Go On! Asian pluralism @ UNC

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)

Thanks to our reader who alerted us to an upcoming all-day symposium entitled "Pluralism in Asia: Exploring Dynamics of Reflection, Reinforcement and Resistance," to be held on January 14, 2011, at the Kenan Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Delighted to read that the keynote speaker will be my colleague Madhavi Sunder (right), Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall).

Also confirmed are number of panelists, from universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea, as well as the United States. Topics they'll discuss include immigration, family law, civil rights, and religion.

The Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation at the University of North Carolina School of Law will publish conference papers.

Details and registration here.

On August 18

On this day in ...
... 1587, days after her family had arrived with other colonists at Roanoke Island on the mid-Atlantic coast (now North Carolina), Virginia Dare, the 1st child of English descent, was born in what is now the United States of America. The Roanoke Colony vanished, however, and Virginia along with it, under conditions unknown to this day. (credit for 1937 stamp commemorating Dare's birth)
... 1992, during an international inspection of 2 detention sites, the leader of the delegation, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, then France's Humanitarian Affairs Minister (today, its Foreign Minister), called the Serbian detention camps "'hell on earth.'" by the man leading a delegation to inspect them. The visit came a week after TV crews at the Trnopolje camp broadcast "[i]mages of severely emaciated internees behind barbed wire fences" that led "to comparisons with the horrors of Nazi concentration camps." Abuse at camps would be the subject of numerous cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, established the following year by the U.N. Security Council.

(Prior August 18 posts are here and here.)