January 27, 2005

"For Love and Justice: Breaking the Cycles of Intimate Violence" marks the 27th Brown Symposium at Southwestern University. This year's symposium, Feb. 10-11, 2005, spotlights promising new approaches to building just and loving relationships and to the prevention of intimate violence.

The symposium participants include Jackson Katz, founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program; bell hooks, one of the nation's leading public intellectuals and author of 20 books; Terrence Real, best-selling author and senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge; and Sarah Buel, clinical professor at the University of Texas School of Law and founder of the University of Texas Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The speakers will address legal, psychological and spiritual issues. Moreover, they will offer ways to break the recurring cycles of intimate violence, to heal the maladies that produce them and to promote the love and justice necessary to humanity's health and fulfillment.

The Brown Symposium is presented annually by Southwestern University. It is funded through an endowment established by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, Texas, for professorships at the University. The symposia are designed to enhance the effectiveness of the work for which the endowed professorships were established. Each symposium presents topics in one of the broad areas of study represented by the chair holder. Lecture events are held in the Alma Thomas Theater, located in the Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center, and are free and open to the public.

"For Love and Justice: Breaking the Cycles of Intimate Violence" was developed by T. Walter Herbert, Jr., professor of English, holder of the Herman Brown Chair and University Scholar.

Visit www.southwestern.edu/brownxxvii/ for more details about the symposium, featured speakers and a schedule of events.

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