OSCAR ROMERO SOLIDARITY LECTURE
The Center for Peace and Justice Education hosts an annual lecture inspired by Oscar Romero鈥攁rchbishop, martyr, and saint.聽
The Center for Peace and Justice Education hosts an annual鈥痩ecture鈥痠nspired by鈥疧scar Romero鈥攁rchbishop, martyr, and saint.鈥�疪omero鈥痗ame to realize聽the extent of聽the Salvadoran聽people鈥檚 suffering and became a鈥痸oice鈥痜or the voiceless.鈥� The鈥痩ecture鈥痵eries聽brings to campus someone鈥痗ommitted to justice鈥痜or鈥痑nd solidarity鈥痺ith the poor and marginalized. Past speakers have included鈥疌arolyn DeWitt聽(Rock the Vote), Octavio Duran聽OFM,聽Sheila聽Armstrong聽and Davide鈥疢osenkis聽(POWER Interfaith), Jim Keady, Hisham Moharram聽(Good Tree Farm),鈥痶he Rev. Michael Doyle聽(Sacred Heart聽Parish聽in Camden), and Mary Beth Appel聽(Catholic Worker聽House of Grace)
2024 LECTURER
Literary Festival Speaker
CAROLYN FORCH脡
Wednesday, April 3 | 7-8:30 pm | Driscoll 132
Carolyn Forch茅 is the author of five books of poetry, most recently In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and also Blue Hour (2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Angel of History (1995), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Country Between Us (1982), winner of the Lamont Prize of the Academy of American Poets, and Gathering the Tribes (1976), winner of the Yale Series of Young Poets Prize.
She is also the author of a prose book, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, 2019), winner of Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as 鈥渋tself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.鈥� She was one of the first poets to receive the Windham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and in 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award.
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