St. Ambrose to hold cultural lecture
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By Times Staff | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
St. Ambrose University will host a lecture and film about the lives of Haitian women Feb. 5 in the Rogalski Center, Ripley and Lombard streets.
Rose-Marie Chierici, a native of Haiti and associate professor of anthropology at the State University College of New York at Geneseo, will speak at 3:30 p.m. about social justice and the relationship between race, gender and socio-economic status. It is the fourth annual Ambrose Women for Social Justice lecture.
The film, “The Sugar Babies: The Plight of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic,” is a documentary exploring the living conditions surrounding the children of sugar cane cutters in Haitian ancestry. It will be shown at 6:30 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Katy Strzepek at (563) 333-6210.
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