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UNIFEM/USNC, Chicago Chapter's Distinguished Speakers

 

Professor Katrin Schultheiss
Second Annual Luncheon, Dec. 6, 2007

Professor Katrin Schultheiss teaches courses in the history of modern Europe, women's and gender history, and the history of medicine. Her first book was entitled Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which used nursing as a lens through which to examine the evolution of gendered definitions of citizenship. Currently, she is writing a cultural biography of the Charcots, a prominent French family whose members included one of Europe's first neurologists, France's best known modern polar explorer, and several generations of women artists. The book focuses on the relationship between art and science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Schultheiss also teachers courses on feminist theory and international women's rights.

 

Professor Schultheiss' scholarships, fellowships and awards include:

  • Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001-2002
  • Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (UIC)  Arts, Architecture and Humanities Faculty Research Grant, 2001
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 1991-92
  • Krupp Foundation Fellowship, 1992
  • Sheldon Fellowship, 1991
  • Harvard Center for European Studies Summer Research Grant, 1990
  • Harvard Prize Fellowship, 1987-89
  • Harvard Danforth Center Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1989

 

M. Cherif Bassiouni
First Annual Luncheon, Nov. 3, 2006

M. Cherif Bassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute. He is also President of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy, as well as the Honorary President of the International Association of Penal Law (President 1989-2004), based in Paris, France.

 

He has served the United Nations in a number of capacities, including as: Member and then Chairman of the Security Council's Commission to Investigate War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (1992-94); Commission on Human Rights' Independent Expert on The Rights to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Grave Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1998-2000); Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (1995); and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the 1998 Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. In 2004, he was appointed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan.

 

In 1999, Professor Bassiouni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the field of international criminal justice and for his contribution to the creation of the International Criminal Court.

 

He has received the following medals:

  • Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Commander), Federal Republic of Germany (2003)
  • Legion d'Honneur (Officier), Republic of France (2003)
  • Order of Lincoln of Illinois, United States of America (2001)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Republic of Austria (1990)
  • Order of Sciences (First Class), Arab Republic of Egypt (1984)
  • Order of Merit (Grand'Ufficiale), Republic of Italy (1977)
  • Order of Military Valor (First Class), Arab Republic of Egypt (1956)

He has also received numerous academic and civic awards, including:

  • The Saint Vincent DePaul Humanitarian Award (2000)
  • Defender of Democracy Award, Parliamentarians for Global Action (1998)
  • The Adlai Stevenson Award of the United Nations Association (1993)
  • Special Award of the Council of Europe (1990)

Professor Bassiouni is the author of 27 books and editor of 44 books, and the author of 217 articles on a wide range of legal issues, including international criminal law, comparative criminal law and international human rights law. His publications have appeared in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish. Some of these publications have been cited by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the United States Supreme Court, as well as by several United States Appellate and Federal District Courts, and also by several State Supreme Courts.