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New England and Afghanistan
Building Paths of Understanding and Collaboration Across Borders

 

Friday, January 26, 2007
8:00-10:00pm Kayhan Kalhor performance Rollins Chapel
Tickets Available through the Hopkins Center (602) 646-2422
   
Saturday, January 27, 2007
10:30-12:30 Film Screening Kabul Transit by David Edwards
Followed by Discussion with David Edwards and Sally and Don Goodrich
Rockefeller Hall Room 3
10:30-11:30 First They Came for the Judges: The Afghan Women Judges Education Project The Vermont Experience
Patricia Whalen, Connie Woodberry, Julie Peterson, and Ann Fielder
Rockefeller Hall Room 1
12:30-2:30 Lunch Break
12:00-2:00  Faculty Workshop on Legal Reform in Afghanistan
1930 Room Rockefeller Hall
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Education and Educators in Afghanistan
Ted Achilles, Educational Experiences in Kabul
Jeff Symanski, Teaching in Kabul (Afghans 4 Tomorrow)
Rockefeller Center Room 1
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45  Creating Compassionate, Empathetic Learning Environments, which Foster Healthy Relationships between Global Citizens
Fred Goldberg and  Paul Richmond (The Loft Foundation)
Rockefeller Center Room 1
5:00-8:00 Dinner Break
8:00-9:30 Performance Richard “Dobbs” Hartshorne
Bach with Verse
DOC House, Dartmouth Campus
   
Sunday, January 28, 2007
10:00-11:15 The Welfare Association for the Development of Afghanistan (WADAN)
Jean Kissel, Mohammad Nasib, Mohammad Alam, and Ahmad Javid
Rockefeller Center, Room 1
11:15-11:30  Break
11:30-12:30  The Aftermath of 9/11
Sally and Don Goodrich (Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation)
Matiullah Amin and Soraya Hazrati
Dr. David Edwards, Williams College
Rockefeller Center Room 1
12:30-1:30  Lunch Break
1:30-2:45 International Development Work, Workers and NGOs in Afghanistan:
Roundtable Discussion and Workshop
Rachel Lehr (Rubia)
Jonathan Hoffman (Direct Aid International)
Rockefeller Center Room 1
2:45-3:00  Break
3:00-4:00 Mobile Mini Circus for Children (MMCC) in Kabul
Ted Lawrence
An American private citizen's view of Afghanistan
Mary Kerr
Rockefeller Center Room 1
4:00  Closing Remarks & Departure
Jennifer Fluri (Dartmouth College)
Rockefeller Center Room 1