# MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis - Watch the video April 20, 2019 IAAS is pleased to co-sponsor the MIT-Harvard Conference on the Uyghur Human Rights Crisis **Watch the video of the Conference at ** Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 9:30am to 1:30pm [Building 32, Kirsch Auditorium, Room 123 (Stata Center)](https://calendar.mit.edu/building_32), 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 This conference aims to present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016; explore China’s use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghur; introduce the biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” in countering Uyghur people as an ethnicity; and open a dialogue on our role as leaders, educators, and technologists in engaging with China while being aware of its massive human rights violations. [Conference schedule and registration here](https://calendar.mit.edu/event/Uyghur_Crisis?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=MIT%20Events%20#.XK9hWql7nuS) **Please REGISTER to attend. Tickets will be required at the door. Each person attending must register individually.** Unable to attend? Watch the event live at **** Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)