Abstract Judge Thomas Buergenthal Suggested donation $10 In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Judge Thomas Buergenthal shares his inspiring personal journey from a prisoner in Auschwitz to a judge championing human rights on the International Court of Justice. Judge Buergenthal served as the American judge on the International Court of Justice from 2000 until 2010. Prior to the ICJ, he was a judge and president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and served as a member of the...

Abstract Workshop The Albert Einstein Institution Learn the skills and methods needed for nonviolent political change from the people who trained the leaders of the Egyptian, Burmese, and Georgian revolutions, among many others. Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of The Albert Einstein Institution leads a workshop in the Rothko Chapel with extensive opportunity for dialogue and networking; lunch is available for purchase from Cuchara. The Albert Einstein Institution was founded by Dr. Gene...

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Film showing at Boniuk Center

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

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Participants Abbie Kamin (Houston City Council), Vitalli Tarasiuk(Consulate General of Ukraine), Philippe Etienne (French Ambassador to the United States), Melanie Lawson, Bree Ahem, Martin Cominsky (Interfaith Ministries), Michael Balahutrak(Ukraine Cultural Club of Houston)

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Contains items addressing the operation of the chapel, such as private services and visitor logs. Also includes gifts or awards given to the chapel and the reactions of visitors.

Does not include Guild activies or program activitites.

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Presented by Udi Aloni. Part of the Human Rights and Culture Series.Three films by Udi Aloni, artist and film maker from Israel, films shown at University of St. Thomas. Gaza, Forgiveness, and Local Angel

Abstract with Ilan Pappé, Israeli HistorianIsraeli historian Ilan Pappé, author with Noam Chomsky of the newly-released book Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians, will speak at the Rothko Chapel. Born in Haifa, Israel to German-Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution, Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies and director of the Palestine Studies Center. He is...

Abstract Presented by Mohammad OmerPalestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was born in 1984 and was raised in the Rafah refugee camp at the southern end of Gaza near the border with Egypt. In 2008 this independent journalist and photographer became the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He was cited as the "voice of the voiceless" and his reporting was described as a "humane record of the injustice imposed on a community forgotten by much of the...

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Part of the Human Rights Series. Presented by David Fathi.