YIISA CONFERENCE – 2 DAYS!
“UNDERTSTANDING THE CHALLENGE OF IRAN”
Tuesday, April 29 @ 6:45 PM
The Yale Club of New York City (50 Vanderbilt Avenue)
*RSVP by April 22nd with meal choice: chicken, vegetarian or kosher to lauren.clark@yale.edu
Formal Dinner & Lectures
Speakers: David Menashri, Director of Center for Iranian Studies & Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University; Dean of the University’s Special Programs Division
Mehrangiz Kar, Iranian journalist and one of the most celebrated human rights activists in Iran
Irwin Cotler, Canadian Member of Parliament and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Wednesday, April 30 @ 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 101 (63 High Street)
Conference & Panel Discussions with leading scholars, activists and intellectuals
YIISA CO-SPONSORED EVENT
*Please RSVP by April 30th to brooke.crockett@yale.edu
Tuesday, May 6 @ 11:00am – 2:00pm
Co-Sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Genocide Studies
Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Room A001 (77 Prospect Street)
Rescuers of Genocide Victims: Research Perspectives for the Future
Speakers: Ben Keirnan, History, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
Mette Bastholm, Sociology, Yale University
John Dovidio, Social Psychology, Yale University
Bruce Wexler, Psychiatry, Yale University
Stephanie J. Bird, Neuroethics, Editor-in-Chief of Science and Engineering Ethics
Moderator: Julius Landwirth, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
