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Adam Seligman Lecture

Thursday, October 2, 2014
5:00-6:30pm
BU School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B-24

CEDAR: Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion

Join us for a lecture and conversation with Dr. Seligman who will help us understand just [...]what engaging with difference may mean as an alternative to the many efforts of â€œfinding common groundâ€ or a â€œshared humanityâ€ that define so many intercommnunal and interreligious initiatives. We will discuss the role of discomfort in learning and the importance of experience as opposed to book knowledge in the maturing of our moral consciousness.
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Paul Farmer on Martin Luther King Jr.

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Boston University celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr., Day with poetry, step dancing, music, and a keynote address from medical anthropologist Paul Farmer, the founder of the international aid organization Partners in Health. The theme of this year's [...]celebration is The Drum Major Instinct, based on a sermon King (GRS'55, Hon.'59) gave several months before his death.

Hosted by Dean of Students and the Howard Thurman Center on January 19, 2009.
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Taking On State Sponsors of Terrorism: A New Frontier in International Tort Litigation

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The inaugural Kleh Lecture featured Andrew C. Hallâ€”a Holocaust survivor, celebrated leader in the fight against state-sponsored terrorism, and founder of Hall, Lamb and Hall in Miami. Hall's impressive resume of high-profile cases includes the [...]defense of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former senior adviser for domestic affairs, in the Watergate trial, as well as the recovery of a multi-million-dollar settlement from the Sudanese government for the families of U.S. sailors who died in the USS Cole attack. An expert litigator, Hall has successfully sued Iraq and Libya, as well, and won judgment on behalf of a Cuban expatriate for damages stemming from the Castro regimeâ€”including the forced suicide of the plaintiff's father. Additionally, his casework involves complex commercial litigation, professional negligence, securities litigation and arbitration, family law, personal injury, and wrongful death.

This lecture is made possible through the generosity of Patricia and William H. Kleh ('71), who established the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professorship in International Law in February 2011.
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