Events--
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through Feb 19
Claudia Demonte's "Real Beauty" exhibit, Hunt Gallery
Co-sponsor: Art Department
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March 23
Celebration of the 100th anniversary of
International Women's Day
U. Ctr. Sunnen Lounge
1:30-2:30 p.m. "Hard Times Require Furious Dancing,"
a performance by Webster dance students under the direction of Assoc. Prof. and Dance Dept. Chair Beckah Reed.
4 p.m. Charlie King,
folk singer and guitarist
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March 31 & April 1
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Education--Security--Economics
Library Conference Room
(more conference information soon)
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News--
'Real Beauty' Exhibit Opens Jan. 21, continues through Feb. 19
Claudia Demonte’s “Real Beauty” exhibit of handmade dolls opens in Hunt Gallery on Jan. 21. A talk by SIUE’s Dr. Katherine Poole on Renaissance notions of idealized female beauty (noon, Sverdrup 123) complements the exhibit. Read the Global Thinking story.
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Dec. 10 marks 62nd anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dec. 10 marked a monumental milestone for international human rights. On that day in 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, comprising representatives of all regions of the world and led by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mrs. Roosevelt predicted that the declaration, which for the first time in history delineated fundamental human rights to be universally protected, would become “the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.”
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights inspired the College of Arts & Sciences’ first Year of International Human Rights in 2008-09, the 60th anniversary of its endorsement, and it has subsequently inspired us as we annually bring emphasis to a specific human rights challenge. It guided us in 2009-10, when the YIHR emphasis was on the human right to food and water, and again this year as we focus on women’s rights.
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Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of Half the Sky, Speaks at the Loretto-Hilton Center on Sept. 13
Co-sponsors of the WuDunn talk were the YIHR3, Campus Activities, and the Multicultural Center/International Student Association.
See story and photos.
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The Why behind the YIHR
The overwhelming success of the first Year of International Human Rights in 2008-09 prompted the College of Arts & Sciences to continue calling attention to the world's pressing human rights problems. Thus, Arts & Sciences dedicated the 2009-10 academic year to human rights issues associated with food and water and is dedicating 2010-11 to women's rights. Visit this website (www.webster.edu/yihr3), to learn more about the Year of International Human Rights 2010-11: Women's Rights and to keep abreast of YIHR activities—at the St. Louis campus as well as our extended and international campuses.
The Webster community showed how much it cared by its avid support of the first two Year of Int-
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Half the Sky: This Year's Provocative A&S Common Reading
Co-authors Nicholas D. Kristor and Sheryl WuDunn delve into women's rights issues around the globe with Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Learn more.
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