Academic Year 2024-2025

FALL 2024: Bonita Bennett; Nemanja Nestorovi膰 and Milivoje Rai膷evi膰; Pedro X. Molina

SPRING 2025: TBD

FALL 2024

Bonita Bennett, District Six Museum

September 9-13, 2024

Bonita Bennett
Bonita Bennett

Bonita Bennett is an activist and scholar of memory based in Cape Town, South Africa. She was appointed as executive director of the in 2008, a role she occupied until 2020.  The museum is dedicated to memorializing the displacement that occurred under apartheid, when thousands of families, which included her own, her forcibly removed from their homes in the vibrant District Six community to make way for a 鈥榳hites only鈥 university.  The museum provided Bonita a platform to confront issues both directly related to the affected community and their descendants, as well as raise awareness about human rights and sensitize people to situations which call for solidarity and empathy.  She was a key player in developing dynamic and inclusive memorialization initiatives, which focused on untold stories about the city鈥檚 painful past.  After a nearly 20-year career at the District Six Museum, she now works as a freelance memory and heritage consultant.  She remains engaged with the museum as a research associate and member of its Board of Trustees.      

Nemanja Nestorovi膰 and Milivoje Rai膷evi膰, Coomunity Building Mitrovica

October 28-November 1, 2024

Nemanja Nestorovi膰 and Milivoje Rai膷evi膰
Nemanja Nestorovi膰 and Milivoje Rai膷evi膰

Nemanja Nestorovi膰 and Milivoje Rai膷evi膰 work for , a non-governmental peace and community building organization in northern Kosovo, where they serve as Deputy Director and Communications/Monitoring and Evaluation Officer respectively.  CBM is an interethnic organization of Serbs and Albanians that identifies, encourages and facilitates joint actions of citizens in the region to promote cooperation, co-existence and democratic values.  CBM鈥檚 aim is to restore the confidence and friendships that war and politics have destroyed.  Community Building Mitrovica鈥檚 work is even more remarkable since Mitrovica, the main city in the north of Kosovo, is effectively divided into an ethnic Albanian part and a Serb-held part, and the two sides rarely mix. 

Nemanja has worked for CBM for 15 years, where he has been in a senior management position for the past five years.  Mili has worked for a range of projects at CBM for the past 11 years, where his responsibilities have grown over time.  He graduated with his Master鈥檚 of Public Administration from 黑料视频 in 2020 after receiving a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study in the U.S.  

Pedro X. Molina, Confidencial

November 18-22

Pedro X. Molina
Pedro X. Molina

Pedro X. Molina published his first cartoons in 1995, and later became a cartoonist for the newspaper , one of the county鈥檚 only media outlets independent of government control.  Pedro鈥檚 work was regularly critical of President Daniel Ortega.  In December 2018, the Nicaraguan police killed a Confidencial journalist, detained two others, and ransacked and occupied its offices.  Pedro went into exile, settling in Ithaca, NY as a visiting scholar at Ithaca College.  He continues to produce a cartoon of the day for Confidencial鈥檚 digital newspaper and has become a prominent voice in the Nicaraguan diaspora, using his platform to advocate for human rights and freedom of expression. In 2019, Pedro was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize by Columbia University, journalism鈥檚 oldest international award for journalists who make significant contributions to upholding freedom of the press in the Americas.  Pedro鈥檚 work has also been awarded the Gabo Award for Excellence, one of the most prestigious journalism prizes in Latin America.