2018 Ebor Lectures Series 12
Theme: Peace and Reconciliation
The year 2018 marks the centenary of the ending of World War I. Communities and individuals across the world will be involved in commemorating and remembering those who fought, survived or died in this war. As part of this commemoration our 2018 series of the Ebor Lectures, Peace and Reconciliation, offers a range of speakers who will talk about various themes, issues and examples, both past and present, concerned with building peace and promoting reconciliation in a variety of contexts. It is hoped that this series will provide a further understanding of how the healing of communities and progress along the peace-building road can be achieved. As Mahatma Gandhi said in his teaching on peace: ‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’
Speakers
N.B. Biographical details and lecture descriptions were those written in advance of the lectures and have not been updated since.
Prof Tariq Modood
'Intercultural Reconciliation and Public Intellectual Engagement'
7 March 2018, Temple Hall, York St John University
'Intercultural Reconciliation and Public Intellectual Engagement'
7 March 2018, Temple Hall, York St John University
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Professor Tariq Modood, MBE, considers how intellectuals can contribute to improving cross-cultural understanding and creating an inclusive public culture. He will also reflect on his engagement with some of the challenges which the presence of Muslims as British citizens creates for British public culture and the national citizenship.
The founding Director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Modood is a prolific author and served on the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. |
Colin Craig
'The Challenge of Learning New Habits So We Can Live Well Together'
11 April 2018, York Minster
'The Challenge of Learning New Habits So We Can Live Well Together'
11 April 2018, York Minster
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Colin Craig has recently stepped down as Executive Director at Corrymeela, an organisation working alongside fractured communities and groups in Northern Ireland. Having been involved with the organisation since the 1970s, Colin continues to support their work.
Through this lecture, Colin will explore the challenges faced in Northern Ireland, living with a compromise where, in the end, no-one claims to have won, but so many actually carry a sense that somehow they lost. How do we achieve a collective commitment to a future that is by its nature uncertain and, at the same time, learn to let go of the certainty that our historical sectarian narratives continue to trap us in? |
Marina Cantacuzino
'Where love and Justice Finally Meet: The Place of Forgiveness in Mending Broken Relationships'
9 May 2018, York St John University
'Where love and Justice Finally Meet: The Place of Forgiveness in Mending Broken Relationships'
9 May 2018, York St John University
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Amid a global rush towards hate, division and insularity, Marina Cantacuzino, founder of The Forgiveness Project, will examine how forgiveness and humanising narratives can help break cycles of violence, transform relationships and restore hope.
Marina is a journalist who founded the forgiveness project in 2004. The project was set up to tell the real stories of people whose response to being harmed was not a call for revenge but rather a quest for restoration and healing. |
Michael Morpurgo, OBE
'The Mozart Question' performance
5 June 2018, York Minster - in conjunction with York Festival of Ideas
'The Mozart Question' performance
5 June 2018, York Minster - in conjunction with York Festival of Ideas
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Michael Morpurgo returns to York Festival of Ideas to give a moving performance of his book, The Mozart Question, set against the background of the Holocaust. Joined by actress Alison Reid, violinist Daniel Pioro and The Storytellers Ensemble, together they will interweave words and music to tell this haunting tale of survival against the odds.
Michael Morpurgo, OBE, is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist. He became the third British Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. |
Lord Bhikhu Parekh
'Secularism and Neutrality of Political Space'
This lecture, scheduled for 11 July 2018, was cancelled.
'Secularism and Neutrality of Political Space'
This lecture, scheduled for 11 July 2018, was cancelled.
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Julie Nicholson’s lecture will draw on personal narrative and experience in exploring the choices people make about how to live and thrive in the shadow of death and trauma, including the complex area of forgiveness.
Julie is a writer and an ordained priest in the Anglican Church. Following the sudden death of her eldest daughter in the London bombings on the 7th July 2005, Julie resigned her post as a parish priest to attend to the demands of bereavement and family support in what was a high-profile terrorist attack. |
