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Tostan wins top humanitarian award
In February, Molly Melching spoke at UCSD about Tostan, a successful development campaign in Senegal to stop female genital cutting.
This August, Tostan was awarded the $1.5 million Hilton Prize, the top humanitarian award in the world. IICAS would like to congratulate Molly Melching and Tostan on this honor.
More information about the award is available in the news, and Tostan's website may be found here.
New book publication: National Insecurity and Human Rights
IICAS director Gershon Shafir and Professor Alison Brysk from the University of California, Irvine have edited a book entitled National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism. The book will be available at the beginning of September here.
Description: All too often, the first casualty of national insecurity is human rights. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperations are crucial foundations for counterterror policy. |
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"Homosexual Survivors of the Nazi Concentration Camps and their Post-War Struggles"
with Dr. Andreas Pretzel
Technical University of Berlin
Thursday, October 4, 2007
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Social Science Building, Room 104
This event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served and the lecture will commence at 5:30 PM.
Biography: Since 1992 Andreas Pretzel has been a researcher at the Research Unit for the History of Sexual Science in Berlin. He has led and guided many research projects on the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust and the fate of persecuted postwar homosexuals. Pretzel is one of the co-founders of the "Initiative Queer Nations" which aims to establish an institute for the study of homosexualities in the past and present, in remembrance of the famous institute of Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin, destroyed by the Nazis.
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Visitors may also park in the Johns Hopkins Parking Structure.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center, the UCSD Department of Literature, the UCSD Critical Gender Studies Program, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues, and European Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
"Eros and Jewish Fate in Modern Germany"
A Panel Discussion
Friday, October 5, 2007
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) 107
Lunch will be provided so please RSVP to dwagoner@ucsd.edu by Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 2:00 PM.
 "How Jewish is German Sexuality? Rethinking Nazi Sexual Politics" with Professor Dagmar Herzog, from The Graduate Center, City University of New York: Dagmar Herzog conducts transnational and comparative research on how religion and secularization have affected social and political developments in modern Europe. She is particularly attentive in her research to methodological innovations in critical source analysis and in gender and sexuality studies. Her most recent book is Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton University Press).
"Magnus Hirschfeld as Jew and Sex Reformer" with Dr. Andreas Pretzel, from Technical University of Berlin: Since 1992 Andreas Pretzel has been a researcher at the Research Unit for the History of Sexual Science in Berlin. He has led and guided many research projects on the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust and the fate of persecuted postwar homosexuals. Pretzel is one of the co-founders of the "Initiative Queer Nations" which aims to establish an institute for the study of homosexualities in the past and present, in remembrance of the famous institute of Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin, destroyed by the Nazis.
 "Jewish/German Entanglements: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany" with Professor Atina Grossman, from The Cooper Union: Atina Grossman teaches Modern European and German History, and women's and gender studies. Her publications include numerous books and articles on gender, modernity, war, and genocide, and German and Jewish memory in twentieth century Germany. Her most recent book is Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (Princeton University Press).
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Vistors may also park in the Johns Hopkins Parking Structure.
Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program and European Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact Dorothy Wagoner (858) 534-4551 or at dwagoner@ucsd.edu.
"Cinema Sud"
October 12th - 25th, 2007
Hosted by The Museum of Photographic Arts
CINEMA SUD is a series of films made available by the Italian Ministry of External Affairs. The films, representative of the wonderfully fertile cinematographic culture of Southern Italy, will be shown in San Diego, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, in October 2007.
The films of CINEMA SUD, representative of the diversity of Southern Italian cultures, were produced in the southern regions of Italy: Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria, Sicilia, and Sardegna. They are all in Italian with English subtitles.
This event is FREE and open to the public. A schedule of films and events is available here. For more information visit www.cinemasud.com.
Directions to the Museum of Photographic Arts
Sponsored by the European Studies Program at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact Victor Laruccia jamvic@cox.net.
The Burke Lecture Series Presents:
"Shari'a and the Challenge of Islamophobia"
with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law
Thursday, October 25, 2007
8:00-9:00 PM
Price Center Ballroom B
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, is the leading authority on Islamic law in the U. S. and a major contemporary Islamic thinker. At UCLA he teaches Islamic law, National Security law, Law and Terrorism, Immigration, Human Rights, and International law. He previously taught Islamic law at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, Yale Law School and Princeton University. He holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and Princeton University (M.A./Ph.D. in Islamic Studies). Dr. Abou El Fadl received formal training in Islamic jurisprudence in Egypt and Kuwait, earning the highest rank of mastery among jurists.
In 2007, in recognition of his contributions to the field of human rights, Dr. Abou El Fadl received the prestigious University of Oslo Human Rights Award, the Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo. In 2005, Dr. Abou El Fadl was named a Carnegie Scholar in Islamic law.
As a seasoned expert in both Islamic and American law, Dr. Abou El Fadl provides a unique and unusual perspective on the current state of Islam and the West. He regularly provides expert testimony in a wide variety of cases ranging from human rights and political asylum to terrorism, national security, and international and commercial law. He is a strong proponent of human rights, serving on the Advisory Board of Middle East Watch, and previously on the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch. He was also previously appointed by President George W. Bush as a commissioner to the U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Dr. Abou El Fadl is noted for his scholarly approach to Islam from a moral point of view. He writes extensively on universal themes of morality and humanity, and the notion of beauty as a moral value. Dr. Abou El Fadl is a staunch advocate and defender of women's rights, and has written extensively on issues related to women. As a critical and powerful voice against puritan and Wahhabi Islam today, he regularly appears on national and international television and radio including CNN, NBC, PBS, NPR, and Voice of America (broadcast throughout the Middle East). His most recent work focuses on issues of authority, terrorism, tolerance, Islam and Islamic law.
He is the author of ten books and over fifty articles on Islamic law and Islam. His recent books include: The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005); Islam and the Challenge of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2004); The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Beacon Press, 2002); And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (UPA/Rowman and Littlefield, 2001); Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women (Oneworld Press, Oxford, 2001) and Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
His personal library contains over 6500 Islamic books and manuscripts, some dating from the thirteenth century.
Parking: The closest parking structure is the Gilman Parking Structure. All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the second floor of the Gilman Parking Structure in the Campus Parking Office during the hours of 7:00 AM and 5:30 PM weekdays, or at the Gilman Visitor Information Center anytime. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots.
From the north:
-Take I-5 South.
-Exit La Jolla Village Dr. and go right (west) upon exiting.
-Turn right onto Villa La Jolla Drive (the first light).
-Go straight across Gilman Drive, into the Gilman Parking Structure.
From the south:
-Take I-5 North.
-Exit La Jolla Village Drive and go left (west).
-Turn right onto Villa La Jolla Drive (the second light).
-Go straight across Gilman Drive, into the Gilman Parking Structure.
Sponsored by UCSD Center for the Humanities, the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Middle East Studies Program, the Department of History, the Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
"What Has Become of Islamic Law: Some Selected Reflections" with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law
Friday, October 26, 2007
12:00-1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) 107
This event is free and open to the public.
Lunch is provided so please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Monday, October 22, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Visitors may also park in the Johns Hopkins Parking Structure.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
"International Intervention in Humanitarian Crises"
with Gillian Sorensen
United Nations Foundation
Monday, October 29, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ERC Great Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: Gillian Martin Sorensen, Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, is a national advocate on matters related to the United Nations and the United States-United Nations relationship, addressing audiences as diverse as Rotary Internatinoal and the Air Force Academy; university students, staff and Members of Congress, journalists and leaders of civil society.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the International Affairs Group (IAG), the United Nations Association, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
International Law Speaker Series Presents:
"International Humanitarian Law, Foreign Policy, and the Limitations of Power"
with Harvey Rishikof
National War College
Thursday, November 1, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) 104
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: Harvey Rishikof, former Chair Department of National Security Strategy, Professor of Law and National Security Studies at the National War College in Washington, DC, specializes in the areas of national security, civil and military courts, terrorism, international law, civil liberties, national security law, civilian/military relations, governmental process, and the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Rishikof's career includes experiences with the academy, the private sector, and public service. As Dean of the Roger Williams University School of Law, Bristol, RI (1999-2001), he introduced courses in national security law and the Constitution involving the Naval War College in Newport, RI. As Legal Counsel to the Deputy Director of the FBI (1997-99), Rishikof focused on FBI policies concerning national security and terrorism, and served as liaison to the Office of the Attorney General at the Department of Justice. As Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1994-96), Rishikof served as chief of staff for the Chief Justice and was involved in general policy issues concerning the federal court system. In this capacity, he acted as liaison to the Executive Branch, Congress, the Federal Judicial Center, and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and International Judicial Committee of the Judicial Conference. Rishikof has participated in numerous international seminars and projects, most recently in Colombia (2007). Mr. Rishikof's most recent publication is "Morality, Ethics, and Law in the War on Terrorism (The Long War), West Point Terrorism Series Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, James J.F. Forest ed. (2007). Rishikof holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an M.A. from Brandeis University, and a B.A. from McGill University.
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Visitors may also park in the Johns Hopkins Parking Structure.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by Cal-West, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
"The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East"
with Mr. Anthony Shadid
Pulizter Prize winning journalist of the Washington Post
Thursday, November 8, 2007
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.
Abstract: Mr. Shadid will speak about the implications of the war in Iraq on the Middle East. Iraq, in some ways, is a catalyst for change. In other ways, it mirrors the transformation already under way in the Middle East, as ideology makes way for hardening sectarian and ethnic lines that pose one of the greatest challenges to the region since colonialism. Mr. Shadid will explore that transformation in the talk, both through his experiences in Iraq, as well as time spent in Lebanon and Egypt.
Biography: Anthony Shadid, 38, is the Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post. Since September 11, 2001, he has reported from most countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. In March 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion, he traveled to Iraq, his third visit there. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the war's aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he has covered the rest of the Arab world.
Before the Post, Shadid worked for the Boston Globe in Washington, covering diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated Press in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles and Cairo, where he worked as a Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He is a native of Oklahoma City, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shadid was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007 for his coverage of the Lebanese-Israeli war a year earlier. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from Iraq. That year, he was also the recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. In 2003, Shadid was awarded the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for a series of dispatches from the Middle East while at the Globe. In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on "Islam's Challenge." The four-part series, published by the AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview Press in December 2000. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, was published in September 2005 by Henry Holt.
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt College, Deparment of History, Middle East Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
International Law Series Presents:
"Bull in a China Shop: U.S. Treatment of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in 'War on Terror' "
with Gabor Rona
International Legal Director of Human Rights First
Thursday, November 15, 2007
12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: As the International Legal Director of Human Rights First, Gabor Rona advises Human Rights First programs on questions of international law and coordinates international human rights litigation. He also represents Human Rights First with governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the media and the public on matters of international human rights and international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict). Before coming to Human Rights First, Gabor was a Legal Advisor in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. At the ICRC he focused on the application of international humanitarian and human rights law in the context of counter-terrorism policies and practices. He represented the ICRC in intergovernmental, nongovernmental, academic and public forums and his articles on the topic have appeared in the Financial Times, the Fletcher Forum on World Affairs and the Chicago Journal of International Law, among other publications. In addition, he represented the ICRC in connection with the establishment of international and other criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court. He has also taught International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law in several academic settings, including the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Rona recently testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission and the ICJ Eminent Jurists Panel on US counterterrorism practices and policies seen from the international legal perspective.
Sponsored by Cal-West, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact events@cwsl.edu.
"Let's Get a Second Opinion: International Institutions and American Public Support for War"
with Christopher Gelpi
Duke University
Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:30-5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) 104
This event is free and open to the public.
Abstract: Much of the recent scholarship regarding the United Nations's importance in regard to the use by states of military force has focused on the coordinating and signaling role that the UN plays among the leaders of those states (Voeten 2001, 2005). We focus in this paper on another matter which to date has been under-explored, namely, on whether and why international institutions might matter to mass publics. Numerous studies have documented the American public's preference for multilateralism during times of war. Less progress has been made, however, in explaining why and how such international support matters to the public. Americans may want allies and international authorization because their possession increases the chances of pre-war coercive diplomatic success and, if war is necessary, increase the prospects for success on the battlefield at lower cost. Alternatively or additionally, Americans may prefer military multilateralism as a way of obtaining a "second opinion" on the wisdom and the intentions of their leaders in taking them down a path that may end in war. We test these different mechanisms regarding the impact of multilateral international organizations on public support for the use of military force with a particular focus on whether they provide a "second opinion" on the wisdom of a military mission for Americans who may not trust the judgment of their commander-in-chief. Our data indicate that international institutions can provide a constraint against the use of force through their power to influence popular support for military conflict.
Biography: Christopher F. Gelpi (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994) is Professor of political science at Duke University. His primary research interests are the sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution. He is currently engaged in research on American public opinion and the use of military force, and on statistical models for forecasting military conflict. He has also published works on American civil-military relations and the use of force, the impact of democracy and trade on international conflict, the role of norms in crisis bargaining, alliances as instruments of control, diversionary wars, deterrence theory, and the influence of the international system on the outbreak of violence. He is author of The Power of Legitimacy: The Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining (Princeton University Press, 2002), co-author (with Peter D. Feaver) of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force (Princeton University Press, 2004). and co-author (with Peter Feaver and Jason Reifler) of Paying the Human Costs of War: American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts (Princeton University Press, Forthcoming 2008). Some of his other works have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Security, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Behavior, and Political Science Quarterly.
Parking: The closest parking structure is Pangea Parking Structure; All day ($6) and hourly passes ($1 per hour) may be purchased on the top level of Pangea or at the North Point Visitor Information Center. Once a permit is purchased, visitors may park in S, B, or V spots. Metered spots are available in lot P357 for 25 cents per 15 minutes, maximum 2 hours.
Visitors may also park in the Johns Hopkins Parking Structure.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu. |
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