Dr. Paul Farmer, physician and anthropologist, is chief strategist and co-founder of Partners In Health, Kolokotrones University professor and chair of the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also serves as U.N. Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent books are In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation.

Todd McCormack is a founding board member of Partners In Health and a senior corporate vice president at IMG Media, the largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming in the world. He previously served as CEO of TWI Interactive, an independently financed IMG company that managed IMG’s new media rights from 1999-2003. McCormack continues to spearhead IMG special projects and supports the company’s digital media businesses. McCormack also works independently with digital media businesses as an angel investor and adviser. He is a member of CommonAngels, a group that invests in innovative information technology companies, and an adviser to Lifestream.

In the 7 p.m. convocation Dr. Paul Farmer and Todd McCormack will share how a friendship formed at Duke University helped make the world a better place. This will be a moderated conversation about their friendship and lifelong work.

1 p.m., Branigin Room, Napolitan Student Center

The Franklin College convocation will be preceded by an interview with Dr. Paul Farmer and Todd McCormack during a live broadcast of WFYI’s “No Limits,” hosted by John Krull. The special broadcast will focus on the history and work of Partners In Health. The discussion will trace the reasons Farmer and McCormack founded the organization and what they hope it will accomplish.

DR. PAUL FARMER AND TODD MCCORMACK “BENDING THE ARC: HOW TWO COLLEGE FRIENDS HAVE EASED SUFFERING AROUND THE WORLD,” A CONVERSATION MODERATED BY JOHN KRULL, DIRECTOR, PULLIAM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 7 p.m., Branigin Room, Napolitan Student Center

Partners In Health is a world-renowned nonprofit health care organization that seeks to “bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote for despair.”

ACTIONMOTIVATING

ERICA ARMSTRONG DUNBAR, PH.D.“THE FOUNDING OF THE NATION THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ENSLAVED”Thursday, Oct. 25, 20187 p.m., Spurlock Center Gymnasium

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Ph.D., is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her publications, teaching and documentary appearances have placed her among a small number of African-American women scholars who study black life, culture

and gender up to the Civil War.

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in New York and then Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household, he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge.

Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At age 22, Judge became the subject of an intense manhunt led by Washington, who used his political and personal

contacts to try and recapture his property.

The convocation will focus on Dunbar’s book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.

CYNTHIA M. HORNER“HOW THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S VOICE HAS INFLUENCED THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY AND RAISED SOCIAL AWARENESS TO MILLIONS OF YOUNG VOICES” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY OF CELEBRATIONMonday, Jan. 21, 20194 p.m., Richardson Chapel

Cynthia Horner is a writer, magazine editor and entertainment industry entrepreneur residing in New York City. She is a media specialist and former Right On!

magazine editorial director.

Horner will chronicle salient points about the significance of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose quest for equality has taken on a resurgence due in part to activists within the hip-hop community. Rare and exclusive stories and anecdotes gathered from some of the music community’s insightful artists will be included along with an historical timeline detailing the progression and growth of King’s impact on the entertainment community.

DIALOGUEINSPIRING

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE CONVOCATION COMMITTEE:

Ann BartonAssistant director – Pulliam School of Journalism and assistant to the president for special projects – President’s Office

Deidra Baumgardner Director of communications

Christian Bowling ’19Student representative

Rev. Hannah Adams Ingram, Ph.D.Director of religious life and college chaplain

Nazir A. Khatri, Ph.D. Professor emeritus of chemistry

Renee (Kean) Knight ’06Assistant director of marketing for visual media

Hank NuwerProfessor of journalism

Terri Roberts-LeonardDirector of diversity and inclusion

Denise M. ShoreyDirector of library services

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONVOCATION LECTURE SERIES, CONTACT:

Rev. Hannah Adams Ingram, Ph.D.Director of religious life and college chaplain317.738.8140 or HAdamsIngram@FranklinCollege.edu

THANK YOU TO OUR FRANKLIN COLLEGE PARTNERS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT:

Center for Diversity and InclusionCenter for Student Success

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• empathy, sincerity and openness

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convictions that give purpose and meaning to our lives

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