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Patrick Meier and Evgeny Morozov to join the Program as Visiting Scholars

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We are pleased to be able to announce that the Program on Liberation Technology will have two new visiting scholars from September 2010 - Patrick Meier and Evgeny Morozov.

Patrick Meier is a fourth-year PhD Candidate at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and Co-Director of the Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His dissertation research analyzes the impact of the information revolution on the balance of power between repressive rule and civil resistance. He is particularly interested in how repressive regimes and resistance groups use information communication technologies to further their own strategic and tactical goals. Patrick serves as Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi and co-founded the International Network of Crisis Mappers. He is also on the Board of Advisors of  DigiActive and Digital Democracy, two leading digital activism and democracy initiatives. Patrick blogs at iRevolution and Early Warning.

Evgeny Morozov is a leading thinker and commentator on the political impact of the Internet and a well known opponent of internet utopianism.  He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's Net Effect blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Evgeny is currently a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Prior to his appointment to Georgetown, he was a fellow at the Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Before moving to the US, Evgeny was based in Berlin and Prague, where he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online, a media development NGO active in 29 countries of the former Soviet bloc. He is writing a book about the Internet and democracy, to be published this fall by PublicAffairs.

We are looking forward to welcoming Patrick and Evgeny to the Stanford community in a few months time. 

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Humanity Reconsidered: New Approaches to the History of Humanitarianism [Department of History]

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10:00 - 10:15: Introductory Remarks

J. P. Daughton, Stanford University

Panel 1

10:15 - 12:00: Humanitarian Relief as a Historical and Methodological Challenge

"Assisting Civilian Populations: Notes on an Ongoing Research Project"

  • Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

"Who Qualifies as the Object of Humanitarian Relief? Italian Refugees after World

War II"

  • Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College
  • Comment: Priya Satia, Stanford University

 

Panel 2

1:15 - 3:00: In the Wake of War: Rebuilding 1920s Europe

"Foreign Humanitarian Actors in Poland, 1918-1923"

  • Shaloma Gauthier & Francesca Piana, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

"Post-WWI Humanitarian Efforts in Poland's Eastern Borderlands"

  • Kathryn Ward, Stanford University

"A Sketch of Humanitarian Emergency Relief Operations in Greece during the 1920s"      

  • Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • Comment: Robert Crews, Stanford University

 

3:00 - 3:15: Coffee Break

Panel 3

3:15 - 5:00: European "Humanity" in Global Context

"Early Humanitarianism and Local Knowledges: Black Experts and the Conference on the African Child of the Save the Children International Union (Geneva, 1931)"

  • Dominique Marshall, Carleton University

"Humanitarian Internationalism, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and the ‘Kashmir Refugees Fund', 1947-1951"

  • Cabeiri Robinson, University of Washington

"Human Rights and Saharan Prisons in Post-Colonial Mali"

  • Gregory Mann, Columbia University
  • Comment: Liisa Malkki, Stanford University

Sponsored by:

  • Transnational, International, and Global History Program, Department of History
  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • The Mediterranean Studies Forum
  • Stanford Humanities Center

BOARD ROOM, STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER

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The North Korean Crisis: Human Stories and Taking Action

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Mass famines, like those of the 1990s that killed a million people, are projected to happen again in North Korea. At any time, more than 220,000 people are held in the prison system, where "torture, assault, rape, infanticides, forced detention and public executions" are commonplace. The state medical system is in severe disrepair, allowing treatable diseases like tuberculosis to claim tens of thousands of lives per year. Unfortunately, North Korea's political and economic isolation often impedes those interested in reducing the hardships endured by the North Korean people. In "The North Korean Crisis: Human Stories and Taking Action," four experts on North Korea will discuss the North Korean humanitarian crisis and importantly, outline ways for members of the Stanford community and beyond to take action.

Presented by the Stanford Korean Students Association and sponsored by ASSU Speaker's Bureau, Korean Student Association at Stanford, Korean Studies Program, CDDRL, Steve Kahing

Bechtel Conference Center

Dr. Sharon Perry Senior researcher at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine Speaker Stanford and North Korean
Jung Gwang Il Director of NK Gulag for Democracy Speaker A Seoul based-NGO
David Hawk Former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Speaker
Dan Chung Communications Director of Crossing Borders Speaker
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The Promise of Information and Communications Technology

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On April 19, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies convened a special conference on Technology, Governance, and Global Development, to examine how technical innovation solves, or fails to solve, the problems of chronic global underdevelopment. Experts from business, medicine, philanthropy, academia, government and non-governmental organizations, along with young Stanford alumni, addressed technology’s ability to help secure gains in health, economic development, agricultural innovation, food security, and human development.

With a wealth of expertise and on-the-ground experience, panelists tackled central issues and engaged in spirited debate, animated by moderator Phil Taubman. “The Promise of Information and Communications Technology” examined whether technology can transform lives of individuals, even in poorly governed countries, finding encouraging evidence in health and economic development.

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center

Philip Taubman Moderator
Megan Smith Speaker Google.org

Joshua Cohen

Program on Global Justice
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Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy at Stanford University, where he also teaches at the d.school and helps to coordinate the Program on Liberation Technology. A political theorist trained in philosophy, Cohen has written extensively on issues of democratic theory—particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance—and global justice. Cohen is author of On Democracy (1983, with Joel Rogers); Associations and Democracy (1995, with Joel Rogers); Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2010); The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays (2011); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2011). Since 1991, he has been editor of Boston Review, a bi-monthly magazine of political, cultural, and literary ideas. Cohen is currently a member of the faculty of Apple University.

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