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SPEAKER: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
On the 70th Anniversary of the Forum, we will open the season by honoring Amos Fortunes extraordinary life and celebrating his legacy; a legacy that continues to challenge and inspire us generations later. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will explore the concept of RESPECTa beautiful quality embodied and enacted by Amos Fortune even as he broke out of the chains of enslavement and bought his freedom. She will challenge traditional conceptions of respect that emphasize deference to status and hierarchy and see it as driven by duty, honor, and a desire to avoid punishment, shame, or embarrassment. Instead, she will present a new view; one that focuses on the ways in which respect creates empathy, connection, and symmetry in all kinds of relationships even thosesuch as parent and child, teacher and student, and doctor and patientcommonly seen as unequal. Exploring the essential dimensions of respect, and offering poignant stories and powerful lessons, Lawrence-Lightfoot will inspire us to think deeply and act courageously as we seek to create just and compassionate communities and institutions with respectful relationships at their very center; and as we heed the ancient echoes of Amos Fortunes legacy of dignity and liberation.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University where she has been on the faculty since 1972. She is the author of ten books including The Third Chapter, The Essential Conversation, Ive Known Rivers, Balm in Gilead, and Respect, that will be the focus of her Forum presentation. She is the recipient of thirty honorary degrees and is the first African American woman in Harvards history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. She finds beauty and peace at her home on Gilmore Pond in Jaffrey where she spends as much time as possible.
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LocationJaffrey Center Old Meetinghouse (View)
Blackberry Lane
Jaffrey Center, NH 03452
United States
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