Friday June 20th |
Registration |
10:00 - 10:30 |
Opening Reception |
10:30 - 12:30 |
First Panel Human Rights and Economic Welfare: Beyond Political and Social Freedom - Mehdi Kouhestani Nejad - Dr. Kaveh Ehsani |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 - 15:30 |
Second Panel The Rights of Ethnic and Sexual Minorities Hedayat Soultanzadeh - Arsham Parsi |
15:30 - 16:00 |
| Recess |
16:00 - 18:00 |
Third Panel Remembrance: The Twentieth Anniversary of Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in the summer of 1367 (1988) - Dr. Abdolkarim Ladidji - Monireh Baradara - Iraj Mesdaghi - Bahareh Monshi Roudsari - Dr. Hadi Qaemi. |
18:00 -18:30 |
Keynote Speech The Cultural and Behavioral Impediments to the Realization of Human Rights in Iran - Mehrangiz Kar
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Saturday, June 21 |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Fourth Panel Religious Freedom, Secularism and the Dignity of the Citizen - Dr. Jaleh Pirnazar - Neda Shahid Yazdani - Faryar Nikbakht |
10:30 - 12:30 |
Fifth Panel The Universality of Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and the American Academic Discourse (This panel is in English) - Dr. Reza Afshari - Dr. Anthony Chase |
12:00 - 14:00 |
| Lunch |
14:00 - 14:30 |
A Presentation Non-Partisan Approach to the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights - Dr. Mansour Farhang |
14:30 - 16:30 |
Sixth Panel The Role of Women in Elevating the Discourse of Human Rights in Iran - Mehrangiz Kar -Fariba Davoudi Mahajer - Elahe Amani |
16:30 - 17:30 |
Recess |
17:00 - 19:00 |
Seventh Panel Human Rights in the Grip of Tradition and Innovation: The Evidence from Persian Literature - Dr. Nahid Mozaffari - Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak - Dr. Ali Ferdousi |
19:00 - 19:30 |
Keynote Speech The Structural foundations of Human Rights Realization in Iran - Dr. Karim Ladidji
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Sunday, June 22 |
10:00 - 12:00 |
Eighth Panel Human Rights in International Relations - Dr. Mansour Farhang - Dr. Karim Lahidji - Dr. Hadi Qaemi - Mohammad Reza Moeni
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 - 17:00 |
Ninth Panel The New Social Movements and the Use of the Internet - Parastou Forouhar - Arsham Parsi\ - Dr, Soheila Vahdati - Mohammad Reza Moeni - Hossein Mahoutiha - Moderator: Dr. Ali Reza Azizi
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Closing Reception |
Iranian Society for Human Rights is pleased to announce its sponsorship of a three-day seminar on the challenges facing the Iranian human rights community, scheduled to be held June 20 - 22 at
San Jose City HallThe purpose of this non-partisan event is to go beyond exposing the Islamic Republic’s sorry human rights record and address the kind of impediments to human rights progress that emanate from the country’s tradition, culture and behavioral patterns. Participants in the eight panel discussions will include Iranian human rights activists and scholars currently residing in the U. S., Canada and Europe. Details of the seminar’s programs and registration for the seminar are available on the web site of the Iranian Society for Human Right