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Center for the Study of Human Rights

Global Symposium on Reparations

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 AND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2005

Ghosh Science and Technology Center, Room 102 (Multimedia Auditorium)

Friday, December 9:

7:30 p.m.

Introductory Address

  • Dennis Brutus, internationally-renowned human rights activist and poet from South Africa

Saturday, December 10:

9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Reparations for Apartheid in South Africa

  • Keynote Address by M. P. Giyose, Chair of Jubilee South Africa
  • Remarks by Avi Garbow, Attorney – Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
  • Commentary by Dennis Brutus

11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

 Reparations for Slavery in the US

  • Chair:  Dr. Sibyl Brownlee, WSC Vice President for Student Affairs and historian
  • Professor Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, University of Arkansas School of Law (Little Rock) and N’COBRA 
  • Jermaine McCalpin, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University Political Science Department:  “African American Slavery Reparations and the Global Reparative Justice Movement”

12:45 - 2:00 p.m. 

Lunch Break

 

2:00 - 3:45 p.m. 

Native American and Other Cases

  • Chair:  Henry Theriault, WSC Associate Professor of Philosophy and Human Rights Center Coordinator
  • Professor Chris Mato Nunpa, Southwest Minnesota State University Department of Indigenous Nations and Dakota Studies and Dakota member:  “The Dakota Treaty Rights Movement”
  • Haruko Shibasaki, Violence Against Women in War Network (VAWW-NET) - Japan:  “The Legal Case in Japan for Reparations to Filipina Former Comfort Women”
  • Henry Theriault, “Land-based Reparations:  The Case of the Armenian Genocide and Its Comparison to Native American Land Claims”

4:00 - 5:30p.m.

Debt Cancellation as Reparation

  • Chair:  Dennis Brutus
  • Thomas Ponniah, Teaching Fellow, Harvard University:  “Another World Is Possible”
  • Patrick Sargent, WSC Undergraduate in Languages and Literature:  “Debt Cancellation as Reparation:  A Comparative Analysis of Four Cases”
  • Dennis Brutus:  “The Next Steps”

We gratefully acknowledge our Worcester State College co-sponsors: Women's Studies Program, Office of Diversity, Third World Alliance, Multicultural Affairs, Honors Program, and the Departments of Sociology, History/Political Science, Urban Studies, Languages and Literature, and Philosophy.

We also acknowledge our co-sponsor: Armenian National Committee of Central Massachusetts