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Get to know our speakers.
Wolfgang Palaver is a theologian, peace scholar, and current President of Pax Christi Austria. Professor Emeritus of Catholic Social Thought at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, he taught at that institution from 2002–2023, and served there as Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty from 2013–2017. An internationally recognized expert on violence, religion, and Christian peace ethics, he is Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination, including intolerance toward religious communities.
Anne K. Ream is a writer, activist, and co-founder of Center for Story & Witness. She is the author of Lived Through This, her memoir of a global journey spent listening to the stories of gender-based violence survivors, and has written for The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, among other publications. Anne is a co-founder of World Without Exploitation, the national coalition to end human trafficking; board president at Justice for Migrant Women; and a founding board member of Art Works for Change. The recipient of numerous awards for her work on behalf of women and girls, Anne believes that our stories are our power, and our most potent tool in the fight to create a more just, peaceful world.
R. Clifton Spargo is a fiction writer, cultural critic, and co-founder of Center for Story & Witness. Author of the novel Beautiful Fools, he has written for The Atlantic, Glimmer Train Stories, Huffington Post, The Kenyon Review, Newcity, Raritan, and The Wall Street Journal. An expert on testimony, ethics, and the Holocaust, he is the author of The Ethics of Mourning and Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death. He teaches creative writing at Yale University.
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