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Gertrude Mongella |
The Center for Humanities and Arts will host its 10th annual Program
for Global Understanding Feb. 18–20. The international
symposium will focus on “Globalization and Human Rights in
Africa.” Approximately 20 distinguished artists, scholars
and diplomats will come to Masters Hall at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education to join in discussions about the effects of
globalization on human rights, religion and the process of democratization
in sub-Saharan African nations.
At 8 p.m. on Feb. 18, Gertrude Mongella will deliver the keynote
address. Mongella is a member of parliament in Tanzania, goodwill
ambassador for Maternal Mortality Reduction in the African Region
for the World Health Organization, and president of Advocacy for
Women in Africa. She has served as a member of the UNESCO Council
of the Future and the OAU Women’s Committee for Peace and
as under-secretary special envoy to the secretary general of the
United Nations on women’s issues and development.
On Feb. 19, at 9 a.m., Winston Nagan, Trustee Research Fellow, professor
of law and affiliate professor of anthropology at the University
of Florida, will make opening remarks. Nagan has served two terms
as chair of Amnesty International USA and has been named a James
B. Warburg Fellow in the University Consortium for World Order.
He is co-founder of the Human Rights and Peace Center in Uganda.
A native of South Africa, he has held visiting scholar appointments
at Monash University in Australia, Leiden University in the Netherlands,
the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Makerere University
in Uganda.
An Ambassadors’ Roundtable, moderated by Lioba Moshi, director
of UGA’s African Studies Institute, will follow Nagan’s
address at 10:45 a.m. Participants will include Augustine Mahiga,
Tanzanian ambassador to the United Nations, and four ambassadors
to the United States: Barbara Masekela from South Africa, Faida
Mitifu from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zac Nsenga from
Rwanda, and Yusuf Nzibo from Kenya.
A roundtable discussion that afternoon, moderated by Amy Ross, UGA
professor of geography, will address “Human Rights, Development
and Democratization in the Age of Globalization.”
Roundtables the following day will deal with culture and religion.
“Culture in the Age of Globalization” will be moderated
by Marlyse Baptista, UGA professor of English, and will begin at
9 a.m. “Religion in the Age of Globalization” will
be moderated by Kenneth Honerkamp, UGA professor of religion, and
will take place at 10:45 a.m.
A performance by the African Cultural Dance Company is scheduled
for Thursday night at 8 p.m.
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