Norman Wait Harris Fund Events

Lecture Series: Human Rights in Mexico, Guest Speaker Jorge Fernandez-Souza, "Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas"

2007-07-05T14:45:00.000Z

When: Mon May 21, 2007 7pm to 8:30pm CDT

Where: 1116 E. 59th Street (Harper 130)
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Jorge Fernandez Souza is a Magistrate Judge, Professor of Law and former Dean of Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, former Delegado of Delegacion Miguel Hidalgo, and lawyer for Bishop Samuel Ruiz in the Chiapas negotiations (1994 – 1997). For details, contact the Katz Center, 773-834-1987, mexican-studies@uchicago.edu, http://mexicanstudies.uchicago.edu. This speakers series is supported by the Friedrich Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Human Rights Program, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago. The speakers’ series is in conjunction with the course Human Rights in Mexico (HMRT 24501/34501). All lectures are open to the public. Persons needing special assistance or Assistive Listening Devices should call 773-834-0957 or 773-834-1987.

Conference: Petroleum: Prospects and Politics

2007-07-05T14:44:39.000Z

When: Fri May 18, 2007 to Sat May 19, 2007

Where: nternational House at the University of Chicago, 1414 E. 59th Street
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Petroleum: Prospects and Politics Free to students, staff and faculty of any college or university and University of Chicago alumni Location: International House at the University of Chicago, 1414 E. 59th Street Dates: May 18 - May 19 The University of Chicago will host a symposium on oil for students, faculty, the general public, and the press in May 2007. The conference aims to broaden understanding of the complex effects of oil on America and the world and to explore policy options for responding to the challenge oil poses for international stability. Topics include: Global petroleum and energy markets Alternative energy sources International diplomacy and natural resources United States domestic energy policy Democracy, governance, and war in oil exporting countries Please visit us online at http://petroleum.uchicago.edu for more information and online registration.

Conference: "History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age"

2007-07-05T14:43:39.000Z

When: Fri May 4, 2007 9:30am to 5:30pm CDT

Where: John Hope Franklin Room, Social Sciences 224
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age [a recording of this event is available at http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/historyText.shtml] Conference Chair: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago Politics 9.30-12.00 - Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs — Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton) - The Politics of History Textbooks in India — Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) - Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe — Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University) Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago Boundaries 1.20-3.20 - Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History — Thomas Bender (New York University) Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000) — Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago) Discussant: Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University Futures 3.30-5.30 - School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness — Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany) - Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution — Elazar Barkan (Columbia University) Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago Sponsored by the Department of History, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for International Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, The Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine and The Franke Institute for the Humanities

Lecture Series: Human Rights in Mexico, Guest Speaker Bertha Lujan, "Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juarez"

2007-07-05T14:42:31.000Z

When: Thu May 3, 2007 7pm to 8:30pm CDT

Where: 1010 E. 59th Street (Classics 110)
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: [a recording of this event is available at http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/lujan.shtml] Bertha Lujan is Secretaria del Trabajo, Gobierno "Legitimo" de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former Controlora, Cd. de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo for over two decades. For details, contact the Katz Center, 773-834-1987, mexican-studies@uchicago.edu, www.mexicanstudies.uchicago.edu. This speakers series is supported by the Friedrich Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Human Rights Program, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago. The speakers’ series is in conjunction with the course Human Rights in Mexico (HMRT 24501/34501). All lectures are open to the public. Persons needing special assistance or Assistive Listening Devices should call 773-834-0957 or 773-834-1987.

Lecture Series: Human Rights in Mexico, Guest Speaker Friedrich Katz, "The Legacy of the Mexican Revolution and the Constitution of 1917"

2007-07-05T14:41:42.000Z

When: Mon Apr 9, 2007 3pm to 4:30pm CDT

Where: 1116 E. 59th Street (Harper 103)
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Friedrich Katz is Morton Hull Distinguished Service Professor of History, emeritus, University of Chicago. For details, contact the Katz Center, 773-834-1987, mexican-studies@uchicago.edu, www.mexicanstudies.uchicago.edu. This speakers series is supported by the Friedrich Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Human Rights Program, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago. The speakers’ series is in conjunction with the course Human Rights in Mexico (HMRT 24501/34501). All lectures are open to the public. Persons needing special assistance or Assistive Listening Devices should call 773-834-0957 or 773-834-1987. A recording of this event is available at: http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/chiapas.shtml

"Reshaping Languages and Persons: Christianization in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea"

2007-07-05T14:39:33.000Z

When: Tue Apr 3, 2007 4:30pm to 6pm CDT

Where: Stuart Hall, Room 101
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Lecture by Professor Bambi Schieffelin, Dept. of Anthropology, New York University. Refreshments will be served. Presented by the Department of Comparative Human Development's Culture, Life-Course, and Mental Health Workshop and cosponsored by the Center for International Studies' Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund. Persons with disabilities who feel they may need assistance or anyone else with further inquiries should contact Jacob Hickman at jhickman@uchicago.edu or Allison DiBianca at adibianc@uchicago.edu.

Conference: "Rethinking Crossroads: Macedonia in Global Context"

2007-07-05T14:27:09.000Z

When: Sat Mar 31, 2007

Where: Franke Institute for the Humanities at the Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St, Chicago
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: [a recording of a portion of this event is available at http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/keithbrown.shtml] The University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies presents: "Rethinking Crossroads: Macedonia in Global Context". Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:30am - 5:00pm Franke Institute for the Humanities at the Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St, Chicago View and print flyer at http://ceeres.uchicago.edu/flyers/macconf.pdf Agenda 8:30–8:50 AM Coffee 8:50–9:00 AM Opening Remarks Victor Friedman (University of Chicago) 9:00–10:30 AM Panel 1: Multicultural Macedonia? Identity Politics in the 21st Century “The Multicultural Policies and Practices in Macedonia” Goran Janev (Center for Ethnic Relations, Skopje) “Shake off this ambivalence! Troublesome Identities of the Macedonian-speaking Muslims” Marcin Lubaś (Jagiellonian University) “Post-Socialism, Scales of Value, and Identity Politics in Macedonia” Vasiliki Neofotistos (SUNY Buffalo) Chair: Andrew Graan (University of Chicago) 10:30–11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Panel 2: Nationalism Reconsidered: On the Underpinnings and Underminings of Nation in Macedonia “Consuming Nationalism: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Macedonia” Rozita Dimova (Freie Universität, Berlin) “Question about the Macedonian Orthodox Church as a Matter of Macedonian National Identity” Ljupčo Risteski (U. Kyrill and Methodius, Skopje) “Tangentiality of Identity: The Multiple Ways of Being European in Macedonia and Not Being in Europe” Ilká Theißen (Malaspina University) Chair: Victor Friedman (University of Chicago) 12:30–2:00 PM Lunch 2:00–3:30 PM Panel 3: Post-Socialist Politics of Belonging: (Re)Imagining Macedonia through Time and Space “ ‘We Need Marketing’: On the Politics of Imidž in Macedonia” Andrew Graan (University of Chicago) “The Passions of the Language: Politics and Representations of the Macedonian Language since the Independence” Miladina Monova (EHESS Paris) “Anticommunist, but Macedonian: Post-Yugoslav Politics of Memory in the Republic of Macedonia” Tchavdar Marinov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) Chair: Susan Woodward (CUNY New York) 3:30–4:00 PM Break 4:00–5:00 PM Keynote Address “Baltimore Drowning: A Slavic Microhistory of Global Proportions” Keith Brown (Brown University) This conference assembles both young and established scholars whose social-scientifically and humanistically informed work speaks to the contemporary realities of the Republic of Macedonia as they continue to be reshaped by actors and processes from both within and without. The metaphor of "crossroads", of course, has long been applied to Macedonia, but too often in a manner that called up problematic dichotomies between East and West, Muslim and Christian worlds, center and periphery, tradition and modernity, etc., which were then used to ground analyses of the region. The aim of this conference is to challenge such understandings precisely by centering Macedonia within the global processes that intersect the country, from the economic and political restructurings indicative of a growing and deepening European Union to the obstacles faced by nation-states worldwide in a environment wrought by local identity politics and supernational political agendas. Through papers themselves rooted in ethnographic detail, the conference will explore how such processes inform everyday practices in Macedonia, which in turn articulate, comment on, and contest the conditions of such political and social experiences. Sponsors: University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies Franke Institute for the Humanities Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Fund Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Anthropology of Europe Workshop Anthropology Students Association Anthropology Department Student Government If you should need assistance accessing the venue or listening, please contact CEERES at (773) 702-0866 or ceeres@uchicago.edu.

"Dreams and Nightmares: Voices from Iraq"

2007-07-05T14:40:52.000Z

When: Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:30pm to Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:30pm CDT

Where: School of Social Service Administration Lobby, 969 E. 60th St., Chicago IL
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Hear Iraqi perspectives on the human, political, social, and financial costs of the Iraq qar as well as expert testimony regarding: - the humanitarian crisis in Iraq - current status of healthcare in Iraq - post-traumatic stress disorder: Iraqi and U.S. victims - exit strategies for U.S. troops Panelists: - Raed Jarrar, Iraq Program Director, Global Exchange - Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, MD, activist and speaker Cosponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

“What is going to happen next? Anxiety and the future in rural north China” - lecture by Professor Charles Stafford

2007-07-05T14:33:56.000Z

When: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:30pm to Tue Jan 30, 2007 6pm CST

Where: Stuart Hall 101
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Charles Stafford is Porfessor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Refreshments will be served *Presented by The Department of Comparative Human Development’s Culture, Life-Course, and Mental Health Workshop, and co-funded by The Center for international Studies’ Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund. Persons with disabilities who feel they may need assistance or anyone else with further inquiries should contact Jacob Hickman at jhickman@uchicago.edu or Allison DiBianca at adibianc@uchicago.edu.

"Intellectual Property, Piracy and Public Culture"

2007-07-05T13:46:08.000Z

When: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1pm to Fri Jan 19, 2007 7pm CST

Where: Ida Noyes Hall Theatre, 3rd Floor; 1212 E. 59th St. Chicago IL
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts presents: Intellectual Property, Piracy and Public Culture Friday, 19th January, 2007. 1-7 PM. Ida Noyes Hall, Theatre, 3rd Floor. Keynote Address: “The Copy Itself” by Ravi Sundaram (Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Cultures, Delhi, India) Roundtable Discussion with Adrian Johns, Professor of History and History of Science. Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and director of the Center for Cultural Policy Studies. Moderated by Olga Sezneva, Harper Fellow, Society of Fellows. Directed reading of Sarah Gubbins’s new play: “Fair Use” Refreshments will be served. Funded by the Weissbourd Fund and the Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Fund For more information, please visit: http://societyoffellows.uchicago.edu/upcoming.html

Colloquium: 100 Years of All-India Muslim League

2007-07-05T13:42:22.000Z

When: Sat Nov 4, 2006 9am to 5:30pm CST

Where: Foster Hall 103, 1130 East 59th Street
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Co-sponsored by the Norman Wait Harris Fund. Colloquium website: http://muslimleague.uchicago.edu/

International Child Welfare Conference: Global Issues Facing Youth

2008-02-14T17:13:17.000Z

When: Sat Nov 4, 2006 8:30am to 3pm CST

Where: 969 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: At the School of Social Service Administration (http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/) Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Fund.