The Forgotten International
The Forgotten International
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GLOBAL SOLIDARITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE END OF POVERTY
CONFERENCE TO COMMEMORATE 40 YEARS SINCE
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
AMARTYA SEN (Keynote) WITH TALKS BY CLAYBORNE CARSON, DAVID GRUSKY, ANANYA ROY, AND OTHERS WHO WILL PRESENT PRACTICAL PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION
WITH THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. RESEARCH ANDEDUCATION INSTITUTE AT STANFORD
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Kresge Auditorium, 10:00-5:00
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), the Aurora Forum joins with Stanford’s King Institute to host a day-long conference on the struggle for economic justice, arguably Dr. King’s primary concern throughout the whole of his life.
No registration required. Lunch is not provided, so please bring your own or plan to eat at an on-campus cafe. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be available throughout the day.
AMARTYA SEN (KEYNOTE), Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and History at Harvard
An Indian citizen, Amartya Sen studied at Presidency College in Calcutta and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Lamont University Professor at Harvard also earlier, from 1988–1998, and previous to that he was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Delhi University and at the London School of Economics. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include Inequality Reexamined, Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. He has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/sen-autobio.html
CLAYBORNE CARSON, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute and Professor of History at Stanford Clayborne Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the movements King inspired. Since 1975, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is now professor of history and founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. Under his direction, the King Papers Project, a component of the Institute, has produced six volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.—a projected fourteen-volume comprehensive edition of King’s speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. An honorary degree from Morehouse College granted in 2007 is among his many academic honors and awards. DAVID GRUSKY, Director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and Professor of Sociology at Stanford David Grusky’s research addresses issues of inequality and takes on such questions as whether and why gender, racial, and class-based inequalities are growing stronger, why they differ in strength across countries, and how such changes and differences are best measured. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and a former Presidential Young Investigator. His recent books include Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men and Mobility and Inequality. He is coeditor of the Stanford University Press Social Inequality Series. ANANYA ROY, Curriculum Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies and Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley Ananya Roy is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Division of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She also serves as Curriculum Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. She is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America. Her forthcoming book is entitled Poverty Experts: Truth and Capital in the New Global Order of Development. She was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor UC Berkeley bestows on its faculty, in 2006.
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/dgrusky/index.html
http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/roy_ananya
With Brief Presentations By:
TOM NAZARIO, Founder of The Forgotten International Thomas Nazario, an attorney and assistant professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, is creating The Forgotten International, a new non-profit organization, which works to introduce or bring together large donor groups with projects serving impoverished women and children around the world in an effort to help ameliorate the great disparities that exist between the world’s rich and the world’s poor. RHONDA MCCLINTON-BROWN, Executive Director, Office of Community Health, Stanford School of Medicine Prior to her arrival at Stanford, Rhonda McClinton-Brown spent 10 years as Executive Director of Community Health Partnership of Santa Clara County (CHP), an association of nine nonprofit community health center organizations, the City of San Jose, and Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital Systems. She will discuss a local public engagement project in conjunction with the Unnatural Causes documentary airing on PBS. This program provides a powerful opportunity to help reframe the national debate over health and what we as a society can—and should—do to reduce our alarming health disparities. DEBORAH L. JOHNSON, Founding Minister and President, Inner Light Ministries, Soquel, California Deborah L. Johnson feels particularly called to heal the sense of separation between those adhering to conservative and progressive ideologies. She is the successful co-litigant in two landmark cases in California: one set precedent for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the state's Civil Rights Bill, the other defeated the challenge to legalizing domestic partnerships. She is an inductee into the Board of Preachers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Morehouse College, which honors clergy for their lifetime work in social justice. Her most recent book, Your Deepest Intent, was published last year. SARAH K. MOSER, CARE USA CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. KALVIN WANG and STEFANIE SHIH, Gumball Capital Executive director Kalvin Wang is a computer science major, Stanford class of ‘08, who grew up in Silicon Valley watching the bubble grow and pop. With strong interests in social change, technology, and entrepreneurship, he enjoys chewing on scalable ventures like Kiva, DonorsChoose, and Gumball Capital. Stefanie Shih, a Stanford class of ‘08 student of political science and public policy, is the campus operations director for Gumball Capital.
http://theforgottenintl.org/
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
http://www.innerlightministries.com
We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
http://www.care.org/
http://www.gumballcapital.org/
The Forgotten International
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United States
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