Distinguished Speaker Series: Leymah Gbowee

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 23 September 2021 - Thursday, 23 September 2021

Time:

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

Lecture Theatre 01-E109

UQ Location:

Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)

URL:

https://liveris-academy.uq.edu.au/event/session/986

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist and women’s rights advocate, will tell her incredible story in an exclusive webinar with the UQ community.

Ms Gbowee’s leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace – which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003 – a story chronicled in the award-winning documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell.

This is a unique opportunity for UQ students, staff and alumni to hear how Ms Gbowee created a movement, helped to end a war, and rose to become an international leader and role model.

Register to participate in this exclusive event with Ms Gbowee, and to gain access to view the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell.