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Title: Voices at Risk: China Location: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis |
Type: SAR Speaker Series Country: China |
Published Date: March 03, 2009 |
Voices at Risk: China
Tuesday, March 3, 12:00 p.m.
Throughout Spring 09, the IUPUI Office of International Affairs, in collaboration with Human Rights Works, the Scholars at Risk Network, and the IU Pro-bono UN Shadow Reporting Program, will feature a ‘voice at risk’ live or via videoconference from embattled parts of the world, including Belarus, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Syria, and Sri Lanka.
Our next speaker is a visiting scholar from the People's Republic of China. He was a law professor at Peking University but was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison due to his participation in founding an oppositional party, the Liberal and Democratic Party of China. Upon his release he was banned from lecturing at universities and faced restrictions on publishing. With the assistance of Scholars at Risk and the Scholar Rescue Fund, he is now based at Columbia University, New York. This scholar is the author of several influential articles pertaining to political theory and Chinese democratization, including The Backbone of a Constitution: a preliminary inquiry into its legal attributes (1988), On Republic, A Second Paper on Republic (1999).
Location: Global Crossroads, ES 2132 (902 W. New York Street).