Conference on Minorities and Human Rights, Apr. 25-26

Apr 122013
 
 April 12, 2013

Human Rights and Diaspora: Minorities and Liberal Citizenship

What does it mean to be European? Canadian? Are international human rights at odds with rights for national minorities in western countries? How do immigration and religious culture affect European citizenship?

April 25, 4:15-6:00 pm: Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the meaning of “Canadian”

April 26, 8:45-4:00 pm: National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science

All sessions will be held in the West Duke Building, room 101, East Campus.

If you are interested in attending, please R.S.V.P. to Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu

This event is offered by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Center for European Studies, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Office of the Provost, with additional sponsorship by the Center for Canadian Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, April 25
Jews & Muslims in Canada: Minorities, Diasporas, and the Meaning of “Canadian”
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Reception to follow

Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto | Muslims in Canada? Representations in Media, Policy, and Law 
Morton Weinfeld, McGill University | Jewish integration in Canada: Identity, Loyalty, and Challenges of Multiculturalism

Description: Post-WWII Jewish integration in Canada is often presented as a success story of Canadian multiculturalism.  In contrast,  Canadian responses to Muslim traditionalism and perceived militancy have made integration difficult, and Muslim immigrants’ diverse origins remain a challenge to building communal solidarity.  Could any lesson be drawn from Jewish integration for the future of Canadian Muslims?


Friday Schedule


Friday, April 26
All panels will be held in 101 West Duke Building, East Campus

National Minorities in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Law, History, and Social Science
8:45 am  Welcome & Introduction

Malachi Hacohen and Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University

9:15 am  From Minority Rights to Human Rights? Group and Individual Rights in the 1940’s and 1950’s

Daniel Cohen, Rice University | Minority Rights in the ‘Human Rights Revolution’
Elazar Barkan, Columbia University | No Return, No Refuge
Chair: Claudia Koonz, Duke University; Discussant: Gil Rubin, Columbia University

11:15 am  National Minorities and the Law in Europe

Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School | Guarding the Perimeter: Militant Democracy and Religious Freedom in Europe
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School | Illiberal Liberalism: Cultural Restrictions on Migration and Access to Citizenship in Europe
Chair: Morton Weinfeld, McGill University; Discussant: Malachi Hacohen, Duke University

1:00 pm  Lunch

1:45 pm  Old Meets New? The Challenges of New Migrations for National Minorities in Europe

Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics | Deconstruction Discourses of Minority/Migrant Rights in Europe
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida | Populism and Immigration in Contemporary Bulgaria
Chair: Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto; Discussant: Laurie McIntosh, Duke University

3:30 pm  Concluding Thoughts

Participants


Elazar Barkan, Columbia University
Daniel Cohen, Rice University
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Jennifer Jackson-Preece, London School of Economics
Claudia Koonz, Duke University
Anna Korteweg, University of Toronto
Patrick Macklem, Toronto Law School
Laurie McIntosh, Duke University
Jane Moss, Duke University
Liav Orgad, IDC Law School
Gil Rubin, Columbia University
Suzanne Shanahan, Duke University
Maria Stoilkova, University of Florida
Morton Weinfeld, McGill University

Papers

A pasword-protected site has been set up for participants to access all of the papers here.


Monday Seminar: Emily Yeh, Apr. 22

Apr 112013
 
 April 11, 2013

Shielding the Mountains: Tibetan cultures of nature

Emily Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be speaking April 22nd as of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00 – 1:30 in room 101, West Duke Building. This talk is part of the Environmental Justice Initiative in collaboration with Nicholas School of the Environment.

Why have Tibetans become environmentalists in recent years? How do Tibetans conceptualize “nature” and the relationship between human bodies and the surrounding world? This presentation will start with a 20 minute film by the presenter that explores these questions. This will be followed by a short presentation about contemporary articulations of Tibetan Buddhist ethics, culture and environmental protection, and the role of Tibet in the formation of China’s environmental movement.

Yeh conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the PRC, including the political ecology of pastoral environment and development policies, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nation, natural resource commodity chains, indigenous knowledge about climate change, and emerging environmental subjectivities.  In addition she has worked on the cultural politics and political economy of development in Tibet, discussed in her forthcoming book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.

Uprooted/Rerouted: Narratives of Iraqi and Bhutanese Refugees, Apr. 21

Mar 292013
 
 March 29, 2013

The twelve students currently enrolled in KIE’s DukeImmerse program “Uprooted/Rerouted” will perform dramatic readings of refugee life stories collected during their recent field work in Egypt and Nepal. This is the second year of the program and of the presentations (last year’s readings can be seen on the KIE YouTube channel).

The students spent a month working either with Iraqi refugees in Cairo or Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

Sunday, April 21
6:00 pm (Reception to follow)
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University

Do Lunch with Michael Ignatieff, Apr. 19

Mar 022013
 
 March 2, 2013

Join us April 19th at noon for a wide-ranging discussion on politics and globalization with this year’s Kenan Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics, Michael Ignatieff. Dr. Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian scholar, author, television and radio broadcaster, and former leader of Canada’s Liberal Party (2008-2011). Dr. Ignatieff has published on subjects such as the English penal system, the human need for community, modern warfare, and human rights. His more recent work has also addressed the ethics of waging wars against terrorism. In addition to his non-fiction work, Ignatieff wrote a television play, Dialogue in the Dark, and his second novel Scar Tissue (1993) was short-listed for both the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. He currently holds joint appointments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and is also the Chair for the Carnegie Council Centennial Project, “Ethics for a Connected World,” meant to stimulate current and future generations to consider the role of ethics in an increasingly interconnected world.

When: April 19th at noon
Where: West Duke 107F
RSVP: Via this link by April 17th

Kenan Distinguished Lecture: Michael Ignatieff, Apr. 18

Mar 012013
 
 March 1, 2013

The Ethics of Globalization and the Globalization of Ethics

The annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture for 2013 features Canadian scholar, author and former politician Michael Ignatieff. He will be speaking on the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications. What ethical values do human beings share across all our differences of race, religion, ethnicity, national identity, and material wealth?

Ignatieff served in the Parliament of Canada and was Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He currently holds joint appointments at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992),Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warriors Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004).

Thursday, April 18
Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy Building
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. (Reception to follow)

Free parking will be available in the Sanford Lot behind the Sanford Building.

This event has additional support from the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke.

Rethinking Regulation: Christopher Hart, Apr. 15

Feb 282013
 
 February 28, 2013

Collaboration for Managing Risk in Complex Systems:  An Aviation Success Story

Christopher Hart, Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), will be speaking on Monday, April 15. This event is cosponsored by Rethinking Regulation at KIE and the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership Ethics.

Hart has a long history in transportation safety, including serving in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as Deputy Director for Air Traffic Safety Oversight and Assistant Administrator for the Office of System Safety. Additionally, he served as Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. From 1973 until 1990, Hart held a series of legal positions, mostly in the private sector. He holds a law degree from Harvard University and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.

Monday, April 15
2:00 – 3:30
HCA Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
Free and open to the public

What is Good Art? Opening Reception, Apr. 10

Feb 152013
 
 February 15, 2013

The selections from Team Kenan’s annual What is Good Art? competition will be in display in the halls of the West Duke Building beginning Wednesday, April 10th. The artwork is submitted by students and chosen by a faculty panel. The theme for this year’s competition is “Self + Other.”

Opening reception April 10
6:00-7:30 
West Duke Building
 

Leadership & Ethics Summit, Apr. 10

Feb 152013
 
 February 15, 2013

Fuqua School of Business and Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics Summit
Wednesday, April 10, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business

9:00 am Welcome and Keynote Introduction, Dean Jennifer Francis
9:10 am Morning Keynote Address, Dr. Mary Gentile, Director of Giving Voice to Values
10:00 am Introduction to EthicsGame Simulations, Dr. Cathryn Bird, CEO and Founder of EthicsGame
10:40 am EthicsGame Simulation Breakout Sessions: Healthcare, Finance, Hi-Tech, Marketing, Sustainability
12:00 pm Afternoon Keynote Address, Dave Checketts, CEO of Legends Hospitality Management

Registration is required, do so here.

This event is co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke Law, the Duke MBA Health Care Club, the Duke MBAA,  the Duke MBA Consulting Club, the Duke MBA High Tech Club, and the Duke MBA Finance Club.

Religions and Public Life Speaker: Susan Holman, Apr. 9

Jan 292013
 
 January 29, 2013

“Public Health, Poverty, and Patristics”

Susan Holman, Senior Writer at the Harvard Global Health Institute, will be speaking Tuesday, April 9th as part of the Religions and Public Life speaker series.

Holman is engaged in projects at HGHI that range from curricular development to strategic planning, faculty leadership initiatives, and website news and stories. She has more than 10 years experience in research writing and editing in public and global health, with degrees from Brown University (PhD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (MS). Prior to joining HGHI in 2011, Susan was consultant writer and editor for Partners In Health, academic writer and editor at the Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health, and medical writer for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Susan is an invited scholar internationally on faith-based responses to poverty and global health, and has taught maternal and child health as a public health nutritionist and registered dietitian (RD) at the South End Community Health Center and Joslin Diabetes Center.

The Religions and Public Life initiative is sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Divinity School, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

April 9, 5:30 pm
Westbrook Building room 0014

Ethics Film Series: Habibi, Apr. 8

Jan 282013
 
 January 28, 2013

Screening with director Susan Youssef 

On Monday April 8th, Habibi (2011) will be screened as part of the Ethics Film Series. Young lovers Qays and Layla are university students in the West Bank who are forced to return home to Khan Yunis, Gaza before com­pleting their courses. In conservative Khan Yunis, their relationship can only be sustained through marriage, but Qays is too poor to con­vince Layla’s father that he can provide for his daughter. As the couple struggles to be together, Qays paints verses from the classical Sufi poem Majnun Layla all over Khan Yunis, a rebellious act that angers Layla’s father and the local self-appointed moral police. Lyrical and passionate, Habibi depicts a reality where personal happiness must be weighed against society’s opinions, and a choice sometimes made between one’s people and one’s heart.

The film will begin at 7:00pm  in the Griffith Film Theater in Duke University’s Bryan Center, followed by a Q&A session with the film’s director, Susan Youssef.

The screenings are free and open to the public. Refreshments and free parking passes provided. Please park in the parking deck by the Bryan Center. You will be given a pass to submit to the attendant upon leaving the event.

The theme of the 2013 Ethics Film Series is “Love and Justice.” This year, the film series will be in collaboration with the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival. Each spring, the Kenan Institute for Ethics sponsors a film series in collaboration with Duke’s Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Arts of the Moving Image Program. The films provide popular and accessible vehicles for talking about ethics around a particular theme, and each series as a whole offers rich opportunities for debate and discussion on ethical issues for audiences from both the Duke and Durham communities. This screening has additional support from Duke Islamic Studies Center, Women’s Studies, and the Center for International Studies.

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