Halifax

Reconciliation Here on Earth: Shared Responsibilities

MacKay Lecture Series, Part III

7:00pm
Thursday October 25 2012

The third and final speaker is one of this year’s national Killam Prize winners, Professor James Tully, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the U. of Victoria. Dr. Tully will speak on “Reconciliation as being-peace” both in relations between peoples, and in relations with the common earth on which we live and strive to flourish together.  Prof. Tully has suggested provisionally that he will set out a number of different ways in which ‘reconciliation’ has been understood and then make a series of arguments for one particular understanding, as the best way forward in the next decade. His approach is to seek a double move in reconciliation — the first move being reconciliation between peoples for past wrongs done, and the second, necessarily related move being a non-violent reconciliation of our modes of living with the earth, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.  The latter, shared responsibility answers an imperative of our contemporary condition, embracing a positive mutual way forward, beyond redress of past harms.

Speaker Bio:
Professor Tully is among the most influential political philosophers in Canada and beyond, author or editor of eight books and many articles in the field of contemporary political and legal philosophy and its history, and in Canadian political and legal philosophy.  He was also a Senior advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Killam prize in recognition of his distinguished career and exceptional contributions to Canadian social science scholarship and public life.  His monographs include the two-volume Public Philosophy in a New Key (Cambridge, 2008), Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in the Age of Diversity (Cambridge, 1995), and A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries (Cambridge, 1980).

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