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Special Events

Following most performances, our staff-led post-show audience conversations will be co-facilitated by local scholars, aid workers, journalists, and other experts on the issues featured in the play.

    Speaker Schedule

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Friday January 7 8pm Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Assistant Professor of French, Boston College; Author Battles on Bodies: Staging Rape and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Lynn Nottage's Ruined
Saturday January 8 2pm TBA

Saturday January 8 8pm No post-show conversation

Sunday January 9 7pm Kelley Ready, and Peggy Barrett, Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.

Tuesday January 11 7:30pm Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Assistant Professor of French, Boston College; Author Battles on Bodies: Staging Rape and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Lynn Nottage's Ruined

Wednesday January 12 7pm Opening Night — no post-show conversation

Thursday January 13 7:30pm Out & About Night — no post-show conversation

Friday January 14 8pm Monica Ndounou, Tufts University

Saturday January 15 2pm Edouard Bustin, Professor, Director, Francophone Africa Research Group (GRAF), Department of African Studies, Boston University

Saturday January 15 8pm No post-show conversation

Sunday January 16 2pm Kelley Ready, Pat Aron, and Suzanne Bas-Davis, Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.

Tuesday January 18 7:30pm Tim Longman, Professor, Director, Department of African Studies, Boston University

Wednesday January 19 2pm TBA

Wednesday January 19 7:30pm Soyica Colbert, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth College, completing a manuscript on African American Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Thursday January 20 7:30pm Actors Forum — no post-show conversation

Friday January 21 8pm Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA

Saturday January 22 2pm Pat Aron and Antonieta Gimeno, Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.

Saturday January 22 8pm No post-show conversation

Sunday January 23 2pm Humanities Forum, featuring Congressman Barney Frank

Tuesday January 25 7:30pm Barbara Lewis, Associate Professor, Modern African Drama, University of Massachusetts Boston

Wednesday January 26 7:30pm TBA

Thursday January 27 7:30pm Kaia Miller Goldstein, Board Chair, New England Office, UNICEF USA, a global humanitarian relief organization providing children with health care, clean water, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.

Friday January 28 8pm Dimitry Anselme, Director of Program Staff Development, Facing History and Ourselves, a non-profit organization teaching civic responsibility to young people.
Saturday January 29 2pm Samba Halkose and Pat Aron, Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.

Saturday January 29 8pm No post-show conversation

Sunday January 30 2pm Pierre Syvialeghana, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ipasci Corp., a nonprofit organization focusing on health issues in the Eastern Congo

Sunday January 30 7pm No post-show conversation

Tuesday February 1 7:30pm Tom McHale, Harvard School of Public Health, MS Candidate, Global Health and Population

Wednesday February 2 2pm Actors Forum — no post-show conversation

Wednesday February 2 7:30pm Barbara Lewis, Associate Professor, Modern African Drama, University of Massachusetts Boston

Thursday February 3 7:30pm Dr. Susan Bartels, Emergency Medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has worked internationally in Kenya, Tanzania, Chad, Darfur, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Friday February 4 8pm Tom McHale, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Saturday February 5 2pm Antonieta Gimeno and Samba Halkose, Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.

Saturday February 5 8pm No post-show conversation

Sunday February 6 2pm Kelley Ready, and Peggy Barrett, both of Congo Action Now, a Massachusetts and New Hampshire based group working to support the Congolese people in their efforts to end the conflict and the violence against women that has been associated it, to expose the illegal mining of 'conflict minerals' and to pressure the multinational companies that trade in them to stop, and to ensure that US policy supports these goals.


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