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This is a story of the rebellion of the human spirit again the mindless exterminating machine. In October 1943 the prisoners of the Nazi camp Sobibor led by Alexander Pechersky organized a revolt – the only successful rebellion in the death camps in history. Read more

This talk will take the femininity/feminine/female as a center stage to investigate Daoist thought and its possible contribution to contemporary feminist critiques. Robin R Wang is Robert H. Taylor Professor in Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and 2016-2017 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. 

Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, TV presenter, women's rights activist and author of the memoir The Wind in My Hair. As the founder of My Stealthy Freedom campaign against compulsory hijab in 2014 which is now the largest civil disobedience campaign in the history of Islamic Republic, Alinejad is challenging Read more

Distinguished Speaker Padre Melo Read more