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2022 JoT Writing Colloquy: January 9-12, 2022 (Digital Format) Re-Booting Journal on Teaching! The Wabash Center is rebooting the Journal on Teaching (JoT) into a multimodal academic journal which will boast a collaborative peer review process. The collaborative peer-review process incorporates the JoT Writing Colloquy and is intended to strengthen writers and writing about teaching and the teaching life. In 2022, JoT will publish two volumes. We anticipate accepting submissions of scholarly articles, fiction, non-fiction, short-story, poetry, op-ed, etc. - based upon our volume theme. For a full description of the collaborative peer-review process, please see Journal on Teaching section of our website HERE. Description of JoT Writing Colloquy The JoT Writing Colloquy, scheduled for January 9-12, 2022 will be our debut for creating a cohort of writers for a particular volume. Participants in this first colloquy will be encouraged to submit articles for the fall 2022 issue entitled “Changing Scholarship.” The time in the January 9-12, 2022 writing colloquy will be a combination of plenary sessions, small group interactions, individual instruction and workshopping of in-process writing. All participants are asked to submit an article to the fall 2022 issue entitled “Changing Scholarship” on or before August 1, 2022. Participants in the JoT Writing Colloquy will receive a stipend in the amount of $1500 plus up to ten hours of writing coaching before article submission or by July 30, 2022. Goals To refine the emerging collaborative peer review process for JoT; To create conversation space for scholars who yearn for collaboration as they write to share their knowledges or personal experiences; To develop voices of scholars for more authentic expression of their knowledges and voices; To expand the genre of scholarly writing into multimodal expressions; To support writers as they play with accessible writing genres for a broader audience through creative nonfiction, blogs, op-eds, and memoir, etc.; To liberate the scholarly voice for access by a wider audience in society To unlearn the worst academic habits, free the creative spirit, structure your work more effectively, and speak on the page in a truer, more engaging voice. Leadership Team Sophfronia Scott – Director of the MFA program at Alma College (Sophfronia.com) Donald Quist – Program Director, MFA in Creative Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts (https://vcfa.edu/faculty-staff/donald-quist/) Instructions for Leaders Dates of Sessions (via Zoom) Sunday, January 9 3:00 PM to 6:30PM Eastern Monday, January 10 10:00AM to 9:30 PM Eastern Tuesday, January 11 10:00AM to 9:30 PM Eastern Wednesday, January 12 10:00AM to 1:00 PM Eastern For More Information, Please Contact: Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D. Director Wabash Center westfiel@wabash.edu Invited Participants Anne Carter Walker, Phillips Theological Seminary William Yoo, Columbia Theological Seminary Sarah Farmer, Indiana Wesleyan University Steed Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Rich Voelz, Union Presbyterian Seminary Ralph Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary Brian Bantum, Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary Debra Mumford, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Courtney Bryant, Manhattan College Parkway Monique Moultrie,Georgia State University Rodolfo Nolasco Jr.,Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Lynne Westfield, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

2022 Hybrid Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career ReligionFacultyTeachingUndergraduates Schedule of Sessions All Virtual Sessions – Thursdays, 4:00-6:00 EST Session 1 - March 24, 2022 (virtual) Session 2 - April 28, 2022 (virtual) Session 3 - May 26, 2022 (virtual) Session 4 - June 30, 2022 (virtual) In person: July 25-29 Wabash Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana Session 5 - September 22, 2022 (virtual) Session 6 - October 20, 2022 (virtual) Session 7 - December 1, 2022 (virtual) Leadership Team Carolyn M. Jones Medine, Ph.D., University of Georgia Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds,Ph.D.,I.U.P.U.I. Participants Ashleigh Elser,Hampden-Sydney College Brennan Keegan,College of Charleston Denise Flanders,Taylor University Elissa Cutter,Georgian Court University Emily Kahm,College of Saint Mary Joanna Kline,Gordon College Kristyn Sessions,Villanova University Mary Kate Holman,Benedictine University Samah Choudhury,Ithaca College Sarah Emanuel,Loyola Marymount University Scott Ryan,Claflin University Ashlyn Strozier,Georgia State University Seth Gaiters,University of North Carolina Richard Klee,University of Notre Dame For More Information, Please Contact: Paul Myhre Senior Associate Director Wabash Center 301 West Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 myhrep@wabash.edu Instructions for Leaders Description This workshop invites faculty in their first five years of full-time teaching who are tenure track, continuing term (lecturer, instructor, teaching scholar) and/or full-time contingent faculty to join a relational community of peers and leaders who are committed to creating a collaborative learning cohort of committed and skilled teachers. This collaborative learning cohort will focus on: an understanding of the philosophy and practice of the teaching profession, reflecting on teaching philosophies and practices; sustaining a generativelifeasteacherandfashioning our identities as teachers; negotiating institutions, expectations, and career trajectories; teaching in contexts marked by diversity, particularly in the time of pandemics. The hybrid workshop will gather 14 participants for seven online sessions and an in-person summer session at Wabash Center. Sessions will include small group and plenary discussions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for personal and communal discovery, relaxation, restoration, exercise, meditation, restoration, and shared meals. Workshop Goals To create a collaborative learning cohort of teacher-scholars To create a space toexplore andnavigate the intersectingchallenges of teaching, research, and service To develop the practice of critical reflection on teaching To explore strategies for thriving in institutional,politicaland personal contexts Participant Eligibility Tenure track, continuing term, and/or full-time contingency 1-5 years of full-time teaching Job description or contract that is wholly or primarily inclusive of teaching Teaching in accredited college or university in the United States, Puerto Rico or Canada Doctoral degree awardedbyJanuary 2022 Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than January of 2023 Institutional supportand personal commitmentto participate fully in workshop sessions and to complete the teaching fellowship project in 2023 academic year Application Materials Please complete and attach the following documents to the online application: 1. Application Contact Information form 2. Cover letter: Describe how you hope this workshop will support and/or enhance your identity as a teacher-scholar during this stage of your academic career (300 words) Answer in two paragraphs: How has COVID had an impact on your teaching career? (250 words) 3. Brief essay: How doyour contextsand commitments inform, shape, and conflict with your teaching philosophy and practices?(250 words) How has acritical moment inan introductory classshaped your teaching practice?What was the teaching goal for that day? What happened?Howdidyou respond?(250 words) 4. Academic CV (4-page limit) 5. A letter of institutional support for your full participation in this workshop from your Department Chair, Academic Dean, Provost, Vice President, or President. Please have this recommendation uploaded directly to your application according to the online application instructions. Honorarium and Fellowship Participants will receive an honorarium of $3,500 for full participation in the workshop. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $2,500 workshop fellowship for work on a teaching project during the 2023 summer and fall term. Read More about Payment of Participants Read More about the Digital Workshop Fellowship Program Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation (Digital Cohort) COVID policy

2021 AAR & SBL Annual Meetings Wabash Center VIRTUAL Events Wabash Center Virtual Session #1 - Thursday, November 18th, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (Central Standard Time) 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,University of St. Thomas Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary Wabash Center Virtual Session #2 - Thursday, November 18th, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (Central Standard Time) 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 Wabash Center Virtual Session #3 - Friday, November 19th 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (Central Standard Time) Life-Giving Teaching: When Classrooms Are Not Cloistered Away from The World What if rather than teaching about the world as if it is a distant land to be grappled with after graduation we teach as if the world was our classroom? In order to create courses which are relevant meaningful and life-giving what would it mean to decenter the tried-and-true disciplinary tactics and instead place the joys sufferings perspectives and cultural meaning making apparatuses of students as the keystone of the course? Too much of our teaching is siloed away from the worlds and the realities from which our students leave and to which our students must return. This session is a discussion with colleagues who have a proven track record of seamlessly keeping the classroom connected to the world and vice versa i.e. praxis education. With intention and creativity these colleagues design courses which extend the classroom learning into connect with and operate in the world. Panelists: Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Almeda Wright, Yale University Kenneth Ngwa,Drew Theological School Annie Lockhart-Gilroy, Phillips Theological Seminary Registration for these programs is through the AAR & SBL Meetings Registration Website. Non-Member Registration. Member Cost: $210 Non-Member Cost: $395 AAR Virtual Meetings Website SBL Virtual Meetings Website