Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Authority Powell to Lecture at UW
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April 2, 2008 - John A. Powell, internationally renowned authority on civil rights, civil liberties and issues related to race, ethnicity, poverty and justice conference Monday, April 7, at the University of Wyoming. Powell’s conference entitled “Equity and Access: Thinking About Transformatively Race, Opportunity, and social justice,” starts at 4 pm in room 144 of the UW College of Law building. The conference is the first formal event of the new Social Justice UW’s Research Center (SJRC), an interdisciplinary center of the confrontation with practical and theoretical questions arising from the desire for social justice. “Dr Powell visit is important for several reasons,” says director SJRC Francisco Rios. “Firstly, it is the center of the first official visit to the lecturer, which we hope will be a long list of distinguished scholars, we are going on campus. Secondly, his specialty - Rights of citizens initiatives - is consistent with the objective of his proposed social justice roots in the civil rights movement. ” He added: “Mr. Powell has played a key role in the creation and management of several of these research centres, like ours, and advice and guidance that we move forward is the most advantageous. ” Powell worked as a manager of the Kirwan Institute for Research on Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He also holds the chair of the Williams civil rights and civil liberties in the Moritz College of Law in Ohio. Earlier, Powell has taught at the Columbia University School of Law, Harvard Law School, University of Miami School of Law, American University, University of San Francisco School of Law and the University of Minnesota Law School. He has worked and lived in Africa, India, Europe and South America. |