The Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights is delighted to invite you to its inaugural conference on April 21 and 22, 2015. The conference will be in Vanderbilt Hall, located at 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.
The new Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights is a research center that promotes cutting-edge scholarship, advocacy, and education on human rights issues in the US and abroad. Honoring and extending the human rights work and vision of Robert L. Bernstein, the Institute seeks to deepen engagement between scholars and those beyond academia—practitioners, law makers, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and international institutions—on a wide variety of human rights issues, from Internet freedom and poverty to refugee rights and armed conflict. The conference will examine human rights responses to inequality.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210
4:00 p.m. Documentary Film Screening, Nowhere To Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing
A Tibetan widow defies her autocratic father-in-law so her young son can go to school. The documentary explores ethnic discrimination in Han Chinese cities and gender discrimination in a Tibetan village, and has won rare acclaim from both Tibetans and PRC Han Chinese.
5:15 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Moderator: Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University
Panelists: Jocelyn Ford, film’s Director
Sang Mota, Domestic Violence Counselor
6:30 p.m. Reception (Golding Lounge)
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Panel: Gender and Disability Discrimination in China
Moderator:
Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the US Asia Law Institute (USALI)
Panelists:
Ira Belkin, Executive Director of USALI
Zhou Dan, Chinese Lawyer, Scholar and Activist
Sharon Hom ’80, Executive Director of Human Rights in China
12:30-1:30 p.m. Emerging Voices: A Conversation with the Next Generation, a conversation with Michael Posner, Co-director, Center for Business and Human Rights and Clinical Professor, Business and Society, Dean Trevor Morrison, NYU School of Law, and the newest generation of NYU School of Law Human Rights leaders.
Boxed lunches provided.
2:00-3:30 – Panel: Global Inequalities of Wealth and Health
Moderator:
Meg Satterthwaite ’99, Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Bernstein Institute
Panelists:
Joe Amon, Director, Health and Human Rights Program of Human Rights Watch
Paula Braveman, Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health of the UCSF School of Medicine
Strive Masiyiwa, Founder & Chairman of Econet Wireless International, Ltd.
4:00-5:30 p.m. – Panel: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Global Perspective
Moderator: TBD
Panelists:
César Rodríguez Garavito, Director of Global Justice and Human Rights Program at Universidad de los Andes
Gay McDougall, Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
If you would like to RSVP to this event, please HERE or copy and paste the link below:
http://nyulaw.imodules.com/BernsteinConference
For more information about the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, please visit us at http://www.law.nyu.edu/bernstein-institute.
We hope you can join us!