Contact: Ellen Dussourd , dussourd@buffalo.edu

The event is organized by the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee.  The group is dedicated to honoring the memory of Dr. Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, an inspirational and tireless crusader for human rights around the world. The Committee seeks to continue Alison’s quest to educate people about the injustices in the world and the part we all must play as members of an increasingly interdependent global community. 

Event co-sponsors include: Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee; University at Buffalo: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; UB CAS Departments of Comparative Literature, History, Philosophy, and Political Science; UB Gender Institute; The Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professorship in Jewish Thought; UB Humanities Institute; James Agee Chair in American Culture; and, UB Office of the Vice Provost for International Education.