Release date: April 18, 2008
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

"Darfur Now" College Tour, Emory Conference to Focus on Crisis in Sudan

Student activists from Emory and around the country will gather for the second annual "Paperclips for Peace in Sudan" collegiate conference, which will include a photo exhibit, film screenings and panel discussions focused on the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The conference is open to the public and takes place Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. in Emory's Math and Science Center, Room E208, 400 Dowman Drive.

Free Concert Follows Screening of "Darfur Now"

In conjunction with the conference, Adam Sterling, nationally known actor, activist and executive director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, April 25 in the Goizueta Business School Quadrangle, 1300 Clifton Road. Sterling will introduce a special screening of "Darfur Now," a documentary that explores the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world. The screening is free and open to the public.

The screening will be followed by a free concert featuring Janelle Monáe, Anthony David and more, hosted by D.J. Drama at 9:30 p.m. in Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Road.

"This screening, concert and the conference are part of many efforts to bring about awareness regarding the situation in Darfur," says Danielle Smith, co-president of Paperclips for Peace in Sudan and an Emory college student. "At Paperclips, we always want to provide academic avenues, whereby the Emory community and wider Atlanta community come together to learn, discuss and then act against injustice, whether in Darfur or right next door."

Paperclips for Peace was founded at Emory in 2004 by a group of students deeply concerned with the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan. The group works in conjunction with other organizations to fulfill its mission of helping those suffering from the affects of genocide by stressing community education, advocacy and fundraising.

"Paperclips for Peace" Conference Features Barry Levy, Mark Brecke

Conference tickets are $5, with all proceeds going to CARE, and will be available at the door. For more information about the 2008 Paperclips for Peace in Sudan events, contact Smith at 810-334-0442 or pfpemory@gmail.com.

The conference will feature keynote talks by Barry Levy, professor of public health at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Mark Brecke, documentary war photographer and film director of "They Turned Our Desert into Fire."

The conference also includes a presentation by Refugee Family Services; a screening of "They Turned Our Desert into Fire"; an exhibit of Brecke's photos; and an interdisciplinary panel featuring Emory scholars Gary Hauk, Pamela Scully, director of the Institute of African Studies, and David Thon, a graduate student at the Rollins School of Public Health and a former Lost Boy of Sudan.

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