Thursday, April 23
"Human Rights in the Islamic World" by Shirin Ebadi
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
12:30 pm

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.

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.

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).

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.