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Human Trafficking: Perspectives & Activism
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Human Trafficking: Pespectives & Activism

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Symposium Schedule
All events are free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

7 p.m.

Welcome
Keynote: John M. Green Hall

A Conversation with Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist; and Ruchira Gupta, sex trafficking abolitionist, journalist and activist.

 

Friday, April 19, 2013

11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

11 a.m.

Technology, Trafficking and the Law
Panel 1: Ford Hall 240

Christina Bain, Babson Social Innovation Lab at Babson College, and former Director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

Sergeant Detective Donna M. Gavin, Boston Police Human Trafficking Unit, Massachusetts Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking

Jennifer Musto, Faculty Fellow, Rice Humanities Research Center's inaugural Rice Seminar, Human Trafficking Past and Present: Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines

Moderated by Alice Hearst, Government

12:30 p.m. Break
1:30 p.m.

Sex Trafficking in the United States
Panel 2: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall

Vednita Carter, Founder and Executive Director, Breaking Free

Crystal DeBoise, Director of Social Services, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center

Kelli Dorsey, Executive Director, Different Avenues

Moderated by Carrie Baker, Study of Women and Gender

3 p.m.

Break
Refreshments in the Global Studies Center.

3:30 p.m.

Global Trafficking and Human Rights
Panel 3: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall

Christie Edwards, Program Manager, Human Rights & Middle East and North Africa, Vital Voices Global Partnership

Julietta Hua, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Department, San Francisco State University

Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University

Moderated by Greg White, Global Studies Center, Government

5 p.m.

Closing Remarks
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall