This seminar aims to foster lively interdisciplinary conversations about health ethics, the political issues that arise in health policy planning and reform, and the place of ideas of justice and human rights in these political conversations. The seminar will address the following central questions:

• What are the political philosophical issues that arise in contemporary debates about health and justice both domestically and (…)

  ethics, health, justice, public policy, working group

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At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, turned heads when he told the audience at the Democratic National Convention, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America… there is the United States of America.” Likewise, French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to create the illusion of a non-partisan world by recruiting members of the French (…)

  politics, working group

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Are you interested in Global Health? Do you want to find out what other students are doing and how you can contribute?

About Us

The Global Health Working Group is an entirely student-run group sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies as part of their Graduate Seminars on Global Issues. It is a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of graduate and professional (…)

  ethics, globalization, health, technology, working group

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When: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
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Description: Speaker: Tom Quinn, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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When: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm.

  ethics, globalization, graduate students, health, working group

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Wed, November 12, 2008
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
Free, open to the public.

The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group will host a discussion with faculty on the lessons to be drawn from the past two decades in human rights law and advocacy. Join Professors Catherine Admay, Allen Buchanan, George Christie, John Dugard, Robin Kirk, (…)

  graduate students, human rights, working group

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When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Trent 40
Please RSVP.
Dinner served at 7:15 pm, program commences at 7:30 pm.

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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Intensified by the significant challenge posed to industrial capitalist life by climate change and peak oil is the popular conviction that political and ecological concerns must be addressed together if they are to be addressed at all. Yet how any proposed reconfiguration of politics, economy, and ecology is to be understood remains a subject of much conflict, both intellectual and (…)

  climate change, ecology, environment, working group

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Wed, September 10, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 028
Global Health Graduate Working Group – Martha Keating & Jeff Davis of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative

Please RSVP to Nancy Robbins.

Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm

  health, working group

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The Human Rights Working Group is a student-run group sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies. It is a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of graduate and professional students.

Our goals include:

1. Organizing bimonthly meetings consisting of presentations and discussions on pertinent human rights issues;
2. Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among graduate and professional students at Duke and UNC, and
3. A critical engagement with human rights through (…)

  culture, democracy, ethics, globalization, governance, graduate students, human rights, working group

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