October 05, 2006
16th Annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture - Sister Luise Radlmeier
The University of Michigan will award its sixteenth Wallenberg Medal to Sister Luise Radlmeier on Thursday, October 5, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Rackham Auditorium. U-M provost Teresa Sullivan will introduce Radlmeier, who will then deliver the Wallenberg Lecture. Micklina Pia Peter, a young woman from Sudan rescued by Radlmeier and now a student at the University of Colorado, will also speak.
A Dominican nun who was born in Germany to a family who helped feed and shelter Jewish families in World War II, Radlmeier has worked in Africa since 1956. From her base in northern Kenya, Radlmeier helps refugees from throughout East Africa, focusing in particular on the lost generation of Sudanese youth. She has established dormitories for students, a home for AIDS orphans and HIV positive children, a clinic, two nursery schools, a primary school, and a modest hospital. She is especially committed to supporting the education of the children in her care. Her plan for the near future is to rescue 300 girls from a remote refugee camp where they daily face abuse and exploitation, and to provide them with an education in Nairobi. Radlmeier hopes to eventually secure their resettlement in the West, as she did for the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish citizen who graduated from the U-M College of Architecture in 1935. In 1944 the Swedish Foreign Ministry sent Wallenberg on a rescue mission to Budapest where his incomparable personal courage and ingenuity saved 100,000 Jewish lives. The Raoul Wallenberg Endowment was established at the University of Michigan in 1985 to commemorate Wallenberg and to recognize other individuals whose own courageous actions exemplify Wallenberg’s extraordinary humanitarian accomplishments and values. Previous Wallenberg Medal recipients include Miep Gies, the woman who supported Ann Frank and her family in hiding, and Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
The lecture and medal ceremony are cosponsored by the Wallenberg Endowment and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
For more information on this event see the Rackham Graduate School web site at http://www.rackham.umich.edu/
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October 04, 2006
Brown Bag Lecture: "'Redskins, Tricksters, and Puppy Stew: Native Humor and its Healing Powers"
Date: 10/10/2006; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Room 2022, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
Drew Hayden Taylor, Ojibway Canadian comic playwright
Artists at Work Series
One of Canada's first Native scriptwriters, Drew Hayden Taylor is a writer in many genres and is well known for his plays about Native people. His published plays include: Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock/ Education is our Right (which won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Best Play for Young Audiences), The Bootlegger Blues (which won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Best Drama), and its sequels, The Baby Blues (which won first prize at the University of Alaska Anchorage Native Playwriting Contest), and The Buz’Gem Blues, which recently ran in Los Angeles. He has written, directed, or worked on approximately 17 film and video documentaries about Native issues. More recently, Drew has been seen directing a documentary on Native humour titled, Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and researching a new one on Native erotica.
Free and open to the public.
Contact Information
Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518
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