Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012. 7:00 PM.
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Auditorium 200
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." —Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted by the United Nations in 1948 The Stanford Summer Human Rights Program is an interdisciplinary collaboration that explores emerging issues in human rights through a series of courses, public lectures, and films. The program will focus on international human rights in the 21st century, considering both state and non-state actors in securing rights for all. HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE SERIES Keynote Address Philip Gourevitch, Staff Writer for The New Yorker Philip Gourevitch is a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker, and a former editor of The Paris Review. He is the author of three books: The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, A Cold Case, and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the George Polk Book Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Gourevitch’s reportage, essays, criticism, and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications at home and abroad. In 2010, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. In 2011, We Wish to Inform You… was included in the Guardian’s list of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. The Human Rights Program is sponsored by Stanford Summer Session. Collaborators include Stanford Continuing Studies, the Program on Human Rights at CDDRL, Stanford Master of Liberal Arts, ICU Community College Human Rights Program, the United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford Summer Theater, and the departments of International Relations, English, and Philosophy.
Location: Hewlett Teaching Center, Auditorium 200
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." —Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted by the United Nations in 1948 The Stanford Summer Human Rights Program is an interdisciplinary collaboration that explores emerging issues in human rights through a series of courses, public lectures, and films. The program will focus on international human rights in the 21st century, considering both state and non-state actors in securing rights for all. HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE SERIES Keynote Address Philip Gourevitch, Staff Writer for The New Yorker Philip Gourevitch is a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker, and a former editor of The Paris Review. He is the author of three books: The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, A Cold Case, and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the George Polk Book Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Gourevitch’s reportage, essays, criticism, and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications at home and abroad. In 2010, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. In 2011, We Wish to Inform You… was included in the Guardian’s list of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. The Human Rights Program is sponsored by Stanford Summer Session. Collaborators include Stanford Continuing Studies, the Program on Human Rights at CDDRL, Stanford Master of Liberal Arts, ICU Community College Human Rights Program, the United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford Summer Theater, and the departments of International Relations, English, and Philosophy.