MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis (Apr. 20, 2019)

MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis

Saturday, April 20, 2019 from 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM

MIT Kirsch Auditorium | 32-123,  32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA

Speakers:

Joi Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sean R Roberts, George Washington University

Darren Byler, University of Washington

Rian Thum, Loyola University New Orleans

Jessica Batke, ChinaFile

Sponsors:

MIT Center for International Studies, MIT Radius, MIT Student Activities Oce,  Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

You are cordially invited to participate in the MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis to be held in Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT on Saturday April 20th, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

This conference aims to:

  1. Present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016
  2. Explore China’s use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghurs
  3. Introduce the biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” in countering Uyghur people as an ethnicity
  4. Open a dialogue on our role as leaders, educators, and technologists in engaging with China while being aware of its massive human rights violations

We hope you will be able to join us for the conference.

For more information and to register, please visit the MIT events calendar: https://calendar.mit.edu/event/Uyghur_Crisis.