Hunter College Hosts Roosevelt House Public Policy Forum Examining American Domestic and Foreign Policy

Date: May 1, 2003
Contact: Deborah Sack (deborah.sack@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4070

Hunter College Roosevelt House Public Policy Forum presents "American Rights, Human Rights," a conference which will examine aspects of the United States' domestic and foreign policy in relation to international human rights, on Wednesday, May 7, 2003 from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Faculty Dining Room, 8th Floor, Hunter College West Building on the southwest corner of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.

The forum will be divided into two parts.  Part one will look at American domestic policy in a panel called "Rights of Citizens and Aliens in the New American Empire."  Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne distinguished professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, will give the presentation with commentary by Josh DeWind from the Social Science Research Council.

The second part of the conference will examine American foreign policy during a discussion billed "Is American Hegemony Good for Human Rights?"  Tom J. Farer, dean of the graduate school of International Studies at the University of Denver, will give the presentation with commentary by Margaret Crahan, the Dorothy Epstein professor of history at Hunter College and J. Michael Turner, history professor and director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Hunter College.

To attend the conference RSVP by May 5 to evegenia.gennadiou@hunter.cuny.edu or to (212) 772-4007.

About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.

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