DNA, Human Rights & Human Trafficking, Sep. 13

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The second workshop of the DNA Applications in Human Rights and Human Trafficking initiative will be held Friday, September 13. This workshop will develop feasability projects to explore the role of DNA in human trafficking victim identification and explore the ethical, privacy, political, and social implications of DNA collection of victims and family members. More information may be found at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy series site.

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

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

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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.


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

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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

Kenan Distinguished Lecture: Michael Ignatieff, Apr. 18

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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.

Bradley Simpson, International Human Rights, Apr. 4-5

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Bradley Simpson, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Princeton University, will be giving two talks cosponsored by Duke History, the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, the Center for International Studies, International and Comparative Studies, Borderwork(s) at the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Duke Center for Human Rights at KIE.

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)

James Scott: On Not Being Governed, Mar. 25

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James Scott will present an extension of his 2009 book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia on Monday, March 25. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.

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

Multiculturalism: Success, Failure, Future: Mar. 21

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Visiting Human Rights Fellow Will Kymlicka will be giving a lunch seminar on Thursday. Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queens’s University, Kingston, Canada and Co-Director of the Multiculturalism Policy Index.

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

DNA, Human Rights & Human Trafficking, Mar. 20

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The first workshop of the  DNA Applications in Human Rights and Human Trafficking initiative will be held Wednesday, March 20. This workshop will discuss the potential role of DNA in human trafficking victim identification and the historic uses of DNA for human rights and explore the ethical, privacy, political, and social implications of DNA collection of victims and family members.

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

Click to see full schedule


9:00-9:15
Welcome, Goals of Workshop | Sara H. Katsanis, IGSP

9:15-10:00
Overview of DNA, Human Rights & Human Trafficking | Sara H. Katsanis, IGSP

10:00-10:30
Definitions of Human Trafficking | Anna Lind-Guzik, Slavic and Eurasian Studies

10:30-10:45
Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Work from the Ground Up | Gunther Peck, Sanford School for Public Policy

10:45-11:00
Duke Human Rights Center at FHI – Focus on Trafficking | Robin Kirk, DHRC@FHI

11:00-11:15
Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics – Focus on Trafficking | Suzanne Shanahan, KIE

11:15-11:30 | Break

11:30-12:20
Breakout Workshops: Adoption Fraud | Joyce Kim; Sex Trafficking | Anna Lind-Guzik; Migrant Workers | Jennifer Wagner

12:20-1:00
Reconvene and Coalesce

March 20, 2013
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Garage C105 Bay 4
Lunch provided

Registration is free; please do so here.

Event flier available for download.

Photography Exhibit Opening: Survival in Saravejo, Mar. 5

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March 5, 2013
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building

Opening Reception
Survival in Sarajevo: The Story of La Benevolencija. Jews, Muslims, Croats & Serbs working together during the Bosnian War, 1992-1995.

This photographic exhibit, made possible by Centropa, will be on display from March 1-29, 2013.

Parking available behind the Friedl Building. From Buchanan St., turn left into East Campus; free after 5:00 pm.

Sponsored by the Duke Center for European Studies, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.

Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World Conference, Feb. 28 – Mar. 1

Nov 302012
 
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The International Comparative Studies program is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a conference on international migration. The three-day schedule includes panel discussions, a film, a performance, and a keynote address. For full details and registration information, please visit the conference page at the ICS website.

Conference sponsors include: Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Office of Dean of Academic Affairs – Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean of the Humanities, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, Office of the Provost, Program in Arts of the Moving Image, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Program in Literature, Women’s Studies.

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