Alex Trebek Lecture Series

Alumni Week 2016
Friday, 6 May 2016 - 7:00 pm
Location
Off-campus address: 
Shaw Centre, Trillium Ballroom, 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
Contact information
Contact person: 
Alumni Relations
Email: 
alumnioffice@uottawa.ca
Phone: 
613-562-5800
Extension: 
3080
Registration
Registration required: 
No
Registration website: 
https://alumni.uottawa.ca/en/gbowee
Cost to attend: 
Yes
Cost details: 
$15 – uOttawa alumni, students, staff, professors and their guests $20 – general public
Event type: 
Lectures & conferences, Lecture/talk
Event organizer: 
Alumni Relations Office, Common Law Section, Faculty of Social Sciences, FSS Alumni
Event language: 
English and French
Intended audience: 
Open to all, Students, Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Professors, Staff, Alumni, Public

Join alumnus Alex Trebek as he welcomes 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee to speak on the topic of Crossing borders to find common ground.

Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, author and women’s rights advocate. Her leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s fourteen-year civil war in 2003. This historic achievement paved the way for the election of Africa's first female head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.