For complete descriptions and locations of events, please take the links for each topic.

        

Monday, 3/20

  

U.S. Civil Rights

   

Speakers
           
6:00 p.m.   Welcome and Opening Remarks     Peter Conn
Samuel Preston
Wendy Steiner
         
6:15 - 10:00 p.m.   Films:      
   

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965

    

Thomas Sugrue
Juan Williams

11:00 p.m.
  

WHYY Film Series: PEOPLE'S CENTURY #120 "Skin Deep"

      
   



     
Tuesday, 3/21   Women's Rights     Speakers
           
3:00-4:30 p.m.
  

Lief Lecture
Woman—An Intimate Geography

   

Natalie Angier

Jeanne Marecek
Wendy Steiner
Ingrid Waldron
         

5:30-7:00 p.m.

  

Reception and Public Discussion

    
   
   
    Films:      

7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.

   A Woman's Place
   

Vicki Mahaffey

8:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

  

A War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf

      
   



     
Wednesday, 3/22   The Holocaust and Human Rights     Speakers
           
4:30 p.m.   Video Testimony by Holocaust Survivors     Al Filreis
           
    Films:      
6:30 p.m.   Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard)    

Al Filreis
Millicent Marcus
Harry Reicher
Barbie Zelizer
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino Dei Finzi-Contini)    
   

 

    

11:30 p.m.
and 3:00 p.m. 3/26

   WHYY Film Series: Burning Questions      
   



     
Thursday, 3/23   Human Rights in the Balkans and Islam     Speakers
           
4:30 p.m.
   Political Science Public Lecture
Making a Pact with God: The Islamic Doctrine of the Formation of Human Nature and Its Burdens 		    S. Nomanul Haq
   
     
    Films:      
6:30 p.m.
   Z (1968)    

Robert Vitalis
Millicent Marcus
    Battle of Algiers (1966)    
   
     
10:30 p.m.   WHYY Film Series: Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave      
   




     
Friday, 3/24   Human Rights in Africa     Speakers
           

9:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

   Human Rights Conference
African Studies Center

     see the African Studies
Center website
    Films:      
6:30 p.m.
and 10:00 p.m.		   Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers
   

Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Farah Griffin
Tukufu Zuberi
   

     
Saturday, 3/25   Human Rights in Philadelphia     Speakers
           
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.   Breakfast at the White Dog     Paul Hendrickson
   
     

9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

  

Poor Richard's Walking Tours
Life & Liberty: Struggles for Human Rights in Philadelphia

   

Poor Richard's Walking Tours
   
     

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

  

"Eminent Domain"
A Forum on Narratives of Dispossession, Exile, and Return

    Black Bottom Performance Project
   
     

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

   Civic Forum: Human Nature and Human Rights
     Nadine Strossen
William Schulz
Charles Kernaghan
Samuel Freeman