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Emory
Hosts Multi-Campus Forum on Racial Issues
Emory
Invites Public To Reconciliation Symposium
Emory
Marks 2000-2001 As Year of Reconciliation On Campus With Major
Symposium
Year
of Reconciliation Home Page
Year of Reconciliation Events Calendar
Reconciliation Symposium Schedule
Ambitious Year of Reconciliation Has Simple Origins
Open
Letter on Year of Reconciliation from President Chace
Wayne
Booth Discusses Rhetoric of Science Versus Religion
Indigo
Girls Return for Emory Concert
Justice
O'Connor Discusses Groundbreaking Path
Law
School Explores Truth and Liability Issues
Shaw's
"Back to Methuselah" Takes Emory Stage
Concert,
Symposium to Explore Bach's Controversial St. John Passion
Oxford
Hosts Varied Reconciliation Events
Op-Ed:
Thoughts on Reconciliation by Emory Chancellor Bill Frye
Lipstadt,
Lamm Give Thoughts on Holocaust to Overflow Crowd
Emory's
Lipstadt, Attorney Rampton Highlight Nov. 1-2 Conference On
Libel Law, Jewish Identity
Emory's
Year of Reconciliation Opens With Talk By Renowned American
Critic Wayne Booth
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An Invitation to Emory’s Year
of Reconciliation Symposium
 October
2000
Dear Friends:
Emory University has declared 2000-2001 the "Year of
Reconciliation" on campus as a central theme for its research,
teaching and service. The university’s faculty, students,
alumni and the public are engaging in a year-long series of
lectures, symposia, performances and discussions on reconciliation
as it relates to society’s most pressing issues—from
global conflict to race relations, from health care to the environment.
The centerpiece of the year-long emphasis is a Symposium on
Reconciliation Jan. 25-28, 2001. Included will be talks by Emory
faculty member and former President Jimmy Carter; former Emory
President and former U.S. Ambassador to Korea James Laney; and
U.S. Rep. John Lewis. Also scheduled are a series of conversations
and workshops on issues such as reconciling race and ethnicity,
led by Presidential Distinguished Professor Johnnetta Cole;
medical care and public health led by Presidential Distinguished
Professor William Foege; social justice and reconciliation featuring
former Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph
Lowery; and the tension between retributive and restorative
justice featuring Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa,
former prosecutor in the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia and in the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda.
I invite you to join us for the symposium. Included on this
page are links to more information about the Year of Reconciliation
events and the Reconciliation Symposium schedule. We welcome
you to share in the conversation.
Reconciliation is a natural theme for Emory, a university
that has renowned programs in conflict resolution, health care,
and law and religion—not to mention the presence of two
of the world’s most famous reconcilers, President Carter
and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who recently completed
a two-year stint on the faculty.
But the Year of Reconciliation at Emory will encompass more
than conflict resolution or human rights; it includes the problems
that arise from our inability to balance self-interest with
social responsibility, or to weigh instant gratification against
long-term good.
A university can create new knowledge that has the potential
of "making the world a better place," but if it doesn’t
link that knowledge with the hopes and aspirations of people,
then it has fallen short of its potential as an agent for change.
Emory’s aim is that the Year of Reconciliation will lead
the university to a better understanding of what we know and
believe; to more rewarding interactions with one another; to
more imaginative and creative solutions and visions of new possibilities;
and to more harmonious ways to engage our differences among
and within us.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Chopp
Provost
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