In our opening talk of the Spring 2020 semester, Professor Ray Cashman of Indiana University will provide insights on Ireland's Great Famine and the viability of community. Cashman is Director of the Folklore Institute and Editor of the Journal of Folklore Research at Indiana University.
Diane Nash will be the keynote speaker at this luncheon. Nash became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in 1959 while a student at Fisk University. By the time she was 22, Nash was a Freedom Rider and had co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She worked closely with Dr. King and played a pivotal role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement.
Oriana Skylar Mastro is an assistant professor of security studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy.
The Mediation Program of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies hosts a panel discussion on reparation and reconciliation at Notre Dame and beyond. The panelists will include diverse speakers from the university and the South Bend community, with ample opportunity for audience participation.The discussion will explore the requirements for reconciliation, such as truth-telling, acknowledgement of harm, and different kinds of reparation.
Come listen to the first MFA reading of the semester. Readers include Marie Burns, Greg Havrilak, PJ Lombardo, and Misael Osorio-Conde.