Together We Remember MSU 2019
Fri, April 5, 2019 10:00 AM - Fri, April 5, 2019 12:00 PM at the MSU Main Library
Location:
The Cesar A. Chavez Collection, 1st floor West side
MSU Main Library
366 West Circle Drive
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
The MSU Libraries is pleased to invite your participation in Together We Remember, a vigil for Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month (April) which includes a reading of names of people killed in genocides. MSU's Together We Remember vigil will be held on Friday April 5th from 11am-1pm at the Main Library, in the Cesar A. Chavez Collection, 1st floor West side. As it’s the 25th year after the Rwandan genocide we will begin and end our vigil with names of people murdered there.
The arts will be weaved into the program, and will include: a poem about the genocide against the Tutsi by undergraduate students Ingabire Gasana Elyvine and Bakuramutsa Sandrine Divine, at 11am; a filmed art performance piece about the Holocaust and sexual violence by MFA candidate Chelsea Markuson, at 12 p.m.; and a poem in Armenian by faculty member Tamar Boyadjian (English/Muslim Studies), at 12:30 p.m..
Together We Remember is an international event of remembrance and action; see http://togetherweremember.org/ for more information. The Year of Global Africa website which lists this and other Rwandan genocide-related events at MSU in April can be found here: https://globalafrica.isp.msu.edu/resources/events/featured-event-3
In addition, the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel is hosting historian Doris Bergen to speak on sexual violence during the Holocaust on April 18th, 7pm at the Kellogg Center, see http://jsp.msu.edu/. All events are free and open to the public.
Anyone wishing to read names at the vigil should please contact Erik Ponder (ponderer@msu.edu) by Monday March 25th
Co-sponsored by the MSU African Studies Center, MSU Asian Studies Center, Center for Gender in Global Context, Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, MSU Muslim Studies Program, Peace & Justice Studies Program, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities