Peace Prize Forum Schedule (Subject to Change)
REGISTRATION OPENS, Memorial Auditorium INTERNATIONAL PEACE FAIR OPEN HOURS, Memorial Auditorium Break PLENARY SESSION, Memorial Auditorium PLENARY SESSION, Memorial Auditorium INTERNATIONAL PEACE FAIR OPEN HOURS, Memorial Auditorium Noon Lunch (on your own, except for Augsburg, Augustana, Luther and St. Olaf student and faculty participants)
Friday, March 7
9:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
OPENING SESSION, Memorial Auditorium
Welcome and Introductions
Plenary Address: Greg Mortenson “Three Cups of Tea”
Interviewed by Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur
Performance: The Concordia Choir and The Concordia College Band
3:10 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
Plenary Address "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet"
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and former Director of U.N. Millennium Project, via videoconference
Interviewed by John Ydstie, National Public Radio
5:00 -
6:00 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE FAIR OPEN HOURS, Memorial Auditorium
5 p.m.
Dinner Break (on your own, except for Augsburg, Augustana, Luther and St. Olaf student and faculty participants)
6:30 p.m.
CONCURRENT SEMINARS, Various Campus Locations
Breakout sessions on a variety of topics central to the Forum’s themes of peacemaking, microlending, ending poverty, grassroots development and entrepreneurial social enterprise
8 p.m.
WORLD CAFÉ, Anderson Commons
A series small group collaborative discussions on the topics of poverty, inequality and development. Join us for coffee and meaningful conversation in this innovative and engaging session.
10 p.m.
PERFORMANCE, Anderson Commons
Erika Luckett, folk singer, guitarist and songwriter
Presented by Campus Entertainment Commission
Saturday, March 8
9 a.m.
Keynote Address: "Creating a World Without Poverty"
Professor Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Laureate
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon
11 a.m.
INTERFAITH WORSHIP "Words of Peace", Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
1:00 -
1:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE FAIR OPEN HOURS, Memorial Auditorium
1:30 p.m.
CLOSING PLENARY, Memorial Auditorium
A conversation with Professor Muhammad Yunus, Professor Ole D. Mjøs, Norwegian Nobel Committee, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, hosted by John Ydstie, National Public Radio
