Events

Felon: Poems

@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United States

Sponsored by Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford Law School Criminal Justice Center, Humanities Center, Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford Arts Institute Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate […]

Race and the Criminal Justice System

Room offsite

The 11th Annual Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture Presented by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSE) in parthernship with OpenXchange at Stanford University Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed public interest lawyer and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, will deliver the 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture at a […]

Limits on Free Speech on U.S. Campuses?

@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

On January 7, 2016, the Stanford Human Rights Center hosted the third and final event in its Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex and sensitive issue that generates strong reactions. Universities should be the ideal environment to discuss this conflict. However, a recent report from the Center for Constitutional Rights […]

Pursuing Justice in Israel: the Rachel Corrie Case

@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

This event was the second of the Stanford Human Rights Center's Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. In March 2003, an Israeli army bulldozer killed Rachel Corrie, a U.S. peace activist, while she sought to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel’s parents, will […]

Stanford OpenXChange | Open Office Hours: Responding to Climate Change

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OpenXChange is pleased to announce its first Open Office Hours program with the first in the series of six exploring climate change in a panel discussion format. Our panel of experts will discuss a range of strategies for responding to climate change, including approaches such as divestment from fossil fuels, investment in alternative energy, environmental […]

Deterrence or revenge? The return of punitive house demolitions in response to recent events in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

The first event in the Stanford Human Rights Center's Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. Punitive house demolitions were routinely practiced by Israel in the Occupied Territories until 2005. In 2014, Israel renewed these demolitions, based on their purported deterrent effect. But has Israel enjoyed greater security in the past two years? The […]

Prof. Bernadette Atuahene Discusses “We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program”

@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=PIsrHY6Tzt8 We Want What's Ours is a detailed study of South Africa's attempts to rectify the deprivation of land suffered by thousands of people under the colonial and apartheid regimes. It teaches a critical lesson about these transitions: remedying past wrongs entails more than distributing money or even returning property, because the dispossessed did […]