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Worcester State College Campus News
Item Released 11/22/2005 International Symposium on Reparations "Whose Debt? Whose Responsibility?" The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Worcester State College will host an International Symposium on Reparations--“Whose Debt? Whose Responsibility?”-- for past mass violations of human rights. The two-day symposium will be Friday and Saturday, December 9-10, 2005 in the Multimedia Auditorium (Room 102) in the Ghosh Science and Technology Center at Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA. Click here for directions. The symposium will focus on African American slavery and South African Apartheid reparations, with panels and plenary speakers. Additional presentations will include indigenous people's cases for reparations, such as the “Comfort Women” enslaved by Japan (1938-45), the Armenian Genocide, and others, as well as linking reparations with international debt cancellation. Speakers include: M. P. Giyose, chairman of Jubilee South Africa in Johannesburg. Dennis Brutus, world-renowned anti-Apartheid and human rights activist and celebrated poet and a visiting scholar at WSC. Dr. Brutus chairs the organizing committee and will serve as a plenary speaker. Haruko Shibasaki, Violence Against Women in War Network (VAWW-NET) - Japan. Chris Matu Numpa, Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies, Southwest Minnesota State University. Jermaine McCalpin, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Department, Brown University. Thomas Ponniah, Teaching Fellow, Harvard University: “Another World Is Possible” Henry Theriault, Ph.D., coordinator of the WSC Center for the Study of Human Rights. The symposium will begin at
7 p.m. on Friday, December 9, with keynote addresses on African American
slavery reparations and the South African case, and continue throughout
Saturday, December 10, which is International Human Rights Day. Please see
the
symposium
schedule. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Professor Henry Theriault, coordinator of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at 508-929-8612. ### |
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