At Cornell University:
Schedule of Speakers
The Workshop on Transnational Contention will meet on Mondays at 10:00a.m. in 360 Uris Hall unless otherwise noted. Click here for directions.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Elizabeth Bernstein, Coordinator, International Campaign to Ban Landmines
"How the International Campaign to Ban Landmines Achieved a Treaty:-'a powerful force that establishes the moral norm'-Banning landmines"
Elizabeth Bernstein has served as Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) since March 1998. The ICBL, co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, together with ICBL founder Jody Williams, is a coalition bringing together over 1,400 human rights, humanitarian, children’s, peace, disability, veterans, medical, humanitarian mine action, development, arms control, religious, environmental, and women’s groups in over 90 countries who work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally to ban antipersonnel landmines. Bernstein has been involved with the campaign since it began in the early 1990s. She lived in Thailand and Cambodia for 10 years (1986-1996), where she worked with local organizations on various peace, justice and policy issues. She co-founded the Coalition for Peace and Reconciliation, and helped found the Cambodia Campaign to Ban Landmines. She also lived in Mozambique for 3 years while serving the ICBL, before moving to Washington DC and establishing an ICBL office there. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada. Originally from New Orleans, she is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She speaks French and Khmer, as well as some Thai and Portuguese.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Graham Saul, Coordinator, Friends of the Earth, Canada
"Global NGO Federations:
The Case of Friends of the Earth-International"
Graham Saul worked with Oxfam
International in Maputo, Mozambique, from 1994 to
1999. There he designed and developed a joint Oxfam advocacy
capacity building program which provided support to a range of Mozambican
coalitions that were trying to get involved in local, regional and global
struggles around external debt, the role of the international financial
institutions, land tenure and incinerators/persistent organic pollutants.
Apart from supporting domestic coalitions, Graham was also responsible
for building bridges between Mozambican campaigns and
the global advocacy work of Oxfam International. In
Washington, Graham worked for the Bank Information
Center (BIC) from 1999 to 2004. BIC is a non-profit organization
that provides information and strategic support to organizations and
communities on the policies and practices of the World Bank Group and
other
Multilateral Development Banks. Graham was responsible for developing BICs
Africa Program, Europe and Central Asia Program and the IFI Transparency
Program. He has recently taken a new post as International Program
Coordinator at Friends of the Earth (FoE) Canada. FoE Canada is the
Canadian member of Friends of the Earth International,
the largest international network of environmental
groups in the world, represented in 68 countries.
Graham graduated with a degree in political science from Montreals McGill
University.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Donatella della Porta, GRACE and European University Institute
"Making the Polis:
Social Forums and Democracy in the Global Justice Movement"
Donatella Della Porta is professor of sociology in
the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University
Institute. She is on leave of absence from the University of Florence, where she
was full professor of Political Science, president of the corso di laurea in
Administrative Sciences, and Director of the Department of Political Science and
Sociology at the University of Florence. She has received a Diplôme d'Etudes
Approfondies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a
Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in
Florence. She directs the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the
Mobilisation of the Society), financed under the VI FP by the EC. She also
coordinated the Gruppo di Ricerca sull'azione collettiva in Europa (GRACE). She
has conducted research also at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. In 1990 she received a Career
Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; in 1997 a Stipendium of the
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Her main research interests concern social
movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of
public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France,
Germany and Spain. She has directed a project of comparative research on control
of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on the police in Italy.
Currently she is involved in several comparative projects on citizenship and
social movements.
link to Professor Della Porta's faculty profile at EUI.
Monday, April 25, 2005
Ellen Lutz, Executive Director, Cultural Survival
"Accountability
in the Context of Multifaceted Transitions in the New Millennium"
Ellen L. Lutz joined
Cultural Survival as its Executive Director in March 2004. Prior to that she
was at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was
the Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
and taught courses in international human rights law, international criminal
law, and other international law subjects. From 1989 to 1994, she served as the
California Director for Human Rights Watch and as HRW’s principle researcher on
Mexico. In addition to her advocacy and academic experience, Lutz is an
experienced facilitator, mediator, and arbitrator. She has written widely on
human rights and conflict resolution, international and transnational
accountability for human rights violations, and on themes relating to human
rights in Latin America. She currently is writing a book entitled Trying Heads
of State. Lutz received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
(1985), and her M.A. in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College (1978.)
Uris Hall is located on the corner of Tower Road and East Avenue at Cornell University. Maps of the university area are available at Cornell's web site.
By TCAT bus:
A large number of TCAT buses serve this part of campus: 10, 21, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51, 52, 65, 67, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 84. For more information about TCAT service to campus, contact 607-277-RIDE, or the TCAT website
From Syracuse and points north:
Take 81 South to Route 13 South (exit at Cortland). Stay on 13S for approximately 25 miles. At the second traffic light in Ithaca (Warren Road), make a left. Stay on Warren Road for 1 mile. At the stop sign, turn right onto Hanshaw Road. Turn left onto Pleasant Grove Road. At the stop sign, make a right (cross the one-lane bridge). At the next stop sign, make a left onto Judd Falls Road. At the next stop sign, make a right onto Tower Road; Uris Hall and Ives Hall are located at the end of Tower Road.
From Elmira and points south:
Take Route 13 North to Ithaca. Turn right onto Buffalo Street. Near the top of the hill, make a left onto Stewart Avenue. Turn right onto Campus Avenue. At the stop sign, turn left onto East Avenue. Uris Hall and Ives Hall are on the right side of the street, just past the intersection of East Avenue and Tower Road.
From Binghamton:
Take I81 North to Exit 8 (Whitney Point). Turn right at the top of the ramp. At the T-junction, turn left onto Rt. 79. Proceed on 79 for approximately 40 miles. Once in Ithaca, take a right at the flashing yellow light onto Pine Tree Road. At the second traffic light, make a left onto Rt. 366. At the intersection with Campus Road, turn left. Turn right at the next intersection onto East Avenue. At the next intersection, turn right onto Tower Road. Uris Hall and Ives Hall are on your right.
Parking:
Parking on Cornell's campus is difficult; please allow additional time if you need to find parking. There are several pay lots within walking distance of Uris Hall. A large pay lot is located across from the Cornell Dairy Barn at the corner of Tower Road and Judd Falls Road. A few metered spaces are available at the parking lot next to Willard Straight Hall, off of Campus Avenue. A gagage is also available near the intersection of Campus Avenue and Garden Road.