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Next week the Center for Peacemaking is sponsoring two events on Wednesday, March 22nd. A Soup with Substance presentation during the lunch hour will focus on El Salvador through the lens of student study abroad experiences and faculty research. In the afternoon, we are co-sponsoring the university's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture. More information and registration links are below.
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MLK Lecture
"To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice": Anti-Racism and Black Liberation in the context of Jesuit Education
Dr. Yohuru Williams
Wednesday, March 22 | 4-5 pm | AMU Ballrooms
In this lecture Dr. Williams will explore the social responsibility of the Jesuit University in contemporary conversations about racial justice through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s liberatory thought, Catholic Social Teaching, his scholarship on Black Power, and his experiences with Ignatian Spirituality and Jesuit education as an undergraduate student, faculty member, department chair, associate VP for academic affairs, and trustee.
Please register to attend.
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Dr. Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998. Dr. Williams is the author, editor, and or co-author of numerous books including Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter; After Life. A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America; Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement; and In Search of the Black Panther Party. In addition to being a regular contributor on the History channel, Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Almanac, BET, and NPR. He was featured in the Ken Burns PBS Documentary "Jackie Robinson" and the Stanley Nelson PBS Documentary "The Black Panthers." Dr. Williams' scholarly articles have appeared in the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and the Black History Bulletin. Dr. Williams new co-authored book More Than. A Dream. The Radical Roots of the March on Washington will be out in August from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Soup with Substance
Oscar Romero and the Salvadoran Martyrs
Fr. John Thiede, S.J. and El Salvador Study Abroad Participants
Wednesday, March 22 | 12-1 pm | AMU 227
Fr. John Thiede, S.J., who researches Oscar Romero and other Salvadoran martyrs, will talk about the religious history of El Salvador. Participants in the January El Salvador study abroad program will also share about their experiences.
A light lunch of potato leek soup and bread will be served.
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