Events

Wabash Center Symposia Becoming Anti-Racist and Catalysts for Change Leadership Melanie Harris, Ph.D.,Texas Christian University Jennifer Harvey, Ph.D.,Drake University Paul Myhre, The Wabash Center Description of Cohort Teaching and Improvisation Leadership Victor L. Wooten, Five Time Grammy Award Winning Bass Player Author ofThe Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Description of Cohort Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form Questions about the Symposia? Dr. Paul O. Myhre Senior Associate Director myhrep@wabash.edu. Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flickr Lilly Endowment, Inc. Other Lilly Supported Initiatives

Wabash Center Virtual Events at the 2020 Virtual AAR & SBL Annual Meetings Wabash Center Virtual Session #1 - Monday, November 30, 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM “After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging” A 90 minute online conversation with Dr. Willie James Jennings, moderated by Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, with Dr. Craig Barnes, Dr. Daisy L. Machado, Dr. Kwok Pui Lan, and Dr. Shawn Copeland. The conversation will consider the implications of Dr. Jennings' bookAfter Whiteness: An Education in Belongingfor teaching and learning in North American college, university, and theological school contexts. The session will begin and end with comments by the author, Dr. Jennings, about his book and its implications for pedagogy in the 21st century. The bulk of the session will involve a conversation among peers, moderated by Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, about how the book raises specific questions about contemporary higher education practice and the implications of these questions for the future of higher education, particularly as it relates to theological education. In the book, Dr. Jennings asserts, “Theological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who can gather others together through border-crossing pluralism and God-drenched communion, we can begin to cultivate the radical belonging that is at the heart of God’s transformative work.” (Eerdmans.com) Wabash Center Virtual Session #2 - Monday, December 7, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM “Pedagogies of Justice and Care in Liminal Times” A 90-minute session for early career faculty teaching in a range of higher educational contexts. Early career faculty courses are often expected to adhere stringently to disciplinary canons and institutional ethos norms regardless of world events, national happenings, or social movements. At the same time, early career faculty are often expected to be the nimblest, most adept, most technologically savvy, and most able to adjust to complicated teaching tasks, yet they rarely have more than a little experience with teaching in higher education. In addition, they often find an abundance of expectations related to peer responsibilities like advising, mentoring, teaching, service to the institution through committees, and scholarship.Teaching during uncertain times can make teaching more difficult, even overwhelming. Justice and care for students and faculty in liminal times is often in short supply and finding practices and strategies of incorporating real time goings-on can be daunting. This session will attend to a range of topics and questions related to pedagogies of justice and care for the early career colleague. Presider: Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Panelists: Dr. Shehnaz Haqqani, Mercer University - Macon Dr. Christine Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary Dr. Sara Ronis, St. Mary’s University, Texas Dr. Ben Sanders, Eden Theological Seminary Dr. Lisa Thompson, Vanderbilt University Divinity School Panelists will respond to such questions and topics as: What’s the alternative in social upheaval to pretending all is the same? What pedagogies of care might be employed in contested spaces and liminal times? How does one attend to student resistance and fear when engaging justice concerns and topics? What strategies of listening can support teaching during upheaval within or beyond the institutional context? How does one prepare one’s self to teach while the world is shifting? What does it mean for an early career scholar to read the institutional politics when the institution is, itself, in crisis? What is the role of educational imagination and design when creating syllabi in uncertain times? Registration for these programs is through the AAR & SBL Meetings Registration Website. Non-Member Registration. Member Cost: $200 Non-Member Cost: $385 AAR Virtual Meetings Website SBL Virtual Meetings Website

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The many ways racism infuses the academy require honesty and persistence from white faculty committed to justice, equity and antiracism. Many different layers and kinds of work are necessary. One not to be overlooked is that of allied support for and advocacy with faculty of color. Interracial relationships, characterized by antiracist collegiality, crisscross the boundaries of structural and personal (even as does the racism Black, Brown, Asian and Native American faculty experience). In this webinar, Drs. Melanie Harris and Jennifer Harvey will engage in an interracial dialogue about the challenges to and possibilities for meaningful antiracism that can be manifested if white faculty members make intentional choices about committing to their colleagues and challenging their home institutions to become places where faculty and scholars of color may thrive.