Vassar College and the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK) will co-sponsor a lecture by Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, on Tuesday, September 17, at 7 p.m. in the Villard Room, Main Building, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Koh, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, democracy and labor from 1998-2001, will give a lecture titled "One Year After 9/11: The Impact on Civil and Political Rights." The lecture and a panel discussion following it will be open to the public.
Koh's lecture is seventh in a national series, "Human Rights–The Unfinished Agenda for the New Millennium," established in 1998 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948-1998), often noted as Eleanor Roosevelt's greatest achievement. Other speakers in the series have included Ambassador Morris B. Abram, then-First Lady Rodham Clinton, Justice Richard Goldstone, President Oscar Arias Sanchez, Gloria Steinem, and Jane Alexander.
The lecture will be immediately followed by a panel discussion moderated by M. Glen Johnson, the Shirley
Boskey Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Political Science at Vassar College. The panel will include Luke C. Harris, chair of Vassar's Political Science Department and associate professor of political science and Africana studies at Vassar College; Morgan Stoffregen (Vassar class of 2001), program assistant and studies and fellows program coordinator at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; and Richard Reitano, professor of government at Dutchess Community College.
The lecture series is sponsored and organized by the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK). Based at Roosevelt's Val-Kill home and retreat in Hyde Park, New York, Val-Kill is a U.S. National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service. ERVK is dedicated to the perpetuation of her humanitarian legacy, including her leadership in adoption of the Human Rights Declaration by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
Support for the series is provided by the sponsoring colleges and universities and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Blum-Kovler Foundation, the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc. and ERVK. The series was inspired by and is dedicated to the memory of Estelle Linzer, Roosevelt's assistant at the United Nations Association of the USA and past president of ERVK.
For additional information, contact the Vassar Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370 or the ERVK at (845) 229-5302. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cathy Jennings in the Office of Campus Activities as far in advance as possible to request appropriate and reasonable accommodations.
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