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Thinking Spaces: Friday November 8th

Please join us for the next Thinking Spaces Reading Group session on Friday, November 8, 2013. The Reading Group will be held from 3-5 pm in the boardroom at the main branch of the Guelph Public Library (100 Norfolk).

In this session, Dr. Lauren Michelle Levesque will discuss her research on the intersections between conflict transformation and improvisation. A principal question for dialogue will be: How can improvisation contribute to the ways local communities creatively engage with violence and social healing? Insights for answering this question from local activists, artists, community members as well as students and faculty are welcome.

If you would like to prepare for the discussion, please listen to the interview with scholar and conflict transformation practitioner, John Paul Lederach, posted at: http://www.onbeing.org/program/art-peace/182

If you have comments and/or questions about the Reading Group and Speakers Series, please contact Chris Tonelli or Lauren Levesque at: ctonelli@uoguelph.ca or levesqul@uoguelph.ca.

Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis