39^th SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Connecticut Education Fund, Inc.

in cooperation with the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University

and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE:

A Global Perspective on Migrants,

Refugees and Displaced Persons

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Alumni Hall, Carl Hansen Student Center, Quinnipiac University

275 Mount Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Book Sale                                       8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Program (begins promptly)                                                                             9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Panel:      Dr. Elizabeth Campbell

Director, Refugee Council USA (RCUSA)

Dr. Peggy Levitt

Chair, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, and Co-director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University

Dr. Stephen Pitti

History Professor and Director, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Yale University

Moderator: Dr. Nancy Ruther

MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University

Mail registration form with check to: LWVCTEF, Inc., 1890 Dixwell Ave., Suite 113, Hamden CT 06514-3183

Before March 28 please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope to have your tickets mailed.

For further information, contact our office.  Phone: 203-288-7996  Fax: 203-288-7998

New This Year: If you pay at the door, the cost will be $25 per person.

SIR 2008: The Movement of People

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Please make check payable to “LWVCTEF, Inc.”                                     Total amount enclosed:  $ ______________

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Directions to Quinnipiac University

From Providence and east, via I-95: Take I-95 to New Haven. Then take I-91 north to Exit To (Route 40). Follow Route 4o approximately 3 miles to its end (at Whitney Avenue). Turn right onto Whitney Avenue (Route 10) and proceed north for 1.4 miles. Turn right onto Mount Carmel Avenue and go 0.3 miles to campus.

From New York City and west, via I-95: Take I-95 to New Haven. Then take 1-91 north to Exit 10 (Route 40). Follow Route 40 approximately 3 miles to its end (at Whitney Avenue). Turn right onto Whitney Avenue (Route 10) and proceed north for 1.4 miles. Turn right onto Mount Carmel Avenue and go 0.3 miles to campus.

From New York City and west, via the Merritt/Wilbur Cross Parkway: Take the Parkway (Rte. 15) to Exit 61. Turn right onto Whitney Ave. (Rte. 10) and proceed north three miles to Mount Carmel Ave. Turn right onto Mount Carmel Ave. and go 0.3 miles to campus.

From Hartford and east, via the Wilbur Cross (Merritt) Parkway: Take the Parkway (Rte. 15) to Exit 62. Turn right onto Whitney Ave. (Rte. 10) and proceed north three miles to Mount Carmel Ave. Turn right onto Mount Carmel Ave and go 0.3 miles to campus.

From Hartford, Boston, and Upper New England via I-91 Take 1-91 south to Exit lo^, (Route 40). Follow Route 4o approximately 3 miles to its end (at Whitney Ave.) Turn right onto Whitney Ave. (Route 10) and proceed north for 1.4 miles. Turn right onto Mount Carmel Avenue and go 0.3 miles to campus.

From western Connecticut and upper New York. State, via 1-84: Take 1-84 to Exit 26. At end of exit, bear right on Route 70 toward Cheshire. Continue on Route 70 to Route 10. Turn right on Route 1o and go about 7 miles to Mr. Carmel Avenue: Turn left onto Mount Carmel Avenue and go 0.3 miles to campus. 

To get to the Alumni Hall in the Carl Hansen Student Center: Take the right at the main entrance off Mount Carmel Avenue, which is marked and has a guardhouse; a guard will be there to help. Plan to arrive by 8:00 am.: if there is parking in the main lot, you may park there. Otherwise, the gate guard will give you specific instructions as to where you can park if the lot has filled up. Park as directed; if in the main lot, as far from the street (as close to the center of campus) as possible, and walk as straight as possible towards the main academic quad. 

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CALENDAR

March

March 5, 2008 (Wed)      Water Wise at Audrey Beck Municipal Building, Council Chambers

                                           7:00 p.m.

March 27, 2008 (Thur)    Noon Meeting at Zenny’s Restaurant at Four Corners in Storrs.

April 12, 2008 (Tue)        Movement of People at Alumni Hall, Carl Hansen Student Center,          

                                       Quinnipiac University 275 Mount Carmel Avenue, Hamden, CT

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