UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER

Seventh Annual African Studies Consortium Workshop


"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.


Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar

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