UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
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"HUMAN
RIGHTS IN AFRICA"
Friday, March 24, 2000
Terrace Room
Logan Hall
University of Pennsylvania
sponsored by University of Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges
9:00 - 9:30: Registration and Morning Reception
9:30 - 10:30: Opening Remarks
Tukufu Zuberi, Director, African Studies Center
10:45 - 11:45: Panel I
Literature & the Media in Human Rights
"Journalist Associations and Defense of Human Rights: The Role of the Media Institute of Southern Africa"
Michael Leslie
University of Florida
"The Case of the Socialist Witch Doctor: A Literary Discourse on Human Rights"
Tsegaye Wodajo
Bronx Community College
Discussant: Lydie Moudileno, Department of French, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 - 1:00: Lunch
1:00 - 2:30: Panel II
Politics of Human Rights - Session I
"Citizenship and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Botswana and Tanzania"
Agnes Leslie
University of Florida
"The Promise of Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Militarism: Constraints and Possibilities of the Human Rights Movement"
Bonny Ibhawoh
Dalhousie University
"Ethnicity and Democratization: Problems of Diversity and Interconnectedness in African Societies"
Tarekegn Adebo
Lund University, Sweden
Discussant: Tukufu Zuberi, Population Studies Center; Director African Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 - 4:15 Politics of Human Rights - Session II
"Human Rights: Popular Rights; All Rights and Claims Against the State in Africa"
P. L. E. Idahosa
York University, Toronto
"Enforcing Human Rights During a Conflict: Does the Continent Matter?"
Yvonne Lodico
Galileo Institute
"Commitment and Sacrifice: Understanding the Role of the Individual in the Promotion
of Human Rights in Africa in the 1990's"
Bob Press
University of Florida
Discussant: Thomas Callaghy, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 - 6:00 Panel III
Health & Human Rights in Africa
"Prisoners of Poverty: Human Rights' Aspects of the AIDS Trial in Africa"
Evelyne Shuster
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
"Changing Socio-cultural Norms Harmful to Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can Human Rights Discourses Help?"
Corinne Parker
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
"Genocide, Rape, and Ethnic Cleansing"
Leonard Rubenstein
Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights, Washington, DC
"The Prospects and Challenges of Linking Public Health and Human Rights in Africa"
Alex Otieno
Temple University
"Virtuous Cuts or Vicious Excision: The Circumcision/Mutilation Debates in the Sudanese Context"
Rogaia Abusharaf
Brown University
Panel Chair: Tonya Taylor
6:30 - 8:30: A DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WITH
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Program sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum as part of its March 20-25 program, "Human Nature-Human Rights: A Civic Dialogue on Unfinished Revolutions." Full program details are available on the Forum's website at http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu.
8:30 - 10:30: DOCUMENTARY
"FACING THE TRUTH"
with BILL MOYERS
Produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc.
Executive producers: Judith Davidson Moyers and Judy Doctoroff O'Neill;
Producer/director: Gail Pellett; editor: Vanessa Procopi
Program sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum as part of its March 20-25 program, "Human Nature-Human Rights: A Civic Dialogue on Unfinished Revolutions." Full program details are available on the Forum's website at http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu.
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