Dear All.
Please find below an invitation for a symposium organized at Brandeis University.
All the best,
Judit

The Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and Brandeis University Office of the Arts warmly invite you to

Re-Imagining Self and Other:
Creativity and Ethical Action in the Aftermath of Violence
October 13-14, 2004, Brandeis University Please Note the Change in Location on the Morning of October 14!!

A symposium presented in conjunction with the Brandeis International Fellows program
Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts

The symposium is a conversation among peacebuilding practitioners, artists, policymakers and scholars. It features
Goenawan Mohamad, the preeminent Indonesian journalist and poet, who will consider questions of identity, violence and forgiveness as seen through the prism of Muslim fasting traditions
Barbara Sonneborn, director of the haunting film 'Regret to Inform', an award-winning documentary that weaves together the narratives of American and Vietnamese war widows
Dr. Hizkias Assefa, a leading peacebuilder and scholar based in Nairobi, Kenya, who will share stories from his extensive reconciliation practice in regions such as Rwanda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana
Jane Sapp, the African-American cultural worker who will illustrate, from her position at the piano, how music and cultural work can strengthen trust among members of disparate disenfranchised communities in the rural American South
Olivier Urbain, the founder of Transcend: Arts and Peace, an international network of artist/peacebuilders, who will present exemplary arts projects focused on the re-humanization of self and other in conflict regions around the world

Participants at the symposium are invited to a buffet lunch at The Rose Art Museum.

Of related interest, Brandeis is introducing a new World Music Series this season. It begins October 20 with a Silk Road concert by the Orchid Ensemble and is a highlight of our fall series of programs -- "Art Unlocks the Ethical Imagination." The World Music Series will also feature concerts by Voice of the Turtle and Peru Negro. For more information call 781-736-3400 or visit brandeis.edu/arts/abc/

A brief symposium schedule follows. For more information, please visit http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics or call 781-736-5001.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Wednesday, October 13 ~ Theater, Shapiro Student Center
7:00 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks
7:30 pm: Film, Regret to Inform and Discussion with Director Barbara Sonneborn

Thursday, October 14 ~ NEW LOCATION!! Multi-Purpose Room, Shapiro Student Center
10:00 am: Dr. Hizkias Assefa Re-imagining Self and Other in Processes of Reconciliation: Stories from an African Peacebuilder

12 noon: Luncheon at The Rose Art Museum

Thursday, October 14 ~ Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
1:30 pm: Cultural Work, the Arts, and Ethical Imagination: Presentations and Conversation
Olivier Urbain, Ph.D. The Power of the Arts in Re-humanizing Self and Other
Jane Sapp A River Runs Through my Soul: Cultural Work, Imagination and Trust

3:30 pm: Refreshments

4 pm: Goenawan Mohamad After Breakfast: Fasting, Forgiving and the Self and Final Reflections

If you are coming from off campus and you are driving, please stop at the security kiosk at the entrance to the University and ask for a one-day parking pass.

Sponsored by the international Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence; co-sponsored by the Office of the Arts at Brandeis University, the Southeast Asian Club, and the Consilience Program. Funded by the United States Institute of Peace; The Rice Family Foundation; and Ellie and Friends.