Being Black/Teaching Black: Writing Volume II
This, by invitation only, colloquy gathers senior womanist scholars for reflection on Black women’s experience in the religious studies and theology classroom in order to write a second volume of the anthology Being Black/Teaching Black (2010). We will focus on Black women’s being, on the challenges of maintaining wholeness and being healthy, and on teaching for freedom from oppression. We want to think about
- how to reclaim and to rekindle discredited knowledges
- using the imagination to address suffering in and of the self
- what it has meant and cost to refuse destruction;
- and how we might bring into our lives the formation we had as religious beings before our academic formation to address these issues.
This colloquy will move us towards writing memoir as an alternative expression of the teaching and writing life. Each participant will submit work(s) of creative non-fiction, poetry, short-story, or imaginative prose for the burgeoning anthology – Being Black/Teaching Black: Volume II.
Dates
- To Be Determined
Leadership Team
Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia
Sophfronia Scott, Regis University
Aiken Edwards, Independent Scholar
Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Participants:
Teresa L. Fry Brown, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Gay L. Byron, Howard University
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver
Barbara Holmes, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (Emerita)
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School
Vanessa Lovelace, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Lorena Parrish, Wesley Theological Seminary
Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary
Mitzi J. Smith, Columbia Theological Seminary
Lakeesha Walrond, New York Theological Seminary
Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School