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GENOCIDE SURVIVOR TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON EVENTS IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI

Alumni Lounges (SC156-157) Ramapo College, Mahwah

On November 4, 2016 in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges ( SC156-157), Eugenie Mukeshimana, Rwandan genocide survivor and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, will provide an update on developments in her native country and neighboring Burundi. More than a quarter of a million people in Burundi have fled in terror […]

FILM NARRATED AND PRODUCED BY ROBIN WRIGHT EXPOSING THE  ILLICIT MINERAL TRADE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO TO BE SCREENED

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Narrated and executive produced by Golden Globe award winner Robin Wright (House of Cards), When Elephants Fight spotlights the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and shows how global tech corporations’ complicity has affected the continued conflict in the region. The film will be screened on October 17 at 2 p.m. in the […]

2016 RECIPIENT OF PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY TO VISIT RAMAPO COLLEGE

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]