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G O B EYON D . B E A PAR T OF S O METHI N G BI GGER
There is no noise as powerful as the sound of marching feet of a determined people. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be – and then help make it happen. PETER TATCHELL
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. EDMUND BURKE
CIVIL RIGHTS IN ACTION. Inequality is one of the biggest threats facing the world today. Today’s conference explores topical debates in civil rights, the rewards of working in this field and the current challenges being faced by civil rights activists around the world. We will hear from experts and activists at the cutting edge, including student interns and professionals contributing to the struggle for social justice and equality today. This event is being held simultaneously in CAPA’s program centers in London, Florence and Dublin, using our global classroom technology. You will have the opportunity to hear from and interact with students and speakers from each of these locations, creating a global conversation. This day conference includes panel debates, poster presentations and short films, as well as an interactive theater performance devised by CAPA students in partnership with Cardboard Citizens, a company working with - and for - homeless people. Special guest speakers include Peter Tatchell, the world-renowned LGBTI rights campaigner, on the global struggle for gay rights; Helene Guldberg (CAPA London faculty in Child Psychology) and authors James Heartfield and Heather Montgomery will debate children’s rights; and representatives from London, Florence and Dublin-based civil rights organizations, including the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in London, will share their work. Videos of current and former CAPA students describing their experiences interning with civil rights organizations will also be shown. Last year’s event focused on human rights; human rights and civil rights may have porous boundaries but they are not the same thing. Human rights are by implication universal whereas civil rights are constructed within the context of the Latin root “civilis,” meaning related to a citizen. Civil rights are, therefore, contained within a context of history, nation, geography and law. The notion of civil rights is frequently associated with heroic struggles for equality. Women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, African-American rights are, arguably, part of a revolution of law and sensibility within many of our lifetimes. What can be learned from these experiences? What was the global influence of the 1960s civil rights movements and what are their legacies today? Civil rights may also be contested and controversial. In the USA, for example, the First Amendment of 1791 guarantees free speech but whose speech, and in what circumstances, remains a matter of complex compromise. In some contexts, civil rights are a matter of accumulation rather than specific legislation (as in the United Kingdom). The legal status of these rights may be, consequently, fragile. Abuses of civil rights and persistent social inequalities permeate history and contemporary society. It is this complex and dynamic terrain which we will explore together during the day.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
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A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT
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DETAILED SESSION INFORMATION
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CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS
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GET INVOLVED
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RECOMMENDED FILM LIST
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY
SESSION 1 10:00 — 10:30 am
LIGHT BREAKFAST /REGISTRATION
10:30 — 10:40 am
WELCOME Speaker: Michael Woolf, Deputy President for Strategic Development
10:40 — 11:30 am
KEYNOTE: THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR LGBTI CIVIL RIGHTS Speaker: Peter Tatchell, LGBTI rights campaigner and Director of the Human Rights organization, the Peter Tatchell Foundation
11:30 — 11:40 am
BREAK Student Projects: Poster Displays
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SESSION 2 11:40 — 12:50 pm
CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS CAPA faculty and external experts will participate in individual panel, poster and presentation sessions. These will be held independently in London, Dublin and Florence – the London session on children’s rights will be filmed and streamed for those viewing from other locations. Introduction: Anthony Gristwood, Principal Lecturer and Faculty Chair, CAPA London LONDON: Should Children have Rights? Chair: Helene Guldberg FLORENCE: Civil Rights and Inequalities under Totalitarian Regimes Chair: Floarea Vîrban DUBLIN: Protecting the Rights of those on the Margins Chair: Susanne Bach
12:50 — 1:20 pm
LUNCH BREAK Student Projects: Poster Displays
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SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY
SESSION 3 1:20 — 2:25 pm
CIVIL RIGHTS IN ACTION Chair: Craig Kench Speakers from organizations working on behalf of civil rights in London, Dublin and Florence will discuss what they do and why, and explore how students can become involved in civil rights work. This session will also include Q&A and videos from current and former CAPA interns who have had placements within the field of civil rights.
2:25 — 2:40 pm
BREAK Student Projects: Poster Displays
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SESSION 4 2:40 — 3:25 pm
ENACTING CHANGE: FORUM THEATER & THE CITIZEN AS PERFORMER Facilitator: Mike Punter Forum Theater performance by CAPA’s BFA acting students from the Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota, led by Mike Punter, CAPA London’s Director of Theater Education and devised in conjunction with Cardboard Citizens, the UK’s leading practitioners of the “Theater of the Oppressed” methodology
3:25 — 3:30 pm
CONCLUSION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Speaker: Catherine Colon, Vice President, Corporate Administration, Development and Assessment, CAPA
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A NOTE FROM JOHN CHRISTIAN, PRESIDENT OF CAPA THE GLOBAL EDUCATION NETWORK
Thank you for joining us for what we believe will be a moving and important day of sharing, teaching and learning about one of the most important topics of the 21st century – Civil Rights. The heroic work carried out by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others during the 1960s thrust the concept of civil rights into the public consciousness. It is impossible not to be moved by the stories from that era; we can take pride in the changes that have occurred as a result of the movement while still reflecting on what more needs to be done. In more recent years, we have seen similar fights for the rights of other groups that have been unfairly treated within their countries, and for whom new laws and regulations are needed to protect equality and access to social and political freedom. While often less prominent in the public imagination than the US Civil Rights Movement, these efforts are no less necessary and important for society. Our conference today will touch on some of those areas that are particularly relevant today. As the President of CAPA, I have the pleasure and the responsibility of ensuring that a focus on civil rights is at the forefront of what we do as an organization. This is not something we just talk about, it is at the core of what we do. It is my hope that by creating an opportunity to learn more about a wide variety of civil rights areas through open and honest discussion across multiple global locations, we will have the opportunity to have some impact. Let us broaden our perspective and understanding of the complexity of this fastmoving topic and explore the ways in which we can make a difference in the lives of those impacted. In May 2015, CAPA launched the Global Education Network. Through the use of technology, this network allows us to connect faculty and students across CAPA’s centers thereby creating the opportunity for multi-center collaborative learning. This was an important next step in our mission to explore and analyze globalization, urban environments, social dynamics and diversity in a more meaningful and global way. Today’s conference is a perfect example of how this global connection enables us to involve multiple communities of CAPA students in some of our most important work, such as this civil rights discussion.
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At this conference, we will give voice to a variety of civil rights issues. It is our intention to create a space to listen and to discuss, and to give you an opportunity to think about what civil rights mean to you as an individual, both locally and globally. We hope that today’s conference will inform and inspire you to realize that you have the power to get involved and make an impact on the ways in which countries around the world address issues of civil rights and inequalities. You can do this through daily, positive interactions with people from diverse backgrounds. Sometimes just a smile makes someone feel included. You can do this through giving your time by volunteering or interning with a civil rights organization. You can do this by pursuing a career within the field of civil rights like many of today’s presenters. You can do this by blogging about today’s event and sharing its importance to you with your friends and family. You can also donate to those organizations working each day to protect the rights of people at home and around the world. You can do this by actively seeking further understanding of one or more dimensions of civil rights and sharing your learning with others in order to increase awareness. It is a great honor for CAPA to host today’s conference and a true privilege to have the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of this important topic. As our keynote speaker Peter Tatchell has stated, “Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream about what the world could be – then help us make it happen.” I hope you will be moved and inspired to make a difference!
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INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL RIGHTS Welcome Address Michael Woolf is Deputy President for Strategic Development at CAPA The Global Education Network. He has held leadership roles in international education for many years and has written widely on international education and cultural studies. Mike’s undergraduate studies were in history and politics. His MA and PhD work was largely focused on American literature and culture. Much of his career has been within an international context. He serves on a number of advisory boards and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Forum on Education Abroad from 2006 - 2012. He has worked with Anthony Gristwood and other colleagues to develop the global cities initiative at CAPA and is an editor of the CAPA Occasional Publications series.
Keynote Address: The Global Struggle for LGBTI Civil Rights Peter Tatchell campaigns for human rights, democracy, civil liberties, LGBTI equality and social justice and was recently awarded the Ghandi Foundation International Peace Award for 2016. His inspirations include Mahatma Gandhi, Sylvia Pankhurst and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org
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CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS Introduction Anthony Gristwood is Faculty Chair and Principal Lecturer at CAPA London, where he teaches Analyzing and Exploring the Global City: London and Contemporary Issues through Service-Learning. He has also taught at the Bader International Study Centre of Queen’s University (Canada) and the University of Connecticut in London. He holds an MA, PGCE, and PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. Anthony’s current research and teaching interests include contemporary urban studies, global cities and modern London; politics, identity and culture in modern Europe, particularly Spain; public geographies and participatory approaches to teaching and learning, including the use of Web 2.0 technologies. He is also an editor of the CAPA Occasional Publications series.
London Panel Debate: Should Children Have Rights? Helene Guldberg, James Heartfield, Heather Montgomery Abstract: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, or UNCRC, is a widely-ratified international human rights treaty. UNICEF states: “The Convention has 54 articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life and set out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that all children everywhere are entitled to. It also explains how adults and governments must work together to make sure all children can enjoy all their rights.” Yet is the concept of children’s “rights” straightforward? What do “rights” mean when applied to children? And what does the concept of “children’s rights” mean for sovereignty and the parent-child relationship?
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Chair Helene Guldberg is a member of CAPA Faculty and lectures in Child Psychology at CAPA’s London Center. She is co-founder and director of spiked, the first custombuilt online current affairs publication in the UK. After working as a primary school teacher, Guldberg obtained a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Manchester. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in psychology and childhood studies with the Open University and CAPA. Guldberg is author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear (2009) and Just Another Ape? (2010).
James Heartfield received his PhD from the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. He has worked as a journalist, for a television company, and as a lecturer and editor. Heartfield is the author of Who’s Afraid of the Easter Rising? (2015), Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2012), The Aborigines’ Protection Society (2011) and The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016).
Heather Montgomery is a Reader in the Anthropology of Childhood at the Open University in the UK. She is a social anthropologist who has focused on issues of childhood, adolescence, sexuality and children’s rights. Montgomery has worked in Thailand conducting research among young prostitutes and published this work in Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand (2001). She is also the author of An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives of Children’s Lives (2008) and has written many articles and textbooks within childhood studies.
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CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS Florence Talk & Presentations: Civil Rights and Inequalities under Dictatorships Speaker and Chair Floarea Vîrban has been teaching for American programs since 2006 and conducting academic research since 1991. A promoter of a trans-disciplinary approach in human and social sciences, she holds a BA and a PhD in Letters, a BA and an MA in Philosophy (University of Bucharest), and a second PhD in History (EUI, Florence). Floarea has been working with CAPA Florence since 2006. She is also an invited/adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia (CET Florence and Siena, respectively) and at Accademia Europea di Firenze/Elon University.
PART 1: CIVIL RIGHTS AND INEQUALITIES UNDER 20TH CENTURY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES Presentations and posters from students in the Economic and Political History of Europe in the Twentieth Century class on topics such as freedom of speech, religion, ethnicity/racism, and gender issues under communism, fascism and Nazism.
PART 2: CIVIL RIGHTS AND INEQUALITIES UNDER THE MEDICI Presentations and posters from students from students in the Cultural History of Florence class on topics such as language inequalities: Latin vs. vernacular; banking/monetary policy & inequality: golden Florin vs. silver piccioli; lack of civil rights for artists; inequalities among guilds under the Medici’s dictatorial rule.
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CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS Dublin Talk and Presentations: Protecting the Rights of those on the Margins Chair Susanne Bach holds a Master’s degree in Film Studies from University College Dublin. For her thesis, she researched the depiction of Native Americans in documentaries and fiction film. She has also lived and traveled extensively in the United States and Canada. Susanne has taught Irish and German cinema modules at University College Dublin and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Dublin program. She also teaches CAPA’s summer course Cinema in Contemporary Ireland. With over eighteen years of experience in academic administration and instruction at the collegiate level, Susanne brings with her a vast experience in student services, student welfare and curricular development and implementation. At the heart of Susanne’s work with CAPA in Dublin is a complete commitment and enthusiasm for the students to achieve their academic goals while enjoying a rich cultural experience living in Dublin.
PART 1: PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF A RECOGNIZED MINORITY GROUP: THE IRISH TRAVELLERS AND ROMA
Panelists Aoife Mallon is the Primary Health Care Coordinator in Pavee Point, National Traveller and Roma Centre in Ireland, which involves working with Travellers at local, national and international levels. Aoife holds a Master’s degree from University College Dublin (UCD) in Gender Studies and has a strong background in research. She has been involved in the development and piloting of a range of innovative responses to Travellers’ needs and has contributed to a range of Government strategies and policy initiatives on Travellers. 16 | CIVIL RIGHTS & INEQUALITIES DAY CONFERENCE
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CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS Mary Brigid Collins is the Assistant Coordinator of the Primary Health Care for Travellers Project in Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre, National Traveller and Roma Centre in Ireland. She has worked as a community worker with the Traveller and Roma community at local, national and international levels for over 13 years. Mary Brigid has been involved in the planning and implementation of the Our Geels, All Ireland Traveller Health Study which was undertaken by University College Dublin and completed in September 2010 and involved the mobilization of 400 Traveller women from throughout Ireland who acted as peer researchers for the study. CAPA student Bridget Winters from Ursinus College, an intern at Pavee Point, will also contribute to this discussion.
PART 2: PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE HOMELESS AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED
Speaker Pat Doyle was appointed CEO of Peter McVerry Trust in late 2005. For the last 27 years, Pat has worked in the area of social inclusion, managing a range of initiatives, projects and organizations that work with marginalized young people at risk of homelessness, addiction and those within residential care settings and criminal justice institutions. Pat was appointed by Government to the Board of the Irish Court Service and the Social Care Workers Registration Board. He is a member of the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive’s (DRHE) Consultative Forum, and the Inter-Agency Advisory CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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CIVIL RIGHTS – A BATTLE OF IDEAS Pat Doyle (continued) Group (IAG), which is overseeing the reconfiguration and strategic direction of homeless services in Dublin. In addition, he is a non-executive director of the Dublin Housing First Demonstration Project and was elected to the Dublin Housing Special Policy Committee for Dublin City Council. He is also currently a non-executive director for the European Anti-Poverty Network and was elected to the board of the Irish Council for Social Housing (Tier 2) in 2015, for which he is also currently a director. In 2015, he was elected chair of the South Western Regional South Western Drug & Alcohol Task Force, based in Kildare. Pat currently chairs the Multi-Agency Working Group on Sex Offenders (MAG) and the DRHE’s Rent Supplement Initiative. Pat is also a member of the Kildare-based Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) and a member of the Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme (SICAP) in Kildare. In 2016, Pat was appointed to the Housing SPC on Kildare County Council.
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CIVIL RIGHTS IN ACTION Chair Craig Kench is Vice President for International Internships at CAPA The Global Education Network. Craig was born in Gibraltar, raised in England and spent ten years studying and working in the USA. He holds a Master’s degree in Education and prior to joining CAPA, managed educational facilities around the London area and worked for local government in the UK. Craig has overall responsibility for the direction and implementation of CAPA’s internship program in the six international program locations.
LONDON: THE JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS (JCWI)
Nicola Burgess has ten years’ experience working in immigration and asylum law. Nicola qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and is also an Immigration and Asylum Accredited – Level 2 Caseworker. Nicola has a particular interest in legal aid work and assisting the most vulnerable: including victims of torture, those with mental health issues and victims of trafficking. She has developed considerable expertise in representing foreign national prisoners in challenging their deportation and securing their release from detention. Nicola regularly secures damages on behalf of clients who have been found to be unlawfully detained.
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CIVIL RIGHTS IN ACTION DUBLIN: PETER MCVERRY TRUST AND PAVEE POINT See full bios in the Battle of Ideas section.
FLORENCE: ANELLI MANCANTI Xenia Barbaro has a degree in Intercultural Studies and is currently completing her Master’s degree in European and American Languages and Literatures. She has taught Italian Language to international students in private schools in Florence and to immigrants as a volunteer at Anelli Mancanti since 2015.
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CIVIL RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCE Enacting Change: Forum Theater and the Citizen as Performer CAPA’s BFA acting students from the Guthrie Theater/ University of Minnesota
Facilitator Michael Punter is Director of Theater Education at CAPA London. For ten years, he was Lecturer in Playwriting at Royal Holloway, University of London and has also taught at Central School of Speech and Drama and for Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. He is a published and produced playwright and his works include The Wolves (Faber) and Darker Shores (Methuen). His research interests include magic and illusion in the Victorian period and the career of the actor Henry Irving. He holds a PhD from the University of London. CAPA’s BFA acting students from the Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota have designed a Forum Theater event based on the techniques of Augusto Boal and the “Theater of the Oppressed,” working with the artistic associates from UK company Cardboard Citizens to engage with ideas and themes around the topic of civil rights. “Theater of the Oppressed” is a theoretical framework and set of techniques developed by Brazilian director, artist and activist Augusto Boal. Recognizing that humans have a unique ability to take action in the world while simultaneously observing themselves in action, Boal believed that the human was a self-contained theater, actor and spectator in one. Because we can observe ourselves in action, we can amend, adjust and alter our actions to have different impact and to change our world.
Contributing CAPA BFA acting students from the Guthrie Theater/ University of Minnesota: Calvin Adams; Chloe Bell; Alessandra Bongiardina; Joseph Bricker; Jessamine Burgum; Luke Diamond; William Edson; Corey Farrell; Hope Funke; Jennifer Klink; Benjamin Lohrberg; Maxwell Mainwood; Kayla McCaffrey; Luke Myers; Daniel Quintero; Carley Rosefelt; Kat Rudman; Sophina Saggau; Annie Schiferl; Jordan Zurn CIVIL RIGHTS & INEQUALITIES DAY CONFERENCE | 21
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CIVIL RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCE If you don’t DO anything different, there won’t BE anything different! “Theater of the Oppressed” engages people in discovery, critical reflection and dialogue and the process of liberation! Through “Theater of the Oppressed,” we can better understand ourselves, our communities and our world. There are several techniques, tools and expressions of “Theater of the Oppressed,” as shown here.
Forum Theater is a performance that functions to transform the spectator (one who watches) to a “spect-actor” (one who watches and takes action). A short scene by Forum actors presents an issue of oppression and represents the world as it is – the anti-model. Audience members are then encouraged to stop the play and take the stage to address the oppression, attempting to change the outcome through action. The show engages Forum actors and audience members in fun, entertaining and enlightening community dialogue.
Conclusion and Acknowledgements Speaker Catherine Colon is the Vice President of Corporate Administration, Development and Assessment at CAPA. Catherine’s passion for study abroad developed as an undergraduate at Santa Clara University when she spent her third year studying at Durham University in the north of England. After completing her BS, she returned to Durham University to complete a Master’s degree in Sociology and Social Policy. CAPA began her career with CAPA in 1995 and is based in the London Center. She is also an editor of the CAPA Occasional Publications series. 22 | CIVIL RIGHTS & INEQUALITIES DAY CONFERENCE
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Student Contributions, Posters and Presentations: London Post-War Pop Culture – AIDS Activism Then and Now
Facilitator Richard Maguire is Lecturer in 20th Century Literature at Arcadia University in London. He also teaches Post-War Pop Culture at CAPA London and American literature at King’s College London. His research interests include literary representations of homosexuality in the 1950s and queer desire in the subcultures of the 1960s.
Students Kristina Dodson, University of Pittsburgh; Kyana Ferro, Suffolk University; Sydney Haessly, University of Minnesota; Sophie Johnson, University of Minnesota; Erin Leyh, Hood College; Kaitlin Starr, University of Colorado Boulder; Matthew Venerus, SUNY Oswego; Robert Williamson, SUNY Oswego
Islam, Politics and Britain – British Muslims: Different but Equal?
Facilitator Eliya Ribak is an Associate Lecturer with NYU in London and CAPA London, where she teaches Islam, Politics and Britain: A Case Study of London’s East End. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading. She has published widely in the area of archaeology and inter-communal relations and is currently working on the archaeology of JewishChristian relations in Medieval London.
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Student Contributors, Posters and Presentations: London (continued) Students Katie Holck, University of Delaware; Eric Hostvedt, University of Pittsburgh; Sarah Muldoon, University of Delaware; Joseph Salmaggi, Muhlenberg College; Sarah Weber, Ursinus College
Contemporary Issues through Service-Learning: the Social Dynamics of London
Facilitator Anthony Gristwood
See full bio in the Battle of Ideas section.
Students Seannah Franklin, Arizona State University; Sara Norena, Rollins College
Child Psychology – Children’s Rights Panel
Facilitator Helene Guldberg
See full bio in the Battle of Ideas section.
Students Elizabeth Batman, University of Minnesota; Hunter Boshell, Rollins College; Katelin Fierens, University of Pittsburgh; Corey Larez, Arizona State University; Elizabeth McMillen, University of Minnesota; Montana Christy Ryzuk, Siena College; Kaitlin Starr, University of Colorado Boulder; Bailey Steward, University of Colorado Boulder; Ty Strimbu, University of Colorado Boulder; Ericah Whitmill, Arizona State University
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Dublin Facilitator Darren Kelly is Academic Director at CAPA Dublin. He holds a PhD in Cultural Geography and has designed and taught, over the past ten years, numerous interdisciplinary and service-learning programs for American students studying in Ireland. He was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Beloit College 20072008 working with the Office of International Education.
Students Bridget Winters, Ursinus College (Intern at Pavee Point); Taylor McAllister, Clark University (Intern at Cooperative Housing Ireland); Katerina Russo, Umass Amherst (Intern at Peter McVerry Trust)
Florence Economic and Political History of Europe in the Twentieth Century and Cultural History of Florence
Facilitator Floarea VĂŽrban
See full bio in the Battle of Ideas section.
Students Hallie Freitas, University of Colorado Boulder; Margo Dyer, University of Colorado Boulder; Bettina Bostelman, University of Colorado Boulder; Makayla Plummer, Indiana University; Lyndsey McDonald, SUNY Oswego; Gabriella Mandarino, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Sohn, Indiana University; Rachel Treiling, SUNY Oswego; Madison Munns, University of Colorado Boulder, Kyla McCann, University of Colorado Boulder; Amber Stainko, Indiana University
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Student Videos • Cameron Ochse, CAPA London Program, Fall 2016, Rollins College (interned with Index on Censorship) • Jeffrey McGarvey, CAPA London Program, Fall 2016, University of Pittsburgh (interned with Stonewall) • Emily Haynes, CAPA London Program, Summer 2016, University of Dayton (interned with Forward UK) • Edgar Trujillo, London Spring Quarter 2016, UC Davis (interned with Stonewall) • Danielle Quijada, CAPA London Program, Spring 2015, Arizona State University (interned with Index on Censorship) • Victoria Villavicencio, CAPA London Program, Fall 2015, Rollins College (interned with Hibiscus) • Jordan Brewer, CAPA Florence Advanced Italian Track, Fall 2016, University of Pittsburgh (interned with Anelli Mancanti)
Videographers: • Leo Kelly, University of Pittsburgh London Film Center, Fall 2016, University of Pittsburgh • John Ricardel, CAPA London Program, Fall 2016, Rollins College • William Marchl, University of Pittsburgh London Film Center, Fall 2016, Point Park University
Video Editors: • Taylor Yancy, CAPA London Program, Fall 2016, Hood College • Joseph Endaya, CAPA London Program, Fall 2016, Northeastern University
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS Cardboard Citizens Cardboard Citizens has been making life-changing theater with and for homeless people for 25 years, creating great theater that makes a real and positive difference to our society and those living in its margins. They are the UK’s leading practitioners of the “Theater of the Oppressed” methodology. For more information, visit: cardboardcitizens.org.uk
The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) seeks to promote and protect the human and civil rights of individuals, communities and nations, in the UK and internationally, in accordance with established national and international human rights law. This involves research, education, advice, casework, publicity and advocacy for the enforcement and furtherance of humanitarian statutes and values. The PTF works on a selected range of human and civil rights issues in selected countries including: homophobia, biphobia & transphobia; sexism & gender inequality; racial prejudice & discrimination; censorship; suppression of religion, opinion or belief; unjust detention; restriction of association; death penalty; ethnic persecution; refusal of asylum to refugees; violations of civil liberties; subjugation of national & cultural minorities; denial of self-determination to suppressed peoples; torture; genocide; war crimes; crimes against humanity; global poverty & deprivation. For more information, visit:
PeterTatchellFoundation.org
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is an independent national charity which exists to campaign for justice in immigration, nationality and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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refugee law and policy. Their mission is to promote justice, fairness and equality in immigration and asylum law and policy. Since its inception in 1967, JCWI has helped many thousands of individuals and families who, often in desperate need, have been affected by the unfairness of British immigration and nationality law and policy. Throughout its history, JCWI has been instrumental in creating partnerships among voluntary and other service providers, becoming an important resource to them. JCWI’s current activities fall under the following headings: policy work and campaigning; legal advice and strategic casework; media work and information dissemination; legal training to practitioners and others; publication of guides, handbooks and other reference materials. Strategic Objectives •
Challenge laws and policies that infringe rights of migrants, refugees and their families;
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Continue to influence the debate on immigration and asylum issues both in the UK and across Europe;
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Support others who share these objectives by providing training and guidance;
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Stand with clients by providing them with advice, assistance and representations to achieve positive outcomes in their cases.
For more information, visit: jcwi.org.uk
Anelli Mancanti Anelli Mancanti is an Intercultural Association founded in Florence in 1997 as a result of the effort to connect young immigrants with young Florentines. During its first years, the main activities of the association were language and theater classes. Soon after, it became a point of reference for people with difficult economic and social positions. In order to best respond to the ever increasing number of urgent daily issues for immigrants, the association opened a help desk for legal advice and vocational guidance. In 2000, the Regional Administration of Tuscany recognized Anelli Mancanti as one of the foremost Intercultural Centers of the region for their social and civil efforts to raise awareness of the need for welcoming and integration of migrants. For more information, visit: anellimancanti.org
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS Peter McVerry Trust Peter McVerry Trust is a charity set up by Fr Peter McVerry to reduce homelessness and the harm caused by drug misuse and social disadvantage. Vision: An Ireland that supports all those on the margins and upholds their rights to full inclusion in society. Mission: Peter McVerry Trust is committed to reducing homelessness, the harm caused by substance misuse, and social disadvantage. Peter McVerry Trust provides low-threshold entry services, primarily to younger people and vulnerable adults with complex needs, and offers pathways out of homelessness based on the principles of the Housing First model. Aims: •
To target those most marginalized in society and offer a safe, challenging and supportive environment through service provision.
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To treat participants with warmth and respect and actively encourage involvement in all aspects of their own support plan.
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To offer a comprehensive package of support that will provide the best opportunity possible for them and assist them in planning a pathway out of homelessness or drug use, or if they continue to use drugs, to assist them toward some level of stabilization in order to live a life of dignity, with respect and opportunity.
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To assist each person to re-establish himself or herself in the community and their move towards greater independence.
For more information, visit: pmvtrust.ie
Pavee Point Pavee Point is a Dublin-based, national, non-governmental organization established in 1985 and committed to the realization of human rights for Irish Travellers and Roma living in Ireland. The organization is a partnership CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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of Travellers, Roma and members of the majority population working together to address the needs of Travellers and Roma as minority ethnic groups who experience exclusion, marginalization and discrimination. Vision: Travellers and Roma are recognized and respected as minority ethnic groups who are proud and confident in exercising their full rights. Mission: Pavee Point’s mission is to contribute to improvement in the quality of life, living circumstances, status and participation of Travellers and Roma through working innovatively for social justice, greater solidarity, development, equality and human rights. For more information, visit: paveepoint.ie
Stonewall Stonewall is Britain’s leading charity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality, working to create a world where every single person can be accepted without exception. Stonewall was founded in 1989 by a small group of people who had been active in the struggle against Section 28 of the Local Government Act—an offensive piece of legislation designed to prevent the so-called “promotion” of homosexuality in schools; as well as stigmatizing lesbian, gay and bi people, it galvanized the LGBT community in the UK. The aim from the outset was to create a professional lobbying group that would prevent such attacks on lesbians, gay and bi people from ever occurring again. Stonewall has subsequently put the case for equality on the mainstream political agenda by winning support within all the main political parties and now has offices in England, Scotland and Wales. Stonewall is renowned for its campaigning and lobbying. Some major successes include helping achieve the equalization of the age of consent, lifting the ban on LGB people serving in the military, securing legislation which allowed same-sex couples to adopt and the repeal of Section 28. More recently, Stonewall has helped secure civil partnerships and then same-sex marriage, and ensured that the recent Equality Act protected lesbian, gay and bi people in terms of goods and services. For more information, visit: stonewall.org.uk
Index on Censorship Index on Censorship is an award-winning global quarterly magazine, with reporters and contributing editors around the world. It was founded in 1972 to publish the untold stories of dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. Over the CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS years, Index magazine has published some of the greatest names in literature including Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Samuel Beckett and Kurt Vonnegut. It has also published some of the greatest campaigning writers of our age from Vaclav Havel to Aung San Suu Kyi. Index on Censorship magazine is part of the Index on Censorship organization, which campaigns for freedom of expression all over the world, and also runs the Mapping Media Freedom project, which tracks attacks on the media in 42 countries. ww For more information, visit: indexoncensorship.org
SAGE Publishing SAGE Publishing was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content, publishing more than 1,000 journals and over 800 new books each year spanning a wide range of subject areas. Their growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority-owned by its founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. For more information, visit: sagepublishing.com
FORWARD (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development) FORWARD (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development) is committed to gender equality and safeguarding the rights of African girls and women. They are a leading African diaspora women’s campaign and support organization founded in 1983. They work through partnerships in the UK, Europe and Africa to transform lives, tackling discriminatory practices that affect the dignity and wellbeing of girls and women. Their focus is on female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage and obstetric fistula. Mission: To end gender-based violence (GBV), in particular female genital mutilation, child marriage and related health rights issues affecting African girls and women; to increase access for at risk and affected girls and women to CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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specialist support services, skills, rights education and livelihood opportunities; to educate and engage policy makers, communities and the public to advocate for social change and advancement of rights; to strengthen voices of African Diaspora women in policy processes and development; to improve capacity and sustainability of partner organizations. Vision: A world where women and girls live in dignity, are healthy, have choices and equal opportunities. Core Values: FORWARD believes that: protection of women’s and girls’ rights and dignity are non-negotiable; girls’ and women’s voices, needs and experiences should inform all work; participation of girls, boys, women, men and community leaders promotes equity and ownership; provision of safe spaces and specialist services for girls and women should be central to programs; partnerships and alliance building with civil society and community organizations, donor agencies and governments create synergies and accelerates change. For more information, visit:
forwarduk.org.uk
Hibiscus Initiatives Hibiscus Initiatives promotes access to social and criminal justice solutions. Vision: Empower foreign national, black and minority ethnic groups, affected by the social, criminal justice and immigration systems. Mission: Provide advocacy, support and specialist services to marginalized groups to enable informed choices and positive change. Promote justice, respect and reduce inequalities. Outcomes: Promoting rights, welfare and access to justice; empowering for the future; bringing people together; and preventing re-offending. For more information, visit: hibiscusinitiatives.org.uk
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FIND OUT MORE & GET INVOLVED ONLINE TALKS / SEMINARS / VIDEOS
The 30 Articles of Human Rights •
youtube.com/watch?v=36CUlaqmFi4
TED Talk: Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse •
ted.com/talks/jimmy_carter_why_i_believe_the_ mistreatment_of_women_is_the_number_one_human_rights_ abuse?language=en#t-982362
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice •
ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_ injustice?language=en#t-656998
Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair •
ted.com/talks/auret_van_heerden_making_global_labor_ fair#t-236389
Marta Cunningham: Re-imagining civil rights •
youtube.com/watch?v=rBzHMxv8HzM
President Obama speaks for gay civil rights •
vimeo.com/7011790
CAPA Blog, civil rights •
capaworld.capa.org/civil-rights
World Pulse, connecting women’s voices to transform our world
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worldpulse.com/en
Freedom House, watchdog organization •
freedomhouse.org/about-us
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) •
cair.com
The Civil Rights Digital Library focuses on the US Civil Rights movement •
crdl.usg.edu
Recognise focuses on aboriginal Torres Strait Islander people’s rights in Australia •
recognise.org.au
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RECOMMENDED FILM LIST CIVIL RIGHTS & INEQUALITIES Eyes on the Prize: This award-winning 14-hour television series covers all of the major events of the African-American civil rights movement from 19541985 through contemporary interviews and historical footage. Series topics range from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954 to the Voting Rights Act in 1965; from community power in schools to “Black Power” in the streets; from early acts of individual courage through to the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. This is available to view on YouTube. Selma: This feature-length dramatization follows the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr as he led the campaign to secure equal voting rights in the US. It covers the epic march from Selma to Montgomery which ended with the signing of the Voting Act of 1965.
Milk: This 2008 American biographical film is based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The Case Against 8: This documentary provides a behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the US Supreme Court. Call Me Kuchu: In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato—Uganda’s first openly gay man—and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
Stonewall Uprising: This 2010 American documentary film examines the events surrounding the Stonewall riots that began during the early hours of June 28, 1969 following a police raid on New York’s Stonewall Inn. The threeday riots had a major impact on the gay rights movement. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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RECOMMENDED FILM LIST When You Don’t Exist: This short film imagines a scenario in which current migration flows are reversed. Violent unrest causes people to flee Europe en masse and reach Africa. There, they are forcibly taken by authorities and jailed in refugee camps. When You Don’t Exist is Amnesty International’s campaign for the human rights of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and at its borders. The film can be viewed on their website: www.amnesty. org/en/latest/education/2016/03/seven-free-short-films-about-refugeesrecommended-by-human-rights-educators/
Chasing Freedom: An ambitious lawyer (Juliette Lewis) helps a young Afghan woman (Layla Alizada) seeking political asylum in the United States.
Taylor’s Campaign: This documentary provides a candid, brutally honest inside look at the tragedy of being homeless in America. Set in Santa Monica, California in 1994, it follows Ron Taylor, a former homeless truck driver as he runs for city council as an advocate for the homeless. Santa Monica, a wealthy sea-side resort town, had recently seen an increase in both homeless persons and tourists. Deciding the latter were more important, the city passed anti-camping and anti-feeding ordinances designed to drive out the homeless; these ordinances were later repealed when they proved to be unconstitutional. The film cleverly juxtaposes the interaction between the various groups including homeless persons, business owners, tourists and housed residents and the effect is startling.
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: This Ken Burns documentary tells the story of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their life-long fight to bring equal rights to women.
Honor Diaries: This documentary traces the work of nine women’s rights advocates who came together to engage in a discourse about gender inequality and honor-based violence, combining in-depth interviews and roundtable discussions with archival footage.
Half the Sky: This documentary—filmed in 10 countries with narrations from celebrities such as Olivia Wilde, Eva Mendes and Meg Ryan—tells uplifting stories of women around the world who are fighting back against systemic oppression. The film presents gender equality as the unfinished business
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RECOMMENDED FILM LIST of our time and highlights women who are working to improve everything from healthcare to education. Although one of the faces of the Half the Sky movement, Somaly Mam, has recently been exposed for allegedly fabricating her harrowing story, it does not diminish the power of this meaningful film.
Rabbit Proof Fence: This film follows the stories of mixed race Aboriginal girls, Molly, Gracie and Daisy, during the time when the area’s Chief Protector of Aborigines ruled that children of mixed marriages could not marry fullblooded Aborigines, in an attempt to “breed out” the race.
Lao Ma Ti Hua by Ai Weiwei: The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei travels to Chengdu, China to attend the trial of the civil rights advocate Tan Zuoren as a witness.
Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl: This documentary-style film tells the story of an Irish Traveller girl and her family. Most of the characters are played by the Maughan family themselves, led by youngest daughter Winnie. Filmed entirely on video, the film was described as startlingly real, showing the conditions in which the family live.
Bloody Sunday: This movie was inspired by Don Mullan’s politically-influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday (Wolfhound Press, 1997). The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, an SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, who was a central organizer of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British Army paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another who died 4½ months later.
52 Tuesdays: This Australian coming-of-age drama explores a woman, Jane, transitioning to a man, James, and the relationship with his daughter. Needing some time to focus, the daughter, Billie, goes to live with her father but she and James agree to see each other every Tuesday. The film is shot in real time, on every Tuesday for a year. The cast were all non-professionals and were given their scripts one week at a time. This provides an original way of looking at transition over time, not only in terms of James’ change from female to male but also his daughter’s journey into adulthood.
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RECOMMENDED FILM LIST I, Daniel Blake: Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or award-winning film is a powerful portrait of a contemporary Britain in which the working class continue to suffer deprivation and the added indignity of a government that seemingly treats them as scrounging criminals worthy of mistrust and contempt. The film focuses around an ailing handyman’s battle to survive after being denied his government health allowance and the relationship he strikes up with a young single mother. The film is a savage indictment of modern Britain.
Cathy Come Home: This film about homelessness, also directed by Ken Loach, is frequently rated as one of the best and most influential British television programs ever made. Filmed in a gritty and realistic drama-documentary style in 1967, the film tells the story of a young couple, Cathy and Reg, and their gradual descent into poverty and homelessness. Cathy Come Home addressed issues that were not then widely discussed in the popular media, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children, and led directly to the foundation of the homeless charity Shelter.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all of those who played a role in making this conference a reality. It has been a pleasure to work with each and every one of you and we couldn’t have done it without this team effort.
First, we would like to extend a very big thank you to the CAPA Fall 2016 students who helped us in so many different areas, from promotion, to setting up, to creating videos, to video editing, to photography, interviews, blogs and beyond. In London: Kathy Deaver (University of Delaware), Sophie Johnson (University of Minnesota), Cameron Ochse (Rollins College), Felipe Perea Jimenez (Rollins College), Taylor Yancey (Hood College), Jeffrey McGarvey (University of Pittsburgh), Leo Kelly (University of Pittsburgh), John Ricardel (Rollins College), William Marchl (Point Park University), Joseph Endaya (Northeastern University), Katrina Deisler (Rollins College). In Dublin: Bridget Winters (Ursinus College), Taylor McAllister (Clark University), and Katerina Russo (UMass Amherst). In Florence: Spencer Hood (University of Colorado Boulder) and Jordan Brewer (University of Pittsburgh). We are truly impressed with your professionalism, passion and your contributions to this conference. Thank you to Michael Punter and CAPA’s BFA acting students from the Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota for their interactive theatrical performance. We appreciate the opportunity to experience your talent while exploring issues of civil rights through theater. Next, we would like to thank the main conference organizing committee who dedicated an extraordinary amount of their time and energy to bring this conference together: Catherine Colon, Claire Kibblewhite, Craig Kench, Anthony Gristwood, Kristin Dean and Michael Woolf. Your enthusiasm, tenaciousness and team spirit have been remarkable and truly appreciated. Thank you also to our colleagues in CAPA Dublin and CAPA Florence for arranging speakers and organizing the conference in your locations and for helping to make this a global conversation: Susanne Bach, Darren Kelly, Hayley Ní Bhriain, Lorenzo Ciccarelli, Vittoria Chesi, Guido Reverdito. Thank you to Norma McEnery for her work with the student videos, Lumi Ladele and Eric Deveaux for support of our global classroom technology, and for additional contributions from Daniel Walker, Hanna Gustafsson, Jo Salisbury and Carla Infurnari.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would also like to acknowledge Lorena Leonard, Jaclyn Cimino and Stephanie Sadler for their amazing design work on the conference program and other materials as well as the civil rights blog and other social media work. Thank you to John Christian, CAPA’s president, for your support and inspiration. This conference would not have happened without your passion for civil and human rights issues and your support of CAPA’s commitment to intellectual discourse within the field of study abroad. Thanks to all of our internship sites who provide our students with such remarkable opportunities to learn beyond the classroom, to gain international experience and exposure to their areas of interest, and to develop personal and professional skills that will serve them well as they look to build their careers and interact in an increasingly globally-connected world. Thank you to the faculty who have contributed to the conference and facilitated student project work: Helene Guldberg, Richard Maguire, Eliya Ribak and Floarea Vîrban. Enormous thanks and gratitude is extended to all speakers at this conference who brought us their knowledge and expertise and donated their valuable time. We thank you for increasing our understanding of civil rights in general and for highlighting specific areas in which you work and dedicate your time. Your words are certain to inspire and motivate others to pursue the goals of fairness, justice and rights for all. Finally, thank you to all who attended the conference. For our students, we know you have very busy schedules and much to fit in during your time abroad so we appreciate the effort you put in to attend! We hope that you will have gained something valuable from the experience and found it to be a special day.
The views expressed by participants at this event represent diverse political, philosophical and ethical perspectives which demonstrate the moral dimension inherent in debates about civil rights. The views presented are those of the individual participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of CAPA. Their inclusion does not imply agreement or endorsement. The intention of this conference is to provide a forum in which diverse views can co-exist so as to allow for critical analysis and debate of a complex topic.
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