For Human Rights enthusiasts, here are three events coming up that might interest you:
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 11th of Febuary, Efraim Inbar will be speaking at the Athenaeum. He is the author of five books titled, Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War. Currently, he serves on the Academic Committee of the History Department of the IDF and as the President of the Israel Association of International Studies. While at CMC, he will be having two discussions. The first will be at 4:00 Pm in the Freeburg Room and second will be over dinner at 6:00 PM in the Parents Dining Room. Both of his discussions will be oriented around the recent conflict in Gaza, where he will offer students his unique perspective.
Another exciting event will be taking place at Pomona on Tuesday the 17th of February. The event is titled Human Rights in the 21st Century, and it will feature a panel discussion of the genocide and ongoing humanitarian crises in Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo, and other nations. Additionally, the panel will discuss the future of human rights in an age characterized by globalization and the rise of China, India, and Russia. The speakers are Mark Hanis, executive director of the Genocide Intervention Network, Jeanette Ndhlovu, South African Consul-General, and Michael J. Bazyler, acclaimed Holocaust and human rights scholar and professor at Chapman University Law School. The event will be at 8 PM in Edmunds Ballroom at Pomona College.
Finally, on Sunday the 22nd of February at The University of Southern California there will be a screening of a recently made documentary called Spell Your Name. The film features testimonies of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors and witnesses from the Shoah Foundation Insititute’s archives. Following the film, their will be a discussion addressing issues of cultural stereotypes and the complexity of the public memorialization of massacres that took place during the Holocaust in Ukraine. The discussion will be moderated by Wolf Gruner, a USC history professor, Sergey Bukovsky, the filmmaker, Crispin Brooks, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute curator, and Michael Renov, a USC cinematic arts professor. This really interesting event will be at the Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre at 4:30 pm. The admission is free and refreshments will be served.
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 11th of Febuary, Efraim Inbar will be speaking at the Athenaeum. He is the author of five books titled, Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and Israel's National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War. Currently, he serves on the Academic Committee of the History Department of the IDF and as the President of the Israel Association of International Studies. While at CMC, he will be having two discussions. The first will be at 4:00 Pm in the Freeburg Room and second will be over dinner at 6:00 PM in the Parents Dining Room. Both of his discussions will be oriented around the recent conflict in Gaza, where he will offer students his unique perspective.
Another exciting event will be taking place at Pomona on Tuesday the 17th of February. The event is titled Human Rights in the 21st Century, and it will feature a panel discussion of the genocide and ongoing humanitarian crises in Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo, and other nations. Additionally, the panel will discuss the future of human rights in an age characterized by globalization and the rise of China, India, and Russia. The speakers are Mark Hanis, executive director of the Genocide Intervention Network, Jeanette Ndhlovu, South African Consul-General, and Michael J. Bazyler, acclaimed Holocaust and human rights scholar and professor at Chapman University Law School. The event will be at 8 PM in Edmunds Ballroom at Pomona College.
Finally, on Sunday the 22nd of February at The University of Southern California there will be a screening of a recently made documentary called Spell Your Name. The film features testimonies of Ukrainian Holocaust survivors and witnesses from the Shoah Foundation Insititute’s archives. Following the film, their will be a discussion addressing issues of cultural stereotypes and the complexity of the public memorialization of massacres that took place during the Holocaust in Ukraine. The discussion will be moderated by Wolf Gruner, a USC history professor, Sergey Bukovsky, the filmmaker, Crispin Brooks, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute curator, and Michael Renov, a USC cinematic arts professor. This really interesting event will be at the Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre at 4:30 pm. The admission is free and refreshments will be served.
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Greetings,
Would we be able to post upcoming human rights events on your spot?
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