RSVP to amber.diaz@duke.edu by Sunday, September 22.

Religious Freedom and Persecution
Tuesday, September 24, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
101 West Duke Building

Panelists: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, Anthony Gill, University of Washington
Discussant/Moderator: Michael Gillespie, Duke University

Please register if you plan to attend.

This initiative represents a partnership of the Duke Human Rights Center at KIE, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, with funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.

Friday, September 13, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Smith Warehouse
Garage C105 Bay 4
Lunch provided

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.

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

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.

Indonesia and the Contested History of Human Rights, 1945-1980
Thursday, April 4, 3:00 pm
204B East Duke Building

The First Right? Self-determination and International History
Friday, April 5, 12:00 pm
Carr 229 (Lunch will be served)

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.

Monday, March 25
5:30 – 6:30 pm (Reception to follow)
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Free admission and parking, open to the public

The conference is free and open to the public. Panel sessions will be held in room 101 of the West Duke Building. For more information, contact Kelly Lipford, kelly.lipford@duke.edu.

Sponsored by Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke, Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School, University of Miami Law School, the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Philosophy, and University of Miami Philosophy

Conference Schedule

Lunch is free to all participants who register; to register contact Kelly Lipford at kelly.lipford@duke.edu.

Thursday, March 21
12:45 – 1:45 pm
101 West Duke Building, East Campus
Free and Open to the Public

To register for the full conference, including the Thursday, March 21 opening event, please follow this link. Please note: conference registration fee of $20 ($10 for students with valid ID and senior citizens) includes all meals and sessions on Friday, March 22.

To reserve space for the Thurs., March 21 opening keynote address ONLY, please follow this link. This event is free and open to the public.

Human Rights and the Humanities is made possible through the generous support of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies Inc., Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.