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September 4, 2008 - December 4, 2008
SMU Amnesty International Weekly Meeting (every
Thursday)
6:00 pm to 7:00
pm
Hughes-Trigg Student Center Commuter Lounge
For more information contact
smuamnesty@gmail.com
or 214/235-5351
September 4, 2008
Art & Garbage
6:00 pm to 9:00
pm
on Bishop in Dallas between 7th & 8th (the alley between the
Soda
Gallery and Artisan's Collective)
Click here for more
information on the project and how you can contribute artwork.
September 10, 2008
Holocaust Lecture:
Gerda Weissmann Klein: One Survivor Remembers
7:00 pm
Congregation Shearith
Israel, 9401 Douglas Ave.
Free and open to the public.
September 12 - October 11, 2008
The
Pillowman by Martin McDonagh presented by Kitchen Dog Theater
Click here for more
information.
September 13, 2008
Tents of Hope, a live-art collaboration for
Darfur
6:00 pm to 11:00
pm
Space Gallery, 2814 Main
Street, Dallas, Texas 75226
Click here for more
information
September 18, 2008
Argentina: Photo Exhibit & An
Evening of Reflection
Doolin Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts
Photo Exhibit - All Day
Reception 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Reflections 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
September 18, 2008
SMU Amnesty International Officer Elections
5:00 pm to 6:00
pm
Hughes-Trigg Commuter Lounge
For more information contact
smuamnesty@gmail.com
or 214/235-5351
September 19, 2008
Free "China Blue" Film Screening
7:30 pm - Movie, Discussion to follow with Dr. Rick Halperin,
Director of SMU Human Rights Education Program and
Marc Jacobson -- Texas Fair Trade Coalition Director
Hughes-Trigg Forum
Click here for more information.
September 24-28, 2008
The Overwhelming by J. T. Rogers
Margo Jones Theatre (SMU Campus)
8:00 pm (Wed.-Sat.)
2:00 pm (Sat.-Sun.)
Click here for more
information.
October 1, 2008
Special Preview Screening
At the Death
House Door: No Man Should Die Alone
Angelika Film Center, 5321 Mockingbird Lane,
7:00 pm
$10.00 (students $7.00)
For reservations or more information call 214-732-8610 or
214-768-3284
Sponsored by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
www.tcadp.org
October 2, 2008
At the Death House Door:
A Prison Chaplain's Reflections on the Death Penalty
7:00 pm
Hughes-Trigg Student
Center Forum
More information forthcoming
October 12, 2008
Benefit Concert for
the Invisible Children
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
North Lake College-Sons
of Herman Hall in Dallas
$5.00
Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa from North Lake College
October 23, 2008
Symposium on the Effects of
Global Violence on Women
7:00 pm
Hughes-Trigg Student
Center Ballroom
Click here for
more information.
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Human Rights Programming at
The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas
September 17, 7:00 p.m.
Postville: Immigrant Abuse Beyond America's
Backroads
Stephen Bloom and Dr.
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Together for the first
time, the two experts on the human rights abuses at the hands of
both a meat packing plant and federal immigration officials in
Postville, Iowa, will discuss ethics, justice and democracy.
Stephen Bloom, professor of journalism at the University of Iowa
and author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in the Heartland,
and Cuban-born and Harvard-educated Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas,
certified interpreter for United States courts, will discuss the
human rights violations in a town hidden away from freeways in
the hills of northeast Iowa. Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, associate
professor of Latin American literature at Florida International
University, served as an interpreter for the migrant workers
following the largest Immigration, Customs and Enforcement raid
in United States history. His detailed account of the extensive
ethical and legal violations which took place during the
proceedings made international headlines. Bloom’s book focuses
on the fundamental changes confronting a small, predominately
Lutheran, Iowa town after 150 Lubavitcher Jews settled there,
bought the local slaughterhouse, and became the community’s new
power brokers.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
September 21
Robert Fisk
3:00 p.m.-Don't Trust the Press: Why Intelligence Sources Are
Not Good Enough
7:00 p.m.-The Lessons of History: Why We Should Not Have Invaded
Iraq
Described by the New York Times as “probably one of the most
famous foreign correspondents of Britain,” he has had over
thirty years of experience in international reporting in
Belfast, Sarajevo, Beirut, and Baghdad. His understanding of
journalism is “that it must challenge authority – all authority
– especially when governments and politicians take us to war.”
He is considered the world’s most decorated foreign
correspondent, having received numerous awards including the
British Press Award’s International Journalist of the Year seven
times. His publications include The Point of No Return: the
Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster, In the Time of
War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, Pity
the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for
Civilization: the Conquest of the Middle East.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
November
24, 7:00 p.m.
Inside Africa: Three Hidden Wars
Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago
Tribune foreign correspondent, will talk about the underreported
conflicts, genocides, and human rights abuses in Africa. He won
the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on political strife
and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he
traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions
of the Congo. He also made headlines when he was kidnapped and
held for 30 days in Darfur. He will discuss the three wars he
has been covering in Africa: Somalia, Darfur (Sudan) and Congo.
Elias Bongmba, professor of religious studies at Rice
University, will lead a question and answer session.
Location: The Rothko Chapel
Admission: Free
The Human Rights Series is funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc.
and Lannan Foundation.
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