Congratulations Mayer Zald,
2009 McCarthy Award Recipient

Friday, April 17

"McCarthy Award Celebration & Presentation"
McKenna Hall
3:30 - 5:00 PM

Remarks by Mayer Zald, "Looking Back on Collaborations, Looking Forward on Movements and Institutional Analysis"

Mayer Zald's research focuses on organizations and nations: new perspectives on conflict and cooperation, comparative perspectives on social movements: political opportunities, mobilizing structures and cultural framings, and reformulation of social science as science and humanities.

McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame on Friday, April 17, 2009:

5:00 – 6:15 pm
McKenna Hall                
Reception and Cocktails
(Dinner at 6:30 PM)
Toasts by Elisabeth Clemens, Roberta Garner and John D. McCarthy

Please send an email RSVP by April 10th to Kathy Smarrella (ksmarrel@nd.edu).

Mobilization is a review of research about social and political movements, strikes, riots, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Its goal is to advance the systematic, scholarly, and scientific study of these phenomena, and to provide a forum for the discussion of methodologies, theories, and conceptual approaches across the disciplines of sociology, political science, social psychology, and anthropology. In recognition of the growing inter-connectedness of the international community of social movement scholars, of the globalization of protest and protest repertoires, and of the need for cross-national comparison for theoretical advance, Mobilization is an international journal that encourages contributions and subscriptions from the global community of scholars.

The Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change was founded in 2006 to provide an interdisciplinary emphasis on the study of collective political challenges expressed via protest, collective violence, and other extra-institutional collective action.

The center provides a clearinghouse for information about scholarly activity related to the study of social movements and social change at Notre Dame. It also helps connect scholars at Notre Dame with the broader national and global community of social movement scholars.

UDHR@60:Notre Dame Celebrates Human Rights

December 10, 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change, in conjunction with the Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Notre Dame Progressive Faculty and Staff Alliance is helping to coordinate a year-long series of activities to promote awareness of the UDHR and its history and to encourage reflection and action on the meaning of human rights in our world today. We invite students, staff, faculty, and others in the Notre Dame surrounding communities to join us in stimulating new thinking about how to better realize human rights in our local, national, and global communities.

THE UDHR BIRTHDAY POSTER PROJECT:  
60 YEARS... AND COUNTING

Keep your eyes open in the halls of O'Shaughnessy, Riley, Decio and other campus buildings as a series of UDHR posters  arrive and shift throughout the academic year. The seven posters illuminate the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights and are accompanied by  photographs illustrating past and present violations of these rights.  On the left side are images from the 1940's...  images of events that, after World War II, made the countries of the United Nations ready to draft  a universal declaration of human rights, for all peoples of all nations, everywhere.  On the right side of the poster, tragically, are photographic images that document continuing abuses of human rights, 60 years later... and counting.

The project is being produced by faculty member Jill Godmilow, in collaboration with Jean Dibble and Robert Sedlack, whose design students competed to produce a winning format for the series. Madeline Nies won the competition with the powerful posters you will see all year in the halls of Notre Dame.

60 Years and Counting #1
60 Years and Counting #2

Calendar of events honoring the UDHR Anniversary

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, April 17
"McCarthy Award Celebration and Presentation "
McKenna Hall
3:30 - 5:00 PM

Remarks by Mayer Zald, "Looking Back on Collaborations, Looking Forward on Movements and Institutional Analysis"

Mayer Zald's research focuses on organizations and nations: new perspectives on conflict and cooperation, comparative perspectives on social movements: political opportunities, mobilizing structures and cultural framings, and reformulation of social science as science and humanities.

McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame on Friday, April 17, 2009:

5:00 – 6:15 pm               Reception and Cocktails
(Dinner at 6:30 PM)
Toasts by Elisabeth Clemens, Roberta Garner and John D. McCarthy

Please send an email RSVP by April 10th to Kathy Smarrella (ksmarrel@nd.edu).

Shirin Ebadi’s lecture, “Human Rights in the Islamic World,” has been rescheduled due to circumstances beyond her control. This event will now take place at 12:30 p.m. on April 23 (Thursday) in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame. 

Ticket holders must exchange their tickets. Please call the ticket office at 574-631-2800 as soon as possible to obtain new tickets.   

Ebadi is the first Iranian, and the first Muslim woman, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. A human rights lawyer, she has devoted her life to the promotion of women’s rights and the defense of children and political activists. She has spoken out strongly against discrimination and injustice in her country, at times despite great risk to her own safety. She is a conscious Muslim who believes that dialogue is the best path to changing attitudes and resolving conflict.

This free but ticketed event is the 15th Annual Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy, sponsored by Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

For more information on this and other events at the Kroc Institute, visit Kroc’s event page.