Week One: Conceptual and Definitional Issues
Monday, July 3, 2017
Starting on July 3rd until July 21st (with the exception of July 4th): All classes will be held in Room K354 in the CGIS Knafel building at 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Monday, July 3, 2017 – Course overview
9:00 am – 9:30 am Announcements
Mercy Deborah, Senior Research Associate, Jindal Global Law School and Sushant Chandra, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Clinical Program, Jindal Global Law School
9:30 am– 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen P. Marks, Director, Program on Human Rights in Development, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Summer School Co-director
9:45 am– 10:45 am Introduction and Course Overview
Melanie Adrian, Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at Carleton University and Academic Coordinator of Week One and Stephen P. Marks
10:45 am– 11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:15 am– 12:00 pm Discussion of expectations
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
2:15 pm Visit to Harvard Library
5:30 pm Return to Lesley University
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
National holiday in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to tour the campus and attend the fireworks display on the Charles River. See here for more information.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
9:30 am– 11:30 am Understanding Human Rights across Disciplines
Melanie Adrian
11:30 am – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Basic Concepts of Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Stephen P. Marks and Leonardo Castilho
4:00 pm– 4:15 pm Refreshment Break
4:15 pm– 5:15 pm Group discussion to topics covered during the day
Melanie Adrian, moderator
Thursday, July 6, 2017
9:00 am– 11:00 am The Role of Human Rights in International Law and Practice
Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am -12:30 pm Simulation of India and reports of special procedures
Introduction by Leonardo Castilho
Melanie Adrian and Stephen Marks, moderators
12:30 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Simulation based on May 2017 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India
Introduction by Leonardo Castilho
Melanie Adrian, Leonardo Castilho, and Stephen Marks, moderators
2:30 pm– 3:00 pm Information on Harvard’s South Asia Institute (TBC)
Meena Sonea Hewett, Executive Director | Harvard University South Asia Institute
3:10 pm – 4:00 pm Library Tour and discussion of Research – what is expected
Mercy Deborah and Sushant Chandra
Friday, July 7, 2017
9:00 am– 10:30 am What is Development? A Participatory Exercise
Spencer Henson, Professor in Food, Health and Development, University of Guelph, Canada; Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK.
10.30 am– 11.00 am Refreshment Break
11.00 am– 12.30 pm What is Development? Alternative Perspectives
Spencer Henson
12:30 pm– 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Gender in Development
Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security and Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.
3:00 pm– 3:15 pmRefreshment Break
3:15 pm–4:30 pm Ethics in Public Health and Development
Professor Richard Cash, MD, MPH, Senior Lecturer on Global Health
Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH
Week Two: Social and Economic Issues
Monday, July 10, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am Food and Nutrition Security: The Need for Local and Global Action
Spencer Henson
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –1:00 pm Human Rights Indicators in Development: Definitions, Relevance and Application
Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, Counsel, Environment & International Law (Human Rights Legal Vice-Presidency, and International Law Legal Department, World Bank)
1:00 pm– 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Approaching Indigenous Rights in Latin American: Law and Anthropology in applying International Norms, Social Movements, and Citizenship Claims
Theodore Macdonald, Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am The Human Right to Water and Sanitation and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sharmila Murthy, Assistant Professor of Law, Suffolk University
11:00 am – 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –12:30 pm TEDx film: What the world can learn from the Kumbh Mela
Professor Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard
Discussion moderated by Sharmila Murthy
12:30 pm– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Tour of the Harvard Campus
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Is there a Human Right to Development?
Stephen P. Marks
11:00 am – 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –12:30 pm Measuring the World’s Poor and Designing Policies for Poverty Reduction
Stéphane Verguet, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population HSPH
12:30 pm– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Making Human Rights Work for People Living in Extreme Poverty
Cristina Diez Sagüillo, Director of International Relations Training
International Movement ATD Fourth World
Thursday, July 13, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am Responses to Forced Migration: Applying a Livelihoods Perspective
Professor Karen Jacobsen, Henry J. Leir Professor of Global Migration
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –12:30 pm Human Trafficking: From the Past to the Present on the Indian Ocean. Geospatial and Other Quantitative methods
Lucia Lovison-Golob, PhD, Geospatial Director, Afriterra Foundation
12:30 pm– 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Presentation by Karina L. Weinstein, Program Director FXB USA on FXB village model for development and human rights (by Skype)
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Visit from Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights
Friday, July 14, 2017
9:00 am– 11:00 am Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Development
Michael Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Janet Lord, Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –12:30 pm The Emergence and Expansion of the Right to Health in International Law
Stephen P. Marks
12:30 pm– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the application of its principles in law and development
Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Director, Child Protection Certificate Program,
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Day trip to New York City. Departure from Lesley University (time TBA) in the early morning, and return late at night or next day. Students will receive money to spend on three meals during the day in Manhattan.
Week Three: Global Political Economy
Monday, July 17, 2017
10:00 am– 12:00 pm Trade, Investment, Human Rights and Development
Joel Trachtman, Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Business and Human Rights
Malcolm Rogge
4:15 – 5:30 pm Corporate Social Responsibility as a Human Rights Issue in India
Summer school teaching staff
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
9:00 am– 11:00 am Education in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment break
11:30 am –12:30 pm The Right to Education and Issues of Primary Education in India
Group Discussion
1:00 pm– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Human Rights in the Digital Age
Natalie Gyenes, Research Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
9:00 am – 11:00 am Migration and Restrictions on Population Movements: Experiences in South Asia
Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH, Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program at Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –1:30 pm Human Rights from Below: The Importance of Social Mobilization
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Rights from Below: Small Group Discussion
1:30 pm– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm Strategizing for Human Rights in Developing Countries: Moving from Ideals to Practice
Douglas A. Johnson, Faculty Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Lecturer, Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School
Thursday, July 20, 2017
9:00 am – 10:00 am Study and reading time
10:00 am – 1:00 pm Final Student Presentations
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Final Student Presentations
Evening Writing Time
Friday, July 21, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Final Student Presentations
12:00 pm —1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 4:00 pm Final Student Presentations
6:00 pm– 10:00 pm Concluding banquet and awarding of certificates (Harvard Faculty Club)
Special Guest:
C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, JGU
Keynote speaker:
David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Faculty Director of the Center on The Legal Profession, Harvard Law School
Saturday July 22, 2017
Departure from Logan International Airport after breakfast at Lesley University. No other meals are included for this day and students are responsible for their own transportation to the airport.