Meet A Former Child Soldier, Learn About Genocide and Justice, Everyday Law at Free Public Programs at Rutgers-Newark This Fall
Once again Rutgers University-Newark is offering a series of provocative public programs on topics ranging from the horrors lived by child soldiers to the horrors of genocides occurring around the world and possible ways to prevent them. The programs, co-sponsored by the Rutgers-Newark Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights, and the Rutgers-Newark Division of Global Affairs, feature speakers from the United Nations, New York University, 
The free public programs all take place on campus in the John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Ave., Newark. More information is available at http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/cghr.
FALL 2013 SPEAKER SERIES / DGA COLLOQUIUM GLOBAL JUSTICE
Thursday, Sept. 19, 6-8 p.m.; “Lost Child: Sayon's Journey,” a film screening and live discussion with Sayon Soeun, and co-producers Janet Gardner (Gardner Documentary Group) and Sopheap Theam; Dana Room, 4th floor, Dana Library
Thursday, Sept. 26, 6-8 p.m., “The Guatemalan Genocide: Denial and Polarization,” a talk by Victoria Sanford (Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY); Dana Room, 4th floor, Dana Library;
Thursday, Oct. 10, 6-8 p.m., “Genocide Prevention and Global Justice,” a lecture by Adama Dieng, UN Sec-General Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide;Dana Room, 4th Floor, Dana Library
Thursday, November 7, 6-8 p.m.; “Monitoring Justice in Argentina: The ESMA Trials,” a symposium with Ram Natarajan, Anthropology department, New York University, and Sam Ferguson, lawyer/journalist; Dana Room, 4th floor, Dana Library
Thursday, Nov. 14, 6-8 p.m.; “Genocide and Justice in Syria: The Damascus Spring Betrayed?”, a symposium; Dana Room, 4th floor, Dana Library
Thursday, December 5, 6-8 p.m.; “The Presentation of Law in Everyday Life,” a talk by Jens Meierhenrich, political science department, London School of Economics; Dana Room, 4th floor, Dana Library