Watch a live discussion with Paul Farmer and Gustavo Gutierrez
Posted on Oct 21, 2011
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Join us for a discussion with PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer and Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez on "Re-imagining Accompaniment: Global Health and Liberation Theology" at 7pm EDT on Monday, October 24th.
Gutierrez is known around the world as the founder of liberation theology, which interprets Christianity in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions. “Fr. Gustavo is one of my heroes and has inspired much of my own work in global health with a preferential option for the poor,” says Farmer.
"Poverty is not fate, it is a condition; it is not a misfortune, it is an injustice," Gutierrez is known for saying. "It is the result of social structures and mental and cultural categories, it is linked to the way in which society has been built, in its various manifestations." The Monday discussion will focus on these ideas, and how they can be applied to Global Health.
The event is hosted by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and will be broadcast live on the player above, starting at 7pm EDT on October 24, and online at: http://kellogg.nd.edu/livestream.
Peruvian-born Gutierrez is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology at Notre Dame University and a Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow.
A medical anthropologist and physician, Farmer is Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti.
