10:00 am Opening Remarks
Juan Carlos Mercado, Dean, CCNY Center for Worker Education
Martin Woessner, Director, Frances S. Patai Program
Lotti Silber, Director, MA Program in the Study of the Americas

10:15-11:15 am Opening Lecture

• “The Land of Pale Hands: Feminicide, Social Cleansing, and Impunity in Guatemala” Victoria Sanford,  Lehman College (CUNY)

11:30 am-1:00 pm Panel I: Human Rights—History and Theory

• “Explaining Human Rights in the 1940s United States: The Stakes Then and Now” Anne Kornhauser, The City College of New York (CUNY)
• “Habermas on Human Rights and Democracy” Matthew Specter, Central Connecticut State University
• “Carter and Human Rights in the Americas” Itai Sneh, John Jay College (CUNY)

1:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 pm Panel II: Human Rights and Anthropology

• “Legal Subjects and Moral Voices: Mestizaje and Indigenous Rights in El Salvador” Brandt Peterson, Michigan State University
• “Rumblings: Human Rights Implications of Haiti’s Earthquake Response” Mark Schuller, York College (CUNY)
• “Is There Anyone Listening? Ethnic Minorities, Women, and the Human Rights Crisis in Colombia ” Patricia Tovar, John Jay College (CUNY)

3:45-4:45 pm Closing Lecture

• “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

5:00 pm Reception

About the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
The Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, headquartered at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) in Lower Manhattan, is a division of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.  It offers an excellent interdisciplinary B.A. degree in liberal arts with a number of special concentrations.  The Center for Worker Education also hosts the CCNY School of Education’s B.S. in Early Childhood Education.  Founded in 1981, the Division has become one of the leading educational institutions for working adults in New York City.  It attracts over 750 working professionals per semester and reflects the multiethnic composition of New York City.  For addition information, visit http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/cwe/index.cfm.