This Thursday, at 7:30 pm, the College of St. Scholastica will present the next lecture in the Alworth Peace and Justice series. The presentation will be at the Mitchell auditorium on the CSS campus.
“Every year the Alworth center chooses an organizing theme upon which we base our presentations," says Tim Lorek, Director of the Alworth Center. "This year’s theme is 'home.' We’ve had a series of events throughout the academic year exploring different conceptions of home and what it means to people.”
On March 19th, author Rachel Nolan, a historian at Boston University and author of Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), will speak on the Guatemala adoption industry.
By 2006, Guatemala had become the second largest sender country for international adoptions, trailing only China. Additionally, Guatemala was the only country in the world to privatize its adoption industry, thus creating a for-profit business opportunity. Nolan's talk (titled Adoptions from Guatemala: A Historical Reckoning) will focus on the historical and present-day implications surrounding this topic.
Admission to the March 19th event at Mitchell auditorium is free. The lecture starts at 7:30 pm and is open to the public. More information about this and future events can be found on the CSS website.
You can hear Community Connection every Tuesday and Thursday at 8am on Northland Morning.
