{"id":65386,"date":"2012-09-11T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=65386"},"modified":"2012-09-20T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T13:20:47","slug":"students-meet-with-nobel-peace-laureate-rigoberta-menchu-tum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/09\/students-meet-with-nobel-peace-laureate-rigoberta-menchu-tum\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Meet With Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum speaks with students at El Instituto, before delivering her human rights address. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum spent a busy day in Storrs on Tuesday before delivering the 2012 UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights Lecture in the Student Union Theatre.<\/p>\n

Mench\u00fa Tum spoke with students from El Instituto: Institute of Latina\/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and from the Honors Program, before meeting with President Susan Herbst and Amii Omara-Otunnu, UNESCO Chair-holder in Comparative Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Discussions with the students were facilitated by Mark Overmyer-Vel\u00e1zquez, director of El Instituto and associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Anne Gebelein, assistant professor-in-residence and associate director of El Instituto.<\/p>\n

Just before the UNESCO address, there was a screening of \u201cWhen the Mountains Tremble,\u201d the award-winning documentary about Mench\u00fa Tum\u2019s experiences and the struggles and sufferings of the Mayan people.<\/p>\n

For video of\u00a0Mench\u00fa Tum’s address, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum, center, speaks with students. At left is Anne Gebelein, associate director of El Instituto. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum speaks with students. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn students had an opportunity for discussion with the Guatemalan human rights activist during her visit to campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":65405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-65386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-affairs","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 11:52:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65421,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65386\/revisions\/65421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/65405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65386"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=65386"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}