SLU Celebrates Its Global Connections
04/10/2019
Saint Louis University celebrated its global community with a week of parades, panels, performances and cultural exchange during this year’s Atlas Week.
SLU's many nations parade around the Lipic Clock Tower on Friday, April 5. Photo by
Amelia Flood
Atlas Week included opportunities for students, faculty and staff members to connect across languages, over delicacies from a host of countries and by bearing the flags of nations near and dear to their hearts in a cavalcade that encircled SLU’s Lipic Clock Tower.
The week, a 19-year-long tradition on SLU’s campus, examined migration and finding a place to call home.
Kicking off with a keynote speech by noted journalist John Quinones, the week’s highlights included the Eine Korean Cultural Performance, which blended the peninsula’s traditional music with Western instruments at St. Francis Xavier College Church, the traditional Parade of Nations and Billiken World Festival, among the 85 events included in this week’s offerings.