U.S. Congressional briefing: Film screening and discussion of 'Baseball in the Time of Cholera'
Submitted by CHAN on July 16, 2012 - 13:02
Date of the event:
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 10:00am
A young baseball player and a Haitian lawyer representing victims of the cholera epidemic struggle for survival and justice in 'Baseball in the Time of Cholera.'
Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 10 am EDT
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237
45 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20515
45 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20515
Sponsored by: American Jewish World Service; Center for Economic and Policy Research; School of Advanced International Studies; the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Introductory remarks: U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)
Panelists:
- Jonathan M. Katz, journalist and author
- Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University; Director of the International Law & Organizations Program
- Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
- Dr. Ralph Ternier, Director of Community Health, Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health
- David Darg, Director of Baseball in the Time of Cholera
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