2024 Curiosity Roundtable
Important Dates
Event: Thursday, September 19, 2024 to Sunday, September 22, 2024
Gathering Location
Kimpton Overland Hotel
Atlanta, GA
Participants
Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross
Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia
Rolf Nolasco, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Ruth Anne Reese, Asbury Theological Seminary
Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology
Mai-Anh Tran, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology
Mayra Rivera, Harvard Divinity School
Eric Barreto, Princeton Theological School
Roger Nam, Candler School of Theology – Emory
Melinda McGarrah Sharp, Columbia Theological Seminary
Gregory Cuéllar, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Richelle White, Kuyper College
Richard Voelz, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Samantha Miller, Whitworth University
Aizaiah Yong, Claremont School of Theology
Cristian De La Rosa, Boston University School of Theology
Jesse Mann, Drew University
João Chavez, Baylor University
Joanne Solis-Walker, Candler School of Theology – Emory
Alison Gise-Johnson, Claflin University
Ryan Bonfiglio, Candler School of Theology – Emory
Caitlin Reeves Greenamyre, Columbia Theological Seminary
Sharon Fluker, Interdenominational Theological Center
For more information, please contact:
Lynne Westfield, Director
Wabash Center
westfiel@wabash.edu
Stipend
Each participant will be provided with travel expenses, meals, lodging, and a stipend of $2000. Additionally, a $5,000 non-competitive grant to support a project which has, directly or indirectly, grown out of this gathering is available.
Important Information
Description
This conversation is a gathering of participant leaders of the Wabash Center. This gathering is meant to whet appetites, inspire new thinking, beckon the muse, provide new insights, rekindle the imagination, move us out of the constraints of boxed/hobbled ideas, and encourage new kinds of experiments in our classrooms and curriculum. Specifically, we gather as curious people to discuss this meta-question: What are the possible futures of teaching religion and theology, and how do we imagine and create those possibilities?
The experts invited to present to the Curiosity Roundtable will be prominent leaders whose work is adjacent to or beyond the fields of religion and theology. In talking with colleagues in fields other than our own, our hope is that we will improve our own teaching performance, we will gain new insights about our own teaching, and we will be inspired in new ways for the future of teaching religion and theology. For each presentation or experience, our reflection questions are: (1) What does (this person or experience) teach us about teaching religion and theology? (2) What does (this person or experience) teach us about reconceiving theological and religious education? (3) What project might I/we develop to strengthen my own teaching?
Deadline for non-competitive grant application is November 6, 2024.
Goals
- To gather as religion and theological colleagues to network and learn about our own teaching and the teaching life.
- To invigorate the scholarship of teaching through new conversations and new conversation partners.
- To hear from colleagues beyond religion and theology about their approaches to their own work in hopes that we might be reinspired as we engage the complex challenges of our own work of teaching.
- To consider developing a project that might enhance or shift current teaching habits, practices, and approaches.
- To consider requesting grant funding for a project on teaching or the teaching life (deadline November 6, 2024).
- To unearth and imagine possibilities for new strategies and directions for better teaching.
- To consider the use of collaborative ingenuity to strengthen teaching.