PRESS RELEASE -- September 10, 2008
Experience in apartheid South Africa drives activist
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- Naomi Tutu will visit Mount Vernon Nazarene University on Wednesday, Sept. 10, to talk about her experience growing up as a black female in apartheid South Africa.
Tutu, the daughter of Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, will deliver a lecture titled “Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Our Wounds” at 7:15 p.m. in the RR Hodges Chapel/Auditorium. She will also speak in chapel at 10:20 a.m. that morning.
These events are free and open to the public
Tutu’s visit kicks off MVNU’s 2008-09 Lecture/Artist Series, a lineup of visiting scholars, artists and performers who will address the theme of “Reconciliation and the Kingdom of God.”
Tutu was born in South Africa and has also lived in Lesotho, the United Kingdom and the United States. She was educated in Swaziland, the U.S. and England, and has divided her adult life between South Africa and the U.S.
Her professional experience ranges from being a development consultant in West Africa, to being program coordinator for programs on Race and Gender and Gender-based Violence in Education at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. In addition, Tutu has taught at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut and Brevard College in North Carolina.
Tutu also serves as a consultant to two organizations which reflect the breadth of her involvement in issues of human rights: the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), founded by renowned author Riane Eisler and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Betty Williams; and the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA). Tutu has led Truth and Reconciliation Workshops for groups dealing with different types of conflict.
For more information about this event or MVNU’s Lecture/Artist Series, call (740) 397-9000, ext. 4341, or visit www.mvnu.edu/lectureartist.
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