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ADVISORY:
"Thinking Rights, Engaging Communities" to examine connections between the humanities and human rights.
ATTENTION:
ASSIGNMENT DESKS
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10/31/00
Contact: Christina Gillis
Townsend Center
(510) 643-6229 or
cmgillis@socrates.berkeley.edu.
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WHAT: |
"Thinking Rights, Engaging Communities," this year's meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, an international organization. The event will emphasize connections between the humanities and human rights
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WHEN: |
1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10, 2000. |
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WHERE: |
University of California, Berkeley's Alumni House, near the Haas Pavilion just off Bancroft Way. |
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WHO: |
Humanities and human rights center directors, authors, documentary filmmakers and representatives of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Rockefeller Foundation. Speakers will include Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid ("Long Night's Journey into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation"), and authors David Rieff ("Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West") and Joanna Bourke ("An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare"). |
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DETAILS:
The conference aims to link the humanities with real world issues such as violence and inequality, reconstruction and tolerance, and to interpret problems of human existence.
It also will highlight "Community in Contention," a recently-funded Rockefeller Foundation fellowship residency site in the humanities at UC Berkeley. This program is housed at the Institute for International Studies, which works closely with UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities in the College of Letters & Science.
NOTE: To attend, contact Christina Gillis, associate director of the Townsend Center, at (510) 643-6229 or cmgillis@socrates.berkeley.edu. More details are available at http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend/.
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