will discuss Theology Professor Donald Dietrich’s New Book: Human Rights and the Catholic Tradition, 4:30 pm McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge. Reception to follow.

April 9: The Fourteenth Anniversary of the Genocide of Rwandan Tutsis
Panel Discussion with: Prof. Alexandre Dauge-Roth, Ph.D (Bates College): “Dealing with the Consequences of Genocide: The Tutsi Teen Orphans of the Genocide Responsible for Households”, Mr. Joseph Nsengimana(Human Rights Activist): “Denial of the Genocide of Tutsis”, Rev. Fr. Roman Rurangirwa (Brandeis University): “The Rwandan Process of
Reconciliation Reconsidered”, Moderator: Fr. Elisee Rutagambwa, SJ. Walsh Function Room at 7 pm.

April 16: Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
The Association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo is one of the most prominent human rights organizations in Argentina. Now in their 31st year, they have located 88 of the estimated 500 children disappeared by the dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Guest speakers Estela Carlotto and Rosa Roisinblit will speak as representatives of this organization.  McGuinn 121, 7:00pm

April 29: Boston College Law School's Alumni Association's Law Day
The Boston College Law School sponsors this event which honors BC Alumi with various public service awards, providing an opportunity to learn more about what BCLS alums are doing in the field of human rights and international justice. Honorees include Kerry Kennedy (class of '87), winner of the St. Thomas More Award for her activism in international human rights and the author of "Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World". 5:30-8:30pm, Seaport Hotel at the World Trade Center. 

Fall 2008

September 12-October 11: Let Me Down Easy.  The first show of the season for the American Repertory Theatre in Harvard Square.  This will be the premiere of a new play by Anna Deavere Smith, which addresses many human rights issues.  More information can be found at www.amrep.org

September 16: Immigration and Deportation Today and Tomorrow: Human Rights for Migrant Workers? This presentation by Guatemalan Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini will be held in Gasson 100 at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, September 16.

September 17: Health and Human Rights: Creating an Open Forum to Advance Global Health and Social Justice.  This panel discussion, celebrating Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, will be held from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at the American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center.  Click here for more information.

September 24: Global Trade Talks Breakdown? The Impact on Poor Nations.  This panel will present an analysis of the apparent breakdown of the Doha Round at the WTO meetings in Geneva and its implications for justice toward the poor in the developing world.  Speakers will include David Deese, author of World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership, Frank Garcia, author of Justice, the Bretton Woods Institutions and the Problem in Inequality, and James Anderson, author of Borders, Trade, and Welfare.  The panel will be held on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 PM, location TBA.

October 2: Kay Punku. Yuyachkani, a Peruvian theater group, will present a play about sexual violence during war at 7:00 PM in Gasson 100.

October 3: Conversations at Lunch: Jackie Bhabha.  Jackie Bhabha, the director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, will be the guest speaker at October's installment in the Conversations at Lunch series.  The lunch will be held in the Walsh Function Room at 12:30.  Reservations are required; please contact cansler@bc.edu.

October 30: Binaifer Nowrojee, professor at Harvard Law School and the director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa, will deliver a lecture on the prosecution of gender-based violence at the international tribunals at 4:30 PM in McGuinn 121.  A reception will follow immediately afterwards in the McGuinn 5th floor lounge.

November 7: Conversations at Lunch: Maryanne Loughry.  Maryanne Loughry, Visiting Fellow at the CHRIJ and former executive Officer of Mercy Works and associate of the Jesuit Refugee Service, will be the guest speaker at November's installment in the Conversations at Lunch series.  The lunch will be held in the McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge at 12:30.

November 13: American Secularism for American Muslims: Challenges and Prospects. Abdullahi An-Na'im, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and world-renound scholar of human rights and Islam, will give the 8th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture in Devlin 101 from 4:30 to 6:00 PM.

November 20-22: Causes of Forced Migration and Systemic Responses Human Rights of the Displaced in Ethical, Religious, and Political Perspectives. A conference in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service and Catholic Relief services. The keynote addresses on the evening of Thursday, November 20, will be open to the public.  These addresses are:  Walter Kälin, Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Human Rights and Key Issues Raised by Forced Migration Today; Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Human Rights as a Framework for Advocacy on Behalf of the Displaced The Approach of the Catholic Church. The keynote addresses will be in the Heights Room, Corcorcan Commons, at an evening time to be announced.   
 

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