Marquette University Center for Peacemaking
Competition: Waging Peace in Vietnam: Student Essay Contest – $500 prize
Marquette University Raynor Library 1355 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesDue April 22, 2024 Essays must relate to the exhibit Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War on display in Marquette's Raynor Library, April 2 to April 17. The theme of the essay is: "What the exhibit means to me and lessons for today." Essays should be from 500 to 650 words. […]
Lecture: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture: “A Small Town Rises:” Organizing for Civil Rights in the Dangerous 60’s
Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union Lunda Room 1442 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCivil Rights Movement veterans Mrs. Mary Sue and Mr. Eddie Short will present on their experiences as activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Shaw, Mississippi and beyond.
Film Screening Series: Waging Peace in Vietnam Musical Performance and Documentary: “The Whistleblower of My Lai”
A registration link will be added soon for a virtual performance and Q&A with world renowned musician Van-Anh Vanessa Vo. This event will include a virtual screening of the documentary in which she is featured titled "The Whistleblower of My Lai".
Discussion Panel: Ukraine After the War: Questions of Ethnicity, Religious Pluralism, and Peacemaking
Marquette University Wehr Chemistry, Room 100 1414 W. Clybourn St., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPanelists include: Dr. Michael Duffey, associate professor emeritus of Theology; Dr. Lowell Barrington, associate professor of Political Science; and Julian Vasyl Hayda, a journalist based in Chicago with an MA in Ukraine Studies from DePaul University. The panelists will comment on the prospects of nonviolence in Ukraine from their respective expertise including gospel nonviolence, international […]
Film Screening Series: Waging Peace in Vietnam Documentary: “Hunting in Wartime”
LIVE ONLINE-ONLY FILM SCREENING AND Q & A A registration link will be added soon for a virtual viewing of the documentary "Hunting in Wartime" and post-film Q&A with director Samantha Farinella.
