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About the ISCIA Chair
Achieving a culture of unity in emotionally in questioning, raising
diversity is a multi-facetted doubts, creating dialogue, and
challenge. How is a society realised opening spaces in which to imagine
that is both deeply aware of, and and hope for community-led
responsive to, its fractious past solutions that foster healing and
(which calls upon South Africans to restore dignity. “Aesthetic wisdom,”
recognize and strengthen local therefore, offers a powerful
identities) and committed to social resource to help academic and
cohesion (which calls upon us to other communities approach this
unbind the kind of purist identities ethical task. The relevance of such
that lead to social antagonism and aesthetic exploration is at once
new forms of marginalization that pedagogical and ethical since it aims
weaken integration)? A basic to involve a broader community in
assumption of ISCIA’s overall reflective spaces of dialogical
research project is that this double interaction between diverse voices
bind may be negotiated by creating and create new ways to see and be
an identifiably South African way of in the world. The Chair’s research is
being that is flexible and fluid. conducted from a philosophical
Further, the Arts draw upon a standpoint and aims to foster
unique power to involve individuals different ways of thinking and novel
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