Law, Societies, and Justice: Minors--University of Washington

Dr. Gad Barzilai will discuss two articles that are a basis for two chapters from his forthcoming book: Dancing with Jupiter: The Genealogy of Law in Political Power on May 22 from 12:00 - 1:20 pm in Smith 40A.

Professor Gad Barzilai [JD, Ph.d] from the JSIS and LSJ has published extensively on issues of law and politics. Two of his most recent books are Communities and Law [Michigan University Press, 2003; reprint 2005], and Law and Religion [Ashgate, 2007]. His articles and reviews have been published, among others, in Law and Society Review, American Political Science Review, PS, Journal of Comparative Law, Comparative Politics, UCLA Journal of Law, Government and Opposition, Journal of Peace Research, Review of Politics and Law, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Publius, The Information Society, and Responsive Community.

Graduate student workshare: Chris Roberts and Heather Fralick will discuss their paper "The Continued Significance of Oral Arguments" at a graduate student workshare Thursday April 23 from 12:30 pm - 2:00 PM in Smith 40-A. A copy of the paper is here.

Faculty workshare: Michael McCann will lead a workshare discussion of his paper "Criminalizing Big Tobacco: Legal Moblization and the Politics of Responsibility for Health Risks in the United States," Friday April 24, 12:00pm - 1:20pm in Smith 40A. A copy of the paper is here. Please note: the paper includes key graphs and charts that are in color, and reading them in grayscale (black and white) might be difficult. Readers are encouraged to consult the electronic copy for specific elements relying on color.

Michael McCann is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington and founding director of the Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center. His many publications include Taking Reform Seriously: Perspectives on Public Interest Liberalism (Cornell, 1986), Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago, 1994), and (with William Haltom) Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago, 2004). The last two books together have won six major book awards from professional academic associations. His new book Fault Lines: Tort Law as Cultural Practice (co-edited with David Engel) will be published by Stanford University Press later this year. Professor McCann received a university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989.

LSJ is co-sponsoring a talk by Dr. James Nickel of Arizona State University on Friday March 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, William Gates Hall, Room 133 (more information below and attached). All are invited -- please mark your calendars and plan on attending!

“Challenging the Indivisibility of Human Rights"

Friday, March 13, 2009
12:00 p.m.
William Gates Hall, Room 133

ABSTRACT: Indivisibility is the idea that human rights are so interconnected that no human right can be fully realized without realizing all other human rights. This doctrine is found in many UN documents and in some human rights treaties. When indivisibility occurs it has the practical consequence that countries cannot pick and choose among rights. The lecture offers a framework for understanding relations between rights, discusses a number of examples of relations between rights, and argues against strong claims of indivisibility. A central thesis is that the strength of supporting relations between rights varies with quality of implementation. Rights with low quality implementation provide little support to other rights. Even if strong claims about indivisibility were true under high quality implementation they would be of limited relevance to developing countries.

Jim Nickel is Professor of Law at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He is an affiliate professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the School of Global Studies. During 2008-09 Nickel is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Nickel teaches and writes in human rights law and theory, political philosophy, jurisprudence, and constitutional law.

Professor Steve Herbert will lead a workshare discussion of a paper he has authored with Professor Katherine Beckett, "'This Is Home for Us': Attachment to Place and the Futility of Banishment." Please read the paper in advance (a copy of the paper is attached).

Thursday, March 5, 1:30 - 3:00 pm in Smith 40-A

Banishment is an increasingly common tool for urban social control. In Seattle and other cities, new tools give the police stronger authority to create and enforce zones of exclusion. Deployed most commonly in neighborhoods populated by the homeless and other disadvantaged populations, banishment orders seek to coerce individuals to relocate. As an attempt to reduce crime and disorder, however, banishment fails. Its advocates fail to consider the depth of attachments that its targets develop to particular places. Social networks, social services, and concerns for economic and physical security all tether the homeless to particular neighborhoods. We use interviews with 41 Seattle residents who live with at least one exclusion order to ascertain how their attachments to place make compliance with banishment an oppressive burden. For this reason, among others, banishment is a futile public policy. It is also morally objectionable, and thus its increased popularity deserves robust contestation.

Steve Herbert is Professor of Geography and Law, Societies & Justice, and the author of many works, including Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). Katherine Beckett is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, Societies & Justice. Her many works include Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics, (Oxford University Press, 1997) and The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (with Theodore Sasson, Pine Forge Press, 2nd edition, 2004).

Thomas Dumm, sponsored by the Department of Political Science Political Theory Group and co-sponsored by CLASS/LSJ, will be presenting his paper "Who is an Executable Subject" on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 12:00 noon in Gowen 1A.

David Johnson, of the University of Hawai'i, will be presenting a talk on Friday, October 24, 2008 from 12:30PM-2:00PM in Gowen 1A. Dr. Johnson will be presenting findings from an in-progress study on the deterrent effects of the death penalty, entitled "A Tale of Two Cities: Capital Punishment and Homicide Deterrence in Hong Kong and Singapore."

Join us for a CLASS/LSJ Reception on Friday, October 24, 2008 from 4:00PM-6:00PM in Parrington Forum (Room 309). Come meet our first speaker, David Johnson, and celebrate the start of another academic year! Refreshments will be served!

Angelina Godoy will be presenting at our CLASS/LSJ Faculty Workshare series on May 16th at 12:30pm in Smith 40A. Her talk will cover issues related to intellectual property.

Sally Merry of NYU will give an LSJ/CLASS International Speaker Series talk on Friday, April 25th at 12:00 noon in Gowen 1A. Her talk is entitled "Law, Human Rights and Social Movements: Exploring the Justice Scaffold". More information can be found here.

Tamir Moustafa, a UW grad who participated in the CLASS program while earning his Ph.D. here, will be back on campus to give a talk on April 11th at 12:30pm in Gowen 1A. More information can be found here.

Maha Tahsin El-Taji is giving the final Israel lecture on April 8 on Israeli Arab-Palestinians between Nationality and Locality at 7:00 PM in 220 Kane Hall. Dr. El-Taji is an international human rights attorney who is earning her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington . Having grown up as a Palestinian refugee herself, Dr. El-Taji has focused her scholarship on finding ways to better understand what citizenship means for ethnic minority groups.

Stuart Streichler will be presenting at our CLASS/LSJ Faculty Workshare series on April 4 th at 12:30pm in Gowen 1A. His talk is entitled “What Would Warren Do? A Brief Historical Comment on the Seattle Schools Case.” More information can be found here.

Susan Hirsch will be on the UW campus Friday, February 29th to give a talk for the LSJ/CLASS International Speaker Series. Her talk is entitled "Satisfying Victims: A Challenge to Global Justice." This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies. Light reception to follow. Parrington Commons, 12:30pm. More information here.

Amanda Fulmer will be presenting a paper entitled "International Law and Indigenous Rights: ILO 169 and community campaigns" at the next CLASS Fellows Workshare. The grad-student only event will take place on Wednesday, February 13 from 12:30-1:30pm in Smith 40A. More details can be found here.

George Lovell will be presenting a paper (co-authored with Scott Lemieux of Hunter College) entitled "Judicial Enabling and the Co-Dependent Branches: Abortion Politics in the U.S., Canada, and Britain" for our CLASS Faculty Workshare series. The event will take place on Friday, February 8 from 12:30 – 2:00pm in Gowen 1A. More details can be found here.

Arzoo Osanloo and David Domke will be giving talks at a lecture entitled "Media Coverage of US-Iran Relations." This lecture is co-sponsored by LSJ and was spearheaded by the Iranian American Community Alliance, a local non-profit, non-religious, non-partisan organization whose mission is to strengthen the Iranian and larger Seattle community. The event will take place on Thursday, January 31 from 6:30 – 8:30pm.

Seth Greenfest will be presenting his paper "Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Legislative Design of Judicial Review" at this year's inaugural CLASS Fellows Workshare. The event will take place on Wednesday, January 30 from 12:30 – 1:30pm in Gowen 1A. More details can be found here.

Michael McCann will be presenting his paper "Wrecked but Still Rolling: The Enduring Institution of Capital Punishment in Historical and Comparative Perspective" at our next CLASS Faculty Workshare. The event will take place on Friday, January 25 from 12:30 – 2:00pm in Gowen 1B. More details can be found here.

Gad Barzilai of CLASS and LSJ will be presenting a lecture entitled "Which Law; Whose Rationality: Forces that shape Israel and Palestine" for the UW Jewish Studies Program's upcoming lecture series, "New Interpretations of Israel: Politics, Society, Culture and Human Rights." Discussants will be fellow CLASS/LSJ members Joel Migdal and Michael McCann. The event will take place on January 24 at 7pm in Kane Hall Room 220. There will be a reception to follow. For more details about this specific talk, click here. For more details about the Lecture Series as a whole, click here.

Topics in Afghan Law and Society Part of the "Law Through Global Eyes" Lecture Series sponsored by the Afghan Legal Educators Program at the University of Washington School of Law, this talk features respected Afghan law professors Prof. Humayoun Rahimi of Balkh University, and Prof. Wali Mohammad Naseh of Kabul University. Prof. Rahimi will be discussing customary dispute resolution in Northern Afghanistan, and Prof. Naseh will be discussing legal education in Afghanistan. January 22nd, 12:30-1:20pm. William H. Gates Hall Room 115.

Update: Due to a family emergency, the Rajagopal lectures have been cancelled.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT, will be visiting the UW and presenting three lectures from January 22nd to 23rd.

Jamie Mayerfeld will be presenting his paper "A Madisonian Argument for Strengthening International Human Rights Institutions: Lessons from Europe" at this year's inaugural CLASS Faculty Workshare. The event will take place on Friday, January 18 from 12:30 – 2:00pm in Gowen 1A. More details can be found here.

Nikhil Singh from the Department of History will be hosting and facilitating a conversation with Jack O'Dell, noted civil rights activist, on Monday, November 26, at 1:30 in Comm 202. This Simpson Center event is an outstanding opportunity to get an insider's perspective on the 20th Century's landmark social movements. Please join him. For more details, click here.

Marie Provine will be giving a talk entitled "Globalization at the Grassroots: The Case of Undocumented Immigrants" on Friday, November 30th at 12:30pm. The talk will be held in Gowen1A. For more details, click here.

Cesar Rodriguez will be giving a talk entitled "Law and globalization from below: Towards a postwestphalian theory of transnational legal mobilization" on Friday, November 16th at 3:00pm. The talk will be held in Gowen1A. For more details, click here.

Prosper Ndabishuriye will be giving a talk entled "Peace and Reconciliation in Burundi" on Tuesday, November 20th at 3:30-5pm. The talk is sponsored by The African Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies, the Center for Global Studies, the Comparative History of Ideas Program, and the Global-Local Community Action Institute of
the School of Social Work. It will be held in Thomson Hall, room 317.For more information, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/africa/AboutUs/upcoming.shtml.

Kim Scheppele will be giving a talk entitled "The International State of Emergency " on Friday, November 2nd at 12:30pm. The talk will be held in the Allen Auditorium, which is located on the first floor of the Allen Library, east of the computers and the Circulation desk. For more information, click here.

Ronen Shamir will be giving a talk entitled "The Age of Responsibilization: On Market-Embedded Morality" on Thursday, October 11th at 12:30pm. Gowen 1A. For more information, click here.

European Constitutionalism:
National, Transnational and International Perspectives

Friday, 27 April 2007 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Peterson Room, 4th Floor Allen Library

Participants include:
Francesca Bignami (Duke University)
Rachel Cichowski (University of Washington)
Daniel Halberstam (University of Michigan)
Martin Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley)
Alec Stone Sweet (Yale University)

SPONSORED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, AND THE LAW, SOCIETIES AND JUSTICE PROGRAM

Technology, Values, and the Justice System

Judge Donald J. Horowitz

Friday, May 4th 12:00-1:30pm Gowen 1A

Donald J Horowitz has been active in the justice and legal systems for over forty-five years, particularly involved in efforts to improve the quality and delivery of justice to all. Don chaired the Access to Justice Technology Bill of Rights Committee of the Washington State Access to Justice Board, and was instrumental in the development and subsequent adoption of the Access to Justice Technology Principles by the Washington State Supreme Court. Those fundamental principles have the purpose of assuring that technology does not perpetuate or create barriers, but rather provides pathways to quality access to the Washington State justice system for all persons. Mr. Horowitz is now actively involved in the institutionalization and implementation of the Principles in order to transform their words into reality for all.

Liberalism, Governance and the Geographies of Law- May 11th & 12th 2007.

This two day conference, organized by Steve Herbert, will explore the geographic predicates and consequences of contemporary legal practice. Particular emphasis will be directed toward the exclusionary and inclusionary dynamics that arise from current practices of politics, punishment and culture. The conference features three leading scholars whose work concentrates on the intersections between law and geography; Nicholas Blomley, Susan Coutin, and Mona Lynch. Each of these guests will deliver a public presentation and lead a workshop discussion of working papers authored by graduate students at the University of Washington. This Simpson Center funded conference features work by Victoria Babbit, Anne Bonds, Julie Brugger, Jean Carmalt, John Carr, Dominic Corva, Jennifer Fredette, Arda Ibikoglu, and Tuna Kuyucu. For more information http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/projects_law0607.htm

“Gender Equality and the State in Europe.” CLASS will be co-sponsoring this Center for Western European Studies (CWES) conference. April 27th and 28th 2006. The Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS), a 40-member international research group, is currently completing a ten year study of these women’s policy agencies in western post industrial democracies (http://libarts.wsu.edu/polisci/rngs/). The first book published by the group, Comparative State Feminism (Sage, 1995), mapped out for the first time national level women’s policy agencies in fourteen western democracies. Following ten years of a cross-national study and five additional books, the group is now ready to do a follow-up to the original book. The goal of this conference will be to present the findings of the second look at state feminism in a comparative perspective. As such, the conference will provide a crucial last step in completing the follow-up book to the original 1995 book on state feminism. It will also provide the opportunity for researchers and students in the broader University of Washington community to participate in the global discussion about state feminism. For more information, click here.

David Engel and Frank Munger, authors of Rights of Inclusion, will give a presentation at the UW. Other events for graduate students involving these two scholars are scheduled after the talk on Friday afternoon. March 3, 12:00-1:30pm. Location: Law building, room 117.

Stuart Streichler On February 24 Stuart Streichler will give a talk entitled “Law and Society in Civil War America.” The talk will take place from 12:30-1:30 in Smith 40A.

Carline Yezer will be giving a talk entitled "Apocalyptic Rumors and Contested Memory: Understanding Peasant Opposition to the Truth Commission in Peru's Highlands." Febuary 16. Location: Thomson 317, 4:00-5:30pm.

Maria Elena Garcia will be giving a talk entitled "Race, Violence, and Inappropriate Others: The Politics of Indigeniety in the Andes." February 14. Location: Thomson 317. 4:00-5:30pm.

"After Innocence" February 9 The Seattle premier of “After Innocence” begins at 7 p.m. (Please allow at least 15 minutes for check in). Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, Seattle, Washington. This premiere will be hosted by Wilton Dedge and by Director Jessica Sanders. Wilton’s exoneration is chronicled in the film and he will be on hand to talk about his experience. Tickets: General Public $50; Friends of IPNW $100; Angels $250. $25 student tickets available; please request in advance: innocenceprojectNW@gmail.com. For more information, please visit here.

Vanessa Baird The Center for West European Studies and the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Program present Vanessa Baird (Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder). Baird will be discussing her current project, “Judicial Pioneers: Litigants in the Moscor Theatre Hostage Crisis.” February 3 3:30-5:00pm. Savery Hall, room 110C.

Errol Meidinger ( SUNY Buffalo Law School) will present his paper “The Administrative Law of Global Private-Public Regulation: The Case of Forestry.” January 27 12:30-1:30pm. Smith 40A.

The Law and Humanities Reading Group will be meeting to discuss Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the University Bookstore. January 26 4:30pm. Gowen 1A.

Washington State Supreme Court Justices will be holding a “town hall” style meeting with LSJ and Political Science students and faculty. January 25 1:30pm-3:00pm. Johnson 102.

Stephen Macedo On January 20 3:30pm, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will be giving a talk entitled “Immigration and Social Justice.” His lecture is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and supported by the Department of Political Science. All are encouraged to attend. Savery 239.

Michael McCann, Katherine Beckett, and George Lovell, CLASS & LSJ faculty members, will be presenting on the Law and Society Association annual meetings. December 2 3:30-4:30pm. CLASS grad student event. Gowen 1A.

Rachel Cichowski, Angelina Godoy, Jamie Mayerfeld, George Lovell, with Michael McCann as moderator - the panel of speakers that presented talks for a UW alumni event in October - will reprise their show on Justice Works TV before an audience of students and activists. This follows two 30 minute shows taped recently for the cable station – one on civil justice featuring Michael McCann, the other on criminal justice featuring Katherine Beckett and McCann. December 11 2:00-3:00pm. Room TBA.

Brownbag Lunch Discussion On October 28, CLASS held a brownbag lunch discussion of a paper by Professor Nick Blomley (Geography, Simon Fraser University) entitled "Enclosure, common-right and the property of the poor." Nick Blomley is a leading figure in the study of the relationship between geography and law. He is the author of two books, "Law, Space and the Geographies of Power" and "Unsettling the City". His current research examines issues of property, violence, and the right to public space.

Rachel Cichowski, Angelina Godoy, George Lovell, and Jamie Mayerfeld. “Human Rights in Changing Contexts.” October 18, 7:00pm. The panel will be moderated by Michael McCann. This is part of a series of panels in fall quarter organized by the Alumni Relations group in the College of Arts and Sciences. Please come. Location: UW Campus, Kane Hall, Room 130, Seattle.

Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini. “After CAFTA: The Shifting Terrain in Human Rights in Guatemala.” October 21, 3:00pm. The talk is cosponsored by LSJ. Location: UW Campus, Smith Hall, Room 120, Seattle. For more information, click here.

Mona Lynch. “The Making of a Post-Rehabilitative Penal Regime: A Case Study of Arizona 1960-Present.” May 6, 12:00-1:30. Gowen 1A. For more details, click here.

Cesar Rodriguez. "Nike’s Law: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement, Transnational Corporations, and the Struggle over International Labor Rights in the Americas." The talk will be based on a paper forthcoming in a volume co-edited by Rodriguez and Boa Santos. April 22 12:00:1:30. Gowen 1A. For more details, click here.

Laura Beth Nielsen (American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University) “License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Speech.” April 15 12:00:- 1:30. Gowen 1A. For details, click here.

Jan Hoffman French of Northwestern University will be presenting a talk entitled “Reward of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants of Indians and Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil.” April 13 4:00pm. Gould, room 322.

Wes Pue (University of British Columbia School of Law) will be giving a talk entitled “Zoning Dissent.” April 1 12:00-1:30pm. Smith 40A. For more details, click here.

Angelina Godoy will participate in the Dialogue on the Central America Free Trade Agreement featuring US Rep. Jim McDermott. The event will feature short presentations by both proponents and opponents of CAFTA. Following the presentations, Congressman Jim McDermott, a senior Member of the Trade Subcommittee of the House Committee on Ways and Means, will join the dialogue and share his thoughts with the panelists and the audience. There will also be time for audience Q & A.Sponsored by: the International Studies Center and the Global Business Center at UW, and the World Affairs Council. March 31 7:30-9pm. Sieg 134.

Gad Barzilai will be giving a talk entitled “Transnational Violence, Terrorism/Counterterrorism, and Human Rights: The Zeitgeist of Uncertainty and Criminalization.” The talk is based on a forthcoming article, one part of which was presented in the Law and Society, Chicago [2004], in the plenary session, and other part will be presented this year in Las Vegas. March 30 12:30-1:20pm. Room 115 B & C, Law School. For more details, click here.

Angelina Godoy will be one of the presenters at “The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War: America's Wars in Viet Nam, Central America, and Iraq.” March 29 2-4pm. Communications Building, room 206.

Mr. Pekka Haavisto, former Finnish Minister of the Environment, is the featured speaker at this year’s “War and the Environment” lecture. The UW’s Program on the Environment and LSJ are pleased to present Mr. Pekka Haavisto, who is currently Chairman of the United Nations Environment Programme's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit (PCAU) in Geneva, Switzerland, and he has recently been appointed to head the PCAU's Iraq Task Force. March 3.

Lisa Conant (Ph.D. UW, 1998), an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Denver, will be speaking on the transforming nature of citizenship in European democracies. Conant explores whether judges are expanding the boundaries of belonging to immigrants and resident foreigners. February 18 12:00-1:30pm. Smith 40A. For more info, click here.

Susan Whiting, Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, will be presenting a talk entitled, “When the Deal Goes Sour in China: Contracting and Dispute Resolution Among Chinese Firms.” Thomson Hall, room 317. January 27 3:30-5:00pm.

Andrea Gomes, Tracy Stone, and Fadjar I. Thufail present a HUMAN RIGHTS CAREER PANEL. Learn from the experts about how to gain experience, lend service, and build careers in human rights! Savery Hall, room 211. January 27, 4:00-6:00pm.

Michael McCann will be presenting "Public Interest Litigation in a Neoliberal Age: How Politics and Media Construct and Constrict Legal Advocacy." Gates Hall (Law School), room 115. January 12, 12:30-1:20pm.

Amanda Swarr of Barnard College will be presenting a Colloquium. This is part of the job talk series for UW's Department of Women Studies.

Gad Barzilai will be presenting “Who Rules, Which Virtues? On religious Bonds, State Boundaries, and Legalism” in the Communications building room 206. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. December 8 3:30pm.

Cymene Howe of the Human Sexuality and Studies Program at San Francisco State University will be presenting “Televisionary Sexualities and Transnational Identities: The Cultural Politics of Feminism and Homoerotics in Neoliberal Nicaragua.” The presentation will take place in the Communications Building, room 226. This is part of the job talk series for UW’s Department of Women Studies. December 6 3:30-5:00pm.

Alec Stone-Sweet will be giving a talk entitled “The European Legal System and Market Integration” in the Peterson Room of the Allen Library. November 30 12:30-2:00pm. For more information, click here.

Ben Fleury-Steiner will be presenting “Dying Inside: A Sociolegal Autopsy of Preventable Deaths at Limestone Prison.” Location: Smith 40A. November 12 12:30-2:00pm. For more information, click here.

David Nelken will be presenting a talk entitled “Using the Concept of Legal Culture.” Location: Smith 40A. November 5 12:30-2:00pm. For more information, click here.

Gad Barzilai will be presenting a talk entitled “Law, Community, and the Politics of Rights.” Location: Gowen 1A. October 29 12:30-2:00pm. For more information, click here.

Severyns-Ravenhold Lecture Series Presents: Zainah Anwar. Anwar, the 2004 Severyns-Ravenholt lecturer and the Executive Director of “Sisters in Islam,” will be speaking on “Islam and Women’s Rights.” For further details, read the article, “Spotight: Severyns-Ravenhold Lecture Presents: Zainah Anwar.” Location: 210 Kane Hall. October 14th 7:30pm.

Lori Wallach, “Trading Away Health: The Impact of Free Trade on Public Health.” With Stephen Gloyd, Director, International health Program, UW SPHCM. Location: Health Sciences T 639. The event moderator will be our very own Angelina Godoy. October 12th 12:00 noon-1:30pm.

Somali Rights Network presents, “Restoration of Somali Democracy: A Conference to Education and Celebrate Bill Introduction.” Location: University of Washington School of Social Work, Room 305. Don’t forget to come at 4:30 for a reception with delicious Somali food! October 11 th 5:30-7:30pm.