The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

12:30-2 p.m. “Public Health, Public Policy, and Victims”

Learning Lab

Deanna Thabatah (Loyola University New Orleans): “Working in a Working in a Conflict Zone: The Devastating Disparities between the Israeli and Palestinian Healthcare Systems”

Margaux Schexnider (Loyola University New Orleans): “The Intersectionality of Domestic Violence”

Sarah DeMarais (Loyola University New Orleans): “Displaced Persons & Sacred Spaces: Catholic Sisters Respond to Crisis”

Claire McKenna (Loyola University New Orleans): “The Catonsville Nine: The Role of Civil Disobedience for Democracy during the Vietnam Era”

Madison O’Malley (Loyola University New Orleans): “Refugee Crisis throughout Modern American History”

Middle Eastern Refreshments will be served.

The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

4 - 5:30 p.m. “Activism and the Female Experience”

Miller Hall, Room 114

 Ashana Bigard (women’s health advocate): “The Progressive - A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good!”

Katie Budge (representing the Sexism Project): “Interviews and portraits of real women in real industries experiencing real sexism”

The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

7 - 9 p.m. “Down and Dirty: A Grassroots Activist Panel”

Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall

Angela Kinlaw: Take Em’ Down Nola - Take down all symbols of white supremacy. http://takeemdownnola.org/

            Steve McGee: RESULTS - the Power to end Poverty http://www.results.org/

Freedom Richardson: Indivisible - a progressive grassroots network of local groups to resist the Trump Agenda. httpsHYPERLINK "https://www.indivisible.org/":HYPERLINK "https://www.indivisible.org/"//www.indivisible.org/

Michael Esealuka: Female and Workers rights New Orleans Hospitality Workers Committee

The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

2 - 3:30 p.m. “Modernization and The Imagination”

Monroe Library – Multimedia Room 2

Mallory Dickerson (Loyola University New Orleans): “The National Effort to Modernize Istanbul”

Thanh Mai (Loyola University New Orleans): “The Internet Imagined as a State of Nature”

Barron Burmaster, Yuichiro Oguma, Julia Houha, Huntington Harton (Loyola University New Orleans): “Game for Peace”

The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

4 - 6 p.m. “Misconceptions of Cultural Idealism”

Monroe Library – Multimedia Room 2

Ember Jetter (Loyola University New Orleans): “Hostility & Hospitality in Israel”

Catherine van Es (University of Amsterdam): “Unveiling Empowerment”

Brittney Giardina (Loyola University New Orleans): “Culture Shock: The Cappella Palatina, Roger II, and Arguments on Irony”

Maddy Mulder (Loyola University New Orleans): “How the French Lycee System Became the Model for the Iranian Secondary Education System”

Madeline Fleming (Loyola University New Orleans): “Western Orientalist View vs. Reality: A Look at Harems and Temporary Marriage”

The university’s Tenth Annual Student Peace Conference is an opportunity for students and visitors to further community discussion about hope, renewal and global peace. Titled “Breaking Walls,” this year’s one-week event is expected to be the largest student peace conference ever held at this Jesuit, Catholic University.  The conference runs Tuesday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 17. All events will be held on Loyola’s main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. and are free and open to the public.

7 - 9 p.m. Presidential Lecture II: "Early Modern Globalization Through a Jesuit Prism: Potential Lessons for our Global Age."

Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall

José Casanova: Professor of Sociology and Theology, and senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs –Georgetown University