Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.

2012 Symposium

Symposium Schedule

"Beyond Genocide: Learning to Help and Hope"
September 11-12, 2012

Pre-Symposium Events

"Tents of Witness" Exhibits

Knutson Center Atrium - exhibits will be on display beginning Monday, September 10 and throughout the Symposium

World Without Genocide has created an exhibit called Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict.
This multimedia, multicultural, multigenerational exhibit is designed to educate people about genocide; illustrate causes and consequences of genocide; present action steps to prevent genocide; and remember those who have fled from these atrocities and whose families and communities have been destroyed. The exhibit features tents like those used in refugee camps. Each of the 10 tents depicts the story of a different group persecuted based on its race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin. The tents highlight the Holocaust, Native Americans, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Congo and North Korea.

King Center Tea House Conversation "Silent Genocide: In the Shadow of the Media Spotlight"

4:00 p.m. - Monday, September 10 - Martin Luther King Intercultural Center, Park Region Hall

Join campus and community leaders for a conversation about how and why certain incidences of genocide get spotlighted while other horrific acts like the Hmong genocide or the al-Anfal Campaign against the Kurdish people go relatively unnoticed.

A Staged Reading and Talk Back of "Ruined", Pulitzer Prize Winning Play by Lynn Nottage

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Monday, September 10 - Lab Theater

Join a group of Concordia students for a staged reading and talk back of "Ruined", the Pulitzer Prize winning play written by Lynn Nottage. The drama is about the plight of those who are being negatively impacted by the violence against women that has occurred and is still occurring in the war torn African country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There will be a discussion following the presentation.

Symposium Schedule

Tuesday, September 11:

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.      Reception and Gallery Talk
                              "Selected Pieces from the Voice to Vision Collaborative Project"
                              Dr. David Feinberg, University of Minnesota Art Department and director of "Voice
                              to Vision" project
                              Gallery Talk begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Francis Frazier Comstock Theater


7:30 p.m.                Opening Plenary Session
                              Rose Mapendo, Genocide Survivor and Founder of Mapendo New Horizons
                              Memorial Auditorium

Wednesday, September 14:

8:30 a.m.               Plenary Session
                              Dr. Gregory Gordon, Director, Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies,
                              Univeristy of North Dakota
                              Memorial Auditorium

10:30 a.m.               Plenary Session
                              Mark Hanis, President, Genocide Invervention Network/Save Darfur Coalition
                              Memorial Auditorium

1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions - TBA
Various Locations on Campus

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Repeated - TBA
Various Locations on Campus

3:45 p.m. Closing Session