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

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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.

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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, (…)

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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.

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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

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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 (…)

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