Please join us for two exciting events in October! Both events will be held in Classics 110 (1010 E. 59th St, Chicago, 60637).
Talk with Author Jacqueline Bhabha
Tuesday, October 7 from 12-1:30pm. Light lunch will be served.
Jacqueline Bhabha is the founding director of UChicago’s Human Rights Program. She is currently FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, children’s rights and citizenship.
Q&A will be moderated by Maria Woltjen of the Young Center for Immigrant Children.
Books will be for sale by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
Children on the US-Mexico Border: the Current Crisis
Tuesday, October 21 from 12-1:30pm. Light lunch will be served.
This panel of Chicago practitioners will provide updates on the current crisis of Central American child migrants in the U.S. and suggest ways students can be involved. Panelists will include:
Jajah Wu, Staff Attorney, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rightsat the University of Chicago Law School
Representative from National Association of Latin American and Caribbean Communities
Representative from the National Immigrant Justice Center
Moderated by Susan Gzesh, Executive Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
This series is presented by the UChicago Pozen Family Center for Human Rightsand The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and co-sponsored by UChicago Amnesty International, Center for Latin American Studies, Human Rights Law Society, International Human Rights Clinic, International Policy Program at the IOP, Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights, and the Seminary Co-operative Bookstore.