MONTREAL/March 1, 2006—
As part of the Peace and Conflict Resolution academic lecture series, Concordia University will present a lecture by Dr. Charles Villa-Vincencio, Director of South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and Professor Emeritus of Theology at the University of Cape Town, titled Reconciliation as Communication. It will take place on Monday, March 6, at 1:30 p.m. in the Loyola Chapel, on the Loyola Campus (7141 Sherbrooke St. West).
The lecture will be preceded by the performance of an original musical work composed by Concordia music professor John Winiarz designed to evoke South Africa's culture and sensibility and honour its spirit of reconciliation. Concordia musicians will play all compositions and the Jeri Brown Con Cord Singers will perform the vocals.
He will also present a workshop Reconciliation and Specificity of the South African Experience, on Wednesday, March 8, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in room LB 609 in the J.W. McConnell Building (1400, de Maisonneuve Blvd. West).
In both presentations, he will discuss how reconciliation is fundamentally a communicative process, involving the discovery of ways of speaking to those who would otherwise be enemies. He will also focus on the relationship between the secular and religious aspects of the South African process of reconciliation.
For more information about the lecture, contact Maurice Charland at (514) 848-2424 ext. 2546, or, for the musical evening, Jeri Brown at (514) 848-2424, ext. 4712.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
