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-10 posts tagged "Genocide"
Liam Kelly | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
“People often say history repeats itself, but we allow history to repeat,” Commissioner Nury Turkel said in his conversation with Stephanie Barclay, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, this Monday. In the talk, Turkel detailed the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in China. Turkel, who was born in a Chinese “re-education” camp, is
Maggie Eastland | Friday, February 25, 2022
Braving flurries and freezing temperatures, more than 100 students gathered at the Grotto Thursday night for a prayer service hosted by the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame. Students filed in from the north and south ends of campus just before 11 p.m. to pray the Rosary and show their support for the nation of Ukraine,
Katherine Ross | Wednesday, February 16, 2022
David Alton, member of the British House of Lords for Liverpool, visited the Hesburgh Center for International Studies on Tuesday to give a speech on the horrors of genocide, why “never again happens all over again” and what can be done to prevent it. Known for his work in human rights advocacy, Alton was a member
Lexi Kilcoin | Monday, November 22, 2021
This past Thursday through Sunday, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center held an International Film Fest in conjunction with the Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows. The fest, which was intended to highlight Notre Dame’s International Education Week, featured four films: one from Iran, one from Guatemala, one from Ireland and one from India. Thursday’s showing
Kathleen Meyer | Friday, April 26, 2019
Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid spoke regarding the current crisis of feminicide in Latin America as a part of the 34th annual Madaleva Lecture series Thursday in Carroll Auditorium. Madrid, the T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, defined feminicide as the systematic assassination of women because of their gender. “While there
Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
University President Fr. John Jenkins’s decision to cover the offensive and demeaning murals in the Main Building depicting the conquest and genocide of Christopher Columbus is a wonderful step in the right direction toward acknowledging the actuality of American and Catholic history, as well as respecting every student and person who steps foot on our
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 7, 2018
The world looks away as bombs and bullets destroy Syrian communities, especially in Ghouta, Idlib and Afrin. The world is in denial and is pretending that the massacres are not happening. This pretending has to stop. In the past seven years, almost half a million Syrians have been killed, and 11 million have been displaced from their
Jack Rooney | Sunday, April 27, 2014
Members of the South Bend Rwandan community gathered in McKenna Hall on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi people as part of the worldwide commemoration called “kwibuka 20.” The kwibuka 20 commemoration movement focuses on the themes of remembrance, unification and renewal. Kwibuka translates from Kinyarwanda, the language
Tori Roeck | Thursday, April 24, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a two-part series discussing two South Bend families’ experiences with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in light of Notre Dame’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this tragedy to take place April 26. Jean Claude Mugenzi cannot lie face down in his bed without thinking of his father
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-part series discussing the Rutagengwa family’s search for God from the 1994 Rwandan genocide in light of their trip back to Rwanda in December. Notre Dame freshman Fiona Rutagengwa is the child of genocide survivors. Her parents, Jean Bosco Rutagengwa and Christine Rutagengwa, survived the 1994