APRIL 11, 2012
\nby Tina T. Underwood, Media Relations<\/p>\n
Notre Dame professor and cultural anthropologist Karen Richman will speak Thursday, April 12 at 7 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel about the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti\u2019s capital and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
The 2012 Hesburgh Alumni Lecture, \u201cRun From the Earthquake, Fall into the Abyss: A L\u00e9ogane Paradox,\u201d is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains in partnership with the Notre Dame Club of the Western Carolinas.<\/p>\n
Richman\u2019s talk will focus on Korid\u00f2, a hamlet in the rural community of L\u00e9ogane, Haiti, near the quake\u2019s epicenter, and how the \u00a0people of Korid\u00f2 survived the cataclysm almost unscathed. She describes why the community is still nonetheless standing precariously at the edge of the abyss.<\/p>\n
The Hesburgh lecture is named in honor of Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Its purpose is to encourage intellectual dialogue between alumni, community members and the distinguished faculty of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
At Notre Dame\u2019s Kellogg Institute of International Studies, Richman is director of the Center for Migration and Border Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her academic and research interests include religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption in Mexico, the Caribbean (Haiti), and the United States.<\/p>\n