8:00–8:55 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Welcome & Overview

9:15–10:00 am Context and Relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Debates, Dialogues and Pluralities
PROFESSOR AMII OMARA-OTUNNU, UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER,
UNITED STATES

10:00–10:15 am Q & A Session

10:15-10:45 am Interactive Session with Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu

10:45-11:00 am Break

11:00-11:45 am From Inalienable Rights to Human Rights:
A United States Perspective
PROFESSOR LAWRENCE GOODHEART, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

11:45-12:10 pm Teacher Interaction, sharing of ideas

12:15–1:15 pm Lunch

1:15-2:00 pm Integrating women’s rights and sustainability issues into human rights education
PROFESSOR FOUZIA RHISSASSI, UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, MOROCCO

2:00–2:15 pm Q & A Session

2:15-2:45 pm Interactive Session with Professor Rhissassi

2:45–3:00 pm Break

3:00–3:45 pm Contemporary Human Rights Issues
Dr. Joy Gordon, Professor of Human Rights and Social and Political Philosophy, Fairfield University, Connecticut

3:45–4:15 pm Q & A Session

5:00–5:30 pm Reception

5:30-7:00 pm Dinner

7:00–8:30 pm Film Segments/webcasts: Moderator: Professor Alan Marcus, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut

DAY 2 (THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005)

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:30–8:45 am Preliminaries

8:45–9:30 am Children’s Rights and Human Rights Education
PROFESSOR KARL-PETER FRITZSCHE, UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, GERMANY

9:30-9:45 am Q & A Session

9:45-10:15 am Interactive session with Professor Fritzsche

10:15-10:30 am Break

10:30-11:15 am Environment and Human Rights
PROFESSOR MARIANA BLENGIO VALDÉS, UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, URUGUAY

11:15-11:30 am Q & A Session

11:30–12 pm Interactive session with Professor Blengio Valdes

12:00–12:50 pm Lunch

1:00–2:00 pm Tour of Dodd Center Human Rights Collections
Tour Leader: Terri J. Goldich, Archives & Special Collections, T.J. Dodd Research Center

2:00-2:45 pm Asian Perspectives on Human Rights
Professor Shyamala Raman, Professor of Economics and International Studies, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut

2:45-3:00 pm Break

3:00-4:00 pm Curriculum Strategies/Curriculum Sharing Panel: Daniel W. Gregg, Consultant, Social Studies Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction, Connecticut State Department of Education

Caryn Stedman, Curriculum & Instructional Specialist for Global & International Studies, The Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global & International Studies Bloomfield, Connecticut

Elizabeth Devine and Sarah Lawrence, Social Studies Teachers, Hall High School, West Hartford, Connecticut

4:00–4:30 pm Interactive Teacher wrap up

4:30-4:45 pm Concluding Comments

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MARIANA BLENGIO VALDÉS
UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, URUGUAY

Professor Mariana Blengio Valdés is the UNESCO Chair-holder on Human Rights at the University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo. She also holds the Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair for Human Rights Education. She obtained her Doctor in Law and Social Sciences from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. She currently teaches Law at the Catholic University of Uruguay and the University of Montevideo.
    Professor Blengio Valdés’ publications cover human rights topics from abortion to rights for education and human dignity. She is also the Director of the Human Rights Review of the UNESCO Chair of Montevideo and is active in various organizations including Public Law and Human Rights Review Uruguay.
    Professor Blengio Valdés has also received numerous awards and prizes on topics of Human Rights and for her work on “Environment and Human Rights”.

KARL-PETER FRITZSCHE
UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, GERMANY

Professor Dr. Karl-Peter Fritzsche is the UNESCO Chair-holder in Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg in Magdeburg, Germany. Dr. Fritzsche obtained his Doctorate and Doctorate Habilis Venia Degrees for Political Science from the University of Frankfurt in 1976 and 1987, respectively. He has been a Professor of Political Science and Research into Prejudice at the University of Magdeburg since 1993.
    Dr. Fritzsche’s research interests include children rights and human rights education, comparative textbook research, human rights and the internet, right wing extremism, anti-Semitism, prejudice and intolerance. Amongst his current research projects are youth violence in Germany and learning theories of human rights.
    Dr. Fritzsche has been active as a board member of several associations devoted to the furtherance of human rights education, including the International Network for Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Human Rights. His well-known publications include Tolerance Matters and Hate Hurts: How Children Learn to Unlearn Prejudice.

FOUZIA RHISSASSI
UNESCO CHAIR-HOLDER, MOROCCO

Prof. Rhissassi is the UNESCO Chair-holder on Women’s Rights in Morocco. She has been with the Chair since 1998.   
    Morocco has made great contributions in advancing equity between men and women and enhancing democracy. Prof. Rhissassi played a leading role in lobbying for the adoption of the Family Code in Morocco’s Constitution, which is considered a model for promoting women’s rights in the Arab world.
    For the past three years, Prof. Rhissassi’s Chair has been working on the issue of integrating human rights education into secondary school curriculum. Her expertise is in the areas of human rights, women’s studies/gender studies, and sustainable development.

DR. LAWRENCE GOODHEART
PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

A professor of American history at the University of Connecticut, Lawrence B. Goodheart has written widely on social issues. He has written Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Imperative (1990) and Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (2003). His co-edited books are American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-National Context (1991), Slavery in American Society (1993), The Abolitionists (1995), and Murder on Trial (2005). His current research project is “The Death Penalty in Connecticut, 1636-2005.”

JOY GORDON
PROFESSOR, FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY

Dr. Joy Gordon is professor of philosophy at Fairfield University and teaches human rights, and social and political philosophy. Dr. Gordon is an authority on political philosophy and international law and holds a law degree from Boston University School of Law and a doctorate in philosophy from Yale University. Her manuscript on economic sanctions is currently under contract with Harvard University Press.
    Dr. Gordon’s approach to issues of economic sanctions can be gleaned from her provocative articles in the November 2002 issue of Harper's magazine and the December 6, 2004 issue of The Nations. There, Dr. Gordon provides hitherto neglected aspects of the Bush Administration’s handling of Iraq. Using confidential U.N. Security Council documents, she showed how the United States consistently blocked Iraq from importing billions of dollars of legal and urgently needed humanitarian goods, such as water tankers during a period of drought, claiming that they could be used as weapons of mass destruction. The documents also showed that U.S. claims about "weapons of mass destruction" were often highly speculative, and were manipulated for political reasons rather than security concerns.

SHYAMALA RAMAN
PROFESSOR, SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE

Shyamala Raman is a Professor of Economics and International Studies at Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut.  She also directs the International Studies Program and chairs the Social Science Division. She has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Madras, a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) as well as a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. 
    Her research and teaching interests include globalization, feminist economics, South Asia and curriculum design.  She is the 2001 recipient of the Father John Stack Teaching Excellence Award at Saint Joseph College.  She is the Academic Director of the Capitol Region Education Council’s Summer Institute for International Studies for high school juniors and seniors, held each summer since 2002, at Saint Joseph College.  Professor Raman has designed and conducted workshops for middle and secondary school educators on a wide variety of topics, the most recent one was on globalization for the New York State Association of Independent Schools. She is a trustee of the Hill Center for World Studies, Ashfield, Massachusetts, an institution devoted to the infusion of new scholarship in World History to K-16 educators.

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Alan Marcus
Assistant Professor, Neag School of Education

Alan Marcus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut. His research and teaching focus on social studies education and teacher education with an emphasis on the benefits and dilemmas of film and television as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Alan earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in curriculum and teacher education. Prior to attending Stanford he taught high school social studies for seven years. In addition to Alan’s work mentoring future social studies teachers in the teacher education program at UConn, he is currently editing a book on film, history, and pedagogy and serves on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies.

CONNECTICUT SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS:
This workshop has been designed to meet many of the goals prescribed by the Connecticut Social Studies Standards Curriculum Framework.  Examples of goals addressed in this workshop include:

• Analyze the historical roots and the current complexity of relations among nations in an increasingly interdependent world;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture and how different perspectives emerge from different cultures;
• Apply geographic knowledge, skills and concepts to understand human behavior in relation to physical and cultural environment;
• Describe the relationships among individuals, the groups and the institutions which exist in any society and culture;
• Demonstrate knowledge of how people create rules and laws to regulate the dynamic relationships of individual rights and societal needs;
• Demonstrate an understanding of how ideals, principles and practices of citizenship have emerged over time and across cultures.

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Includes symposium fee, resource materials packet, CEU certificate of completion, meals, and overnight accommodations on June 29.

The deadline for registration is June 15, 2005; enrollment may be filled to capacity prior to that date. Early registration is recommended

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE CONFERENCE PLANNNG COMMITTEE:

Committee Co-Chair: Dr. Lawrence Goodheart, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Committee Co-Chair: Dr. Shyamala Raman, Professor of Economics and International Studies and Director of International Studies, Saint Joseph College

College of Continuing Studies

Neag School of Education

UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights
University of Connecticut
233 Glenbrook Road Unit 4124
Storrs, CT 06269-4124
unescochair@uconn.edu
Phone: 860.486.0647
Fax: 860.486.2545


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