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Calendar of Upcoming Events

September 2, 2010
Human Rights Information Session
F
ind out what Human Rights at SMU is all about! 
Meet professors, student leaders & community partners.

Hughes-Trigg Forum (lower level)
6:30 pm

Godbey Lectures - The Struggle for Human Rights
(
each lecture presented by Rick Halperin, Director Embrey Human Rights Program)
October 19
  The Global Status of Human Rights
October 26
  Up Close and Personal - Visits to Sites of Mass Crimes
November 2
 Pointing the Finger Inward - a Critical Assessment of America's Human Rights Records
Each lecture/lunch will be held at:
      
Maggiano's at North Park Center
           11:00 am Lecture/Noon lunch
                 Cost $135 members/$195 non-members
                 Individual Lecture Cost:  $45 members/$65 non-members
Click here for more information on each lecture

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EMBREY HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM with
Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility

DEATH PENALTY MATTERS
FALL 2010 SERIES

September 16 - 7:00 p.m.
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
“Up Close and Personal: Defending Against the Death Penalty”
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 306

September 23 - 7:00 p.m.
Delia Meyer, and other family members of death row inmates
“The Experience of Families of Death Row Inmates in Texas”
Hughes-Trigg Forum, 3140 Dyer Street

September 30 - 7:00 p.m.
The Rev. Carroll Pickett, Former Texas death row chaplain
Ron McAndrew, Former Florida State Prison warden
“Up Close and Personal: The Death Penalty from the Inside of the Death House”
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 306

October 7 - 7:00 p.m.
Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
“The Status of & the Struggle Against the Death
Penalty Nationally & Internationally”
Hughes-Trigg Forum, 3140 Dyer Street

October 14 - 7:00 p.m.
Austin Sarat, Professor of Political Science & head of the Legal Studies program at Amherst College
“Death of a Penalty”
Hughes-Trigg Forum, 3140 Dyer Street

October 21 - 7:00 p.m.
Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 306

November 4 - 7:00 p.m.
George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law.
“The Death Penaly as a Medical Act”
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 306

November 11 - 7:00 p.m.
Scott Langley, Photographer
Death Penalty Documentary Project

Virginia Dupuy, Professor of Voice
Meadows School of the Arts

John Holbert, Lois Craddock Perkins
Professor of Homiletics
performing excerpts from Dead Man Walking
Perkins School of Theology, Prothro Great Hall

November 18 - 7:00 p.m.
Sister Helen Prejean
“A Life’s Mission: Restorative Justice and the Death Penalty”
Virginia Dupuy / performing Meditations
Perkins School of Theology, Prothro Great Hall

For more information, call 214-768-8347