Kenneth Roth, Grand Témoin of the Global Issues course in 2022
Event details
| Date | 01.03.2022 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Kenneth Roth, Martin Vetterli, Pierre Dillenbourg, Béla Kapossy |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
The Grand Témoin ceremony is the key event of the “Global Issues” course offered by the College of Humanities to all EPFL students in propedeutics (1st year of Bachelor studies). It recognizes the best student work from the year and invites a leading figure to give a lecture tied to global issues in their area of specialization. This year, we have the great pleasure of welcoming Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) since 1993.
PROGRAM:
- 5:00 pm: Words of welcome by:
Pierre Dillenbourg, Associate Vice President of Education
Béla Kapossy, Director of the College of Humanities
- 5:30 pm: Presentation of the outstanding students' work and awards ceremony
- 6:00 pm: Lecture by Kenneth Roth
- 6:40 pm: Questions and answers to Kenneth Roth
The ceremony at the STCC is reserved to students and their teachers
The online ceremony is public
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The three outstanding students works:
- Health Theme: L’exposition périnatale aux perturbateurs endocriniens
- Climate Theme: Des bactéries méthanotrophes pour rendre durable la production du lait suisse
- Mobility Theme: Utopie en ville de Lausanne : une fois les voitures supprimées, que fait-on ?
The “Global Issues” course:
This course is organized by the College of Humanities and reaches all EPFL students in the first year of the Bachelor program. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on six current themes: food, climate, communication, energy, mobility, and health.
Each course is taught by a pair of instructors, including one expert in natural sciences and engineering and one expert in social and human sciences. In the second half of the semester, the students work in teams to complete a project related to the theme that they have selected, which they present through a poster. The best poster from each group is recognized during this annual Grand Témoin ceremony.
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Kenneth Roth :
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world. He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses, devoting special attention to issues of international justice, counterterrorism, the foreign policies of the major powers, and the work of the United Nations.
Human Rights Watch, an international NGO for the defense of human rights, which :
- fights against the great social evils such as child labor, torture, genocide...
- fights for great causes such as equal rights for men and women, LGBT rights, freedom of the press...
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
Organizer
- EPFL College of Humanities