Macalester students Elizabeth Seefeldt ’02, Meg Schoemaker ’04, J. Quinn Martin ’02, and Patrick D’Silva ’03 organized a major conference on the civil war in Sudan, a conflict which has led to more than 2 million deaths. Entitled, “The Future of Southern Sudan: Differing Perspectives,” the two-day symposium in March [2002] brought several scholars to Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel to discuss the civil war, Islam, human rights issues, and the relationship between the U.S. and the Sudan. The conference was the idea of D’Silva, who returned from studying abroad in Morocco to participate.”
