MIT/Harvard Gaza Symposium
March 30-31, 2009
The second annual Gaza symposium, this year jointly organized by MIT and Harvard, will host a series of panels on the role of US and international actors, as well as human rights and international humanitarian law in the wake of recent events in Gaza. Bringing together experts in the fields of human rights, history, political science, US foreign policy and law, the two-day symposium will include a range of views from US, Israeli, Palestinian and UN/NGO perspectives.
Monday, March 30, 1:30 – 6:00pm
Wong Auditorium, MIT Bldg E51, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge (Map)
U.S. Foreign Policy and Gaza
Congressman Brian Baird, Representative, Washington State (D-03)
Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
George Bisharat, Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law
Irene Gendzier, Political Science Professor at Boston University
Karma Nabulsi, Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University and former PLO representative
Gabriel Piterburg, Professor of History at UCLA
Barry Posen, Director of the MIT Security Studies Program
Henry Siegman, Director of the U.S./Middle East Project
Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge (Map)
Global Organizations and Gaza
Mustafa Barghouti, Former Palestinian Presidential candidate and physician
Anat Biletzki, Former chairperson of B’Tselem – Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University
William Corcoran, President of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
John Ging (invited), Director of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) operations in Gaza
Rami Khouri, Director of the Issam Fares Center at the American University of Beirut
Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Sami Abdel Shafi, Writer and co-founder of the Emerge Consulting Group in Gaza
Andrew Whitley, Director of the Representative Office of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
Husam Zomlot, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Sponsors at MIT:
The Center for International Studies ~ The Program for Human Rights and Justice
Sponsors at Harvard:
The Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School ~ The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences ~ University Committee on Human Rights Studies ~ Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School
The Symposium is free and open to the public, although seating is limited.
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