Workshops and Events

Lead: Dr. Mariana Ferreira, Anthropology Department

"Survival Rx: Knowledge for Health Equity"

We are proud to announce that the 7th Annual SF State Human Rights Summit will take place May 4, 5, 6 and 7, 2010.
Locations:
May 4: Richard Oaks room, Cesar Chavez Student Center and CA 102.
May 5 and 6: Rosa Parks/Richard Oaks room, Cesar Chavez Student Center.
May 7th: Malcolm X Plaza, on campus.

Our keynote speakers this year include scholars, community leaders, and human rights advocates from all over the country!
Anthropology and Human Rights (ANTH 588/788), and Endangered Cultures (ANTH 321) students are working hard on their scholarly papers, Theater of the Oppressed performances, and multimedia exhibits.
This year's summit will also feature our HUMAN RIGHTS ZINES -- a collection of five brief publications in graphic novel/ cartoon format, to be distributed for free in the SF Bay.

PARADIGM WARS DIALOGUES

A Theater of the Oppressed and Human Rights Event
May 4, 2010, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
Stage Theater, Creative Arts 102
San Francisco State University

The “Endangered Cultures” (ANTH 321) class of 2010 is proud to present PARADIGM WARS DIALOGUES – a series of nine Theater of the Oppressed one-act plays written and performed by students about the human rights of Indigenous Peoples around the world. Tribal sovereignty, climate change, biocolonialism, intellectual property, and the quest for peace, clean water, and food security, are some of the themes explored in this unique event, part of the 7th Annual SFSU Human Rights Summit – Survival Rx: Knowledge for Health Equity, May 4-7, 2010. (See http://humanrights.sfsu.edu and http://righttoknow.sfsu.edu.) Directed by John Chung (Counterprojects) and Mariana Ferreira (SFSU). Special commentary by Jerry Mander (co-editor of the anthology Paradigm Wars. Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization), and SFSU Professors Carlos Barón (Theater) and Lucia Volk (Anthropology). For more information, contact Mariana Ferreira at marianaf@sfsu.edu . Please come and commemorate the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (2006-2015). See you there!

The 7th Annual SF State Human Rights Summit in 2010 is being sponsored at SF State by: the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement (ICCE); the Center for Health Disparities Research and Training (CHDRT); the Health Equity Institute for Research, Practice and Policy (HEI); the Global Peace, Human Rights and Justice Studies Program (GPS); and the Students for Critical Anthropology (SCA). The Summit is also being supported by award number P20 MD000544, from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, at the National Institutes for Health (NIH).