DISASTER IN CONTEXT: A SYMPOSIUM ON HAITI

April 19th
3 pm – “The Haitian Revolution: Causes and Consequences”
John Garrigus – UT Arlington
Quadrangle Room at the Union

6 pm – Human Rights Panel – Garrison 0.102
Thomas Griffin – Human Rights Lawyer
Carolle Charles – Baruch College, New York – Scholar of Women’s and Gender Empowerment in Haiti
Bill O’Neill – Human Rights Lawyer, UN affiliate

April 20th
1 pm – Rapoport Human Rights Clinic
“The Organization of American States Obligations to Haiti”
Quadrangle Room at the Union

2 pm Donna J. Barry: Partners in Health Director of Advocacy and Policy
“Health and Human Rights in Haiti”
Quadrangle Room at the Union

6 pm – Aid & Development Panel – Santa Rita Room at the Union
Dan Beeton – Center for Economic and Policy Research
Jemima Pierre – Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UT
Hyppolite Pierre – Author of Haiti, Rising Flames from Burning Ashes: Haiti the Phoenix
Timothy Schwartz – USAID Consultant

April 22nd
6 pm – Keynote Speaker
Jocelyn McCalla – Senior Adviser to Haiti’s Envoy to the UN
“Towards a New Partnership with Haiti”
Belmont 328

April 26th
2 pm – “Haiti: Duvalier to Preval” – Quadrangle Room at the Union
Jean-Germain Gros – University of Missouri, St. Louis

6 pm – “National Identity and Ethos: Vodou in the Haitian Context”
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith – Wisconsin-Milwaukee University

*FREE ADMISSION

Hosted by: Texas Global Health Project

For more information contact: texasghp@gmail.com

For a full schedule see: www.texasgph.org

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