Upcoming International programming at Chicago-Kent
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28
The People Speak: Northwestern’s International Studies Program
along with a coalition of non-profit organizations, including
Americans for Informed Democracy, the Open Society Institute,
the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the UN Foundation, is
offering Hope not Hate, at Northwestern University in Evanston
on September 28th from 7:00pm to 9:00 pm at the McCormick
Tribune Forum, Northwestern University
The event features Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor to
UNF; Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune writer; Marda Dunsky,
Professor of Journalism at Northwestern with a specialty
in Arab affairs; and Yaser Tabbara, Executive Director of
the Chicago Council on American-Islamic Relations. Danielle
Lemack, Vice President of the Families of September 11,
will also provide an introduction to the event.
The speakers will address how the U.S. and the Islamic
world can work together to reduce growing mutual tension.
The 9/11 Commission recently released a report finding that
the US is losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world and
it proposed a series of changes to address the deterioration
in US-Muslim world relations. This town hall will seek to
raise awareness about the deterioration in US-Muslim relations,
as well as inform students about the many potential ways
that US-Muslim relations can be improved. After the presentations,
the panelists will engage in an interactive conversation
(question and answer format) with students. For more information
about this event and the national effort of which it is
a part, please visit www.hopenothate.org.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30
I encourage you to attend the 16th annual Henry Morris
Lecture on Thursday September 30th 2004 at 12 noon in the
Auditorium. The speaker this year will be Professor Mirjan
R Damaska, who is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale
University. His topic will be "The Uncertain Self-Identity
of International Criminal Courts." In addition to its
obvious general significance for issues such as war crimes,
genocide and international terrorism, this lecture should
be of special interest to students in criminal law, criminal
procedure, international law and comparative law.
Professor Damaska is one of the most highly respected and
influential comparative law specialists in the world. He
writes primarily in the areas of procedure (particularly
criminal procedure) and evidence, and he is actively involved
in international developments relating to the International
Criminal Court and to the application of criminal law internationally.
He has law degrees from the Universities of Zagreb and Ljubljana
as well as an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania.
MONDAY OCTOBER 4th
Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Global Law and Policy
Initiative are pleased to present a winner of the 2001 Millennium
Peace Award, Pakistani international human rights attorney
Hina Jilani as the first “Brown Bag Luncheon Speaker” for
fall, 2004. On Monday October 4th from 12 to 2pm in room
305 Ms. Jilani will be speaking informally about her work
defending the rights of women, minorities and children through
activist and legal strategies. For more information about
Hini Jilani please go to www.kentlaw.edu/international and
click on GLAPI events. Bring your lunch to the talk - we
will provide drinks - please RSVP to Nena Heard at nheard@kentlaw.edu
so we know our approximate headcount!
THURSDAY OCTOBER 14th
Supported in part by the Canadian Consulate in Chicago,
Chicago-Kent will host an all day conference to examine
Strategies for Combatting Human Trafficking in the NAFTA
Region. Speakers will address the challenges of defining
the problem, describe current efforts at the regional, national
and international level to fight human trafficking, and
the final panel of the day will assess recommended policy
options in light of the current situation. There will be
a keynote address at lunch by Canadian Senator Jerry Grafstein,
and following the day's speakers, Chicago-Kent will host
a BENEFIT COCKTAIL PARTY AND FILM SCREENING of David Mamet's
film Spartan in support of the Midwest Immigrant and Human
Rights Center. For more information go to www.kentlaw.edu/international
and click on GLAPI events.
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