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The Global Justice Series 2006 commenced in February with a public lecture by Zaki Chehab, one of the Arab world's leading journalists and author of Inside the Resistance and, most recently, Iraq Ablaze.
The series is sponsored by the Victorian Peace Network, the Globalism Institute, RMIT University and the National Tertiary Education Union, RMIT University Branch.
Seminars in the series present opportunities in Melbourne to hear internationally renowned speakers that are not to be missed. Tickets for all seminars are limited and expected to sell quickly. Bookings may be made in advance, so please follow the links for details on individual events which include contact and booking information.
To learn more about the work of the Victorian Peace Network and the National Tertiary Education Union at RMIT, please visit their websites at:
Victorian Peace Network: www.vicpeace.org
National Tertiary Education Union, RMIT Branch: www.nteu.org.au/bd/rmit
'Zaki Chehab Speaking Tour'
Speakers:
Zaki Chehab
Topic:
Iraq Ablaze
Date: Friday 24 February
Time: 7.00 pm
Place: RMIT Storey Hall, Swanston St, City
Bookings and Ticket Purchase:
New International Bookshop, Carlton
Tel: 03 9662 3744
Tickets: $5 (available on the door)
Abstract:
When members of the Iraqi resistance first told their story to the world, they told it to Zaki Chehab, a tenacious and celebrated Middle East journalist. In Inside the Resistance, Chehab is able to show how the resistance fighters really view the elections, the Iranians, Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, and their new American occupiers. This book makes clear that no one is better placed than Chehab to explain the intricacies of the battle for Iraq and convey the reality of life on the front line.
Zaki Chehab is one of the Arab world's leading journalists. He is political editor of the London-based Al Hayat and of the Arabic TV channel LBC. For over twenty-five years he has covered Middle Eastern conflicts as a commentator for the Arab and Western media, including CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.
'Israel and Palestine: is peace possible?'
Speakers:
Professor Jamal R. Nassar
Topic:
The Palestinian national struggle and the politics of the Middle East
Date: Wednesday 3 May
Time: 7.00 pm
Place: RMIT Storey Hall, Swanston St, City
Bookings and Ticket Purchase:
New International Bookshop, Carlton
Tel: 03 9662 3744
Tickets: $5 (available on the door)
Abstract:
Jamal Nassar is a Jerusalem-born US professor who has written and lectured around the world on the history of the Palestinian national struggle and the politics of the Middle East. He is chair and professor in the Department of Politics and Government at the Illinois State University.
Since joining the faculty at Illinois State in 1978, professor Nassar has established himself as a leading authority on the politics of the Middle East. His many publications include such books as Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares, Intifada: Palestine
at the Crossroads, The Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence, Change Without Borders: The Third World at the End of the Twentieth Century, and Politics and Culture in the Developing World: The Impact of Globalization.
Between 1991 and 1995, he served as editor of Arab Studies Quarterly and he currently serves on its editorial board as he does on the boards of other distinguished journals on the Middle East region.
Dr. Nassar shares his knowledge of the region’s politics through speeches and interviews. He has addressed the United Nations as an expert on the question of Palestine, and was consulted or has appeared as an expert witness on the area in highly visible court cases in the United States and Canada.
Robert Fuller Speaking Tour
Speaker: Robert Fuller
Topic: All Rise. Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
Date: Tuesday 31 October
Time: 7.00 pm
Place: Casey Plaza Lecture Theatre, RMIT University
Bookings and Ticket Purchase:
TBA
Abstract:
Robert W. Fuller’s All Rise. Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity will be published in June 2006. His bestselling Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank was widely acclaimed in Australia and across the world.
Fuller argues that rankism – abuse of the power that comes with superior rank – does serious damage to our private relationships and public institutions. The book suggests how to design social institutions in order to overcome rankism and protect human dignity.
In this groundbreaking work, Fuller identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest – rankism. It plays a role in just about every form of social oppression – racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance all have a significant element of rankism in them.
In All Rise, Fuller lays the groundwork for a dignitarian society by delineating the scope and impact of rankism and then shows how a dignitarian movement can defeat it by addressing such issues as: What would workplaces, schools, healthcare organizations, politics, religion, and international relations look like if they were to embody dignitarian values? What policies could we develop to defend dignity in our various social institutions? How can we embody these principles in our lives and create a culture of universal dignity?
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