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Thursday March 11, 2010

Please join Eckerd College in Florida during their year long Africa initiative as they host John Prendergast, who will anchor the Spring 2010 semester as a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence. He will focus on the genocide in Darfur and southern Sudan; conflict minerals in eastern Congo; and child soldiers in northern Uganda.

Dates and times of events TBD

 

*More about Eckerd College's Africa Initiative*

"Do it today: art across the bay at Congo/Women"
Creative Loafing Tampa Jan. 11, 2010

"Congo/Women Portraits of War photo exhibit as part of Eckerd-Africa
Initiative"
BEHIND THE LENS | The story behind the image
(The St. Petersburg Times photography blog)

Start: Mar 11 2010 7:30 pm

 

Eckerd College presents

Elie Wiesel and John Prendergast

From the Holocaust to Darfur: If We Had Only Learned Our Lesson

 

Thursday, March 11, 2010

7:30pm

Location to be determined

www.eckerd.edu/africa

(727) 864-7979   events@eckerd.edu

Friday March 12, 2010

Please join Eckerd College in Florida during their year long Africa initiative as they host John Prendergast, who will anchor the Spring 2010 semester as a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence. He will focus on the genocide in Darfur and southern Sudan; conflict minerals in eastern Congo; and child soldiers in northern Uganda.

Dates and times of events TBD

 

*More about Eckerd College's Africa Initiative*

"Do it today: art across the bay at Congo/Women"
Creative Loafing Tampa Jan. 11, 2010

"Congo/Women Portraits of War photo exhibit as part of Eckerd-Africa
Initiative"
BEHIND THE LENS | The story behind the image
(The St. Petersburg Times photography blog)

Start: Mar 12 2010 6:30 pm
End: Mar 12 2010 9:00 pm

Eckerd College presents

John Prendergast

Stopping Child Soldier Recruitment: Northern Uganda and Beyond

with photo exhibit and opening reception

Friday, March 12, 2010

6:30pm The Studio @ 620

www.eckerd.edu/africa

(727)864-7979    events@eckerd.edu

Saturday March 13, 2010
Start: Feb 28 2010 5:00 pm
End: Mar 13 2010 5:00 pm

Please join Eckerd College in Florida during their year long Africa initiative as they host John Prendergast, who will anchor the Spring 2010 semester as a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence. He will focus on the genocide in Darfur and southern Sudan; conflict minerals in eastern Congo; and child soldiers in northern Uganda.

Dates and times of events TBD

 

*More about Eckerd College's Africa Initiative*

"Do it today: art across the bay at Congo/Women"
Creative Loafing Tampa Jan. 11, 2010

"Congo/Women Portraits of War photo exhibit as part of Eckerd-Africa
Initiative"
BEHIND THE LENS | The story behind the image
(The St. Petersburg Times photography blog)

Tuesday March 23, 2010
Start: Mar 23 2010 8:00 pm
End: Mar 23 2010 9:30 pm

Are you a student of the University of Pittsburgh or live in the greater Pittsburgh area? Then join Omekongo Dibinga on March 23!

Time: 8PM 

Venue: G-23 Parran Public Health Building

Friday March 26, 2010
Start: Mar 26 2010 5:00 pm

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies presents
2010 Student Peace Conference:

"Invest in Peace: Uncovering the Practicality of Peacebuilding"
with the keynote address by
John Prendergast
Friday, March 26 at 5:45pm
peacecon@nd.edu
Register for the conference at http://nd.edu/~peacecon/confreg2010.shtml
 

Start: Mar 26 2010 5:00 pm

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies presents
2010 Student Peace Conference:

"Invest in Peace: Uncovering the Practicality of Peacebuilding"
with the keynote address by
John Prendergast
Friday, March 26 at 5:45pm
peacecon@nd.edu
Register for the conference at http://nd.edu/~peacecon/confreg2010.shtml
 

Saturday March 27, 2010
Start: Mar 26 2010 5:00 pm
End: Mar 27 2010 7:00 pm

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies presents
2010 Student Peace Conference:

"Invest in Peace: Uncovering the Practicality of Peacebuilding"
with the keynote address by
John Prendergast
Friday, March 26 at 5:45pm
peacecon@nd.edu
Register for the conference at http://nd.edu/~peacecon/confreg2010.shtml
 

Start: Mar 26 2010 5:00 pm
End: Mar 27 2010 7:00 pm

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies presents
2010 Student Peace Conference:

"Invest in Peace: Uncovering the Practicality of Peacebuilding"
with the keynote address by
John Prendergast
Friday, March 26 at 5:45pm
peacecon@nd.edu
Register for the conference at http://nd.edu/~peacecon/confreg2010.shtml
 

Tuesday March 30, 2010
Start: Mar 30 2010 7:00 pm
End: Mar 30 2010 10:00 pm

Advocates for Human Rights presents

John Prendergast

The War in Our Cellphones: Congo's Conflict Minerals

 

7:00 pm

Fedex Global Education Center

 

global.unc.edu

Wednesday March 31, 2010
Start: Mar 31 2010 1:00 pm

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Mar 31 2010 6:00 pm
End: Mar 31 2010 10:00 pm

Are you in the Pittsburgh area? Join students at Duquesne University for their Human Rights Festival! Co-founder of Grassroots Reconcilation Group, Sasha Lezhnev will be coming to speak about the Democraric Republic of the Congo. There will be raffles and food as well as over 10 non-profit human rights organizations from around the Pittsburgh area. Come show your support for the Democratic Republic as well as other human rights issues going on in your world today!

For more details, click here

Start: Mar 31 2010 7:00 pm
End: Mar 31 2010 9:30 pm

 Enough co-founder, John Prendergast, will speak on behalf of the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign at Harvard University!

Venue: The Starr Auditorium at Harvard Kennedy School of Government 

Time: 7PM

 

Thursday April 01, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 1 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 1 2010 9:30 pm

NYU Undergraduate Law Society, Selma Ruben Distinguished Lecture Series and Edgar M. Brofman Center for Jewish Student Life present

A Conversation on Darfur

with John Prendergast

and Mark Hanis of the Genocide Intervention Network

Opening Address by Christopher Hitchens

Thursday, April 1, 2010

7:00pm

NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts

 

www.takeactionnyu.com

Friday April 02, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 2 2010 6:00 pm
End: Apr 2 2010 8:00 pm

 Hear Omekongo Dibinga speak and perform on the crisis in eastern Congo at Norfolk State University. The event will take place in the Student Union Building in Room 138.

Start: Apr 2 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 2 2010 9:00 pm

 

Omekongo Dibinga will be speaking at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA, on Friday, April 2 at 7:00pm.  

Saturday April 03, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Sunday April 04, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Monday April 05, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Tuesday April 06, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 6 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 6 2010 9:00 pm

The Ford Institute for Human Security presents

 

John Prendergast

"African Stories of Hope and Why They Matter for Sudan and Congo"

7:00pm

1700 Posvar Hall

www.fordinstitute.pitt.edu       412-648-7434

Wednesday April 07, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 7 2010 6:00 pm
End: Apr 7 2010 9:00 pm

Location: 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University. 

 
Speakers:
• John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project
• Major General Patrick Cammaert, Former Division Commander of MONUC
• Roger Luhiriri, 2008 Human Rights Advocate with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and former fistula doctor at Panzi Hospital in DRC 
• Lisa Jackson, director of the film The Greatest Silence about rape in the Congo 
 
There will also be an exhibit of student photos taken while in DRC. The photos will be auctioned off in a silent auction during the event to raise funds for Panzi Hospital in DRC.
 
Finally, a reception will immediately follow the event, providing an opportunity for students to mingle with panelists and other attendees.
 
Raise Hope for Congo is being organized by the Human Rights Working Group with the Humanitarian Affairs Working Group and the UN Studies Program Working Group, in partnership with The Enough Project.
Thursday April 08, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 8 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 8 2010 9:00 pm

 

Omekongo Dibinga will be speaking at Wilmington College of Ohio in Wilmington, OH, on Thursday, April 8 at 7:00pm.

Friday April 09, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

Start: Apr 9 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 9 2010 9:30 pm

Jewish Community Relations Council, Theta Alpha Kappa, the School of Religious Studies and the School of International and Public Affairs present

John Prendergast

"Darfur, Congo, and the Steps to Peace"

7:00 pm

 

RBD 11000 (Law School Building)
Florida International University, Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199

Start: Apr 9 2010 7:00 pm
End: Apr 9 2010 9:00 pm

The Penn State Altoona Teaching and Learning Consortium will bring the atrocities occurring in the DRC to light during its Free University Series with Dr. Lee Ann De Reus

The event will take place in the Devorris Downtown Center on April 9 at 7PM.

To learn more, click here

Saturday April 10, 2010

IN DARFUR   

March 31–April 18, 2010 
By Winter Miller 
Directed by Derek Goldman

Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics.  Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation?  And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?

Click here for more information or to buy tickets

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