MONTREAL/March 8, 2004—
Concordia University's Peace and Conflict Resolution Series is pleased to announce two public lectures by Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Distinguished Professor in Humane Letters, University of Cape Town, South Africa, on the process of reconciliation and nation-building in South Africa. Each lecture will begin with the screening of the award-winning documentary film Long Night's Journey into Day, which presents the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), in order to provide a context for Salazar's presentation.
The first event, titled The Rhetoric of Reconciliation - After Apartheid: People Arguing for Justice will take place on Monday, March 8, at 6 pm., in room H-760 of the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). The second, titled The Rhetoric of Reconciliation - The Mandela Legacy: Reconciliation Deliberation, will be presented on Wednesday, March 10, at 9 am., in room CC-115 on the Loyola Campus (7141 Sherbrooke St. West). Both events are free and open to the public.
Philippe-Joseph Salazar is Professor of Rhetoric and Life Research Fellow at the University of Capetown, and Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Democracy at the CollËge International de Philosophie, Paris. He recently held the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy of Peace at the Universities of Moscow and St. Petersberg. An …cole normale supÈrieure (Paris) fellow, he studied under Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser and Marc Fumaroli.
Professor Salazar has written and spoken extensively on South Africa. Among his works are An African Athens. Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa (Erlbaum, 2002), which studies the rhetorical transformation of South Africa into a deliberative polity, and Afrique du Sud. La rÈvolution fraternelle (Paris, Hermann, Series: Savoirs: Cultures, 1998).
For more information about this event, please contact Maurice Charland at (514) 848-2424 (ext. 2546) or consult the series web site at: http://peace.concordia.ca/
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