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SUMMARY:First Student/Adjunct Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register here:
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/first-student-adjunct-workshop/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:Three Challenges of Ending the War in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording here: \n  \n\n  \n  \nDr. Daisaku Higashi is professor of international relations at Sophia University in Tokyo.  He is a leading scholar on mediation during armed conflicts and peacebuilding in post-conflict states in Japan. Dr Higashi recently published How Can We End the War in Ukraine: Limits and Potential of Mediation (in Japanese\, February 2023). In English\, he has published Inclusivity in Mediation and Peacebuilding: UN\, Neighboring States\, and Global Power (Edward Elgar 2022) and Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Sierra Leone and East Timor (Routledge 2015). He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia\, Canada. He then worked for UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan as a team leader for reconciliation (2009-2010); he also served as Minister-Counsellor in the Japanese mission to the UN in charge of mediation and peacebuilding (2012-2014).\n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/three-challenges-of-ending-the-war-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:Capitalism's Mute Compulsion
DESCRIPTION:Søren Mau (Aarhus University)Capitalism’s Mute CompulsionFriday\, October 27 @ 4:00pm (ET)\, Room 5200Co-sponsored by the GC Political Theory Colloquium
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/capitalisms-mute-compulsion/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:Repositioning and Democratizing the Study of China: The Role of the Public University
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2Gq5zP7z2H1BjWCtmRAYkxJUNlVCUjdDUk81R1ZFRlVPNlNKSlA1UlNGWi4u \nCUNY event flyer\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/repositioning-and-democratizing-the-study-of-china-the-role-of-the-public-university/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Room 6112\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T180000
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SUMMARY:Human Right's Workshop: "Advocacy for Human Rights with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: The Case of Slavery Reparations"
DESCRIPTION:CUNY HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP \nThe CUNY Human Rights Workshop (HRW)is an interdisciplinary\, scholarly forum that fosters discussion and debate on emerging scholarship and policy work relating to human rights issues\, broadly defined. The workshop is open to faculty and graduate students (within and beyond CUNY) as well as human rights practitioners. Participants are expected to have read a pre-circulated work prior attendance. For further information\, please emailiirtifa@gradcenter.cuny.edu. \n  \nFebruary 23\, 6pm-7:30pm \nDiscussant: John Torpey \nIn-person: CUNY Graduate Center \nRegister Here: https://forms.gle/c9gK7HaLNNcDFnqv5 \n 
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/human-rights-workshop-advocacy-for-human-rights-with-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-the-case-of-slavery-reparations/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Human Rights Hub":MAILTO:iirtifa@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T120000
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SUMMARY:One Year Later: Russia's War on Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:A talk with Metin Hakverdi\, Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag ***Zoom link to be announced***
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/one-year-later-russias-war-on-ukraine/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Year of War and Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022\, escalating the war it had unleashed in 2014. With an avowed goal of de-Ukrainization\, Russia rejects the idea of Ukrainian statehood and has declared genocidal goals in Ukraine. \n  \nThe Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Year of War and Genocide \nThursday\, 23 February 2023\, noon-1:00 pm (EST) \n  \nPlease mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by joining us for a conversation about the war\, its long-term consequences\, and its genocidal nature. The discussion will feature Eugene Finkel\, a scholar of genocide and author of the forthcoming To Kill Ukraine\, and Elissa Bemporad\, an expert on anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine. \nBorn in Ukraine\, Eugene Finkel is the Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs\, Johns Hopkins University. The author of several books\, including Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (2017) and Bread and Autocracy: Food\, Politics and Security in Putin’s Russia (2023)\, Finkel is a scholar of genocide\, mass violence\, and politics in Eastern Europe. Elissa Bemporad is Professor of History and Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of numerous works\, receiving the National Jewish Book Award twice: for Becoming Soviet Jews (2013) and for Legacy of Blood: Jews\, Pogroms\, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2019). She is currently working on a biography of Ester Frumkin. \nChair: Natalya Lazar\, Program Manager\, The Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine\, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. \n  \nThis event is hosted in association with: \nThe Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center—CUNY \nThe Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies\, USHMM
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-a-year-of-war-and-genocide/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:“The Bedouin Village of Rah'ma: Toward Recognition and Beyond”
DESCRIPTION:The Bedouin of the Negev desert have long sought legal recognition from the State of Israel. Without legal status\, they are denied their basic rights as Israeli citizens: access to public health services\, water\, electricity\, public transportation\, is inadequate or unavailable. Rah’ma is one of the few unrecognized villages that has been promised recognition\, yet that promise remains unfulfilled. Still: a school has been approved and built\, public utilities have improved\, and village residents see some hope. What makes Rah’ma different from other Bedouin villages in the Negev? What paved the way to the promise of recognition? What changes will recognition bring? And can Rah’ma be a model for Israeli-Bedouin relations going forward? Please join for a discussion between Sliman Elfregat\, Rah’ma school principal; Debbie Golan\, co-founder and president of Atid Bamidbar; and Dvir Warshavsky\, Ministry of Education project director. Chair and moderator: Eli Karetny\, deputy director of the Ralph Bunche Institute. \nThis event is hosted in association with: \nThe Center for Jewish Studies\, The Graduate Center—City University of New York \nCUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences\, The Graduate Center–CUNY \nThe School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Stockton University \nThe Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies\, New York University \n  \nREGISTER HERE https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YM_0xJ14SGGSZ-0ISpTpzw
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-bedouin-village-of-rahma-toward-recognition-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:“Israel/Palestine: What the Archives Reveal and Conceal”
DESCRIPTION:The story of the past calls for extensive use of archival documents. But\, adducing risk to state security\, Israeli archives\, especially the state archives\, block access to key collections that pertain to the state’s history in general and the Palestinian Nakba and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. Palestinian researchers who seek to tell the story of the Palestinian past using Palestinian personal papers and archival materials face additional\, unofficial\, obstacles. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury\, professor of sociology at the Hebrew University and a 2022 Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar\, and Yaacov Lozowick\, a historian who served as Israel’s chief archivist from 2011-2018\, will discuss what Israeli archives reveal and conceal. Please join for a challenging conversation that will range from the role of archives in the power dynamics of the conflict to the stories still to be told if access to the archives were unfettered. Chair and moderator: Hebrew University professor Amos Goldberg\, head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute for Contemporary Jewry. \nThis event is hosted in association with: \nThe Center for Jewish Studies\, The Graduate Center—City University of New York \nCUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences\, The Graduate Center–CUNY \nThe School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Stockton University \nThe Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies\, New York University \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/israel-palestine-what-the-archives-reveal-and-conceal/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:Crossing the Bridges
DESCRIPTION:A book talk with author Eva Hoffman Jedruch about her mother’s struggle to survive during WWII
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/crossing-the-bridges/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="European Union Studies Center":MAILTO:msovner@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:Cultivating Food Security in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:A panel of experts on the prospects of food security amid the Russian War on Ukraine \n  \nRegister: bit.ly/3CC3ths
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/cultivating-food-security-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="European Union Studies Center":MAILTO:msovner@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY:“Finding the Disappeared: The Role of Truth Commissions and Post-Conflict Justice Initiatives in Colombia\, Guatemala and Mexico”
DESCRIPTION:The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities. So is our own era. \nThe Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity  (The Graduate Center—City University of New York)\, in association with the School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Stockton University) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University)\, offers a year-long virtual series\,The Marginalized and the Erased\, to tackle a number of those blank spots. \nPlease join us for the third in the virtual series: \nTHURSDAY 1 DECEMBER 2022                    12:00-1:00 (EST)\n“Finding the Disappeared: The Role of Truth Commissions and Post-Conflict Justice Initiatives in Columbia\, Guatemala\, and Mexico\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA challenging conversation about recovering disappeared persons and the promotion of human rights.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA stellar panel of scholar/activists will explore the role of truth commissions and other international justice efforts to document\, sanction\, and establish reparations for 20th and 21st century rights violations in Colombia\, Guatemala and Mexico. Professor and Senior Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City\, Aída Hernández promotes women’s and indigenous people’s human rights in Mexico. An activist researcher\, her work with families of missing person focuses on strategies of resistance.  Tatiana Devia\, a staff attorney for the Transitional Justice Program at (the non-profit) Corporate Accountability Lab\, has investigated human rights abuses in Colombia and analyzed the work of Truth Commissions through a gender lens. Ana María Méndez Dardón\, Director for Central America Program\, Washington Office on Latin America\, served as special projects officer to the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). She seeks to strengthen access to justice in Guatemala and has shone a bright light on women illegally detained during the Rios Montt dictatorship. \nChair: Prof. Victoria Sanford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER 1 DEC | FINDING THE DISAPPEARED
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/finding-the-disappeared-the-role-of-truth-commissions-and-post-conflict-justice-initiatives-in-colombia-guatemala-and-mexico/
LOCATION:Virtual\, bit.ly/3QVelvP\, New York
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
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SUMMARY:Limitarianism from a Global Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Limitarianism from a Global PerspectiveIngrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)Tuesday\, November 15\, 6:30 p.m. (ET)GC Room 9205 And online via Zoom\nWe are excited to welcome philosopher Ingrid Robeyns as our third colloquium speaker of Fall 2022. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker.This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and snacks.If you plan to attend virtually\, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.Members of the public who wish to attend should email us. They may enter the GC if they show proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 7 days prior to the visit. \n\n\n\nAbstract\nLimitarianism is the view that there should be an upper limit to how many resources a person can appropriate; in most cases\, the focus is on economic resources\, and the claim is that there should be a limit to how rich a person can be. Limitarianism is thus a view in the wider family of egalitarian proposals\, but urges us to focus explicitly on the harms and bads done by extreme wealth concentration.However\, most of the reasons given for limitarianism are focusing on the effects among a political community of voters. Similarly\, most of the institutional proposals that have been put forward on how one could move in the direction of a limitarian world focus on the  possibilities given by the fiscal system. In other words\, in the existing literature there is a significant focus at what this means for political actions within a country. In this talk\, I ask what the limitarian view needs when considered from a global perspective. Does limitarianism become implausible if we consider the realities of an interconnected world? Or does it require us to make modifications or put additional requirements to the institutional proposals to advance limitarianism? \nSpeaker Bio \nIngrid Robeyns holds the chair in ethics of institutions at Utrecht University. She works mainly in normative political philosophy\, but also engages in interdisciplinary research. Some of the topics on which she published are the capability approach\, concepts of wellbeing\, gender inequality\, methods in normative political philosophy\, climate justice\, as well as specific institutional proposals\, such as universal basic income or inheritance taxation. Her most recent work is on limitarianism\, on which she is writing a book aimed at a broader audience (in North America\, forthcoming with Astra Publishing House).
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/limitarianism-from-a-global-perspective/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Room 9205\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archive,Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Global Ethics and Politics":MAILTO:pcipollitti@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221110T080000
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SUMMARY:Russia’s War on Ukrainian Heritage\, Yet Another War Crime
DESCRIPTION:Originally published at https://katoikos.world/analysis/russias-war-on-ukrainian-heritage-yet-another-war-crime.html \nBy Tom Weiss\, RBI Emeritus Director \nThe nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine’s words inspired Raphael Lemkin\, the drafter of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Burning books is not the same as burning bodies…but when one intervenes … against mass destruction of churches and books one arrives just in time to prevent the burning of bodies.”[1] \nLemkin’s immediate reference was the November 1938 Kristallnacht crimes\, the coordinated program and cultural destruction in the Third Reich\, but there are far too many other instances across time and space. While Vladimir Putin’s docket in The Hague is already lengthy\, the war crime of destroying cultural heritage is yet another reason to say “nyet” to Russian recolonization. \nThe UN General Assembly’s condemnation and decision to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council reflected the continuing and contemporary relevance of what former UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova labeled “cultural genocide” with reference to Iraq and Syria. This expression is not a legal term\, but UNESCO applies it to connote cultural removal akin to “ethnic cleansing”—a term coined in the early 1990s to describe mass atrocities in the former Yugoslavia\, which also has no formal legal definition. Cultural cleansing and ethnic cleansing are evocative; both capture dramatic crimes that shock the human conscience. \nScholars have paid only fleeting attention to this emphasis in Lemkin’s work—the relevance of biological and cultural genocide\, [2] but it certainly applies to Ukraine. UNESCO has compiled a growing list that in mid-November counts 210 sites that have been damaged or destroyed since Moscow’s invasion began on 24 February 2022. It includes 91 religious sites\, 76 buildings of historical or artistic interest\, 18 monuments\, 15 museums\, and 10 libraries. \nUnfortunately\, recent history is replete with similar tragic examples. Shortly after ISIS (or Da’esh) took the city of Palmyra in Syria in the summer of 2015\, they exploded the 2\,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin. For informed observers\, the destruction was linked to the group’s ongoing murder\, human trafficking\, slavery\, and terror in Syria and Iraq. Mass atrocities also accompanied the destruction of cultural heritage when insurgents deliberately shelled the Mostar Bridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993\, destroyed the fabled mosques\, mausoleums\, and libraries of Timbuktu in Mali in 2012\, as well as when the Taliban dynamited the sixth-century Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan in 2001. \nSocial scientists are taught to ask\, “so what?” Moreover\, we should add\, “Can anything be done?” Affirmative responses are suggested by the history of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a remarkable human rights achievement despite its contested application and nonapplication—e.g.\, in Libya but not in Syria\, Myanmar\, and Ukraine. \nThe concepts applied by the commission mirror those of cultural specialists—the essential responsibilities are to prevent\, to react\, and to rebuild. The heightened attention in academic and public policy discourse to the demands of coming to the rescue of people now also characterizes the challenge of protecting cultural heritage. \nIn fact\, the intimate link between attacking bricks and attacking blood\, or murdering history and people\, provides means to unite the tasks of protecting heritage and humans because the international political disputes about when and where to intervene in specific crises to protect people do not characterize the protection of cultural heritage. Rogues that destroy heritage—such nonstate thugs as ISIS\, such pariah states as Taliban Afghanistan\, and such major powers as China in Xinjiang—are immediate targets for external opprobrium. Widespread if not quite universal international condemnation erupts rather than endless debates about whether outside interveners are neo-colonialists or cosmopolitans. \nIronically\, many iconoclasts who destroy heritage and murder people can use social media to help recruitment. Ironically\, such performative destruction constitutes a “benefit” for them\, which is dramatically overshadowed by the costs borne by local residents and the rest of us. \nCould reframing intervention to protect heritage make it easier to reach a consensus about robust international action that would also protect the people whose culture is under siege? That question animated a research project and the resulting open-access publication of the J. Paul Getty Trust\, Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities. \nAmidst the political gloom that dominates the present moment\, there is a bit of good news. The public’s awareness and shock about the destruction of such renowned sites as the Bamiyan Buddhas\, Mostar Bridge\, Palmyra\, Sana’a\, and Timbuktu\, also lay behind the nearly universal international revulsion and outrage in January 2020\, when Donald Trump mindlessly threatened to target 52 Iranian cultural sites when Tehran menaced retaliation for the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. \nIn short\, protecting heritage has become visible on the international public policy agenda. It is no longer a “niche topic\,” the exclusive domain of cultural specialists. If any further indications were necessary\, the failure to protect adequately Iraqi cultural heritage during the initial US occupation suggested the need to broaden perspectives and participation. The rescue of individuals caught in the crosshairs of violence and menaced by mass atrocities invariably are amidst conscious cultural heritage destruction. Indeed\, for those of us who analyze politics and design responses\, including military ones\, it is important that insiders at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) speak increasingly of the “security-heritage nexus.” \nIt is essential that we be preoccupied not only with visible World Heritage sites recognized by UNESCO but also less well-known\, everyday structures—Uyghur mud-brick temples in China\, Christian village cemeteries in Iraq and Syria\, local Rohingya mosques in Myanmar\, and Russia’s campaign since 2014 to eliminate Tatar traces in the occupied Crimea. While they do not make for media coverage\, these more commonplace sites have become a daily bill-of-fare of destruction\, another indication of the widespread onslaught against the people whose heritage they represent\, as part of efforts to eliminate histories along with human beings. \nThe core R2P ethical framework is to halt mass murder and mass forced displacement\, actual or anticipated. Its emergence reflected an altered political reality. Although specific decisions about exactly when and where to invoke R2P remain controversial\, few observers question whether global responses to mass atrocities are justified. Instead\, the debate centers on precisely how best to achieve R2P’s lofty aims. \nSo too is the intersection between violent attacks on humans and heritage. The protection of immovable cultural heritage is not a distraction for proponents of the robust protection of people. There is no need to add another crime to the four mass atrocities agreed by the UN’s 2005 World Summit. Rather\, protecting cultural heritage is a fundamental aspect of protecting people from genocide\, war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and ethnic cleansing.[3] In addition\, emphasizing such protection within the R2P framework has the potential to widen support for the evolving norm and its evolution in customary law as well as contribute to ongoing conversations about legitimate sovereignty. \nResponsible states view mass atrocities as an international concern and not merely one of domestic jurisdiction. The destruction of cultural heritage should be viewed similarly because of the universal value and the intimate links between attacks on cultural objects\, structures\, and monuments and attacks on vulnerable populations. \nWhile destroying cultural heritage is not new—examples go back to antiquity—neither is the impulse to protect and preserve it; the contemporary convergence of two factors has altered the politics of protection and the feasibility of international action. First\, the destruction of cultural heritage has riveted the attention not only of curators\, archaeologists\, historians\, and activists but also of major media outlets and popular audiences. Second\, they find themselves in the company of a cottage industry of social scientists\, international lawyers\, and military officers exploring R2P’s application to the protection of cultural heritage. \nThere is no need to split hairs between safeguarding people and the cultural heritage that sustains them. Trying to establish a priority between them constitutes a false choice\, reminiscent of juxtaposing development and the environment. The staff from the Middle East Institute\, the Asia Society\, and the Antiquities Coalition evaluated the widespread devastation in Asia and concluded: “The fight to protect the peoples of the region and their heritage cannot be separated.” \n  \n[1] Quoted in Robert Bevan\, The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War\, 2nd ed. (London: Reaktion Books\, 2016)\, 15. \n[2] Raphael Lemkin\, “Acts Constituting a General (Transnational) Danger Considered as Offences Against the Law of Nations\,” (1933); and Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation\, Analysis of Government\, and Proposals for Redress (Washington\, DC: Carnegie Endowment\, 1944)\, xiii. \n[3] UN\, 2005 World Summit Outcome\, General Assembly resolution 60/1\, 24 October 2005\, paragraphs 138–140.
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SUMMARY:Fall Events Center for Global Ethics and Politics
DESCRIPTION:As the Fall 2022 semester begins\, the Center for Global Ethics and Politics would like to update everyone on our schedule and invite you to participate in the Center’s ongoing activities. This fall\, the Center will host four exciting talks — please mark your calendars!\n\nAlasia Nuti (University of York\, UK)Must the Subaltern Speak Publicly? Political Liberalism and the Ethics of Fighting Severe InjusticeFriday\, September 30 @ 12:00pm (ET)\, via Zoom Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)Agential Power and Structural Power\, Causal and Non-CausalThursday\, October 13 @ 6:30pm (ET)\,In-person at the GC Political Science Lounge\, Room 5200 Co-sponsored by the GC Political Theory Colloquium Ingrid Robeyns (University of Utrecht)Limitarianism from a Global PerspectiveTuesday\, November 15 @ 6:30pm (ET)In person at the GC\, Room TBA Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)Title TBATuesday\, November 29 @ 6:30pm (ET)In-person at the GC\, Room TBA\nFor the talk that will take place online\, an invitation will be sent out in advance with a Zoom registration link. We hope to broadcast the in-person talks simultaneously over Zoom.In case you missed our Spring 2022 events — excellent sessions on “Ethics of AI and Health Care: Towards a Substantive Human Rights Framework” with Matthew Liao; “Protest\, Silencing\, and Epistemic Activism\,” with José Medina; “Global Injustice\, Moral Obligation and the Political Action Paradox” with Elizabeth Kahn; and “Women are Women\,” with Carol Hay–you can catch up on the videos of these talks and all of our past events at our YouTube channel or by visiting our Center website. You can also find our podcasts there.This past spring\, our Center Director\, Prof. Carol Gould\, published an article on “Socializing the Means of Free Development” (Philosophical Topics\, Vol. 48\, no. 2 (2022): 81-103). https://www.jstor.org/stable/48652122. She also presented her paper “From Fraternity to Feminist Activist Solidarities: Confronting Structural Injustice and Gendered Authoritarianism” at the Conference on Feminist Politics for Today (Honoring the Work of Bat-Ami Bar On) at Binghamton University\, May 7\, 2022.We are happy to report some news about our former fellows: Jonathan Kwan has taken up a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dahbi\, and Gregory Slack was appointed to that rank in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Sid Issar has started a position as Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Louisville. Rachel Brown\, currently Assistant Professor of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis\, recently had her book manuscript Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel accepted for publication by Duke University Press\, and Jesse Spafford\, Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin\, had his book Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny accepted by Cambridge University Press. Current Graduate Fellow Callum Zavos MacRae recently published an article commenting on a piece by Jesse Spafford which had appeared in the Journal of Value Inquiry in 2020. MacRae’s article is entitled “Communists\, Anarchists\, and Suckers: A Reply to Spafford on ‘Conditional Exchange’” Journal of Value Inquiry\, 2021. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10790-021-09837-7.  Looking ahead\, please hold the following dates for our spring colloquia: Seyla Benhabib (Columbia Law)\, “The Crisis of International Law and its Implications for the Refugee Convention” Tuesday\, February 7\, 6:30pm-8:15pm. Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado Boulder)\, Wednesday\, March 8\, 4:15pm-6:15pm. Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Colloquium and the Marx Wartofsky Lecture. Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna and the Princeton University Center for Human Values)\, Tuesday\, March 28\, 6:30pm-8:15pm.Laura Kane (Worcester State University and former CGEP Graduate Fellow)\, Tuesday\, April 18\, 6:30pm-8:15pm. Stay up to date with what’s happening at the Center by following us on twitter @global_ethics\, like us on Facebook\, or subscribe to our mailing list here. Best wishes for a fine start to the semester\, and we look forward to your participation in our activities here at the Center!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our YouTube page to watch videos of past events\, like our Facebook page\,and follow our twitter @global_ethics. CGEP Director: Carol C. Gould. Distinguished Professor\, Philosophy and Political Science\,The Graduate Center and Hunter College\, CUNYThe Center for Global Ethics and Politics is part of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center\, City University of New York.
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SUMMARY:“Forgotten\, Ignored\, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present”
DESCRIPTION:The historical record is marked by voids: elided events; disappeared people; erased accounts; marginalized communities. \n  \nThe Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity (Graduate Center—City University of New York)\, in association with the School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Stockton University) and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies (New York University)\, offers a year-long  virtual series\, The Marginalized and the Erased\, to tackle a number of those blank spots. \n  \nPlease join us on September 29\, 2022 at 12:00 noon (EDT) for the first of the series: \n  \n“Forgotten\, Ignored\, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present” \n  \nGroundbreaking scholars Ethel Brooks\, Ioanida Costache\, and László Csősz move between past and present as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence\, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists. Drawing upon testimonies and documents\, their presentations reveal individual\, communal\, and institutional obstacles to remembrance and education. Chair of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University\, award-winning scholar Prof. Ethel Brooks serves (among many positions) as Chair of the Board of the European Roma Rights Center.  Dr Ioanida Costache\, recipient of a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania\, focuses on Romani historical trauma and artistic practice.  Prof. László Csősz\, historian and senior archivist at the National Archives of Hungary is also a Claims Conference University Partnership in Holocaust Studies Senior Lecturer at the ELTE University in Budapest. His current project explores the wartime history of the Hungarian Roma. \nChair: Debórah Dwork \n  \nhttps://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vVXGC9gxRoq1jYLe3FFKpA \n  \n  \nThe Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity\, The Graduate Center—City University of New York \nIn association with:\nCenter for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center—City University of New York \nThe Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme\, Education Outreach Section\, Outreach Division\, Department of Global Communications\, United Nations \n  \nThe School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Stockton University \nThe Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies\, New York University
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SUMMARY:Besieged Voices from Ukraine (part 2)
DESCRIPTION:Please join this event organized by our Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.\n\n \n\nDate: June 23/2022\n\n \n\nTime: 12-1pm EDT\n\n \n\nRegistration link: bit.ly/3xj5Dzd\n\n \n\nRussia’s attack on Ukraine has caused the death and injury of thousands\, the forced flight of millions\, and the physical destruction of cities and towns. Poet Iya Kiva\, journalist Olga Tokariuk\, and art historian expert on Jewish heritage in Ukraine\, Eugeny Kotlyar\, will address the complexities of lives disrupted and the experience of unfolding war from the perspectives of their three professions. Please join us to learn from them.\nCo-Chairs: Natalya Lazar and Elissa Bemporad.
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SUMMARY:PANEL DISCUSSION RE-EXAMINING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS ON MIGRATION
DESCRIPTION:An Initiative to Bridge Scholarly Efforts on the Study of Human Rights \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nInvites you to the second event of the Spring 2022 series:\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPANEL DISCUSSION\nRE-EXAMINING THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS ON MIGRATIONDate: Thursday\, May 5 2022\nTime: 12:00 p.m (EDT)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here Via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by: \n       \n\n                
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