(Newport News) - Christopher Newport University will sponsor educational programs and seminars October 6 - 14 to raise awareness about the horrors of genocide and the abuse of human rights worldwide. This is made possible through the CNU Genocide Studies Endowment, a privately funded entity administered within CNU's Department of History in partnership with the National Genocide Education Project, a 501 (c)(3) organization. A Genocide Studies Endowment Committee manages the endowment's work.

The CNU Genocide Studies Endowment seeks through public education to transform the climate that allows genocide to occur. It also seeks to foster a universal respect for human rights and the dignity of all people and communities. All events are free and open to the public.

The following Darfur Program events are co-sponsored by the Genocide Studies Program, Provost's Office, Honors Program, Department of Government, and Department of History and presented in association with the CNU International Genocide Awareness movement.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“The Devil Came on Horseback”
Monday, October 6 at 7 p.m., CNU Administration Bldg., Room 105

A documentary film that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan, as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.

 

Night of Victims: Sudanese Survivors Share Their Stories
Tuesday, October 7 at 7 p.m., CNU Administration Bldg., Room 105

Firsthand accounts of surviving the genocide in Darfur and the Sudanese Civil War.

 

“ Darfur Now: Six Stories. One Hope.”
Wednesday, October 8 at 7p.m., Gosnold Hall, Room 101

A cinematic examination of the genocide in Sudan 's western region of Darfur .

 

Doctors in Darfur : Medical Consequences of Genocide
Thursday, October 9 at 7p.m., CNU Administration Bldg., Room 105

Welcoming Remarks: CNU Provost Mark Padilla, Ph.D.
Speaker: Daniel Walser, M.D. Doctors Without Borders

 

Panel:

Mario Mazzarella, Ph.D. (Moderator)

Donald Belanus, Ph.D. Vice President, National Genocide Education Project, Inc.

Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D. CNU Assistant Professor of Government

Shumet Sishagne, Ph.D. CNU Associate Professor of History

Tim Shortley, Head of the U.S. State Department's Sudan Working Group

 

Medical Contributions to, and Consequences of, Genocide: 1946 Nuremberg Trial #2: The Medical Case
Tuesday, October 14 at 7p.m., McMurran Hall, Room 102

Speaker: Theodore R. Reiff, M.D., CNU Scholar-in-Residence, Department of History

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