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11:00 am
Wabash Center Virtual Session #1 for the AAR & SBL Annual Meeting
Conversation with Authors: Becoming a White Antiracist
Boldly, these authors call for the deconstruction of white supremist structures designed to maintain and reward the truncated imaginations of white professors concerning the systemic hatreds and racist activities baked-into our world of scholarly pedagogy and beyond. This conversation with Stephen D. Brookfield and Mary E. Hess, authors of Becoming a White Antiracist, will delve into their struggle to develop this counter-cultural motif. The work of becoming a white antiracist is routinely met with institutional obstacles, collegial nay-sayers, or out-and-out rejection. We will dialogue about the author’s well-crafted approaches, strategies, and methods for creating an antiracist ecology in your school, workplace, community, and home. We will discuss ways to use this book as a resource to improve the formation of students, to correct the deformation of faculty, and to explore the needed identities to become a white antiracist.
Presider:
Nancy Lynne Westfield, The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Panelists:
• Stephen Brookfield
• Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary
2:00 pm
Wabash Center Virtual Session #2 for the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings
Faculty Matters: Generative Formation of Early Career Colleagues
Destabilizing forces in higher education and theological education increase the pressure on early career colleagues. Kindling and rekindling the genuine voice of an early career scholar requires intention planning and a supportive environment. Many colleagues report that they experience isolation and feelings of being overwhelmed with little recompense or community structures to help them adapt and thrive. What is the price of belonging in a faculty? What kind of formation is necessary to assist early career faculty with living into their creativity imagination and courage? This is a conversation with seasoned mentors of early career faculty who will discuss what they wish early career faculty colleagues know and would be about to nurture their own generativity survival and persistence.
Panelists:
Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University
Roger Nam, Emory University
Jennifer Harvey, Drake University