Harvard Human Rights Expert Will Speak March 6 at The U of M
For release: Feb. 26, 2003
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Human rights expert Dr. Samantha Power will speak at The University of Memphis on Thursday, March 6. Power is the founder and executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Power's talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 136 of the Fogelman Executive Center. A reception will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

A war correspondent in the Balkans from 1993 to 1996, Power has also worked as a political analyst for the International Crisis Group, helping launch the organization in Bosnia. She is the author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Power is a frequent contributor The New Republic and is co-editor of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact.

Co-sponsors of the event are the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, the Bornblum Judaic Studies program, the departments of history, political science, criminology and criminal justice, the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, and Facing History and Ourselves.

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