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Conference
on Religion, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery March
31 – April 2, 2011 Denver,
Colorado
The University of Denver/Iliff School of
Theology Joint PhD Program in Religious and Theological Studies, in
co-operation with the University of Denver Office of Special Programs and
Conferences and DU’s Human Trafficking Clinic, invites your participation in
an international conference on “Religion, Human Trafficking, and Modern
Slavery” to be held March 31-April 2, 2011
on the campuses of the two institutions. For an
outline of the program as well as registration information , see below. ·
Program The conference will take place at
the University of Denver in the Driscoll Student Center. The Driscoll Student
Center is located on the north side of the bridge over Evans Avenue, which is
west of University Boulevard. Please see the attached map and directions from
I-25 to the University of Denver. ____________________________________________________ Plenary
Speaker Friday, April 1, 2011 7 p.m. (Location TBA)
"The
21st Century Abolitionist Movement: Why
and How Faith Communities Will Lead the Way" Dr. David Batstone, University of San Francisco Dr. David Batstone is president and co-founder of the Not For Sale Campaign, a
movement to end modern-day slavery, and Right Reality, an international
social venture firm. Batstone is a business professor at the University of San
Francisco, and has authored seven books, the two most recent being Not For Sale (HarperOne) and Saving the Corporate Soul (Jossey-Bass).
He was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and served six
years as executive editor of Sojourners
magazine, during which time he founded the SojoMail e-zine. Batstone has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Chicago
Tribune, the San Francisco
Chronicle, Wired, and SPIN. He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and was
named National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San
Francisco for his work in technology and ethics. During the 1980s, Batstone founded a non-governmental agency dedicated to
economic development and human rights in Latin America. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Special Marsico
Lecture Thursday,
March 31 7 p.m. Lindsay
Auditorium, Sturm Hall
"Toward a New Abolitionist Movement: Historical Slavery, Contemporary Slavery, and the
Religious Imagination" James Brewer Stewart Macalester College Dr. James Brewer Stewart is the
James Wallace Professor of History, Emeritus, at Macalester College and the
founder and director of Historians
Against Slavery, an international initiative with members in
over 300 institutions. Professor
Stewart taught history at Macalester for four decades, where he also served
as Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Seminar in Early American
History from 2005-2010 and director of the Latin American Studies Program,
2000-2007. He has been a Distinguished
Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and continues to serve
on the board of advisors of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery and Abolition at Yale University, as well as serving as president of
the national board of Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights,
among many similar national positions.
In addition to biographies of abolitionists Joshua R. Giddings,
Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison and Hosea Easton, Prof. Stewart has
authored or edited Venture Smith and
the Business of Slavery or Freedom (2010), Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War (2008), Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic
Antislavery and Women’s Rights (2007, co-edited with K Sklar), Race and the Early Republic (2001), Holy Warriors: the Abolitionists and
American Slavery (1993) and over 30 peer-reviewed articles. Funded by the Marsico Visiting Scholars Fund of the Division of
Arts Humanities, and Social Sciences, this lecture is free and open to the
public. You do not have to register
for the remainder of the conference to attend (though we heartily encourage
you to do so). Register here
for Prof. Stewart’s lecture. A talk for students on mobilizing to fight human trafficking
followed by a reception will be held in Sturm Hall 453 from 4-5:30 p.m. All are welcome. Copyright © University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint
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