Special Programs

Special Event

Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied? Bosnian NGO's Speak About the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Report by two former EPIIC students on their two-year research abroad project - Kristen Cibelli and Tamy Guberek

Special Event

How Race Regulates and Organizes Life In Society

Speakers:

Patricia Williams, a critical legal theorist and Columbia University law professor; Randy Matory, a Harvard social scientist who treats race in an international context; and Ellen Driscoll, an artist and theorist. Organized by the Black Cultural Studies Seminar at Tufts.

Interethnic Leadership in China: Toward a Constitutional Future

Inter-Ethnic Leadership in China

Guests:

Representatives from the Uighur, Han Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian communities

Roundtable Discussion on Ethnicity in China
In collaboration with the Foundation for China in the 21st Century and the Asia Institute of the Tufts Institute for Leadership and International Perspective

The Middle East Crisis and U.S. Politics

Speaker:

Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership

Sponsored by Residential Life and Tilton Hall Speakers Series

Prejudice in Politics

Guest Lecturer:

Professor Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University, Departments of Sociology and Afro-American Studies and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. Dr. Bobo is an expert on racial attitudes and relations, social psychology, public opinion, and political behavior. He has published numerous books and articles, and he is currently co-PI of the Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality Project.

Making Amends - Special Lecture

Guest Lecturer:

Bryan Rich, documentary Filmmaker of Breaking the Codes: Genocide and Truth in Burundi; former director, Studio Ijambo, Bujumbura, Burundi; former Producer, Search for Common Ground (Russian TV, ethnic relations: Estonia, Nargono-Karabak, Tadjikistan, Ukraine, Crimea, China, Macedonia); Nieman Fellow, Harvard University

Special Event
Race, the Environment, and Development: The Mapuche in Chile

Screening of Orfeu
followed by a discussion by Professor Chip Gidney, Co-Chair, Black Cultural Studies Seminar; Advisory Board Member, Africa and the New World

Globalization in China: Challenging Cultural Boundaries

China Institute Symposium

Screening of Peace of Mind: Coexistence Through The Eyes of Palestinian and Israeli Youth
Followed by a Discussion with Seeds of Peace Founder and Executive Director John Wallach and past participants in Seeds of Peace

The Dream Deferred: Race and American Politics

Reconstructing Kosovo, Photography Exhibit Opening and Lecture

Race & Ethnicity: A Global Inquiry

How Race is Lived in America
A discussion focusing on the role of the media and the issue of race
The New York Times' Series How Race is Lived in America can be viewed at www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/

Who Did What To Whom, Human Rights Investigations in a Global Context
with Dr. Patrick Ball, Deputy Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Sovereignty, Intervention and Ethnic Cleansing
with Michael Ignatieff, Visiting Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Inquiry Simulation on Race & Class

Environmental Racism: A Discussion on Race and Class
with Heeten Kalan, Founder and Director of The South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice and Veronica Eady, Attorney and Director of the Environmental Justice and Brownfields Program of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts

A Search for Justice: Confronting Racial Violence and Ethnic Cleansing
with Justice Richard J. Goldstone, Justice, Constitutional Court, South Africa; Chair, International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo and Board Chair, Human Rights Institute of South Africa

The Contradictions and Complexities of the Current Intifada
a talk and meeting with Toufic Haddad co-editor, (with Tikva Honig-Parnass) of Between the Lines, an independent new publication on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the former director of the Palestine Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem