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When: Tuesday, December 1st @ 12:15pm Where: Online via Zoom Please register to receive a link to join the online program live. Join us online for a CIVIC co-sponsored program from Ambassador Emily Haber, who will speak to us on "German-American Relations After the Elections"  Emily Haber has been German Ambassador to the United States since June 2018. Prior to her transfer to Washington, DC, she served in various leadership functions at the Foreign Office in Berlin. In 2009, she was appointed Political Director and, in 2011, State Secretary, the first woman to hold either post. Thereafter, she was deployed to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, serving as State Secretary in charge of homeland security and migration policy from 2014 until 2018. Emily Haber holds a PhD in history and is married to former diplomat Hansjörg Haber.
In next weeks program... The United States and Germany share a long and steadfast friendship. Both countries are allies within NATO and share fundamental values as well as common interests. Recently, disputes over defense spending, tariffs and sanctions have put a strain on this partnership. At the same time, the major global challenges of our time, including the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming and international terrorism require the United States, Germany, and Europe to stand together. Please join German Ambassador Emily Haber for a discussion on the future of this important partnership following the recent US presidential elections.
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When: Wednesday, November 18th @ 12:15pm Where: Online via Zoom Please register to receive a link to join the online program live. Join us online for a program from Ted Powers, who will speak to us on "COVID-19, Austerity, and State Violence in South Africa"  Following COVID-19’s arrival, the South African government has implemented a restrictive state-led response to the pandemic, limiting infections along with the survival strategies of those at greatest risk of illness. While the country’s aggressive tactics towards the epidemic have been lauded by some, the public health response has taken a violent turn towards the country’s historically marginalized black population. How are we to make sense of the ruling African National Congress’ decision to utilize the South African state’s capacity for violence towards poor and working-class black urban communities? How can this disease response be contextualized within the broader arc of South African history?
When: Thursday, November 12th @ 12:15pm Where: Online via Zoom Please register to receive a link to join the online program live. Join us online for a program from Mark Kende, who will speak to us on "The Truth About the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission"  Mark Kende is a Professor of Law, the James Madison Chair in Constitutional Law, and Director of the Congressionally endowed Drake Constitutional Law Center. Kende earned his BA cum laude with Honors in Philosophy from Yale University, and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School where he was a member of the Law Review. Before entering academia, he clerked for a federal district judge and litigated employment, civil rights, and constitutional law cases at a Chicago law firm. He has co-taught constitutional law classes with two current U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Kende has previously taught at Notre Dame Law School and the University of Montana Law School. He was Teacher of the Year at Montana in 2002-2003. He has served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Paris Law Faculty II – Pantheon. He has lectured at Oxford University and in French at the University of Paris Institute for Comparative Studies, as well as at universities in Hong Kong, Spain, and the former Soviet Union. In 2003, he served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Africa, and he was the Constitutional Law Section Chair in 2008. He is the author of several books including Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa and the United States (Cambridge 2009), and Comparative Constitutional Law: South Africa in a Global Context (Carolina 2015). He has also published law journal articles in Constitutional Commentary, the Notre Dame Law Journal, the Hastings Law Journal, and journals at Harvard Law School and the Univ. Penn. Law School.
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