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Conversations
3:30 - 5 p.m. - Friday, February 18, 2000
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Conversation in Urness Recital Hall
(Paul Arthur, Denis Haughey, David Trimble)
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Conversations with the
Laureates and Speakers (students only)
In this session students will have an opportunity to ask questions of the
Laureates and other key speakers.
Borders (Play
by Norwegian playwright Nini Roll Anker):
The Arts as Agent of Social Change
A panel presentation and participant discussion focused on how the arts, the
church and other social institutions can be used as agents for social
change, particularly in response to conflict. Panel members are: Dawn
Duncan, Concordia College, Moorhead; Mac Gimse, St. Olaf College; Tony
Johnston, Derry, Northern Ireland; Sharon Kelly, Luther Seminary, St. Paul;
Vidar Sandem, Det Norske Teatret, Olso, Norway. Moderator: Patrick Quade,
St. Olaf College
Hands-on Peacemaking
Peacemaking isn’t just a matter of high-level negotiations and agreements.
Peace is also cultivated in the grassroots. The Women’s Resource and
Development Agency of Belfast, Northern Ireland is a group committed to such
cultivation, bringing Catholic and Protestant women together to confront
social issues—poverty, unemployment, health care, power—that are common
to their communities. Liz Curran and Oonagh Cullen will lead a conversation
focusing on women's perspectives on the Troubles, and on empowerment
strategies that have helped make women peacemakers in the day-to-day work of
their own neighborhoods.
The Peaceable Classroom
"Is it possible to teach English so that
people stop killing each other?" With this stark question, Mary Rose O’Reilley
embarked on a journey in search of the peaceable classroom, exploring the
assumptions and practices of contemporary higher education, and wondering
if, and how, our daily lives as teachers and learners contribute to a world
of peace and justice. Today, she shares some steps (and missteps) in that
journey, and invites us to conversation about the risks and rewards involved
in reconfigurations of traditional classroom practice.
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