Registration for Ota Benga Conference Ends Oct. 15

SUZANNE RAMSEY
College relations staff writer

On Saturday, Oct. 27, Sweet Briar will host the final day of a three-day, international conference on the continuing plight of the Congolese Pygmies, “Lynchburg, Ota Benga and the Empowerment of the Pygmies.”

The sessions will begin at 10 a.m. in Memorial Chapel. On Oct. 25 and 26, panel discussions will be held Lynchburg College and Virginia University of Lynchburg, respectively.

The conference is free, but pre-registration is required by Oct. 15. To register online, visit https://www.lynchburg.edu/x9016.xml. For a full schedule of events, visit http://www.lynchburg.edu/x9013.xml.

The conference has been approved as a Signature Event of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown through its connection with Historically Black Colleges and Universities of Virginia.

It is made possible by the Dolan Fund Peace and Justice Series at Lynchburg College, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the “We the People” initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and private donors. Randolph College and Amazement Square also are sponsors.

For more information, contact Pat Price, director of the Center for Social Justice at Lynchburg College, at 544-8576 or price.p@lynchburg.edu .