Atlas Week Event, Booth Submission Deadlines Set
01/23/2018
The deadline to submit events to the 18th Annual Sam and Marilyn Fox Atlas Week is Saturday, Feb. 10. The theme of this year’s week, which runs from Saturday, April 7 to Saturday, April 14, is “From Broken Walls, We Build Bridges: Out of Conflict Rise Communities.”
One of the main goals of the Atlas Program is to increase awareness of the global issues that confront us today in an effort not only to promote discussion, but also to inspire and inform action. The program focuses on what we as global citizens can do to contribute to a better life for all people now and in the future. The Atlas Program is unique in that for one week of the year; it brings together members of the University community to focus on the global challenges that confront us in the 21st century.
The program welcomes all faculty, staff and students to participate in the program and to share their international knowledge, scholarship and service with the wider SLU community. Past events have included special lectures, roundtable discussions, open classes, international films, cultural performances and special exhibits.
Atlas Week will open with a kick-off event on Sunday, April 8, in the evening. The Annual Interfaith Prayer Service will be held on Monday, April 9, in St. Francis Xavier College Church.
The Atlas Week Signature Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 12 at 5:30 p.m. David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former British Foreign Secretary; will deliver the Atlas Keynote Address. The IRC offers emergency aid and long-term resettlement assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, and natural disasters.
The week’s events will end on Friday, April 13, with the Parade of Nations and the Billiken World Festival.
The deadline to reserve a non-food booth at the Billiken World Festival is Wednesday, February 28.
For more information or to get involved in the planning process, please contact Michelle Lorenzini at lorenzms@slu.edu or visit Atlas Week.