Please join us at the October 18th Symposium on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The session begins at 12:45 p.m. at the Cultural Center Auditorium, Axinn Library. Blanche Wiesen Cook is an amazing woman and historian who will speak at 4:30 and the panel at 2:20 with Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, Program Coordinator and Policy Specialist Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) will report on women and peace processes in Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere.

HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER
THE INSTITUTE FOR PEACE STUDIES
and the CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
present a symposium
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Thursday, October 18, 2018
12:45-7:30 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. Join us as we commemorate the power of the Universal Declaration and its power of ideas to change the world as it inspires us to continue working to ensure that all people can gain freedom, equality, and dignity.

12:45-1 p.m. INTRODUCTION and WELCOME
Linda A. Longmire
Professor of Global Studies and Symposium Director, Hofstra University
1-2:10 p.m. THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING TODAY
Crystal DeBoise, Co-Executive Director, SOAR Institute
Kari Jensen, Associate Professor of Global Studies, Hofstra University
Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, Co-Founder, HEAL Trafficking
2:30-4 p.m. PEACE IS A HUMAN RIGHT: WOMEN’S GLOBAL ACTIVISM
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Women’s Studies
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, Program Coordinator and Policy Specialist
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
4:30-6 p.m. KEYNOTE BY BLANCHE WIESEN COOK*
Author and Biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. I, II, III, who is considered the
Chief architect in the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
6:30-7:30 p.m. STUDENT PANEL/PERFORMANCE
THE IDEALS AND REALITIES OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
*Awarded the Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Symposium Scholar, Hofstra University. The award was established in 1985 in recognition
of the outstanding role of the late founder of the Hofstra Cultural Center. Dr. Astman was a humanist, a cultural comparatist, and and international scholar.
The event is FREE and open to the public. For more information, call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture; the Center for Civic Engagement and the Institute of Peace at hofstra.edu/cce. Join the #HofstraVotes
and #HofNoHate conversations on social media