Lunch Seminar: On Being Fire-fighters: Insights on Curriculum Transformation in Contexts of HIV and AIDS

The article considers various responses to an HIV and AIDS outbreak by comparing it to a burning hut in the village. These responses range from indifference to action-oriented engagement with HIV and AIDS. It is a framework that challenges scholars of religion and other disciplines to place themselves within the story of HIV and AIDS and to plot their own response. The approach is both autobiographical and institutional in its analysis.

The seminar will consider insights into curriculum transformation gathered from individual experiences and and institutional engagement by highlighting the writer's response and organized efforts from the World Council of Churches, the Circle of Concerned Women Theologians, the University of Botswana and other institutions. The conclusion emphasizes that both research and teaching should be justice seeking.