[Grad_history_students] FW: Great Opportunity for Students - NUCHR 2011!

[Beiriger, Eugene]

Dear Intrepid Historians,

See below for an excellent opportunity!  The deadline for application is
coming soon, so please consider this and move quickly!

Best, Dr. B

-----Original Message-----
From: NUCHR Delegate Development
[mailto:nuchrdelegatedevelopment at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: Great Opportunity for Students - NUCHR 2011!

Greetings once again from the Northwestern University Conference on
Human Rights! 


We apologize if you have already received an alternative version of this
email, we are just trying to make sure that we extend this opportunity
to every student we can as our application deadline (November 1st) is
coming up fast! NUCHR is currently seeking undergraduate delegates for
this year's conference, Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced
Migration, that will be held from January 20-23, 2011 on NU's Evanston
Campus. We are looking for undergraduate students who are passionate
about human rights and global issues who also might have an interest in
forced migration, and thought that some of your students might be
perfect candidates to attend our conference! If you could please forward
this email (which includes a link to our application) to students,
student groups, or other departments you think might be interested in
this opportunity, we would much appreciate it. Thank you so much for
your time!


We look forward to seeing some of your students here in January! 

Our best, 

Amy Jia, Sarah Freeman, Jess Allen
Delegate Relations Co-Chairs
Northwestern Conference on Human Rights 2011
Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration


Apply to NUCHR 2011 by November 1st! 


NUCHR 2011 is seeking high-caliber undergraduate delegates with an
active interest in human rights and forced migration for this year's
conference Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration!
Application deadline is coming up fast, so apply here
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHpBWkFUMzE2VVBOX1hKdz
FXUnI1TWc6MQ> !

NUCHR 2011: 

The eighth annual Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights
(NUCHR) is proud to announce a national student conference entitled
Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration, which will take
place on Northwestern's Evanston campus on January 20-23, 2011. This
year's conference will focus on forced migration across borders. We hope
to utilize this theme to analyze the role of borders on the universality
of human rights, and more specifically to discuss the obligation of the
country of origin and the host country to protect and preserve the
rights of migrants. Speakers and delegates will examine forced migration
from the perspective of multiple actors to highlight all who are
affected by this phenomenon. We hope to question responsibility in the
application of human rights (i.e. who is obligated to ensure the rights
of refugees and what measures of enforcement do and should exist).
Through our case study panel that will explore the issues of migration
across the US-Mexico border, panelists will be asked to challenge
conventional definitions of refugees and forced migration while
examining human rights violations in our own country. Finally, delegates
will break up into small groups throughout the three-day conference to
discuss specific case studies of forced migration and apply the
framework developed by the panels of the conference to these individual
scenarios.

How to Apply: 

Fill out this form
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHpBWkFUMzE2VVBOX1hKdz
FXUnI1TWc6MQ>  and send the appropriate information to
conferenceonhumanrights at u.northwestern.edu by November 1st, 2011 to
apply to be a delegate at NUCHR 2011!

Chosen delegates will receive a travel stipend, hotel accommodations,
and meals during their stay in Evanston. We expect delegates to actively
engage in each activity throughout the conference. Certain events during
the conference will be exclusively for delegates, including private
question-and-answer sessions with keynote speakers and discussion
sections with in-depth exploration of case studies. 

About NUCHR: 

NUCHR, the largest undergraduate student-organized conference on human
rights in the United States, is dedicated to promoting the universality
of human rights while recognizing the difficulty in consensus, issues of
cultural relativism, and the potential paradoxes in implementation and
practice. This three-day summit unites student delegates from across the
country with renowned activists, academics, and policy makers, but is
also free and open to the public. In the past, the conference has
explored such issues as the misapplication of humanitarian aid, human
trafficking, American policy towards HIV and AIDS in the developing
world, and American interventionist policy abroad. NUCHR has featured
distinguished speakers including Nicholas de Torrente, the executive
director of Doctors Without Borders; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Nicholas Kristof; and Mark Hanis, founder and president of Genocide
Intervention Network.

 

Please visit our website, http://nuchr.net, <http://nuchr.net/>  for
more information on NUCHR, including the student delegate application,
the conference schedule, and speaker updates. If you have any additional
questions, please contact the co-directors of this year's conference -
Scott Chilberg, Julie Kornfeld, and Katharine Nasielski - at
conferenceonhumanrights at u.northwestern.edu.





-- 
Amy Jia, Sarah Freeman, Jess Allen
Delegate Development Co-Chairs
Northwestern Conference on Human Rights 2011
Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration