El Congresista Moakley: A Symposium on Congressman Joe Moakley and El Salvador

Program Schedule

10:30 - 12 Noon   Screening of Enemies of War with Esther Cassidy, Producer/Director

1:00 – 2:15   The Search for Truth – The “Moakley Commission” and the Jesuit Murders

Panelists: Congressman Jim McGovern, Teresa Whitfield, Author, Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuria and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador, former Ambassador William Walker, and Leonel Gomez, Investigator for the “Moakley Commission”

Moderator: Sebastián Royo, Assistant Professor, Government Department, Suffolk University

2:00 – 3:15  Salvadorans in the U.S. -- Congressman Moakley and Immigration Reform

Panelists: Ed Crotty and Virginia Vogel Zanger, Jamaica Plain Committee on Central America , Maureen O’Sullivan, Former Director, National Immigration Project of the Lawyers Guild, and James Woodward, former aide to Congressman Moakley

Moderator: Valerie C. Epps, Professor of Law and Director of the International Law Concentration, Suffolk University School of Law 

3:15 – 4:45  Lessons Learned from the El Salvador – Congressman Moakley’s Legacy

Panelists:  Congressman Jim McGovern, Former Ambassador William Walker, and Dean Brackley, SJ, University of Central America

Moderator:  Ruth Ann Bramson, Assistant Professor of Management, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University

This Symposium is presented by the John Joseph Moakley Archive and Institute, Suffolk University, Suffolk University School of Law, Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University, and Congressman James McGovern

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information: call 617-305-6295