China and Human Rights: A Symposium
Sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, and the Kravis Leadership Institute.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
9:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Claremont McKenna College
Thursday, March 6th
3:00 -4:45 PM: China, Economics, and Human Rights
Panel sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
William Ascher
Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics, Claremont McKenna College
“How So-Called “Economic Rights” Have Infringed upon Political and Human Rights”
Richard Burdekin
Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
"Financial Market Fluctuations and Chinese Government Policy Shifts"
Jerry Fowler
Executive Director, Save Darfur Coalition
“China and Darfur”
Jonathan Petropoulos
John V. Croul Professor of European History and Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
Evening keynote speaker at the Athenaeum, 6:00-8:00 PM:
Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director, Center for U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society; former Dean (1996-2006), Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; author, Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2000) and Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Technocrats, and Bohemians Grasp for Power in China (1995). Sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
Friday, March 7th
9:00-10:30 AM: China: State, Human Rights, and the Beijing Olympics
Panel sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies
Richard Baum
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
“Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics”
Stanley Rosen
Professor of Political Science and Director of the East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California
“Changing State-Society Relations and the Rights of Chinese Citizens”
Chae-Jin Lee
BankAmerica Professor of Pacific Basin Studies and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
10:30-10:45 AM: Coffee break
10:45 AM-12:15 PM: Intellectual Life and Politics in Contemporary China
Panel sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Gao ErTai
Writer/Painter/Art Critic
“The Artist in Chinese Society”
Wang Chaohua
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
“Civil Rights and Human Rights: Before and After Tiananmen”
Lindsay Waters
Executive Director for Humanities, Harvard University Press
“Confucianism, Humanism, and Democracy”
Gloria Davies
Associate Professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University.
“Affirming the Human in Chinese Intellectual Discourse”
Kang Zhengguo
Senior Lector in East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Theodore Huters
Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
“Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China”
Robert Faggen
Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
12:15-1:30 PM: Lunch.
1:30 -3:00 PM: Society and Human Rights I
Panel sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights and the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children.
Melinda Herrold-Menzies
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Pitzer College.
“Human Rights and Nature Preserves in China”
Theresa Harris
Director, International Justice Project at the World Organization for Human Rights. “China and the Internet”
Susan Greenhalgh
Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine.
“China’s ‘One Child’ Policy”
Sherylle Tan
Associate Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
3:15-4:45 PM: Society and Human Rights II
Panel sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Dai Qing
Journalist/Activist.
“The Three Gorges Dam and Human Survival”
Han Dongfang
Workers’ Rights Activist
“Labor Movements”
Dorothy Solinger
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
"The Right to Livelihood: Is it being Met?"
Thomas Bernstein
Professor of Government, Columbia University
“Peasants, Human Rights, and Abusive Officials”
Arthur Rosenbaum
Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
Evening keynote speaker at the Athenaeum, 6:00-8:00 PM
Roderick MacFarquhar, "Political Reform: Past, Present--Future?"
Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science, director, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; co-author, Mao's Last Revolution (2006) and editor, The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng (1977). Sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
Cost: FREE
