Sept. 21, 2023

5:30 pm

Hendrickson Dining-Bemis International Center

St. Norbert Ambassador of Peace honoring Elad Vazana

Elad Vazana is an educator, multi-narrative tour guide, artist, and experienced mediator
and facilitator of successful face-to-face relationship building for social change. For the
last 16 years, Elad has helped Palestinian and Israeli youth and adults — Muslims,
Christians, Jews, and others — build trust while learning that “an enemy is one whose
story we have not heard.”

Elad is a licensed tour guide with nearly a decade of experience. His tours emphasize everyday encounters and human experience and include stories, music, the magic of nature, and visits to special places hidden from the crowds.

 Oct. 17, 2023

7:00 pm

Walter Theatre

"A Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill"
Fall Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding

Sherrilyn Ifill served as the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as President and Director-Counsel Emeritus. Ifill, the second woman to ever lead LDF, provided visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history.

This program is supported through funding from the Norman Miller Family Foundation

April 11, 2024

7:00 pm

Walter Theatre

"We Are Called to Be a Movement"
Spring Miller Lecture in Public Understanding with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

For years the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign has been one of the most gifted moral fusion organizers, strategists and orators in the country. As an indispensable figure in the public policy and public theology landscape, he believes it’s time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of America. It's time to come together and renounce the politics of rejection, division and greed, and to lift up the common good, move up to higher ground and revive the heart of democracy. During his inspiring keynote, Rev. Barber makes an impassioned argument with a message that could not be clearer: It's time for change and the time needs you.

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the
Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival, Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Goldsboro, NC, for the past 29 years, and Professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.

This program is supported through funding from the Norman Miller Family Foundation