March 1, 2001, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Serbia: A Crisis of Identity. Western media coverage of Serbia in recent years has shown us a region gripped in crisis, often erupting in violent confrontations such as that which led to the NATO bombing campaign in 1999. A Newsweek article described the Serbs as "Europe's outsiders, seasoned haters, raised on self-pity, expert haters." The Serbian people seemed to perpetrate and tolerate a level of violence that Europe had not seen since the holocaust. By the end of the wars, however, little had been done to advance a broader understanding of Serbia and Serbian history or to understand Serbian perspectives. Join the Minnesota International Center as Dr. Tom Emmert, professor of history at Gustavus Adolphus College, offers a view of Serbia and the Serbs, their history, their tragic fate since the mid-1980's, and the prospect for the future after the recent political defeat of Slobodan Milosevic.
Dr. Emmert has taught history at Gustavus since 1973. He is the author of Serbian Golgotha: Kosovo, 1389, a study of the battle between the Serbs and the Ottoman Turks and its role in the evolving historical consciousness of the Serbian people. He is currently completing a one-volume History of Serbia for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Emmert has been a frequent commentator on MPR and NPR during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. He holds a B.A. in History from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Balkan and Eastern European History from Stanford University. Registration and social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. Free for MIC members and students (with valid student I.D.); Non-members $5. Advance registration required. To register: complete MIC's online registration form at http://www.micglobe.org/forms/prereg.cfm or call MIC's 24-hour activity line, (612)626-6204.
Location: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium, 2nd floor, 1000 LaSalle Ave., downtown Minneapolis. This program is cosponsored by the University of St. Thomas' Master of International Management(MIM) program.
March 1, 2001, 6:00 p.m.
"Under the Volcano." The Minnesota Women's Center on the University of Minnesota campus invites you to an event celebrating Women's History Month. The event will be a benefit for a developing program called Women Encouraging Women. The program will primarily assist low-income women and first generation students to find resources and support to acquire a post-secondary education. The night will be kicked off with the evening's keynote speaker, Dr. Rose Brewer, Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies department and continue with performances by Proyecto La Plena, who play plena music of Puerto Rico, a fusion of African, Spanish and Indigenous roots; Teatro Latino with Joy Cheverria in the critically acclaimed, "Rosita's Jalapeno Kitchen;" Theater Mu, a combination of Western and Asian Style Drumming: The East Bank Singers, traditional Native American song, drum and dance; Drumheart, a women's drumming group; and Xperimental Theater's Lisa Arnold, a graduate student in Theater program with her program "addendum, ad infinitum." Refreshments will be served.
For location details, contact: Minnesota Women's Center, University of Minnesota, 125 Klaeber Court, 320 16th Ave. SE, Minneapolis or email to oracles@tc.umn.edu http://www.umn.edu/mnwomen or call 612-626-8242.
March 2, 2001, 3:35 pm
"Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History." Professor
Mike Allen from the School of History, Science and Technology of Georgia Institue
of Technology will address modernization from the history of technology using
the Holocaust as his case study. Refreshments at 3:15 in Physics 216.
Location: University
of Minnesota, East Bank Campus, Main Mall, 210 Physics building.
For more information, contact: Barbara Eastwold at 612-624-7069.
March 3, 2001, 3:00 p.m.
Acid Burnings in Bangladesh, Rape in U.S. Prisons, and More. A speaking
tour to stop the torture of women featuring: Nasreen Huq, women's health project
coordinator of the women's activist organization Naripokko, will speak about
her work to stop brutal and disfiguring acid violence. Nancy Bothne, the Midwest
Regional Director of Amnesty International-USA, will discuss sexual violence
in U.S. prisons, including Minnesota, where sexual contact between guards
and inmates is still legal. Additional speakers to be announced.
Location: Todos Los Santos Church, Lyndale & 28th Street, Minneapolis.
Sponsored by Amnesty International.
For more information, contact: 612-301-3580 or email amnesty@waste.org.
March 8, 2001
"We Will Stand." There will be a gathering of National and Local Civil
Rights and Human Rights Champions. This is the MN event of this 50-State Tour,
called "We Will Stand." Participants include Dr. Hycel Taylor, former National
Director of Operation PUSH, Billy McCormack, civil rights pioneers Walter
Fauntroy, James Bevel, Wyatt T. Walker, and Milton Reid, and theologian Dr.
Paul Swanson. Also slated for the program are George Stallings of Washington,
DC, Wiley Drake of Los Angeles, CA, T.L. Barrett and Leroy Elliot of Chicago,
IL, Jesse Edwards of Philadelphia and David Billings and William Robinson
of New York. A number of legislators such as Donzella James (D-GA) and Mark
Anderson (R-AR) will also participate. Local heros include Jesse Griffin,
Charles Ford, Eugene Wright, Kenneth Garnier, Jerry McAfee, Alphonse Reff,
Arthur Agnew, James Muhammad, John Tranberg and Adam Nhotsavang. "The community
must take a leading role in making a better reality for all our citizens.
Divided by race and religion, we lack the power to stop the ...suffering in
our communities." Grassroots champions of reconciliation and harmony will
be honored in each city. With an invitational committee including hundreds
of religious, educational and legislative leaders, the tour enjoys broad support.
Symposium on Armenian History, Culture and the impact of the Armenian Genocide. A symposium for teachers and the general public: "Armenia and Armenians: 10,000 Years of History in One Day." Free workshop for teachers and would carry 3 CEU's for those who attend. Presentation includes discussion of the Armenian Genocide. Pre-registration required. Please RSVP.
Location: 2620 Moos Tower, 515 Delaware Street SE, East Bank Campus.
Parking available in Washington Avenue Ramp.
Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, The Armen and Bersabe Jerejian Foundation and Diocesan Armenian Language Lab and Resource Center, New York (ALLARC).
For more information, contact Nairy Digris at 651-639-9346
or the Center for Holocause and Genocide Studies at 612-624-0256. See website
for more information: http://chgs.hispeed.com/Educational_Resources/Events/events.html
The True Cost of Energy. Xcel Energy buys more than 10 percent of its
energy from Manitoba Hydro, a state-owned and -regulated subsidiary of the
Canadian province of Manitoba. This hydroelectricity is generated by nine
dams and reservoirs that have forever altered millions of acres of fragile
boreal forest and more than 3,000 miles of lake and river shoreline, and devastated
the subsistence communities of five Cree nations. A 1977 agreement with the
Cree, which promised to mitigate the environmental and social damages and
support economic development in the area, has not been realized. Medora Woods,
who traveled to Manitoba and met with the Pimicikamak Cree, shows slides that
document the destruction. Joining her are Nikki LaSorella and Penny Scheffler.
They address how we, as energy consumers, can support indigenous people and
the environment. $4 ($3 members). Free refills on fair-trade coffee.
For more information, contact kristip@americas.org, 612-276-0788 ext.
23, or visit www.americas.org. For a half-hour before and after each coffeehour,
join the Resource Center for an activist letter-writing effort with Resource
Center-supplied ideas, background, addresses, and envelopes.
Address by Bennett Freeman on corporations and human rights. International
economic integration brings ethical as well as economic challenges. American
companies that seek out lower labor costs and expanding markets in the developing
world come face to face with oppressive government practices including corruption,
suppression of political participation, and discrimination on the base of
race, ethnicity or gender. Corporations themselves have been criticized for
wages that are too low, for working conditions that are abusive and even for
turning a blind eye to the human rights issues that face their workers. What
responsibilities do transnational corporations have to ensure that basic human
rights of their workers and the communities in which they operate? Are voluntary
codes of conduct enough or should governments and international organizations
set stricter standards to guide corporate actions? How would such standards
be enforced? Bennett Freeman served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from April 1999 until January 2001.
His responsibilities focused on conducting bilateral diplomacy on behalf of
human rights and democracy around the world, as well as on promoting global
corporate responsibility and labor rights. Mr. Freeman previously served as
Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and
Agriculture Affairs from May 1997 to March 1999. Mr. Freeman worked with the
Under Secretary to direct the State Department's diplomatic strategy and historical
research addressing the unfinished business of the Holocaust. Beginning in
1993, Bennett Freeman served four years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Affairs and Chief Speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Before joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Freeman spent eight years with
the General Electric Company working for both the Corporate Headquarters and
the Government Relations office.
March 12, 2001, 6:20pm
Center for Scandinavian Studies
and Center for Holocaust: Guest Lecture by Gunnar Sonsteby
Sonsteby was the Number 2 Norwegian spy against Nazi Germany during the occupation
of WWII and was involved in the rescue of Norwegian Jews into Sweden, which
prompted eventually a change in Swedish policy. Sonsteby will speak for the
first part of the "History of the Holocaust" class.
Location: Physics Building on the Main mall, East Bank Campus of the University of Minnesota.
The event is free and open to the public.
March 12, 2001, 5:00-7:00p.m.
"Bearing Witness: Volunteerism in the Face of Today's Refugee Crisis."
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights joins with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate
organization Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders for a panel
discussion and reception on volunteerism in the face of today's refugee crisis.
Panelists include Dr. Morten Rostrup, International President of Medecins
Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders; Hawa Kamara, Liberian refugee and
Field Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator for MSF-USA; and Lynn Thomas, Executive
Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. The panel discussion will
be moderated by Douglas Johnson, Executive Director of the Center for Victims
of Torture. The panelists will discuss the current state of refugees around
the world and as they build new lives in Minnesota, as well as the impact
volunteers play in assisting refugees both locally and internationally.
Location: Law Firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, 28th Floor Conference Center, 800 LaSalle Avenue, downtown Minneapolis
This event is free and open to the public.
March 13, 2001
Frontiers of Change: Navigating the Human Genome Map. This conference
will engage both the public and scientific community in a dialogue about the
scope, breadth, benefits of and concerns related to human and animal genomics.
It will: highlight the University's investment and its intent to implement
genomics research and education; engage the opinions of industry and community
representatives; broaden University-wide interactions around these issues;
enhance understanding of the public and scientific perspectives on these critical
issues.
Location: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota Gateway, 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis.
Sponsors and participating units: Academic Health Center,
Medical School, Colleges of Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, Schools of Nursing,
Dentistry, Public Health, Microbiology, Center for Bioethics, Law, Biomedical
Genomics Center, Cancer Center, Medicine - Duluth, Office of the Vice President
for Research
For more information, contact: Regents Professor Ashley Haase, Head, Microbiology at 612-624-4442.
March 14, 2001, 12:15p.m.
Universalism and
Cultural Relativism in the Context of Child Labor. University of MN Professors
Vinay Gidwani (anthropology), Deborah Levison (Hubert H. Humphrey Institute).
And Karen Brown Thompson (Institute for Global Studies) will discuss the human
rights aspects of universalism and cultural relativism in the context of child
labor. Free.
Location: University of
Minnesota Law School, Room 50, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis.
Sponsored by: Institute for Global Studies and Amnesty International
Legal Support Network.
For more information, contact Rosalyn Park at park0494@tc.umn.edu.
March 14 - April 15
Spinning into Butter. This searching new play, set in a small Vermont college, explores the edgy issue of racism and political correctness with fresh vitality and exposes the unexpected places that racial conflict hides.
Location: Park Square Theater, 20 West Seventh Place, St. Paul
Location: 1114, 1109 Social Science Tower, University of MN, 267 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis.
March 17, 2001, 10am-11:30am
Community Organizing in Northeastern Brazil. Popular movements inspired by the likes of Dom Helder Camara, professor Paulo Freire, and the political scientist Josué de Castro have risen amidst the mangroves, slums and streets of Recife since the late 1950s. Following 25 years of military rule, the past decade has been one in which social and cultural movements throughout Brazil have re-discovered the fundamental importance of affirming the rich and diverse cultural heritage as an invaluable instrument towards establishing positive and combative grass roots organizational strategies. Dan Chaves Aamot, a free-lance social entrepreneur and visual anthropologist, has actively participated both in the life of community organizations and the politicized artistic community in Recife during the last sixteen years. He shares his slides, impressions and experiences regarding the fundamental role of a people’s cultural and artistic heritage in the process of building effective community identity and organization. $4 ($3 for members).
Location: Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis.
For more information or to give suggestions for speakers, contact Kristi Papenfuss, 612-276-0788, (ext. 23). For a half-hour before and after each coffeehour, join us for an activist letter-writing effort with Resource Center–supplied ideas, background, addresses, and envelopes.
March 23, 2001 Transnationalism: Then and Now. A lecture given by Dr. Nancy Foner,
Professor of Anthropology from SUNY-Purchase. Sponsored by Race,
Ethnicity, and Migration. For more information,
contact 612-625-4800 or
email to rem@tc.umn.edu. "Good
News About Injustice: Hope for Women Caught in the International Sex Trade". March
23, 2001, 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Maclaurin
Institute and Christ Presbyterian Church Location: Christ
Presbyterian Church of Edina (Hwy 100 and 70th St) For more Information,
call: 612-378-1935 Location:
St Paul Jewish Community Center, 1375
St. Paul Avenue St. Paul, MN 55116 Location: Park Square Theater 20, West Seventh Place,
St. Paul April 23, 7:15pm Location: Bell Museum
Auditorium (17th & University Aves SE) April 25, 7pm, Location: Bell Museum
Auditorium (17th & University Aves SE) Location: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota,
333 East River Road. Minneapolis. For more information contact Charlotte Voight, Center
for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of MN, cafs@tc.umn.edu. April 21, 2001, 8:00pm
Location: Ted Mann Concert
Hall, University of Minnesota, 2106 Fourth Street South. This event is free and open
to the public. April 25-27, 2001 Upheaval and Change
in Ireland's Past. Upheaval has often struck Ireland. These eras of simultaneous
opportunity and tumult can lead to fundamental changes in the landscape.
Ethnic identities are forged. Communities are transformed. Environments
are altered. Times of upheaval also
produce obstinate continuity as disquieted populations search for ties to
their own past. Inspired by Ireland's
current economic and social upheaval to reconsider similar periods in the
past, researchers are redefining which of these transitional periods were
widespread and long-lasting and which were mirages born of modern interpretations
of the past. This conference draws together Irish and North American scholars
to explore how archaeology and texts illuminate the perception and reality
as well as the origin and consequences of upheaval in Ireland. Conference
events will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Patrick Wallace, Director of
the National Museum of Ireland and Viking-period scholar. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center
for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota. For further information contact John Soderberg of the
Department of Anthropology at 612-625-3400 or email to: sode0018@tc.umn.edu. Young Peacemakers. Gandhi
said, “Non-violence cannot be preached. It must be practiced!” A group of
friends inspired by the words of Gandhi, King, Location: SteppingStone
Theatre, 314 Landmark Center, 75 West 5th St., St. Paul, MN. Contact the Box office: 651-225-9265. May 8-9, 2001 Dalai Lama Visit. May 8 9:30am-11:30am: Teaching
“Generating a Good Heart” Northrop Auditorium 5:30pm-7:00pm: Public
Address “Compassion and Universal Responsibility in a New Century” Williams
Arena, U of MN, 1925 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis. May 9 5:30pm-7:30pm: Interfaith Dialogue Northrop Auditorium, U
of MN, 84 Church St. SE, Minneapolis. Tickets range from $28-$152. To order tickets, call the U of MN Arts Ticket Office at 612-624-2345.
For more information, visit www.DalaiLamaMinnesota.org, email
to DalaiLamaVisitinfo@usa.net,
or leave a message at 612-871-9393. May 9 - 10, 2001 Location: Hubert H. Humphrey
Center, University of Minnesota, 301 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis. For more information, contact
Maggie Potapchuk at (202) 789-6361 or mpotapchuk@jointcenter.org. June 6,
2001, 12:30 June 7, 2001, 7:00-9:00 pm To register, call 651-697-0440
or 1-800-477-3660. Location: Colonial Church
of Edina, 6200 Colonial Way June 8, 2001, 7:30-3:00 pm June 10, 2001, 7:00 - 9:00
pm For more information, contact
Larry Olds. email: lolds@mtn.org; phone: 612/722-3442; or the Freire Center:
PopEd@freirecenter.org; phone: 612/722-5790. June 10-12, 2001 Conference: Deterring
and preventing Genocide: Missed Opportunities, Contemporary Issues, and Future
Possibilities. The Fourth Biennial Conference of the Association
of Genocide Scholars. Abstracts and
Panel Proposals (limit 500 words) due by February 15, 2001.
Location: Radisson Metrodome
Hotel, 615 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis. June 12, 2001, 7:00pm Location: Moos Tower 12-168
(McKelvey Seminar Room) For more information, contact
Sarah Herzog, Outreach Coordinator Institute for Global Studies, 214 Social
Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 555455. Phone: 612-624-7346
of Email: sherzog@umn.edu. June 26, 2001, 4:00-6:15 pm July 13,
2001, 8:30 am-12:00 noon September
13, 2001, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. September 13, 2001, 3:00 p.m. September 19, 2001, 11:30a.m.-1:30p.m.
Location: Windows on Minnesota,
50th Floor, IDS Tower, 80 S. 8th Street, downtown Minneapolis To register: call Elaine
at 612.626.4987. September 20, 2001, 12:30 p.m. September 24, 2001, 6:00-7:00
p.m. September 25 - October 19,
2001 September 26, 2001, 12:00-1:00p.m. Location: Minneapolis Hilton
and Towers, 3rd Floor, Salon C, 1001 Marquette Avenue, downtown Minneapolis.
Cost: Free, but firm reservations
are required. Space is limited. To register: Visit the
UNA's website at www.unamn.org, or call 612.879.7512. September 28 - October 27,
2001 September 28, 2001, 4:30-7:00p.m. Location: University of
St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium, 2nd Floor; 1000 LaSalle
Avenue, Minneapolis Cost: Free for MIC members,
Amnesty International USA members, University of St. Thomas students (with
valid ID); advance registration required; Non-members $10 To register: call Nancy
at 612.625.4138 September 28, 2001, 4:30-7:00
p.m. October
1, 2001, 2:00p.m. October 2-23, 2001, 6:30-8:30
p.m. October 2, 2001, 5:00-7:00p.m. Location: Fitzgerald Theater,
10 E. Exchange Street, downtown St. Paul Cost: Free, but space is
limited. Advance registration is required by Sept. 28. To register: call Elaine
at 612.626.4987. October 4, 2001, 6:00p.m.-8:30p.m. October 8, 2002, 7:30 p.m. Location: Cowles
Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center October 12, 2001, 12:30p.m. Location: Mayo
Building 100, Academic Health Center, East Bank Campus of University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis October 19, 2001, 12:00p.m. Location: Hubert H. Humphrey
School of Public Policy, Virginia Cowles Auditorium October 20, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-1:00p.m. October 25, 2001, 12:45p.m.-2:00p.m. October 25, 2001, 7:00 p.m. October 26, 2001, 6:30p.m. Location: Westminister
Presbyterian Chruch, Nicollet Mall and 12th Street. October 27, 2001, 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. Location:
The Millennium Hotel, 1313 Nicollet Mall, Mpls For more information: University
of Minnesota Law School . 415 Law Center 229 19th Avenue South . Minneapolis,
MN 55455 Telephone: (612) 625-8071 . Fax: (612) 624-8890 October 28, 2001, 12:15p.m/2:00p.m./3:45p.m. For more information:
call Erica Giorgi at 612.625-8837 October 28, 2001, 2:00p.m. October 29, 2001, 12:20p.m. Location: 140 Wulling Hall
86 Pleasant Street SE EAST BANK CAMPUS. Parking in Northrop Garage, 4th Avenue
Ramp. November,
1, 2001, 12:45p.m.-2:00p.m. November 7 - December 5, 2001,
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. November 11, 2001 November 13, 2001, Day Trip
(6:30a.m. - 8:30p.m.) November 10, 2001 Yiddish vaudeville , as recalled
in the history of the amazing Burstyn family, one of the last remaining icons
of Yiddish theaters Golden Age, comes to life in The Komediant at 5:l5 and
9:l5 p.m.Saturday (l0th). The film, featuring Fivish Finkel and other stars
of the Yiddish stage, repeats 3 pm following Sunday (11th) (free parking 4th
St.SE ramp) An inside view into the dilemmas at the center of religious and
ideological debates stirring Israeli politics is captured in the controversial
Time of Favor,(Haseder) , a compelling thriller about religious nationalist
settlers who conspire to blow up the Dome of the Rock mosque on Jerusalems
Temple Mount. Scheduled for 7:l5 p.m. Sunday, Nov.ll. Heartthrob Israeli actor
Aki Avni as Orthodox army officer and yeshiva student, and popular Israeli
sensation Tinkerbell,his love interest, opposed by her fanatical rabbi father
(Asi Dayan) , helped win six Israeli "Oscars" this year for 27-year-old debut
director Joseph Cedar. Film will repeat 7:l5 p.m. Thursday,Nov. l5. ( Film
was held up for New York and national release because of sensitivity over
the Sept.ll World Trade Center repercussions. Politically correct or not,
the film is now due to open late January.) Israel will also be the focus
of "Promises," , in which U.S.filmmaker B.Z.Goldberg convinces seven articulate
Israeli and Palestinian ll-to-l4-year-olds to try honestly to come to grips
with their daily religious and national conflicts. Living within a 20-minute
radius of one another but having little direct knowledge of the other's lives,they
visit each other's homes and come up with poignant insights,which may offer
"promises." Winner, audience award,Rotterdam Film Festival,"Promises " was
recently termed "the most honest Mideast movie ever made," by a Vancouver
arts weekly .( 7:l5 p.m. Tues,Wed.,Fri., Nov.20-21,23.) Roots of the Israel-Palestine
conflict,with new insights on their origins are chronicled in the stirring
and inspirational "In Search of Peace: 1948-l967", a sequel to the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's Oscar-winning l997 "The Long Way Home".( 5 p.m. Sat - 7:l5 p.m. Sun.,Nov.l7-18).
("..Does an excellent job of sorting through and clarifying the complexities
of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The plight of stateless Palestinian refugees
is duly recognized"commented NYTimes reviewer Stephen Holden) .The scrupulous,
factual account of two decades ending with the l967 victory, recorded in voice
and rare archival images ,from Papa Ben-Gurion to his quarrelsome sons, as
well as narration by Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Anne Bancroft, does
not fade out on a "happily ever after" note, but acknowledges the heavy price
triumph paid. Provocative also is the film,"Trembling Before G-D", which concerns
the profound desire of homosexuals to find a place for themselves in Orthodox
Judaism. Faith, sexuality and religious fundamentalism are put on the dock
in these compassionate stories affirming the universal struggle to belong
. (7:l5 p.m. Fri.,, 7:l5 ,9:l5 p.m.Sat., 5:l5 Sun.,Nov. l6-l8). " Love-in-conflict " is also a
theme ( with comic overtones) in "Make Me a Match,"on the trials and tribulations
of Jewish singles looking for a catch in today's America.(U of Minn.American
Studies Prof. Riv-Ellen Prell was film consultant), Diverse styles of matchmaking
for the cyberage meet "old style" probing from rabbi and rebbetzin, while
some very organized suburban housewives tell how they promote Jewish survival
by guaranteeing l00% Jewish babies. Shown with "The Last Jewish Town", the
story of a Sephardic community surviving in the mountains of Azerbaijan. (7:l5
p.m. Mon thru Wed., Nov.l2-l4.) International matchmaking is the
center of "Russian Doll," a new Australian feature about a young Jewish woman
from St.Petersburg arriving in Sydney in response to an ad, only to discover
the prospective groom dead. Starring Hugo Weaving (Priscilla,Queen of the
Desert)),the film captures Sydney's Bondi Beach Russian-Jewish immigrant invasion
as backdrop to the bride's search for a "marriage of convenience". The film
will run the last week of November.( Dates tba) Nostalgia for old Jewish values
(including matchmaking ) can be found in "Molly: the Goldbergs,"a l950 film
based on the famous radio series as it became television, with sharp,comic
writing we see now in shows like Seinfeld. Molly tries to match a young couple
while in a quandary herself over her old childhood sweetheart. ( 7:l5 p.m.
Mon,. Nov.l9, 5 p.m. Fri.,23d,) Little-known chapters about Jewish
bravery in World War II are included in "The Second Front," about the underground
resistance movements in the forests and swamps of Eastern Europe. By veteran
Holocaust researcher Deborah Freeman, using never-before-seen footage, photos
and interviews, she sets the record straight on who was a fearless freedom
fighter. (5 & 8p.m. Sat.,Sun. ,Nov.24-25). "Terrorists in Retirement" also
recalls unheralded heroism . Polish-Jewish resistance brigades during the
Nazi occupation were organized in Paris during WWII whose 200 members carried
out dangerous assassinations and sabotage. This recently available documentary,
banned by French television, finds seven surviving members,with unFrench sounding
names like Mitzflicker,Rayski or Gronowski, still making their living in Paris,
as tailors. (5 & 8 pm Sat.,Sun. Nov.24,25.) Admission to films are $7 gen'l,
$6 students and seniors, and $5 Film Societiy members. (Tickets available
at door); a 6-film pass will be good for $30 (genl). Members,students : $25.
U Film Society website www. ufilm .org (for complete descriptions ) . UFS
hotline 612-627-4430. Group rates for schools, classes available. Call 612-627-4431.
Saturday November 17-Tuesday
November 20, 2001 Sat Nov 17 2:15 and Mon November
19 at 7pm. THE SPRING TO COME (Przedwiosnie, 2001) directed by Filip Bajon.
Love story set against backdrop of the Bolshevik revolution. 144 minutes.
Sunday, Nov 18 1PM and Tuesday
Nov. 20 at 9:15 PM MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING (Pieniadze to nie Wszystko, 2001)
Comedy about modern Polish life. 107 minutes S Sunday, November 18 3:15 PM PHAROAH
(Faaon, 1965) Nominated in 1967 for best Foreign Film at Academy Awards 184
minutes Saturday, Nov 17 12 Noon and Tuesday
Nov 20 ANGELUS (110 Minutes) story about fictional society of magicians and
alchemists from town of Janowo between the wars. Sunday, Nov. 18 12 Noon. IF YOU
BUY ME A COUCH, DARLING (1988) Free screening. American short film, slapstick,
shot in Poland. 40 minutes Saturday November 17 at 5PM and
Monday Nov 19 at 9:45PM IF LIFE MAKES SENSE (Ze Zycie Ma Sens, 2000) Film
about amateur filmmakers who get into mind altering substances. WEB SITE: www.polfilm.org November 29, 2001, 12:00p.m.-4:00pm
Please email Barbara McDonald
at bmcdonald@it.cc.mn.us if you want to come. Location:
Center for Continued Learning Conference room located in ICC's Student Center. December
2, 2001, 2:00p.m. Thursday, December 13, 2001,
4-6 p.m. Location: University of
Minnesota, Folwell Hall 306. For more information: contact
Terri Klegin at 6-7579 or klegin@umn.edu. January
14, 2002, 5:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Location: Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium, 301 - 19th Avenue S., University of
Minnesota, West Bank. Parking ramp at 3rd Street S. and 19th Avenue S. Cost: MIC members and students
$5; Non-members $10. To register: Respond to
this e-mail or call Elaine at 612.626.4987. January 15, 7:30 p.m. Location: Ted Mann Concert
Hall on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Series tickets are $100 ($75 for
U of M faculty and staff). Single tickets go on sale December 17 for $25 ($20
for U of M faculty and staff). "Great Conversations" is produced by the College
of Continuing Education with the generous support of the University of Minnesota
McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment. For further information:
visit www.cce.umn.edu/conversations or call the box office at 624-2345. January 25, 2002, Time TBA. January 25, 2002, 12:00pm Sponsored by the Department
of History, the Department of French and Italian, the European Studies Consortium
and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Location: room 20, Hubert
H. Humphrey Center January 29, 2002, 4:30 pm January 29, 2002, 8:30am -12:30pm January 30, 2002, 12:30 pm Location: West
Bank Auditorium of Willey Hall, University of Minnesota. February
1, 2002, 3:15 pm Location: The lecture is
on Friday, February 1st at 3:35 p.m. in Room 131 of the Tate Laboratory of
Physics. Refreshments to be served at 3:15 p.m. in Room 216 of the same building.
For further information,
please contact Barbara Eastwold at 612/624-7069 or eastworld@physics.spa.umn.edu. February 7, 2002, 12:00 pm Location: Briggs
and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center. For more information, please
contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Please R.S.V.P. to
Amelia Buttress at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday,
February 5th. Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107 Email: abuttress@mnadvocates.org
February 19, 2002, 7:00pm Location: Room
25 of the Law School, 229 19th Ave. S. For more information call
Hillel at 612-379-4026. February 20, 2002, noon February 21, 2002, 7:00p.m. For more information call
Hillel at 612-379-4026 February
21-22, 2002 Location: Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs For more information on
the symposium and registration forms, see http://esc.cla.umn.edu/ArmsAvailability.htm.
February 23-24, 2002
Global Reach Out for Women. GROW holds a training and action planning
session for participants to develop a clear understanding of how U.S. international
development programs and trade-investment policies affect women in developing
countries and to develop working relationships and action plans for local
public-education campaigns. Participants include Minnesota individuals and
organizations who can dedicate time and effort to a grassroots campaign to
influence public policy and public opinion on behalf of women's needs globally.
"Rwanda Revisited: A Christian Response to Genocide." Gary Haugen,
President of the International Justice Commission and recently featured on
Oprah and 60 Minutes, as well as in Christianity Today magazine. With a J.D.
from the University of Chicago, Gary Haugen led the UN's genocide investigation
in Rwanda. He has worked for the US Department of Justice in its Civil Rights
Division, and before that for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He has
authored "Good News About Injustice". The work of International Justice Commission,
an international human rights agency that provides hands-on field response
to cases of human rights abuses reported by faith-based agencies, has recently
been featured on "60 Minutes" and "Oprah".
"Punch Me in the Stomach."
"The Inextinguishable Symphony":
talk by author Martin Goldsmith.
"No More Rwandas." A
survivor of the Rwandan genocide, Alphonse Nkunzimana
"Tracing the Origins of Human Rights." Lecture
given by Professor Lynn Hunt of the Department of History, UCLA. This lecture
is part of the Humanities Institute's speakers series "Critical Issues
in the Art and Humanities".
The Diary of Anne
Frank. Unwelcome in their own country after Hitler seized power, the Frank
family moved to Holland, only to find that the danger had followed them.
From 1942 till 1945, the Frank and the Van Daan families lived hidden
in the top of an Amsterdam warehouse. Before her tiny voice was silenced by Nazi
jackboots the young Anne Frank recorded a story both universal and intensely
personal in her precocious, funny, and insightful diary. Goodrich and Hackett's play allows Anne's story
to unfold with simplicity and grace, a story of courage and tenacity under
repression, and of the endurance of the human spirit.
Idealist.org Nonprofit Career Fair. This career fair includes: a reception
for nonprofit recruiters and representatives from local college and university
Offices of Career Services, the fair itself, where job seekers can distribute
resumes and speak with organizational representatives about current and future
employment and internship opportunities, and a series of workshops for job
seekers. Free for jobseekers. Location: Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota,
301 Nineteenth Avenue South, Minneapolis. Sponsored by the Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits,
MAP-the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits, The University of Minnesota
School of Public Health.
For more information and registration, visit http://www.idealist.org/ip/cfAllFairs?MODULE=CAREER_FAIR
EAST TIMOR: Independence without justice? When East Timor voted for independence
from Indonesia in August 1999, the departing Indonesian military killed thousands,
raped hundreds, forced three-quarters of the population from their homes,
and destroyed 70% of all buildings. Today, as East Timor prepares for full
independence, one-eighth of its population remains in military-patrolled Indonesian
refugee camps and no military or militia leaders have been held responsible
for their crimes. Join Diane Farsetta, field organizer with the East Timor
Action Network and an United Nations-accredited observer of the 1999 vote
for independence, for a discussion on current conditions in and issues facing
East Timor.
BEST OF FEST SHOWCASE (APRIL 22-26) The 19th Annual Minneapolis/St Paul
International Film Festival is almost at an end, but great world cinema
keeps rolling on with the Best of the Fest showcase, running Sunday, April
22 through Thursday, 26. This yearšs Best of Fest package includes three
powerful and provocative Holocaust-related films. Tickets are $7 general,
$6 students/seniors, $5 U Film Society and Walker Art Center members.
For more information: full schedule available online at www.ufilm.org
or call the hotline at 612-627-4430.
FIGHTER Amir Bar-Levšs debut feature follows a pair of Czech-American
Holocaust survivors on an unforgettable trek of remembrance across Europe,
when Jan Wiener, now 77, recounts escaping a concentration camp and fleeing
the country cramped under a Nazi troop trainšs toilet chute. With Wiener,
is seventy-two-year-old Arnost Lustig, whose return to Czech soil calls
up nightmarish memories in Terezin ‹ the place where he saw his father led
away to the gas chambers. These two stubborn, vibrant souls handle a painful
visit to former haunts, arguing all the way as an Odd Couple but allowing
friendship to help ease the pain of historyšs greatest horrors. (88 min.)
THE LAST NAZI w/THOSE WHO LOOKED AWAY A shocking and penetrating study
of an unclosed chapter of WWII history, The Last Nazi is the story of an
international hunt for justice. Alois Brunner is a Nazi war criminal, a
former SS commander who sent more than 128,500 European Jews to their deaths.
Brunner now lives in Syria, making a living as an intelligence expert counseling
government officials in Damascus. In March of this year, France convicted
him in absentia for crimes against humanity. (57 min.) Those Who Looked
Away investigates one of the most contentious issues of WWII: why did the
Allies not destroy Nazi death camps and rail lines when they had the chance?
There is ample evidence that a number of camps would have been relatively
easy targets for bombing raids, so why did the Allies not put a halt to
the genocide? This probing documentary seeks answers to these disturbing
questions. (55 min.)
Departures: New Feminist Perspectives on the Holocaust. Conference.
Planned events include a Holocaust Film Festival and exhibit by artist
Carolyn Manosevitz, a Second Generation Survivor.
Holocaust Remembrance Day - Commemoration
of Yom HaShoah. Free special concert.
Performing the music of the composers of Theresienstadt with a power point
display during the performance about the life and culture of Theresienstadt.
"In the Shadow of Your Wings,"
a performance by Ellen Jewett (violen), Doris Lederer (viola), and Clyde
Shaw (cello). This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required.
For more information: 612-624-0305.
April 24, 2001, 7:30pm
Armenian Remembrance Day. The
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota
is a co-sponsor of the following memorialization event. The massacres and
deportation of the Armenian people, is now considered a "genocide" by academics
and institutions of higher learning that use the United Nations Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (1946/1948) as a guideline
for definition. The massacre of Armenian leaderhsip and intellectuals began
in Istanbul on April 24, 1915. The Armenian Genocide, which was conceived
and carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, resulted in the
deportation of nearly two million Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women,
and children were killed and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their
homes. These centrally planned, premeditated acts eliminated the over 2,500-year
presence of Armenians in their historic homeland. On the 86th anniversary
of the onset of the Armenian Genocide, it is fitting that people of goodwill
join the Armenian-American community in commemoration of this crime against
humanity. Special guests His Excellency Arman Kirakossian, Ambassador of
the Republic of Armenia to the United States, The Hon. Susan Kimberly, Deputy
Mayor of Saint Paul, The Hon. Colleen N. Moriarty, Deputy Mayor of Minneapolis.
Cosponsors: Armenian American Action Committee of Minnesota (Armenian
Assembly), Armenian Dance Ensemble of Minnesota, Armenian Ensemble, Cafesjian
Family Foundation, St. Sahag Armenian Church and Community Center, University
of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Location: St. Sahag Armenian Church and Community Center 203 Howell
Street North, Saint Paul
For further information call (612) 359-8991.
China in Turbulent Times. Dr. Carol Lee Hamrin, former senior China affairs
specialist with the US State Department, speaks on the political and social
climate of a changing China.
For more information, call the China Center at 612.624.1002 or the
MacLaurin Institute at 612.378.1935
Exploring Trends, Building Skills and Strengthening Networks. North
Central Conference of the Network of Alliances Bridging Race and Ethnicity
in collaboration with Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social
Justice. Registration is due by April 27, 2001.
Medical Ethics: What We Can Learn from the Past. The Program in Human
Rights and Medicine in conjunction with Center for Holocaust and genocide
Studies announces a lecture by Robert O. Fish, MD, Professor of Pediatrics.
Critical assessment of contemporary developments in any field requires knowledge
of the past. In addition to being an eminent physician, Dr. Fisch is a Hungarian
survivor of the Holocaust and of the suppressed 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
He is also an internationally exhibited artist whose work integrates graphic
expression with historical and ethical reflection. (His exhibitions include
"Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust" and "The
Metamorphosis to Freedom.") His research and clinical expertise includes the
genetically based pediatric disease phenylketonuria.
Location: Moos Tower 2-530
Arab Society and the Role of Women. Dr. Andrea Rugh, anthropologist specializing
in Arabic women, explores the differences between Islamic and Western cultures
focusing on the conduct of private life. Edina Cost: MIC, MPA & MWP Members
$15; Non-members $30; Students $5.
Full-day Symposium Japan at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities. Join
us on June 8 at Medtronic’s new world headquarters as leading scholars and
specialists address the most important issues facing Japan and its relations
with the United States today. At this daylong seminar, topics for discussion
include the future of the Japanese economy and ramifications for the U.S.,
the U.S.-Japan relationship under the Bush Administration and the state of
political and business leadership in Japan. This daylong seminar is an excellent
source of information for those with an interest in Japan. The exclusive CEO
panel on Minnesota-Japan partnerships will have particular value to anyone
with business interest in Japan.
Location: Medtronic World Headquarters, 710 Medtronic Parkway, Minneapolis,
at I694 and Central Avenue. Parking is free.
Cost: Full symposium (includes continental breakfast, lunch, briefing
materials) - MIC and members of cooperating organizations $65; Non-members
$110 Lunch and Afternoon session only - MIC and members of cooperating organizations
$40; Non-members $80
To register, call 612.625.4421
Fundraising Event for the Highlander Center: an evening with Suzanne Pharr,
Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, and Friends of Highlander.
Musical contributions
and stories by the Granary Girls and Larry Long. Highlander has never been
just about what happens at the center itself but about what people do when
they go back to their own communities. In this spirit, after hearing from
Suzanne about the current situation at Highlander, there will be an open mic
for the evening participants to ask questions and to add their own stories
about Highlander and how it has touched their lives. Other musicians and cultural
workers are encouraged to add their contributions to the evening during this
time. The Highlander Research and Education Center is a popular education
center that brings grassroots leaders and community groups together to learn
from each other and develop strategies for social change. It was founded in
1932 in the highlands of East Tennessee; its work has been source of inspiration
to many people and communities around the world. Suzanne Pharr, before becoming
the director of Highlander last year, was the founding director of The Women's
Project of Arkansas. She is known for her work as a feminist theorist, for
her work against domestic violence, and on understanding the Right wing in
the US. She is the author of "Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism" and "In the
Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation". All Donations to the Highlander
Research and Education Center.
The guest speaker for the banquet is St. Paul native Judge Gabriel Kirk McDonald,
former President of the International Criminal tribunal for Bosnia and Rwanda.
Cost of the banquet on Sunday, June 10 is $45. This is open to the public
with prior payment.
If you are interested in attending, please reply by May 25 to Kathryn Snyder:
612-624-0256.
For more information, visit http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Events/events.html
"The Ziagen AIDS Drug License: University Commitments and Constraints." University
General Counsel Mark B. Rotenberg will address constraints and commitments
regarding licensing the University AIDS drug Ziagen. Professor
Rotenberg has represented the University in a wide variety of contexts and
has had the distinction of being admitted to the bar of the United States
Supreme Court. This will be the second seminar by the Program in Human Rights
and Medicine concerning pharmaceutical access and the AIDS crisis.
June 18-22, 2001, 8:00am-5:00pm
Western Civilization, Genocide, and the Holocaust This
2-credit workshop sponsored by the European Studies Consortium offers K-12
and community college educators and in-depth look at the Holocaust and aspects
of contemporary genocide in its relation to Western civilization. Participants
will be familiarized with a number of issues, including representations of
genocide in art, culture, memory, how to deal with atrocities in the classroom
and discuss methodologies for teaching genocide and how it fits into the State
Guidelines for the Social Sciences. The workshop is taught by Professor Stephen
Feinstein, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the
University of Minnesota.
Participants are legible
for $280 of tuition reimbursement for 2 CLA credits.
Russia: Facing the Future. Join MIC for an in-depth look at Russia’s
future with Dr. Blair Ruble and Dr. Kate Schecter, participants in the Carnegie
Corporation’s Russia Initiative Program. Dr. Ruble has served as director
of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at The Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars since 1989. Dr. Schecter is a program officer
with the American International Health Alliance, responsible for the implementation
and management of health care facilities in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus.
We also invite you to join us before the discussion for a special video presentation,
featuring Dr. Ruble, Dr. Schecter and other participants in the Russia Initiative.
This program is cosponsored by Connect/U.S.-Russia and the Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs, and is made possible through a grant of the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, in cooperation with the World Affairs Councils of America. Free
event, advanced registration in required.
Location: Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium,
301 - 19th Avenue South, University of Minnesota, West Bank. Parking ramp
at 3rd Street South and 19th Avenue South.
For more information, email Minnesota International Center mic@globe.mic.umn.edu.
Twin Cities Youthwork Coalition Summer Forum: Working With Immigrant and Refugee
Youth.
8:30 - Networking, Display Tables
9:00 - Immigration Laws and Issues, Oficina Legal
9:45 - Helping People Group Activity
10:10 - Refugee Camp Experiences, Center for Victims of Torture
10:40 - Small Group Discussion
11:30 - Sharing our Discoveries
Program sponsored by the Youth Development Leadership Program, the Center
for 4-H Youth Development, University of Minnesota Extension Service, the
College of Education & Human Development, the College of Continuing Education,
and University of Minnesota. Free event. No pre-registration required.
Location: St. Marks's Episcopal Cathedral, 519 Oak Grove Street (at Loring
Park), Minneapolis, MN 55403
For more information, contact: Patty Armstrong 612-668-1357, Vant Washington
612-372-8435, or Elee Wood 612-624-1972.
Minnesota African Immigrant
Conference. A conference
Location: University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute
For conference registration information call 612-302-3479.
A Reflective Celebration of the United Nations with Panel of Experts.
Macalester College presents a panel discussion of the United Nations and the
contributions of newly re-elected Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a 1961 Macalester
graduate. Participants include Ambassador Wegger Strommen of the Norwegian
Mission to the U.N.; Louise Kantrow of the United Nations Association-USA;
Patrick Hayford, director of African Affairs for the Executive Office of the
Secretary-General; Emily Rosenberg, DeWitt Wallace history professor at Macalester
and Federal Magistrate Jack Mason, a 1960 Macalester graduate. The program
will be moderated by Macalester President Michael McPherson.
Location: Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Policing in Northern Ireland: An Insider's Perspective. Come hear Sir
Ronnie Flanagan, chief constable of Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary,
as he addresses the issues of policing and efforts to restart the peace process.
Cost: MIC members $25; Non-members $35; program only seating $10
Speaker on Korean Comfort Women. Dr. Yun Chung-OK, who lives in Korea
and is a retired Professor from Ewha Woman's University will speak at the
University of Minnesota through The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
on Thursday, September 20 at 12:30 PM. Prof.. Chung-OK Yune has led the justice
movement for victims of military sexual slavery by Japan ("comfort women")
since 1988. She is the co-founder of the Korean Council of Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan ("The Korean Council"-1990) which formally initiated the
justice movement for victims of military sexual slavery by Japan. During Japan's
war in Asia, 1931-45, approximately 200,00 women from the occupied countires
in Asia were taken as sex slaves. CHGS believes this is a particular important
subject as The Hague Tribunal has now recognized rape as a war crime during
the Bosnian Wat of the early 1990s. Prof. Yune will speak about the subject
and the struggle for recognition and rights for the Comfort Women. The talk
will also focus on the justice movement, responses of the international community,
the UN and the ILO and possibilities for reparations. The public is invited.
Location: Room EESCI 3-230 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Building on the East Bank Campus at the U of M.
President Mkapa Of Tanzania To Visit The Twin Cities. President Benjamin
Mkapa of Tanzania
Location: Radission Riverfront in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
For more information and to RSVP, call 651-602-9844 or visit
the Books for Africa website at http://www.booksforafrica.org
Displaced: Photos of DP Camps by Maxine Rude. Nash Gallery Sept. 25-October
19, 2001 Reception: Thursday, October 4 6-8PM.
Location: Katherine Nash Gallery Wiley Hall, West Bank (adjacent to
Law School: parking in Law School Lot or Holiday Inn West Bank).
The State of the World Population Report. Join the United Nations Association
of Minnesota (UNA) and Minnesota Internation Center as we host Timothy E.
Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, for an address on the release
of the State of World Population Report 2001. Issued by the UN Population
Fund, this year's report focuses on population and environmental change.
Children's Art from Prague. An exhibit of art and literary works drawn,
painted and scripted by some of the 11,000-15,000 children of the Terezin
Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1945.
Location: CSPS Hall, 385 Michigan St., St. Paul
In Our Own Best Interests - A Global Human Rights Update. Please join
Minnesota International Center as Dr. Schulz addresses the current state of
human rights violations around the world and discusses his recent book, In
Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All. Dr. Schulz
was appointed executive director of Amnesty International USA in 1994. He
has extensive international experience, including fact-finding missions to
Romania, India, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and has frequently been
interviewed on national TV and quoted in the press. This program is co-sponsored
by Amnesty International USA, local
group #37 and the University of St. Thomas' Master of International Management
(MIM) program.
In Our Own Best Interest; A Global Human Rights Update. As the executive
director of Amnesty International USA, William Schulz has many times heard
the question "What do global human rights have to do with me in my U.S. hometown?"
While many people see an ethical and moral reason to be concerned about abuses,
Dr. Schulz also notes political, economic, environmental and health consequences
affecting our own backyard if worldwide abuses are ignored. Please join MIC
on Friday, September 28, as Dr. Schulz addresses the current state of human
rights violations around the world and discusses his recent book, In Our Own
Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All Dr. Schulz was
appointed executive director of Amnesty International USA in 1994. He has
extensive international experience, including fact- finding missions to Romania,
India, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and has frequently been interviewed
on national TV and quoted in the press. This program is co-sponsored by Amnesty
International USA, local group #37 and the University of St. Thomas' Master
of International Management (MIM) program.
Location: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus, Thornton Auditorium,
2nd Floor; 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis >
Cost: Free for MIC members, Amnesty International USA members, University
of St. Thomas students (with valid ID); advance registration required; Non-members
$10
Registration: call Nancy Kolb at 612.625.4138; Email to nkolb@globe.mic.umn.edu
"A Search For Justice: Austria, the holocaust and other Issues of Assets Recovery
and Forced Labor Compensation." Austrian Ambassador Hans Winkler, JD,
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs will speak. Reception after the lecture.
Parking is available at the municipalramp next to the Holiday inn Metrodome,
1500 Washington Avenue S. Presented by Center for Austria Studies, College
of Liberal Arts.
Location: Room 15, LAW CENTER Mondale Hall, West Bank, sub-plaza level
Post Holocaust Jewish and Christian Thought. CSCH 0370 taught by Rabbi
Joseph Edelheit, Reverend James Gertmenian, Reverend Michael Michael O'Connell.
6:30-8:30 PM Tuesday October 2-23 (4 meetings) $115 tuition.
Location: Blegen Hall Room 425 West Bank Campus, U of M.
For registration: http:www.cce.umn.edu/scholars/ or 612-625-7777.
Reducing the Nuclear Threat - A Local Dialogue for Global Security. Minnesota
International Center invites you to participate in this free town meeting
on U.S. nuclear policy. Confirmed speakers to this non-partisan dialogue include:
Ted Turner, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Charles Curtis,
president and COO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and former undersecretary
and deputy secretary of energy. Other invited speakers include members of
the Minnesota Congressional delegation and a Bush administration official.
Displaced: World War II in Europe, 1945-1946-Jewish Refugees and Other Displaced
Persons. Opening of Exhibition. Photos are by Maxine Rude, native of
Viroqua, Wisconsin, who was a US Army Photographer in 1944, transferred to
UNRRA in 1945 to photograph the DP Camps. Ruse now lives in Arizona. Parking
in Law School lot or Holiday Inn Metrodome, across the street.
Location: Nash Gallery, Willey Hall, West Bank.
Anthony Lewis: "Terrorism and Freedom".
Anthony Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, will present a lecture in the
Cowles Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center. He has entitled his lecture, "Terrorism
and Freedom." Lewis is author of three books dealing with First Amendment
and civil rights issues: "Gideon's Trumpet"; "Make No Law: The Sullivan Case
and the First Amendment"; and "Portrait of a Decade." Lewis has taught a course
entitled "The Constitution and the Press" at Harvard Law School for 15 years,
and has been a visiting professor at numerous other universities. Lewis won
his first Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for a series of articles in the Washington
Daily News about a US Navy employee who was dismissed for being a security
risk. From 1956-57 he was a Nieman Fellow and spent the academic year studying
at Harvard Law School. When he returned to Washington, he covered the Supreme
Court, the Justice Department and other legal events including the government's
handling of the civil rights movement. In 1963, he won his second Pulitzer
for his coverage of the Supreme Court for The New York Times. In 1964, Lewis
became the chief of the Times London bureau, and began writing his column
from there in 1969. Since 1973 he has been based in Boston.
Refugees/Immigrants: Unrecognized Torture Sequelae Affects the Health of Many.
Speaker is Kathi Antolak, MD, Center for Victims of Torture. The
Twin Cities has had a long history of welcoming immigrants and refugees from
harrowing circumstances, many of whom have suffered under political oppression,
including torture. Frequently such persons originate from a context in which
ongoing medical care is scant at best. Of which physical and psychological
sequelae should physicians and other health care providers be aware? Kathi
Antolak, MD, has been a staff physician with the Center for Victims of Torture
in the Twin Cities from 1993 to the present. She has also served as a Clinical
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health
at the University of Minnesota. Her presentation "Refugees/Immigrants: Unrecognized
Torture Sequelae Affects the Health of Many" will be invaluable for medical
professionals and for those who wish to better understand a crucial context
with ongoing effects in the lives of our immigrant neighbors. Sponsored by
Program in Human Rights and Medicine.
Day seminar on Japan's War Time Atrocities and Questions of Reconciliation.
There will be featured a list of prominent speakers from Japan, China and
the United States on this question of reconciliation. Japan was exempted by
reparations because of the San Francisco Treaty of 1951, unlike the case of
Germany. This session promises to be interesting in light of the recent unfortunate
events in New York, Washington and Pittsburgh and how one reconciles terror
and grief.
Japan's War Crimes: Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731 (Biological Unit), Comfort
Women, Slave Labor. The first workshop for teachers on the question of
how to teach about issues in the Pacific War and Japan's War Crimes.
Location: Moos Tower, University of Minnesota East Bank Campus
A Midwestern Response to the Holocaust: the Scattergood Hostel Story.
Dr. Luick-Thrams will give a multi-media presentation of this little-know
"Schindler's List on the Prairie." Michael Luick Thrams is a historian, writer,
teacher and public speaker based in Berlin, Germany. He has written three
books, including OUT OF HITLER'S REACH: THE SCATTERGOOD HOSTEL STORY FOR EUROPEAN
REFUGEES. From 1939 to 1943, nearly 200 refugees from Nazi occupied Europe
>found a safe haven at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what once had been
a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. The speaker has also done
research about Camp Algona, a World War II prisoner of war camp in Iowa. The
camp operated from 1943 to 1946 and housed 10,000 German prisoners of war,
most of them captured in North Africa or Italy. The event is sponsored by
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, College of Liberal
Arts, Mark and Muriel Wexler Lectureship Fund, and Dworsky Endpowment for
Jewish Studies. Open to the public.
Location: EECSI 2-250 Electrical Engineering, Computer Science East
Bank, University of Minnesota
Precarious Legacy: The Exlibris Bookplate Collection of Dr. Fritz Stransky,
murdered in Auschwitz. Over 1100 EX LIBRIS Bookplates were donated to
CHGS by Walter and Anita Schwartz of St. Paul. The collection belonged to
her father and was donated to the Center for Holocaust and genocide Studies.
Location: Weisman Museum of Art.
Yolanda Becerra, Director of Women's Popular Oganization of Colombia will
speak. Sponsored by Colombia Support Group of Minnesota, tel. 612-276-
0788 ext. 10.
" A Citizen's Call to Justice : Creating a New Democracy." The Institute
on Race & Poverty (http://www.umn.edu/irp) is sponsoring a local conference.
Examine the fallout of the 2000 election and its place within our history
as a democracy. Organize progressives and devise strategies that would make
our elected officials accountable the people. Connect with liked-minded groups
around the country. Provide a truer democratic vision for a more perfect union.
Cost is free.
"Long Night's Journey Into Day." The Alumni Society of the College of
Liberal Arts of the U of M is holding a special symposium as part of its Critical
Dialogues series, featuring the two film makers of the Academy Award-nominated
documentary "Long Night's Journey Into Day." Two video showings of the film,
which focuses on post-Apartheid South Africa and its struggle toward reconciliation,
will be held at 12:15 pm and again at 3:45 pm. U of M Humanities Institute
Director Robin Brown will moderate a 2:00 pm panel discussion among award-winning
film makers Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman, CLA History professor Eric Weitz,
and local human rights expert Judge Lajune Lang. The discussion will focus
on issues of nationhood, human rights, racism, and the many moral and ethical
questions raised by the film, and give audience members a chance to ask questions
of the film makers about their experiences. Both the film showings and the
discussion, held at the A.I. Johnson room in the Alumni Gateway Center, at
Oak and University, are free and open to the public, with plenty of parking
in the nearby ramp on University Avenue.
"Objects and Issues: The Question of Restitution of Looted Art from the Nazi
Era and the Holocaust." Dr. Stephen Feinstein, CHGS and Dr. Lyndel
King, Weisman Museum.
"Afghanistan after the Taliban?" Professor Iraj Bashiri, Department of
Slavic and Central Asian Languages and Literatures at the U of M will speak.
Public is welcome.
"The Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responses." Professor Taner Akcam to
speak at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Akcam, now Visiting Scholar at
the University of Michigan-Dearborn has a permanent position as Research Scientist
in Sociology, Hamburger Institut fr Sozialforschung. He is well known in the
debate about the Armenian Genocide. He is one of the few Turkish historians
who has read original documents and has concluded that the term "genocide"
is appropriate for the events that overtook the Armenian population of the
Ottoman Empire from 1915-1922. As a result, he has been labeled a "criminal"
by both government and press officials in Turkey. To some human rights groups,
the attack on Akcam is a measure of the direction of human rights policies
in today's Turkey. Akcam will speak in "History of the Holocaust" class on
"The Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responses." at 12:45pm; Room: Electrical
Engineering CSI 2-250 First Floor Free and Open to the Public. Also will speak
at 7:30 PM. Talk on "Rereading Turkish History from the Human Rights Perspective"
Site. U of M School of Law. Room 50 Law School Free and open to the public.
Issues in Contemporary Genocide. CSCH 0302 Wednesday November 7-Dec 5
(4 meetings, no class November 21). Taught by Dr. Stephen Feinstein. Tuition
$115. 7-9PM.
Location: St. Paul Jewish Community Center.
For registration: http:www.cce.umn.edu/scholars/ or 612-625-7777.
"The Architecture of Auschwitz." Robert Jan Van Pelt is co-author with
Devorah Dwork of "Auschwitz: 1258 to the Present," and has finished another
comprehensive history of the Holocaust with Dwork entitled: "A Carnival of
Death," soon to be published. He was also the chief witness at the Irving-Lipstadt
Trial in London earlier in the year and is writing his own book on the subject.
He will be giving other lectures from November 8-11 as well. Sunday, November
11 at the
Location: Weisman Museum, 2PM.
The Jewish Community Relations Council Announces: Trip to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum. This one-day trip begins at 6:30a.m departing
from the Hubert H. Humphrey Terminal and returning at approximately 8:30 p.m.
The cost of the trip is * $295 which includes round trip airfare and bus transportation
to and from the Museum. *If possible we recommend that the staff development
funds in each school support one-half of the cost for teachers and staff.
The trip's price is based on the rising cost of fuel and airline travel. The
trip is open to all individuals 12 years of age and up. An adult must accompany
children under 18. Reservations are on a first come first served basis and
must be accompanied by registration, waiver and full payment no later than
October 12, 2001. Cancellations with full refund will be honored until October
30, 2001. There are no refunds after this date.
For more information: please contact Jodi Elowitz at 612-338-7816.
5th Annual Mpls/St.P.
Jewish Film Festival. Opens Sat., Nov.l0 At UFilm Society Bell Aud.;
17th and University Ave SE. Parking in the 4th Avenue Ramp. A dozen films
reflecting the rich range of Jewish experience,from love-in-conflict (matchmaking
vs. assimilation) to the search for peace in the Mideast ---with some new
hot-button titles--- will be premiered at the 5th Annual Minneapolis/St.Paul
Jewish Film Festival opening Saturday, Nov. l0, The series is being presented
again by the University of Minnesota Film Society. Screenings will run nightly
and weekends through November at the UFS East Bank campus Bell Auditorium
venue,l7th and University ave. SE.,Mpls. Fest opens with two comedies, the
Mel Brooks l968 classic,The Producers,at 7:15 p. m.Sat.(l0th), a retrospective
look at the original piece of insanity inspiring the new Broadway play,with
the legendary,irrepressible Zero Mostel as hard-luck Broadway schemer Max
Bialystok and Gene Wilder as his hapless assistant. (Repeat 5:l5 p.m.Sun.
llth)
Twin Cities Polish Film Festival.
Indigenous People's Movements: A Global Perspective. ICC will be sponsoring
a Global Education Workshop in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's
Institute for Global Studies and the Education for Global Learning Consortium
(MnSCU) on Thursday, November 29, 2001 from 12-4 pm in the Center for Continued
Learning Conference room located in ICC's Student Center. There is NO COST
for registration, although we ask that you RSVP as soon as possible if you
plan to attend as space is limited. Snacks and coffee/tea will be provided.
The topic of the workshop, Indigenous People's Movements: A Global Perspective
, will focus on examining the legal and social issues facing indigenous people's
movements as they work to regain their homelands. Kristi Rudelius Palmer and
William Means will be co-presenters. Kristi is a human rights educator who
has been involved in the field of Human Rights Education since 1986 and is
the co-director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota.
Bill Means of the Oglala Lakota Nation is one of the founders of the International
Indian Treaty Council and currently serves on the Board of Directors. He is
the co-founder of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations,
is an expert on United States and Indian Treaty relations, and is presently
CEO of the Indigenous Trading Company.
"Fritz Stransky: The Several Worlds of a Jewish Lawyer in Early 20th Century
Vienna." Dr. Gary Cohen, History Dept. and Center for Austrian Studies.
"Writing the War". The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing
will host "Writing the War," a reading from various rhetorical perspectives
on the World Trade Center attack and "America's New War." We invite faculty
members, students, and staff to participate by reading excerpts from their
own writing about these events. We are particularly interested in writing
that can be useful as we all rearrange our lives and adjust to new realities.
We especially invite critical or analytical essays that help us to understand
the role that government and the media play in shaping and controlling our
understanding of these events. Several key speakers will be invited to read
from their work for about 45 minutes; at that point, all participants will
be invited to read from open microphones around the room, with about a 5-minute
limit per speaker. To promote a free exchange of ideas in a limited time,
we also invite participants to bring along copies of their own writing to
share with audience members, in case time does not permit readings from all
in attendance. CISW will set up tables where participants can leave their
own work and collect copies of others' work. We will not have space for publications
from organizations or political fliers, but participants are welcome to hand
these out on their own. CISW will consider publishing a collection of selected
essays presented at this event.
Update on the war on terrorism. Sir Eldon Griffiths, national chairman
of the World Affairs Councils of America, will offer insight on what lies
ahead in addressing terrorism worldwide. Registration and reception 5:30 p.m.;
program 6:15-7:30 p.m.
The Minnesota public is invited to enjoy "Great Conversations." This new multidisciplinary
series brings prominent members of the University community together with
a roster of influential thinkers from around the world to discuss some of
the most complex and compelling issues of our time. The series begins on January
15 and features President Mark Yudof engaged in conversation with legendary
political strategist Paul Begala. Begala studied law with then Professor Yudof
at the University of Texas at Austin and gained national prominence as a driving
force in the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign. He went on to be a top presidential
advisor and has just published a book with his former partner James Carville.
The series continues monthly with conversations between: Thomas Fisher, Dean
of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and Steven Holl,
Time magazine's Architect of the Year (February 19); Dr. Catherine Verfaillie,
Director of the Stem Cell Institute, and Dr. Austin Smith, Director of the
Centre for Genome Research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (March
26); Professor Jane Kirtley, Director of the Silha Center for the Study of
Media Ethics and Law, and Brian Lamb, Founder and CEO of C-SPAN (April 2);
Professor John Wright, Principal Scholar for the Givens Collection of African
American Literature and Life, and Cornel West, Harvard Professor and best
selling author (May 7).
Two Armies and the Jews: The Italian Effort to Save Jews during the Holocaust.
Jonathan Steinberg, chair of the History Department at Penn and a leading
historian of Italy and Germany, will be in town in January in a visit sponsored
by Hillel. He will speak Friday, January 25, time TBA. Probable topic is:
Two Armies and the Jews: The Italian Effort to Save Jews during the Holocaust
(probably in conjunction with a documentary by Joseph Rochlitz called "Righeous
Enemy).
La Questione della Lingua: Nationalism and the Invention of the Language.
Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European
History at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Department of History.
His publications include Why Switzerland? (1976), All or Nothing: The Axis
and the Holocaust (1990) and "The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions
during the Second World War" (1999). All or Nothing tries to explain why Fascist
Italy in its zones of occupation in Greece, Croatia and Southern France systematically
refused to assist Nazi Germany, its nominal ally, in the extermination of
the Jews. By using German and Italian sources he attempts to compare the two
faces of Fascism.
"Juve contre Fantomas: Capturing the Fantom Criminal." Dr. Nanette Fornabai
of Brown University and a candidate for Assistant Professor of French in the
Department of French and Italian will present "Juve contre Fantomas: Capturing
the Fantom Criminal" on Tuesday, January 29th at 4:30 p.m.
Location: 46 Folwell Hall.
"The Law and Ethics of Public Health Responses to Bioterrorism." The
University's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life
Sciences will sponsor a half-day symposium. The prospect of a bioterrorist
disaster forces us to ask whether law and ethics authorize aggressive triage,
isolation and quarantine, compelled treatment, and access to private medical
records, among other public health measures. One of the toughest questions
is the proper role of force. The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
have commissioned a Model State Emergency Health Powers Act now being debated
and slated to be introduced in the Minnesota legislature. This symposium will
tackle the full range of legal and ethical issues raised by efforts to protect
the public's health in the face of bioterrorism. Confirmed speakers and panelists
include Prof. Larry Gostin, JD, LLD (Georgetown and Johns Hopkins), principal
author of the Model Act; Prof. Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director of the
University's Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy; Jan Malcolm,
Minnesota's Commissioner of Health; Terry O'Brien, Esq., a former Assistant
Attorney General in Minnesota; Prof. Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Director of the
University's Center for Bioethics; and John Hick, MD, Faculty Physician, Hennepin
County Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. The symposium will
be free and open to the public.
Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center
For more information: visit www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/conferences/
or call 612-625-0055.
"A Twice Promised Land: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Dr.
Steven Derfler will give a PowerPoint presentation entitled "A Twice Promised
Land: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" on Wednesday, January 30 at 12:30
p.m. The The talk is free and open to the public. For more information contact
Amy Olson of the Hillel Center at 612/379-4026.
"Rethinking the History of Species: Why a Cynical View Might Help." Gordon
McOuat of Kings College in Halifax will speak as part of the History of Science
and Technology's Spring Colloquium.
Domestic Violence and Human Rights: An Introduction Presented by the Honorable
Mary Lou Klas. Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and Minnesota
Advocates for Human Rights present Women's Human Rights Speaker Series Domestic
Violence and Human Rights: An Introduction Presented by the Honorable Mary
Lou Klas Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 12:00 P.M. at Briggs and Morgan, PA,
2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis (lunch will be served) In July, 2000 Judge
Mary Lou Klas retired from fourteen years on Minnesota's Second District trial
court bench. As a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court's Committee on Gender
Fairness in the Courts since 1989, Judge Klas chaired the Committee's Family
Law and Domestic Violence Curriculum Committee. She has served as adjunct
professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law, and chair of the Family
Law Section of the Minnesota Bar Association and the Minnesota Chapter of
the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She received a Distinguished
Humanitarian Award from the Ramsey County Bar Association, a Pro Bono Public
Attorney Award from the Minnesota Bar Association, a Distinguished Alumna
Award from William Mitchell College of Law and a Doctor of Humane Letters
degree from The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN. This is the fourth
in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women's
human rights issues. Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a
new presentation.
Israel and the Palestinians: Is There Still a Chance for Peace? Linda
Gradstein, National Public Radio Israel Correspondent, will speak. The talk
is free and no tickets are required.
Cloning and the Challenge to Human Dignity. Please join us for a noon-hour
lecture by Jean Bethke Elshtain, PhD, on Wednesday, 20 February in Mayo 125.
The lecture is generously cosponsored by the Department of Political Science,
the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (MacArthur Program),
and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies. Prof. Elshtain is the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University
of Chicago. Her work, reflected in 20 volumes, authored or edited, intensively
explores the relationship between ethical and political convictions and the
ethical implications of political and social policies. On the present complex
of issues she has also provided congressional testimony. (A biographical link
is at www.umn.edu/phrm)
In Celebration of Purim: The Great Latke Hamentash Debate. President Yudof
will moderate this all-important debate as four distinguished faculty members
present academic papers on the virtues of the latke and the Hamentash. Defending
the latke will be Professors Judith Katz and Azzan Yadin. Defending the Hamentash
will be Professors Les Block and Elaine Tyler May. Latkes and Hamentashen
will be served! Free and open to the public.
Location: Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey Center, 301 19th Ave. S.
"Arms Availability and Human Rights." The conference at the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis will bring together an interdisciplinary group
of experts on arms issues to address some of the unanswered questions surrounding
the effects, transfer, and misuse of small arms and light weapons in the context
of human rights, such as: How are human rights affected by the availability
and misuse of weapons? How should international human rights obligations affect
state responsibility regarding the transfer and use of small arms and light
weapons? Does the increased availability of weapons constitute a proximate
cause of violations of human rights and humanitarian law? What further national
and international standards or actions are needed to address human rights
violations that result from the misuse of small arms and light weapons? This
groundbreaking conference aims to bring together the human rights and arms
control movements to strategize about legal and diplomatic means to curb the
human rights violations that result from the arms trade. The Human Rights
Program and the European Studies Consortium at the University of Minnesota
organized the conference. The objectives of the Human Rights Program, which
was established in fall 2001, include bringing together faculty, students,
and international human rights experts to create opportunities for research
and action on issues of common interest. The public program will take place
on Friday morning, February 22, at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The public event will also feature
members of the domestic gun control movement in the United States, including
a keynote address by Mary Leigh Blek, National Director of Million Mom March.
Upper Midwest Connection at the University of Minnesota Law School. This
is a weekend long exchange of information and ideas designed to strengthen
our abilities to work together as members of Amnesty International-USA's Midwest
region. As Amnesty International faces the challenges of defending human rights
in a period of rapid globalization and the post Sept. 11th "New World Order,"
what has been and will continue to be the backbone of this organization is
the power of its grassroots activism. The Upper Midwest Connection will focus
on harnessing this power to continue to strengthen this region. We do so as
we stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow activists across this country
and around the globe. Strength comes in numbers. So too can knowledge, understanding,
and unity. On Feb. 23rd and 24th we will share our knowledge, broaden our
understanding, and become more united. Please join us! Pre-registration is
not required (except for free housing), but it will help us t