Tuesday, September 25
4:15 p.m.
Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium

This summer, a team of Notre Dame students and faculty traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the first United States Social Forum.  Nearly 15,000 activists gathered in the city that was once home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and an incubator of the civil rights movement to help build a new movement for social justice in this country.  The Notre Dame contingent gathered with immigrant rights activists, victims of hurricane Katrina, housing rights advocates, anti-violence activists, and other social justice leaders over a five-day period to search for new ways to work together and make another world possible.  The Notre Dame team members will report on their experiences and discuss the implications of the Forum for peacebuilding and social change.

Following the panel, we will celebrate the release of a new book, Global Democracy and the World Social Forums, co-authored by Kroc Institute faculty member, Jackie Smith.  Refreshments will be served.

With: 
Jackie Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies
Daniel J. Myers, Director of Research and Faculty Development, Kroc Institute and Professor of Sociology
Christopher Hausmann, graduate student, sociology
Ana Velitchkova, graduate student, sociology
Ellen Childs, graduate student, sociology
Katie Miller, undergraduate student, sociology
Sarah Van Mill, undergraduate student, sociology  

Sponsors:
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change
Center for Social Concerns
Department of Sociology
Gender Studies Program
Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Master of Nonprofit Administration, Mendoza College of Business

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