Dayton Slavery conference

October 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
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Here’s another of my occasional not-explicitly-Orthodox posts.  I put in more than a few hours at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, 1997-98, so I’ll promote a human rights conference they’re holding the weekend after next.  The linked story is basically a news release* about their “Dayton Human Trafficking Accords international conference,” November 9-10.  Human trafficking is said to involve even the U.S., even the Midwest.  ISTR horror stories involving Albanian and/or (former) Yugoslav refugees being enslaved in Europe also, at least during the ’90s … for a potentially Orthodox link.

And just to clarify, these “Accords” are not actual treaties between nations like the famous Dayton Peace Accords regarding the 1990s conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia.

(*–That’s not a putdown BTW: What the PRNewswire does is distribute news releases, hence the name.  It’s just that it doesn’t pretend to being an “objective” journalistic story, even though AOL puts it in its News section.  PRN’s stuff is best used as background for journalists to write their own stories, go and cover the events promoted, interview persons involved, come up with their own angle, etc.)

(Personal notes: UD is a Roman Catholic university.  I cross-registered two graduate religion courses there while working on an incomplete second Master’s in Quaker Studies at Earlham School of Religion nearby in Richmond, Indiana.  I was still a Friend at the time, though by then moving back towards the Latin Church of my birth.  For another Orthodox link, at the time Fr. Ted Bobosh was Adjunct Faculty in the Department; his parish in Dayton was my first in-person experience of Orthodoxy, at Pascha 1997.)