Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 8, 2008|Volume 36, Number 17

Memorial service will be held in Dwight Chapel in commemoration of Pakistani leader Bhutto

There will be a memorial in commemoration of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Friday, Feb. 8, in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St.

The service will take place 5-6 p.m. All are welcome.

Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, serving as prime minister 1988-1990 and 1993-1996. She was assassinated on Dec. 27, 2007, after leaving a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008, where she was a leading opposition candidate.

Speakers will include members of the Yale community as well as associates of the prime minister. They include Yale professors Owen Fiss, Anne Fadiman and David Bromwich, as well as Linda Francke, Dr. Azra Raza and Yolanda Kodrzycki.

“Our gathering is intended to be an expression of the dignity in sorrow over this untimely death rather than an engagement in the currency of politics,” write the organizers. “This congregation is brief: Ultimately its discourse can only say, ‘Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’”

The event is sponsored by the Yale Chaplain’s Office and the Department of English.

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