OSCAR ROMERO SOLIDARITY LECTURE
The Center for Peace and Justice Education hosts an annual lecture inspired by Oscar Romero—archbishop, martyr, and saint.
The Center for Peace and Justice Education hosts an annual lecture inspired by Oscar Romero—archbishop, martyr, and saint. Romero came to realize the extent of the Salvadoran people’s suffering and became a voice for the voiceless. The lecture series brings to campus someone committed to justice for and solidarity with the poor and marginalized. Past speakers have included Carolyn DeWitt (Rock the Vote), Octavio Duran OFM, Sheila Armstrong and Davide Mosenkis (POWER Interfaith), Jim Keady, Hisham Moharram (Good Tree Farm), the Rev. Michael Doyle (Sacred Heart Parish in Camden), and Mary Beth Appel (Catholic Worker House of Grace)
2024 LECTURER
Literary Festival Speaker
CAROLYN FORCHÉ
Wednesday, April 3 | 7-8:30 pm | Driscoll 132
Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poetry, most recently In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and also Blue Hour (2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Angel of History (1995), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Country Between Us (1982), winner of the Lamont Prize of the Academy of American Poets, and Gathering the Tribes (1976), winner of the Yale Series of Young Poets Prize.
She is also the author of a prose book, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, 2019), winner of Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” She was one of the first poets to receive the Windham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and in 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award.
2023: Las Patronas
2022: Roz Pichardo
2021: Monique Gary, PhD, and the Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart
2020: Carolyn DeWitt
2019: Brother Octavio Duran
2018: Sheila Armstrong and David Mosenkis
2017: Jim Keady
2016: Hisham Moharram, PhD
2014: The Rev. Michael Doyle
2012: Mary Beth Appel '81 FCN