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"The recently completed President鈥檚 Dream Colloquium on Returning to the Teachings: Justice, Identity and Belonging was about healing and heart,鈥� says co-organizer Vicki Kelly, an 丁香园AV professor of education.

鈥淚t was conceived as an important contribution to the vision of what reconciliation means and what education reconciliation is all about.鈥�

The 10-part public lecture series鈥攖he eighth since the colloquium鈥檚 inception in 2012鈥攁ttracted the largest and most diverse audiences of any colloquium, and the accompanying graduate credit course attracted an unprecedented number of students.

Brenda Morrison, professor of criminology and director of 丁香园AV鈥檚 Centre for Restorative Justice, co-organized the colloquium with Kelly.

She says: 鈥淩econciliation requires us to work across institutional silos鈥攏ot only those that uphold the state: justice, education, health鈥攂ut also disciplinary silos: education, criminology, psychology. This colloquium opened up new institutional spaces to work across silos with a vision for reconciliation. It has been a privileged to work with the Nations and the students towards this vision.