Human Rights Events Calendar
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November 21, 2008,
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Institute for the Humanities 202 S Thayer St Room 2022
African Renaissance and Human Rights: Thabo Mbeki's Certainty
Danny Herwitz -Danny Herwitz, Director of the Institute for Humanities, will speak at the Rackham Distinguished Human Rights Lecture Series. Thabo Mbeki’s decade of HIV/AIDS denialism gave rise to a decade of amazement and questioning, the question being why he and his government held to this position and policy so tenaciously in a country wracked by disease, and in desperate need of medication. The government was succesfully sued in the constitutional court for its refusal to roll out anti-retrovirals, making it a (constitutionally defined) human rights violation. In 2002-3, when the court case was being heard, Mbeki’s Minister of Health, Manto Tsabalala Msimang, called for an alternative “therapy” of “indigenous” African beet root, lemon, garlic and potato for persons ill with full blown AIDS. Her call was widely received as a cynical joke, but in this paper I consider it a key to the entire position, which is about the return to an heritage understood as African indigeneity, and posed against a perceived threat of international/neo-colonial systems. The real story is about the misuse of heritage at a moment of postcolonial state emergence, even though heritage is critical for the reclaiming of identities and the celebration of liberty. Free and open to the public
November 20, 7-9pm, 1437 Mason Hall
Southwest Solutions: Community Building as an Approach to Human Rights
Bill O'Brien, Director of Community Partnerships for Southwest Solutions, will be discussing his work as a community organizer for Southwest Solutions and the intersections between social service work and international campaigns for human rights. Southwest Solutions is a nationally recognized holistic community building organization in Southwest Detroit that provides human services, housing and economic development to its local and metropolitan communities. The event will be in a dialogue form and students are encouraged to bring friends and ask questions!
Sponsored by the Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs
Thursday, December 04, 2008, 5:30-7pm, Location TBD
Meredith Turshen (Rutgers University) discusses her current research as part of the speaker series on Gender, African Development and Human Security.
Archived Events:
September 26, 2008,
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Institute for the Humanities, Room 2022
Allen Feldman, from NYU's Media, Culture & Communications department, will speak on his ethnographic work in Northern Ireland and South Africa
Rackham Distinguished Human Rights Lecture
September 29, 2008, 3pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Rm. 1690 SPH Tower
Menopause, and women's health-findings from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies
Lorraine Dennerstein AO, MBBS, PHD, DPM, FRANZCP
Department of Psychiatry,
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series
Monday, September 22, 2008, 12-1:00 pm, 2239 Lane Hall
James Gruber: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Health Outcomes: Does Race Matter?
James Gruber (UM-Dearborn) discusses his work with Susan Fineran, based on survey results from secondary school students. The talk addresses two questions: Are there race differences in victimization from bullying and sexual harassment? And, is one group (white or African-American) harmed more as a result of victimization. Theories and research methodologies on bullying and sexual harassment have followed separate paths for three decades even though they often focus on similar outcomes. Consequently, there is little basis for directly comparing their adverse effects. And, while there is a substantial research literature on bullying and sexual harassment, only a few studies analyze race differences. We focus on race and gender differences in health outcomes (self esteem, mental and physical health, and post-traumatic stress symptoms).
September 22, 2008, 4-5:15pm, Hutchins Hall (first floor), Room 116
ICTY and ICJ in the Conflict and Post-Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: An Appraisal
Vladimir Djeric, Former Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro/FRY, 2000-2004; currently private practitioner of international law, Mikijelj Jankovic & Bogdanovic, Belgrade
Tuesday September 30, 2008, 3-4:30pm, Michigan League, Vandenberg Room
When Does a Problem Become a Human Rights Issue? Personal Reflection on the Evolution of the Human Rights Movement
Susan Waltz, Professor of Public Poicy, is a 2008-2009 Human Rights Fellow at University of Michigan. more
CICS 2008 Human Rights Lecture, co-sponsored by the Insititute for the Humanities
October 6, 2008, 12-1, Room 6050 at the Institute for Social Research
School Quality, Attitudes about the Family, and Contraceptive Use in Nepal
Sara Brauner-Otto, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar Series
October 6, 2008, 4-5:15pm, Hutchins Hall (first floor), Room 116
The Law Governing Non-Occupied Gaza: In Search of a New International Law Doctrine
Yuval Shany The Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 15, 2008, 3pm Lane Family Auditorium, Rm. 1690 School of Public Health Tower
Carlos F. Cáceres, MD, PhD
Professor Principal de Salud Pública
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
October 17, 2008, 8:00-1:00pm, International Institute Rm 1636, School of Social Work Building
Gender, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sponsored by UM SPH Health Behavior Health Education & Latin American and Caribbean Studies more.
October 17, 2008, 12-1:30pm
The Indian Uprising and the Haunting of Justice in Malaysia
Andrew Willford, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
This paper examines the cultural, historical, and psychological forces that contributed to a dramatic and unprecedented public demonstration of up to 40,000 Malaysian Tamils directed against the Malaysian government, as spearheaded by the “Hindu Rights Action Force” (HINDRAF) in November, 2007. It is argued here that only in an excess in and of the law, or in its relative transgression, a notion of justice is being made explicable to Tamils who perceive themselves to be victims, betrayed by an emergent force of Islamization wedded to ethnic politics. This is understood in terms of an emergent sense of historicity and through the incalculable demands for recognition that blur, and thereby, confound, legalistic definitions of identification in Malaysia.
October 23, 2008, 4-5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
An Empirical Model of Illegal Work
Frank McIntyre, Brigham Young University
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)
FRANK McINTYRE is an assistant professor of Economics at BYU. He has conducted research in wage inequality, minimum wages, and illegal work in Brazil, the EITC and the minimum wage in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Economics and the Business Economics Department at the Ross School of Business.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12-1:00pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Enhancing Women's Political Participation in Postconflict Settings: The Pursuit of Human Security to Foster "Voice". Natsuko Hayashi Nicholls, IRWG Visiting Scholar, discusses her research.
October 29, 2008, 7:30pm, Hill Auditorium
Novel Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be awarded the 18th University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal by UM President Mary Sue Coleman. more For more on the Wallenberg Endowment click here
Thursday, November 06, 2008, 12-1:00pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Laura McCloskey, IRWG Visiting Scholar, discusses her current research in this brown-bag discussion.
November 10 , 2008, 4-5:15pm, Hutchins Hall (first floor), Room 116
'Fragmentation' of International Law and 'Proliferation' of International Courts and Tribunals: Two Buzzwords Viewed by a Practitioner
H. E . Judge Bruno Simma,
International Court of Justice; Affiliated Overseas Faculty, University of Michigan Law School