Renowned diplomat, Majid Rahmena, will present, “Give Us Our Poverty Back!” A View of the Modern Economic Myth from the Poor’s Perspective on Wednesday, November 5 at 12:00 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, located on the Scripps College campus. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326.
Majid Rahmena is a career diplomat, statesman, writer and professor. Since 1993, he has served as a professor of International and Intercultural Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Prior to this position, he held many diplomatic posts including Ambassador to the General Assembly of the United Nations, U.N. Commissioner for Rwanda, Vice-President of the U.N. Economic and Social Council, and UNDP Representative in Mali. Rahmena writes extensively on socio-cultural, educational, colonial and international subjects, encompassing development, poverty, power and governance issues.
Rahmena’s lecture is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute’s Fall 2003 program “Poverty”. The program will address issues surrounding poverty; examining the history of poverty and poor relief, social policy and activism, the gendering of poverty, health and inequality, and food and hunger.
In addition, the Humanities Institute will offer a film screening of Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman in Room 119 of the Betty Cree Edwards Humanities Building on the Scripps College campus on November 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman tells the story of the more than 200 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. The murders first came to light in 1993 and young women continue to “disappear” to this day without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice. The documentary moves like the unsolved mystery it is, but it is also the story of a city of the future; it is the story of the underbelly of our global economy. A question and answer session with the Director of the film, Lourdes Portillo, will follow the screening.
For a full schedule of events related to the Fall 2003 Program, contact the Scripps College Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326.