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2024 Hybrid Teaching and Learning Workshop Early Career Theological Faculty Craft in the Teaching Life: Sustaining Pleasure throughout the Teaching Life Application Deadline: September 27, 2023 Schedule of Sessions All Virtual Sessions – 12:15 - 2:45 ET Session 1 - February 8, 2024 (virtual) Session 2 - March 14, 2024 (virtual) Session 3 - April 25, 2024 (virtual) In person: June 10-14, 2024 - Wabash Center on the campus of Wabash College Session 4 - August 1, 2024 (virtual) Session 5 - September 26, 2024 (virtual) Session 6 - October 24, 2024 (virtual) Leadership Team Katherine Turpin, PhD, Iliff School of Theology Willie Jennings, PhD, Yale Divinity School Participants Karri Alldredge, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Jennifer Aycock, Hood Theological Seminary Adam Bean, Milligan University Yara González-Justiniano, Vanderbilt University Deidre Green, Graduate Theological Union Joelle Hathaway, Bethany Theological Seminary Kathryn House, Meadville Lombard Theological School Emily Jendzejec,Loyola University New Orleans Sarah Kathleen Johnson, Saint Paul University Cody Sanders, Luther Seminary Megan Strollo, Union Presbyterian Seminary Nicole Sarita Symmonds, Columbia Theological Seminary Eric Williams, Duke University Rachel Wrenn, Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University Wabash Center Staff Contact: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD Director Wabash Center 301 West Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 westfiel@wabash.edu Description This hybrid workshop invites participants to explore the craft in teaching. Through conversations, artistic experimentation, and creative expression, we seek to discern how to sustain pleasure in a teaching life. We will consider sustaining pleasure through forming a healthy distance from one’s doctoral formation, gaining a strong sense of agency in one’s institution, engaging one’s discipline on one’s own terms, claiming one’s freedom in the classroom, and attending to the whole person as a teacher. Participants can expect to: Think alongside crafts persons and artisans about their creative process Explore artistic expression in their own lives Experience collegial work in an environment that is relaxing and restorative Imagine ways of teaching and learning that evoke curiosity, joy, and hope The hybrid workshop will gather for six online sessions and an in-person summer session at the Wabash Center in Crawfordsville, IN. Sessions will include small group and plenary discussions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for personal and communal growth, relaxation, restoration, and shared meals. Goals To identify those elements that sustain pleasure in the teaching life To cultivate a strong sense of agency and freedom in the teaching life, the classroom, and the institution To establish a practice of experimentation that aligns with their teaching commitments and values To develop a network of colleagues and co-collaborators as an ongoing resource for their teaching life Participant Eligibility Completed 1-5 years of teaching in a full-time, tenure track or other continuing position Doctoral degree completed by end of Spring 2022 Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than Spring 2026 Teaching in an accredited seminary or divinity school in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada Job description or contract that is wholly or primarily inclusive of teaching Application Materials Please complete and attach the following documents to the online application: Application Contact Information form Cover letter: Write a cover letter that describes why a Wabash workshop, given the diverse makeup of its participants, would be helpful to you at this point in your career. What role do you see peer colleagues and collaborators playing in your growth as an early career teacher and scholar? Brief essay: In 500 words or fewer, describe moments of pleasure in the teaching life that you hope to sustain throughout your career. Choose moments that bring us into your classroom, your particular discipline, and your institution. Academic CV (4-page limit) 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 Participants will receive an honorarium of $3,000 for full participation in the hybrid workshop. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation

2023 Wabash Round Table Solidarity Gathering Date January 12th-15th, 2023 Emory University Conference Center Atlanta Georgia Team Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director Sarah Farmer, Associate Director Conversation Partners Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Roger Nam, Candler School of Theology Kenneth Ngwa, Drew Theological School Joanne Rodriguez, Hispanic Theological Initiative Tat-Siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross Seth Gaiters, University of North Carolina Honorarium and Fellowship Participants will receive an honorarium of $1500 for full participation in the Conversation. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation Description We will use this conversation to inform us as we make programming plans for the notion of solidarity.We ask that each person come to the meeting having written a case. Each case should be 2 to 3 pages. More specific directions will be sent to you. Along with the case study instructions, we will send: the meeting schedule, a description of the emerging initiative on solidarity, goals, and a full list of our preliminary questions. Questions for the Gathering In our conversation will be exploring such critical questions as: What does it mean as BIPOC colleagues to be in relationship that is not dependent upon the white gaze? What will it mean to shed, heal from, or dismiss the anti-black culture to which we have been indoctrinated. What kinds of courages are needed for solidarity?

Writing Workshop Jointly Sponsored by Wabash Center & Collegeville Institute Breaking the Academic Mold: Liberating the Powerful, Personal Voice Inside You Event Dates Monday, July 10, 2023 to Sunday, July 16, 2023 Gathering Location Lake Junaluska, NC Leadership Team Sophfronia Scott Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Alma College Donald Quist Director of the MFA in Writing Vermont College of Fine Arts Instructions for Leaders Participants Roy Whitaker, San Diego State University Sarah Dees, Iowa State University Julie Meadows, Presbyterian College Nicholas A. Elder, University of Dubuque Michael Brandon, University of Louisville Samantha Miller, Whitworth University Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Iliff School of Theology For More Information, Please Contact: Sarah Farmer, Associate Director Wabash Center farmers@wabash.edu Stipend Each participant will be provided with travel expenses, meals, lodging, and a stipend of $1500. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation Description This writing workshop is for scholars of religion and theology who have written exclusively or primarily in the scholarly genre for other scholars of religion but long to share their knowledge or personal experience in a more creative way with a wider audience. Many scholars yearn to speak to a broader audience through creative nonfiction, blogs, op-eds, and memoir. Many scholars want to write with more clarity and imagination. Participants in this workshop will develop their writing voice in service to topics they care about, and for which they have passion and curiosity. A combination of plenary, small group and individual instruction, our week together will help scholars free the creative spirit, structure their writing more effectively, and speak on the page in a truer, more engaging voice. Our focus will be on releasing the professors’ voice to the public square, giving permission to be imaginative, and finding new ways of being inspired. No previous experience publishing in creative writing genres is needed. Workshop Goals To create a collaborative learning cohort of teacher-scholarsto expand and deepen scholarly writing To navigate the intersectingchallenges of creative writing as an academic To develop new practices of creative writing in the service of teaching and scholarship of religion and theology To explore strategies for the authentic voice while thriving in institutional,politicaland personal contexts To write and receive feedback while also being in conversation with other creative writers Participant Eligibility Tenure track, continuing term, and/or full-time contingency teaching full time in college, university, or seminary Must be teaching in religion and theology or related fields Job description or contract that is wholly or primarily inclusive of teaching Teaching in accredited college, university, seminary in the United States, Puerto Rico or Canada Personal commitmentto participate fully in workshop with 100% attendance in all sessions Little to no experience with publishing in creative genres, but great interest in learning to write in creative genre

2023 LGBTQ+ Faculty Round table: Queering Pedagogy and Self-care Gathering Date May 24-26, 2023 Kimpton Hotel Monaco Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Team Gina A.S. Robinson, Associate Director Pamela Lightsey, Meadville Lombard Theological School Rodolfo Nolasco, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Participants Phillis I. Sheppard, Vanderbilt University Bryan N. Massingale, Fordham University Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary Renee K Harrison, Howard University School of Divinity Xochiti Alvizo, California State University - Northridge Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Boston University School of Theology Teresa Smallwood, United Lutharan Seminary - Gettysburg Junehee Yoon, Drew Theological School Craig Ford, St. Norbert College Honorarium and Fellowship Participants will receive an honorarium of $2000 for full participation in the Round Table. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $5000 project grant. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation Description The aim of this roundtable was to curate a conversation that explored the uniqueness and normativity of LGBTQ+ faculty experiences; consider ways that embodied perspectives might positively and negatively affect pedagogy; addresses the rapidly changing ways identities, current discourse and practices affect teaching; and reflect upon the ways that deep political & theological divides are challenging to queer theory and theology. Additionally, the conversation is designed to help determine how to attend to self-care and determine vocational aspirations in unsafe contexts. On the first evening Anna Deshawn, an Ambie award-winning podcast creator and digital radio host of E3 Radio, facilitated a conversation about the impact they are making in the queer community through their podcast Queer News. Anna Deshawn uses their digital platform to curate conversations at the intersection faith and LGBTQ+ identity. DJ Caryn Robinson created an atmosphere of queer joy by playing music by LGBTQ+ artists and allies. The second day of the gathering was a time to reflect upon the ways LGBTQ+ professors, as embodied professionals enter spaces (some safe, some more challenging) to do the work they are called to do. The leaders grounded the first half of this conversation with two questions: “Who is the LGBTQ+ self that teaches?” and “What pedagogy heirlooms can you share?” These questions invited participants into an exploration of the uniqueness and normativity of LGBTQ+ faculty experiences. Dr. Danie Buhuro facilitated the second half of the session which centered embodiment and self-care. The day ended with an excursion to Lips Chicago to explore teaching in drag. The final session opened with an in depth debrief on what participants learned from the drag performers about embodiment and teaching. Dr. Stephanie Crumpton closed with a ritual to help the participants reclaim rest in their lives as faculty persons. All participants are eligible to receive a $5,000 non-competitive small grant. Description To address the rapidly changing ways identities, current discourse and practices affect teaching To reflect upon the ways that deep political & theological divides are challenging to queer theory and theology To determine how to attend to self-care Description Tenure track, tenured, continuing term, and/or full-time contingency Teaching religion, religious studies, or theology in an accredited college or university in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada Identify at LGBTQ+ (Edit)

2022 Wabash Round Table Imagining Projects for Teaching the Black Woman’s Experience Gathering Date March 28th-30th, 2022 Alexander Hotel, Indianapolis Indiana Team Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director Lisa Thompson, Vanderbilt Divinity School Participants Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Melanie Jones, Union Presbyterian Theological School Shively Smith, Boston Theological Angela Sims, Colgate Rochester Mitzi Smith, Columbia Theological Seminary Emilie Townes, Vanderbilt Divinity School Erika Gault, University of Arizona Rachelle Green, Fordham University Jessica Brown, Choices to Change, LLC Joi Orr, Interdenominational Theological Center Chelsea Yarborough, Vanderbilt University Gay Byron, Howard University Dominique Robinson, Seminary of the Southwest Pamela Lightsey, Meadville Lombard Theological School Courtney Buggs, Christian Theological Seminary Sarah Farmer, Indiana Wesleyan Seminary Emma Jordan-Simpson, Auburn Theological Seminary Yolanda Norton, San Francisco Theological Seminary Dianna Watkins-Dickerson, Independent Scholar Gina Robinson, Northwestern University Honorarium and Fellowship Participants will receive an honorarium of $2000 for full participation in the Round Table. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $5000 project grant. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation Description The Wabash Center is convening a round table conversation to catalyze emerging projects focused upon teaching the Black woman’s experience. Along with funds for travel, meals, hotel fees, each participant will receive a stipend of $2000. The aim of the Round Table gathering is to shape a conversation that will be inter-generational, multi-disciplinary, and attend the multi-faceted scholarly identities as teachers of religion and theology. Our intent is to use this time to conceive projects that will gain traction and become life-giving. The Wabash Center, to support the emerging projects on teaching, will provide non-competitive grants in the amount of $5000 for each person in attendance. Participants may elect to combine funding to create a collaborative project. Please see the small grant description and proposal process on our website. Proposals for the non-competitive grants must be submitted by May 31, 2022. Each participant is asked to come the conversation with preliminary ideas, dedications, and creative aspirations for the thriving of Black women scholar-teachers, teaching, and teaching lives. At the gathering, a priority is to listen to one another, think together, dream together and see what emerges from being together. The conversation, while not a decision-making moment, will rehearse the wide array of possibilities of imagining a teaching project. The conversation is meant to unearth possibilities, suggest directions, review strategies, and make use of collaborative ingenuity, imagination and creativity. In a creative process, participants will talk, listen, discern, rely upon our spirit of collegiality, and listen for the ancestors, the wisdom, and the muse. Questions for the Gathering In preparation, participants will consider these springboard questions for germinating projects on teaching the African American Woman’s experience: What does it mean to teach and embody the Black woman’s experience? What does it mean to teach African American women’s lives? What can be learned about teaching from the ways and means of Black women? What are womanist ways for a healthy teaching life? What are Black women’s approaches to teaching? In what ways does the imagination and creativity of Black women enhance our scholarly teaching? What would it mean to reinvent your teaching toward your own cultural sensibilities and sensitivities? What strategies can be employed to teach better as an African American woman? Who is the self who teaches when she is an African American woman? What would it mean to redesign your basic courses toward womanist pedagogies?

Creative Writing as Teaching Tool Gathering Date May 16th-19th, 2022 Team Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director Participants Donald Quist, Vermont College Sophfronia Scott, Alma College Ralph Basui Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary Stipend The Wabash Center will provide travel expenses, meals, hotel fees, and a stipend of $2,000. Read More about Payment of Participants Important Information Foreign National Information Form Policy on Participation Description Given the rise of interest in creative arts and artforms in the scholarship of religion and theology, we are gathering to discuss ways our creative writing might better influence, inform, and expand our teaching. We are particularly interested in developing deeper more informed teaching on issues of difference, justice, diversity, welcoming, belonging, equity and inclusion. Rooted in a sense of abundance, possibility, and joy, our premise is that praxis teaching attends to orchestrating a synergy between creativity, practice, and critical reflection. This approach to teaching moves beyond the flimsy, simplistic and problematic dichotomy which espouses that teaching is primarily about critical theory or practice. Instead, creative praxis approaches complicate the inter-relationships of teacher, learner and subject to make evident the realized aesthetic of knowing with, between, and beyond one another. Creative praxis takes into consideration multiple ways of knowing, multiple kinds of knowledge production, and the inherent complexity therein. We are gathering to explore and discuss pedagogical aesthetics for liberative pedagogy. Questions for the Gathering What would it mean to routinely teach the experiences and brilliance of those who are marginalized by interlocking systems of oppression and hatred for justice? What role would creative writing play in this liberative teaching? • What insights are needed for creative writing to be a vibrant teaching tool? • What new knowledges can be conveyed with creative writing? • What does it mean to teach beauty? What does it mean to teach the divine? Suppose teaching is a sacred act that results in healing, community, care, and welcoming? • What would it mean to wield the collective power of teaching as artists? Who is the teacher who attempts to teach through critical aesthetics? • What teaching life is needed to support the practices of pedagogical aesthetics? • In what ways might the outcomes of: safer worlds (less violence and suffering), more justice, more accessible, and more sustainable be attainable through liberatory tools of creativity and wonder?

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 The Wabash Center hosts roundtables, one-time gatherings either in-person or virtually, for teachers of theological and religious studies in higher education in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada. Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Travel and Reimbursement Guidelines Reimbursement Form Things To Do In Crawfordsville Honorarium Participants in Wabash Center workshops receive an honorarium based on the number of days and amount of advance preparation and responsibility. Processes and Procedures for the Payment of Honorarium Policy on Deadlines for Program Deadlines The program deadlines are meant to facilitate application by a wide array of participants, as well as create fairness in the selection process. Program deadlines also assist administrative staff who work to support each group and all programs. The Wabash Center will, when we see the necessity, extend the deadline of an application process. We will rarely, if ever, extend the deadline for individual requests. We ask participants, as well as recommenders, to respect these important deadline boundaries. Adherence to deadlines foster fair-mindedness and a spirit of collegiality. Should an issue need to be arbitrated, please be in touch with the Director of the Wabash Center. 2025 Roundtables Creative Writing Storytelling-Based Pedagogy Racial Solidarity SoCap 2024 Roundtables Racial Solidarity Latinx Creative Writing Curiosity Roundtable Arts-Based Pedagogy Roundtable SoCap Sabbath as Teaching Womanist Meeting Past Gatherings See a complete list of Wabash gatherings. Previous Racial Solidarity Latinx Creative Writing Curiosity Arts-Based Pedagogy LGBT Faculty Solidarity Teaching the Black Woman's Experience

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