Thursday, March 4, 2027
Networking: 11 to 11:30 a.m.
Program: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Italian Community Center
631 E Chicago St
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Directions to event location (PDF).
R.S.V.P. by February 16, 2027
Sponsorship opportunities available (PDF).
Beyond Living Side by Side: Interculturality and the Future of Community
Milwaukee is a city of remarkable diversity, but diversity alone does not create community. In a time marked by polarization, loneliness, and misunderstanding, we face an important question: How do we move beyond living alongside one another to genuinely living with one another?
Dr. Gendron will explore interculturality as a way of fostering deeper human connections across differences of race, ethnicity, language, religion, generation, and life experience. Drawing on examples from education, community life, and the history of women leaders, she will discuss why intercultural understanding is essential for addressing many of the challenges facing our city, country, and world today. Dr Gendron will also invite the audience to reflect on how the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s commitment to education, human dignity, and justice offers a powerful model for building communities of encounter and belonging.
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Sarah Gendron
Chair, Department of Languages, Literature, and Culture
Marquette University
Sarah Gendron is professor of French and cultural studies, chair of the department of languages, literatures, and cultures, faculty fellow in the Office of Research and Innovation, and faculty fellow of the Institute of Women’s Leadership at Marquette University. She is a former Fulbright research fellow and a Way-Klingler three-year research fellow.
She authored “Repetition and Difference in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze” and “The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Regimes: Professing Hate.” She translated Frédéric Brun’s Goncourt-winning novel “Perla,” and Simone de Beauvoir’s “War Notes,” and has written scholarly articles on literature and art about genocide, women in international humanitarian law, and state-sponsored propaganda. She is currently writing a semi-fictional book, tentatively titled “Fury,” about the lives and work of Irish women civil rights, community, political, and paramilitary activists fighting against colonial rule in Ireland.
For more information, contact:
Kristen Padovano | 262-787-1036 | kpadovano@ssndcp.org