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...time in Canada as a Liberal Party candidate, is currently on leave from his position as director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights. He has spent this semester as the Jackman visiting professor in human rights policy at the University of Toronto in Canada. At yesterday’s forum, “Human Rights: Where the Action Is,” Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 interviewed Ignatieff before a large audience. Ignatieff said the focus in human rights has shifted from drafting international conventions...
...Canada’s Liberal party Michael Ignatieff came under attack last Friday over statements he made to the Harvard Crimson concerning his intentions to return to Harvard post-election. Ignatieff, who raised eyebrows when he left Harvard this September to assume a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto in Canada, took a break from academia almost two weeks ago to enter as a Liberal candidate for Canadian Parliament. “If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back,” Ignatieff told the Crimson last Tuesday, sparking angry...
...Plan, known for their hardcore/progressive metal/free jazz songs as part of their North America tour. Also playing that night are The Bronx, Between The Buried and Me, and Horse The Band. The Middle East. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $15 (IJB)The Deadly Snakes. The Deadly Snakes, a Toronto-based band started in 1996, will play after Radka at 9:15 and Dirty Ticket at 10:15. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 11:15 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door. $8. (JDMC)Wednesday, Dec. 7Schlesinger Library Film Series. Connie Field?...
...Ignatieff took a leave of absence from his post as director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights and professor of public policy earlier this year to return as a visiting professor to the University of Toronto, where he completed his undergraduate studies...
...Obviously his role as an intellectual was much more as a public intellectual than as a scholar,” said Gregory Albo, professor of political science at York University in Toronto. “He doesn’t write academic books in the conventional sense; he writes popular conventional essays. He has always been a political actor in that sense...