[psych-hr] Carnegie Council Seminars (New York City, June 2003)

UPCOMING SEMINARS in NYC

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs invites you to our 
upcoming Fellows Seminars, which will examine a range of issues, including 
global activism, human rights after 9/11, war museums in Asia, and global 
justice.

All sessions take place at the Carnegie Council:
170 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021

Please email your RSVPs to Morgan Stoffregen at mstoffregen@cceia.org or 
call (212) 838-4120.


*SESSION 1*   Wednesday, June 18th, 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM

"Negotiating Values and Visions: Transnational Environmental Activism and 
Local Politics"

-Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues, Carnegie Council Fellow

Transnational networks of environmental activists can be a powerful force 
for change, but the policies they pursue sometimes have unexpected * even 
undesirable * consequences for activists at the local level. Maria 
Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues has sought to understand the obstacles that local 
and international activists confront when they work together on common 
aims, using the Rondonia network in Brazil as a case study.


*SESSION 2*   Wednesday, June 18, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

"Digging Out of Poverty? Redistributive Justice, Participation and Natural 
Resource Extraction"

and

"Intellectual Property Rules for the Digital Economy  "

-Dieter Zinnbauer & Keith Slack, Carnegie Council Fellows


The 2002-03 fellows of the Justice and the World Economy Program will 
discuss their research projects concerning natural resource extraction and 
digital property rights. Keith Slack's research deals with the well-known 
but somewhat curious fact that many developing countries that are richly 
endowed with natural resourcesØsuch as minerals, oil, or timberØnot only 
continue to languish in poverty, but that increases in exports of these 
resources is correlated with increases in poverty. Dieter Zinnbauer's 
research examines emerging international intellectual property policies for 
digital information technologies.



*SESSION 3*     Thursday, June 19, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM

"Islam and Human Rights: A Rethinking by Turkish Islamic Intellectuals"

and

"Changing Perceptions of Rights and Security in Post 9-11 Malaysia"
-Ihsan Dagi & Elizabeth Wong, Carnegie Council Fellows

This session will examine human rights discourse and practice after 
September 11 in two Islamic countries: Turkey and Malaysia.  Ihsan Dagi 
will discuss the changing discourse of Turkish Islamists, arguing that it 
represents an important sign not only for the spread of modern political 
values among the Islamists of Turkey but also for a possibility of 
rapprochement between Islam and the West. He will explain how this 
discourse has been affected by 9/11 and the war in Iraq.  Elizabeth Wong 
will explore the Malaysian government's recent emphasis on "security" over 
civil liberties, and will suggest new strategies to ensure that human 
rights protections are maintained in a post-9/11 context.



*SESSION 4*       Thursday, June 19, 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM

"Remembering the Pacific War: WWII Museums in China, Japan, South Korea and 
Taiwan"
-Takashi Yoshida, Carnegie Council Fellow

Public and private war museums have played a significant role in educating 
their visitors about wars. However, these museums are not exempt from 
politics; they tend to impress upon the viewer a particular subjective 
understanding of the war. Takashi Yoshida will discuss the ways that 
museums in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan portray WWII by analyzing 
the choices made by the museums to include and exclude certain historical 
events, the direct and indirect messages they try to convey to their 
visitors, and the ways in which participants in the war have become labeled 
as "perpetrators" and "victims."


For more information, visit the Carnegie Council's calendar at 
www.carnegiecouncil.org.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     



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