Saint Peter's Prep 2009 Arrupe Social Justice Series: Faces of Genocide

Monday, March 23, 2009

8:30 a.m. Opening Mass
Celebrated by Fr. Ken Gavin, S.J., president of the Jesuit Refugee Services USA. The Mass will include a memorial ritual remembering those who have died or been affected by genocide and ethnic conflict.

2:30 p.m. UN / U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibit
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

7:45 a.m. Optional Morning Prayer Service

11:30 a.m. Documentary Screening
"Rough Cut," the story of Northern Ugandan night commuters will be screened in the old JUG room.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

7:45 a.m. Optional Morning Prayer Service

8:10 a.m. School-wide Address
Panel of Holocaust survivors

7 p.m. "Ruined," a Manhattan Theater Company production
A play about a businesswoman who shelters other women displaced by civil war in the Congo.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

7:45 a.m. Optional Morning Prayer Service

All-Day Women and Genocide
Prep faculty members will give an interactive presentation throughout the day in the old JUG room highlighting and explaining the experience and persecution of women due to genocide.

Friday, March 27, 2009

7:45 a.m. Optional Morning Prayer Service

8:30 a.m. School-wide Keynote Address Elizabeth and Michael Kuch, Sudanese refugees

9:30 a.m. School-wide Closing Prayer Service