FALL 1998
Volume 42, Number
1
IN THIS ISSUE
Exploring
Careers Beyond Medicine
Geology
in
Puerto Rico
Human
Rights
A
Conversation with the President
New
Honors Director
A
Time for Questions
On
the Iowa Web
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Not one, but two Nobel Peace Prize winners will be speaking
on The University of Iowa campus this year.
Elie Wiesel and Rigoberta Menchú Tum are among the numerous
world-class human rights activists, artists, and scholars slated
to appear at the University as part of "Global Focus: Human
Rights '98" (HR'98), a year-long symposium timed to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations without
dissent.
"We want to ensure that the impact of HR'98 extends far
beyond The University of Iowa and far beyond the year 1998,"
said Burns Weston, UI Professor of Law and chair of the HR'98
steering committee. "No single conference can really give
voice to the numerous human rights issues confronting the world
as we approach the 21st century."
So the campus will be abuzz with human rights events throughout
the 1998-99 academic year. Already, Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng
spoke on the role of China in the 21st century, and Joan Baez
performed at Hancher Auditorium to kick off the symposium. Here's
a roundup of major events still to come this fall:
Continuing through November 1
"NO!art" and the Aesthetics of Doom, an exhibition
devoted to the March Gallery Group, an artists' collective that
eloquently responded to the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and the mass
media's commodification of women. UI Museum of Art.
September 24
Jerome Shestack, President of the American Bar Association,
will deliver a lecture titled "Human Rights: The Neglectful
Past, the Traumatic Present, and the Hopeful Future." 8
pm, Boyd Law Building Levitt Auditorium.
September 24-October 2
The Nazi Loop by artist and UI Professor Hans Breder
ponders the horror of the Holocaust through a complex CD-ROM
montage presented with large-scale indoor floor projections and
human-computer interactivity. In the former Randall's Market
in Coralville.
October 14-17
International Law Students Association Fall Convention
will be hosted by the UI College of Law. The theme will be "The
Enforcement of Human Rights through the Private Sector."
Specific events and speakers to be determined.
October 12, 13
Valentin Gefter, Executive Director of the Human Rights
Institute in Moscow, will deliver two lectures: "Human Rights
in Contemporary Russia," October 12, 8 pm; and "Human
Rights Violations in the CIF: Legacy of the Soviet Heritage,"
October 13, 4 pm, both at 225 Boyd Law Building.
October 14
Elie Wiesel, human rights activist and Nobel Laureate,
will deliver a lecture titled, "On the Threshold of the
21st Century," 8 pm, Hancher Auditorium.
October 22
Marjorie Mowlam, Secretary of State of Northern Ireland
and UI Political Science PhD '77, will speak on "The Struggle
for Human Rights in Northern Ireland." Boyd Law Building
(time TBA).
October 27
Dith Pran, noted Cambodian journalist whose experiences
formed the basis of the film The Killing Fields, will
deliver a lecture entitled "The Killing Fields of Southeast
Asia." 8 pm, Pappajohn Buchanan Auditorium.
November 9, 10
David Smith, social geographer, will deliver two lectures:
"South Africa After Apartheid: the Challenge of Social Justice,"
November 9, and "Geography and Social Justice," November
10. Both 7:30 pm, Pappajohn Tippie Auditorium.
November 12
Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Guatemalan leader and
the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, will
speak on "The Universal Declaration and Human Rights."
8 pm, Macbride Auditorium.
November 19
Ronald Dworkin, author and professor of law at both
NYU and Oxford, will deliver a lecture, "When is a Right
a Human Right?" 4 pm, Boyd Law Building Levitt Auditorium.
November 20
Poetic Focus: Human Rights '98, an evening of human
rights poetry readings presented by UI poets Marvin Bell, James
Galvin, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, as well as visiting
poets Lyn Hejinian and Carl Phillips. 8 pm, Shambaugh Auditorium.
December 1
Adam Hochschild, prominent voice in American human
rights journalism for three decades, will deliver a lecture titled
"A Forgotten Holocaust and A Forgotten Human Rights Movement"
documenting the European takeover of the Congo at the turn of
the century. 8 pm, Shambaugh Auditorium.
More events and speakers are being added. For updated schedules
and more information about Global Focus: Human Rights '98, you
can visit the website at http://www.uiowa.edu/~hr98/. You can also
e-mail your questions to iclp@uiowa.edu or call 319-335-9169.
By Sam Samuels
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Elie Wiesel
Jerome Shestack
Adam Hochschild
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