Languages For Peace :

Respect, Dialogue, Understanding, Tolerance

--a conference on the importance of language in building relationships among people, cultures and nations and in advancing social justice and peace

November 7, 8 and 9, 2006 - St. John's University, Queens Campus, New York

Tuesday, 7 November 2006   3:30 - 5 p.m. Little Theater Keynote Address

  " Language and the Peace-making Process " Mario Marazziti , Community of Sant' Egidio , a founder, director of external relations, peacemaker and journalist

Community of Sant' Egidio is a Non-Governmental Organization with offices at the UN headquarters in Geneva and New York and a charitable organization based in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1968, the organization is currently active in over seventy-two of the world's most poverty stricken and disease afflicted countries in an attempt to eradicate social problems, while at the same time implementing initiatives to restore peace in troubled lands.

http://libraries.stjohns.edu/podcasts/Marazziti_11_7_2006.mp3

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Wednesday, 8 November 2006

9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Council Hall

Languages For Peace : Respect, Dialogue, Understanding, Tolerance

Student Displays :

"Marketing Peace" Marketing, Dr. John Dobbins, Peter J. Tobin College of Business

"Seeing Peace" ART 1610, Photography 1, Prof. Belenna Lauto, Department of Fine Arts, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Moderator: Dr. Annalisa Sacca , Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Vincentian Research Fellow

10:10 to 11:05 a.m. Lecture:  

" Education and Language as Pathways to Peace:  

A Reflection on the Impact of Language in Advancing Social Justice, Education and Peace."    

Dr. Lungching Chiao , is a Senior Program Manager for the International Education Programs Service in the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program of the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.   

http://libraries.stjohns.edu/podcasts/Chiao_11_8_2006.mp3

Questions and audience discussion

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11:15 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.  

Panel Discussion:

Language as a Bridge to Interpersonal as well as Intercultural Understanding, Tolerance, and Peace will discuss ways that knowledge of language advances or inhibits peace, best practices and examples of language advancing interpersonal, intercultural and global peace

Dr. Lungching Chiao with;

Prof. Taji Elmor , Arabic Professor, Translator and Interpreter, Georgia Language Institute;

Dr. Zoe Petropoulou , Associate Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and

Dr. Nicolas Toscano, Chair and Professor of the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Questions and audience discussion

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Thursday, 9 November 2006  

12:15-1:30 p.m.    St. Thomas More Church

Liturgy and Pledge for Peace-building

Our shared God given human dignity is the source of respect for all people and is the foundation for dialogue and mutual understanding among cultures and religions.   Catholic Social Teaching offers foundational principles for a global ethic based in solidarity, development and peace.

Homilist:    Rev. Jean-Pierre M. Ruiz , Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies and Associate Professor of Theology, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences