Program for a conference held April 30-May 2, 2008 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala

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University of Mississippi eGrove Documents and Files Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation 4-30-2008 A Single Struggle? The Global Convergence of Civil and Human Rights Conference Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/atrr_docs Recommended Citation Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, "A Single Struggle? The Global Convergence of Civil and Human Rights Conference" (2008). Documents and Files. 2. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/atrr_docs/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Documents and Files by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. A Single Struggle? The Global Convergence of Civil and Human RightsConference ScheduleWednesday, April 30, 2008Carver Theater for the Performing Arts6:00 PM-9:00 PM Screening of the film "The Devil Came on Horseback" Thursday, May 1, 2008Birmingham Civil Rights Institute8:00 AM-3:00 PM Conference registration8:00 AM-9:00 AM Continental breakfast9:00 AM-10:00 AM Opening SessionSpeaker:   Dr. Lewis Baldwin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN"Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr.  and South Africa"10:15 AM-11:15 AMSESSION I A Review of Human Rights Standards & Social CommentarySESSION II Defining Human Rights12:00 PM-1:15 PM Luncheon Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Speaker: Carolyn McKinstry, President, Sixteenth Street Foundation“Human Rights: Where Do We Go From Here?”1:30 PM-2:30 PMSession III When One Leads to the Other: Examining Connections Among Human Rights Struggles  Session IV From Operation Crossroads Africa to SNCC: The Role of Students in the Movement 3:30 PM-4:00 PM Sessions Wrap-up6:00 PM-9:00 PM Screening of the film "A Dream in Doubt"Friday, May 2, 2008Birmingham Civil Rights Institute8:00 AM-1:00 PM Conference registration8:00 AM-9:00 AM Continental breakfast9:00 AM-10:00 AM Today's Campus Activism: A Discussion10:15 AM-11:15 AMSession V Incarceration as Methodology: Interment, Imprisonment, and Rebellion Session VI What's Gender Got to Do With It? Women, Justice and the Struggle for Human Rights12:00 PM-1:15 PMLuncheon  Birmingham Civil Rights InstituteSpeaker: Douglas Shipman, Executive Director, Center for Civil & Human Rights Partnership, Atlanta, GA"The Center for Civil and Human Rights Partnership"1:30 PM-2:30 PMSession VII Technology, Militancy and Human Rights: Two Views Session VIII Mounting Struggle at the Local Level 3:30 PM-4:00 PM Conference Wrap-up4:00 PM-5:00 PM Tour Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Permanent ExhibitionCONFERENCE INFORMATIONREGISTRATIONConference registration is $60.00 for all events. To register, please fill out and returnthe attached registration form to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, ATTN:  LauraAnderson, 520 Sixteenth Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. Please makechecks payable to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.SCHOLARSHIPSThe Birmingham Civil Rights Institute will provide a limited number of scholarships forconference registration. For more information please go to the Institute's Web site atwww.bcri.org to download the scholarship form. All forms must be mailed by April 10,2008 to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, ATTN:  Laura Anderson, 520 16thStreet North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. ACCOMMODATIONSThe conference will be held at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Participants are re-sponsible for their own lodging arrangements. Accommodations are available throughthe Redmont Hotel 2101 Fifth Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203. Call toll-free: 877-536-2085. A conference rate of $89.00 per room is available. Reservationswill be accepted at the discounted amount until April 15, 2008. After this date, requestswill be honored on an availability basis only. To secure this rate, please ask for the BCRIHuman Rights Conference rate.A SINGLE STRUGGLE?REGISTRATION INFORMATIONPlease cut and return, with payment, in envelope to address given on left._____________________________________________________Name_____________________________________________________Organization_____________________________________________________Address__________________________________________________________________________________________________________City Zip_____________________________________________________Phone Fax_____________________________________________________E-mailFeatured Conference SpeakersLewis BaldwinCarolyn McKinstryDoug ShipmanThis conference is made possible, in part, by the City of Birmingham, Alabama and contributions to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Corporate Campaign.Over the course of the 20th century, many individuals and groups have achieved profound socialchanges in the name of human rights. National liberation movements drove out colonial powers;labor unions established the right to strike; women succeeded in gaining the vote. In America,African Americans sought and achieved relief from oppression in all of its various forms. Whilethese accomplishments are the results of struggles for the protection of humans, civil and humanrights have evolved as distinct privileges accorded to the world's people. Many scholars considercivil rights to be those liberties bestowed by nations on citizens within their territorial borderswhile human rights are rights individuals possess by virtue of membership in the human race.One concept is derived from the legalities of civilized society while the other is an extension ofman's place in nature. All too often, the scholarly perspective is that a civil rights movement (asin the American social movement of the 1950's and 1960's) is distinctly different from non-West-ern freedom struggles that take place in other parts of the world within distinctly non-Westerncultures. The resulting analysis of such events does not allow the similarities of human struggleto define or influence the impact of what is undertaken by those individuals."A Single Struggle?"will examine those societal attributes that have evolved into the accepted differences separatingcivil rights from human rights.        520 Sixteenth Street NorthBirmingham, Alabama  35203(866) 328-9696www.bcri.orgA Single Struggle?The Global Convergence of Civil and Human RightsAS i n g l e  S t r u g g l e ?The Global Convergence of Civil and Human RightsA Conference on International Civil and Human Rights Issuespresented by theBirmingham Civil Rights InstituteBirmingham, AlabamaApril 30, 2008 - May 2, 2008Refugees in Menawashi, Darfur (top) and the burning villageof Um Zeifa--photos (c) Brian SteidleSESSION I — Thursday, May 1 — 10:15—11:15a.m. The Consequences of Applying a Human Rights Standard to Racial Discrimination James A. Gross, PhD Cornell University  ‘Broke, Hungry, Ragged Dirty, Too’:  The Civil Rights Movement Through Sleepy John Estes’ Social Commentary Zanice Bond de Perez University of Kansas SESSION II — Thursday, May 1 — 10:15—11:15a.m. Humanitarian or Human Rights?  Reason and Emotion in Recent Historiography of Human Rights Matthew Specter, PhD George Mason University  On the Road to Human: A People’s Struggle to Be Georgette Norman Troy University Rosa Parks Museum SESSION III — Thursday, May 1 — 1:30—2:30p.m. Comparing the U.S. Civil Rights and Gay Rights Movements Melinda Chateauvert, PhD University of Maryland  Human Rights, the Rights of Childhood, and   America’s Struggle for Racial Equality Rebecca de Scheinitz, PhD Brigham Young University SESSION IV — Thursday, May 1 — 1:30—2:30 p.m. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Indivisible Struggle Julia Erin Wood Yale University  James Robinson and the Harlem Origins of      Operation Crossroads Africa, 1953-1960 Damon Freeman, PhD University of Pennsylvania SESSION V — Friday, May 2 — 10:15—11:15a.m. The Export of Jim Crow Rhone Fraser Temple University  ‘We Are One People’: The 1970 New York City Jail Rebellions and the Practice of Solidarity Toussaint G. Losier University of Chicago  The Rights of Other: American Internments and       Human Rights During World War II Stephen Mak Northwestern University SESSION VI — Friday, May 2 — 10:15—11:15a.m. Not Slavery in Her Own Country:  The Human Rights Struggle of African American and Black South African Women in the 1950s Pam Brooks, PhD Oberlin College  A Wall is Just a Wall and Nothing Else at All:  Assata Shakur, Human Rights and Gender and Criminal Justice Erin Boade University of Texas at Austin SESSION VII — Friday, May 2 — 1:30—2:30p.m. Technology Diffusion and Human Rights Struggles William Campbell   Roi Ottley’s War: Black Militancy, Civil Rights and the Limits of Black Internationalism, 1935-1952 Mark Andrew Huddle, PhD Saint Bonaventure University SESSION VIII — Friday, May 2 — 1:30—2:30p.m. It’s Progress, Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do:       Highways, Housing, and Human Rights in    Montgomery, Alabama, 1956-1970 Robert Heinrich Brandeis University  Holding Back the Ocean With a Broom:           Collective Struggles of Local Participants During the Civil Rights Movement Rhonda Jones, PhD North Carolina Central University A SINGLE STRUGGLE? THE GLOBAL CONVERGENCE OF CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE * APRIL 30—MAY 2, 2008 * BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE   

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