The Hope for Humanism: Within the West, Beyond the West – søndag 30. mai 2010
Fritt Ord og The New York Review of Books inviterer til konferansen ‘The Hope for Humanism: Within the West,
Beyond the West’ lørdag 29. mai og søndag 30. mai 2010 i Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo.
Programme – Sunday, 30 May 2010
Arrival and Registration – 9.30-10.00 a.m.
Keynote Address – 10.00-11.00 a.m.
Shirin Ebadi: ‘The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East’
Chair and Introduction: Geir Lundestad
Break – 11.00-11.30 p.m.
The West and the Islamic Middle East: Coexistence or Confrontation? – 11.30-1.00 p.m.
Panelists:
Haleh Esfandiari: ’Iran’s Tangled Vision of the West’
Tom Segev: ‘Israel in the Middle East: Beyond Obama and Nethanyahu’
Max Rodenbeck: ’Middle East Mirrors: What «They» Reveal about «Us»’
Chair: Jan Egeland
Lunch Break – 1.00-2.30 p.m.
Human Rights: Within the West, Beyond the West – 2.30-4.00 p.m.
Panelists:
Jonas Gahr Støre: ’Human Rights – Empowerment for Change’
Ronald Dworkin: ‘A New Law for Humanitarian Intervention’
Timothy Garton Ash: ‘Beyond the West’
Chair: Robert Silvers
Reception for all those attending the conference – 4.00 p.m.
