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2008 FALL EVENTS

Thursday, September 18
12:30 p.m.
LECTURE
How We Can End the Genocide in Sudan
Featuring John Prendergast, human rights activist and author
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
7 p.m.               
FILM
“Darfur Now”
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
John Prendergast will be present to answer questions after the film.
(more information. . .)
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Tuesday, September 23
4:15 p.m.
BOOK LAUNCH
Peace: A History of Movements & Ideas
C103 Hesburgh Center
By David Cortright, Kroc Institute research fellow and president of the Fourth Freedom Forum (more information. . . )
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Friday, September 26
11 a.m.
THE JOHN HOWARD YODER DIALOGUES ON NONVIOLENCE, RELIGION & PEACE:
Forgiveness & Apology: The Amish, Yoder and Peacebuilding
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Featuring Donald B. Kraybill, Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania  (more information. . . )
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Tuesday, September 30
4:15 p.m.
LECTURE
The Power of International Law for Peace
C103 Hesburgh Center
Featuring Mary Ellen O'Connell, Robert and Marion Short professor of law, University of Notre Dame (more information. . .)
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Monday, October 6
7 p.m.
LECTURE
After Iraq
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Featuring Gwynne Dyer, journalist, broadcaster and historian of international affairs.
Big changes are coming in the Middle East, says Gwynne Dyer. But how big? And how bad? (more information. . .)
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Thursday, October 9
7 p.m.
LECTURE
Humanity in Times of War
Featuring Jamie Williamson, Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross (more information coming soon)
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Thursday, October 16
12:30 p.m.
LECTURE
Zones of Peace
C103 Hesburgh Center
Featuring Christopher Mitchell, emeritus professor of conflict research, Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, George Mason University; & Landon Hancock, assistant professor, Center for Applied Conflict Management and Political Science Department, Kent State University
(more information coming soon)
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Tuesday, October 28
4:15 p.m.
BOOK LAUNCH
Social Movements for Global Democracy
C103 Hesburgh Center
By Jackie Smith, associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the Kroc Institute (more information. . .)
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Thursday, October 30
7 p.m.
LECTURE
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Beyond Voting: the Right to Political Participation in the 21st Century
(more information coming soon)
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Saturday, November 1
10 a.m.
PEACE STUDIES ALUMNI GATHERING
Lecture by George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies, and reception to follow (more information coming soon)
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Tuesday, November 11
4:15 p.m.
LECTURE
Economic Inequality & Attitudes toward Homosexuality
C103 Hesburgh
Featuring Tina Fetner, assistant professor of sociology at McMaster University. Fetner’s  new book, How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) examines the surprisingly complex relationship between two rival movements. . . (more information)
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Wednesday, November 19
7 p.m.
LECTURE
Global Security Priorities
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Featuring Congressman Dan Lungren (CA-3) and Major General William Burns (United States Army, retired) (more information coming soon)

 

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