Upcoming Events
Screening of Sentenced Home
Wednesday, February 15
6:00 pm -- BC Newton campus, East Wing 120
Part of Center's Migration film Series, a documentary film following young men who, as small children, found asylum in Seattle, Washington after fleeing Cambodia's civil strife. However, as young men, they are deported back to an unfamiliar Cambodia after run-ins with the law in the US. The film shows the effects on their families as they are separated from even their wives and children, only able to see them when their families can afford to travel to Cambodia. It also shows their struggles to fit into a different society in Cambodia after being raised in public housing projects in Seattle.
Center Associate Director Dan Kanstroom, expert in US immigration law, will lead a discussion with attendees after the film.
Amnesty and Accountability in the Case of the El Salvador Jesuit Assassinations: The Moral Meets the Pragmatic
Thursday, March 22
7:30 pm -- Heights Room, Corcoran Commons
With Pamela Merchant, Center for Justice and Accountability, and
José María Tojeira SJ, Rector Emeritus of the University of Central America, El Salvador
Last year, the Spanish National Court issued an indictment and arrest warrants for 20 Salvadoran ex-officers charged with crimes against humanity and state terrorism for their role in the shocking killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador in 1989, seeking their extradition to Spain to stand trial for these charges. Our speakers, the executive director of the organization that filed the case in the court and a colleague of the victims and rector emeritus of the university the priests resided at when slain, will talk about the current status of the case, perspectives from Jesuit and human rights communities on the case, and the possible relevance of this case for other efforts to secure human rights today.
Read more about the case on CJA's website here.
Co-sponsored with the Center's partner project, the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights. RSVP to humanrights@bc.edu
Screening of Which Way Home
Wednesday, March 28
7:00 pm -- BC Main campus, location TBD
Part of Center's Migration film Series, a documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.
The Kims' Three Bodies: How Dynastic Succession Works in North Korea
Thursday, March 29
4:30 pm -- BC Main campus, location TBD
With scholar of Korean history Prof. Bruce Cumings, U. of Chicago
Citizenship-in-Question Symposium
Thursday, April 19
5:00 pm -- 120 East Wing, BC Newton campus
An international panel of scholars in legal and politcal thought on citizenship claims comes to BC to discuss the issue of citizenship and its interpretation across the globe. Three people who have navigated the bureaucracy claims will also present on their experiences.
RSVP required to humanrights@bc.edu. Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University and the Rochester Institute of Technology.