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Applied Religious Studies A24-301 Sunday, November 24 - 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level) The Teaching Religion Unit and the Applied Religious Studies Committee will co-host a conversation about how programs navigate teaching the study of religions while integrating applied objectives (e.g. NACE career readiness competencies:https://bit.ly/2PoIPWK) into undergraduate and graduate curriculums. We welcome faculty in programs with an applied focus or in departments considering an applied approach to discuss program origins, faculty development, curriculum, student outcomes, benefits, and challenges. Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center, Presiding Panelists: Sabina Ali, Georgia State University Molly Bassett, Georgia State University Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University Paul A. Williams, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Summer Workshops, Colloquies, and Conferences 
 The Wabash Center hosts workshops and colloquies for teachers of theological and religious studies in higher education in accredited seminaries or theological schools in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada. Important Links Payment of Participants Policy on Full Participation Our Philosophy of Workshops Travel and Accommodations Travel Reimbursement Form Honorarium Participants in Wabash Center workshops, colloquies, and conferences receive an honorarium based on the number of days and amount of advance preparation and responsibility. Processes and Procedures for the Payment of Honorarium 
 2020-21 Workshops Accepting Applications Workshop for Early Career Theological School Faculty Workshop for Early Career Latinx Religion Faculty in Universities, Colleges, and Theological Schools Calendar Our usual pattern is to convene a group of 14 participants and 4 workshop leaders. The workshop or colloquy meets for a week during the summer on the Wabash College campus, followed by an extended weekend on the south Texas coast in January, and a final week back at Wabash the following summer. Applications are typically due January 15. The application form and short application essay prompts become available here each year in late September or early October. To receive timely announcements, follow us on Twitter or Facebook or sign up for our e-newsletter. Our schedule of workshops is determined by the three-year grant cycles from Lilly Endowment Inc. and is subject to change. Types Typically we start new Early Career Workshops every summer for faculty in theological education, and a new workshop two out of every three summers for faculty teaching in undergraduate contexts. Colloquies for Mid-Career Faculty begin every other year, alternating between theological and undergraduate contexts. We also convene Early Career Workshops that focus on teaching issues of particular resonance to racial and ethnic minority faculty. Workshops have followed successively for African American, faculty, Latino/a faculty, and Asian, Asian North American, faculty. We convene additional workshops and conferences on an occasional basis, sometimes by application and sometimes by invitation. 
 Currently Enrolled Workshops Past Workshops Future Workshops Early Career Workshop Fellowships for Workshop Participants Participants in the Early Career Teaching Workshops are eligible to apply for a $5000 Fellowship for individually designed teaching projects that extend the learning of the workshop. Read more Mid-Career Colloquy Grants for Colloquy Participants Mid Career Colloquies typically provide opportunities for participants to apply for special funding for small grant projects that extend the learning and discussions of the colloquy. Read more

2020-21 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Theological School Faculty Dates First Summer Session: July 13-18, 2020, Online Second Session: January 28-February 1, 2021, Online Third Session July 6-8, 2021, Wabash College Leadership Team Su Yon Pak, Director,Union Theological Seminary, NYC Steed Vernyl Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary Oscar Garcia-Johnson,Fuller Theological Seminary Lisa L. Thompson, Vanderbilt Divinity School Paul Myhre, Wabash Center Instructions for Leaders Important Information Evaluation Items Report Policy on Participation Map of Wabash College Campus Travel Reimbursement Form Foreign National Information Form Workshop Fellowship Program For More Information, Please Contact: Paul Myhre, Senior Associate Director Wabash Center 301 West Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 myhrep@wabash.edu Participants Maria E. Barga,Pontifical College Josephinum Jaeyeon Lucy Chung,Garrett-Evangelical TheologicalSeminary Joyce del Rosario,Pacific School of Religion Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo,Pentecostal Theological Seminary Rachelle R. Green,Fordham University Janna L. Hunter-Bowman,Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Tracey Lamont,Loyola University, New Orleans AHyun Lee,Indiana Wesleyan University Yii-Jan Lin,Yale Divinity School Oluwatomisin Oredein,Brite Divinity School Casey T. Sigmon,Saint Paul School of Theology Ekaputra Tupamahu,Portland Seminary Lisa M. Weaver,Columbia Theological Seminary Marvin E. Wickware Jr.,Lutheran Schoolof Theology at Chicago Description The world of theological education is changing, and early career faculty have agency to craft its new futures. This workshop will imagine and cultivate creative and nimble pedagogies for embodied teaching and learning for the twenty-first century. The workshop will be an art studio for play with and through a variety of educational mediums to explore ecologies of knowledge in a holistic teaching life. Our time together will take seriously socially engaged theological education for the public sphere. The workshop will gather 14 faculty members for a week in two successive summers at Wabash College, and a weekend winter gathering in Corpus Christi, Texas. There will be a balance of plenary sessions, small group discussions, workshop sessions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for play, relaxation, exercise, meditation, discovery, laughter, and lots of good food and drink. Workshop Goals Explore and develop holistic dimensions of the teaching life Image and discern contours of agency in teaching contexts Conceive and cultivate transformative pedagogies and creative futures for theological education Critically reflect on how to craft curriculum and practices for engaged global citizens Develop a just use of embodiment for self-reflexive teaching practices Eligibility 2-5 years of teaching in a tenure-track, contingency, or continuing position Teaching in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada Doctoral degree completed by January 1, 2020 Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than Spring 2021 Institutional support to participate fully in sessions and to complete teaching fellowship project in following year Application Materials Please complete and attach the following documents to the online application: 1. Application contact information form 2. In a cover letter, describe your teaching context and explore how at least one of the workshop goals will help you in your teaching practice (consider your institution, your students, and your community). (250 words) 3. Describe your desires for the future of theological education, how you discern your agency in it, and what you need to conceive it. (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, or someone in a direct supervisory position who can discuss your teaching. 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 three workshop sessions, plus local expenses and travel. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $5,000 workshop fellowship for work on a teaching project during the following academic year (2021-22). The fellowship application deadline is Wednesday, August 18th, 2021. Read More about Payment of Participants Read More about the Workshop Fellowship Program

1998 Consultation of Professors of Religious Education 
Dates October 30 - November 1, 1998 at Wabash College 
Leadership/Staff: Charles Foster, Candler School of Theology Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center For Teaching & Learning In Theology & Religion 
 Summary Eighteen professors of religious education met at Wabash College from October 30-November 1, 1998, to reflect on their contributions to the conversation on teaching in theological education in their own institutions and more generally. The participants represented “mainstream” perspectives in Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant Christian Traditions. The consultation design was intentionally open-ended. It began with sessions identifying evidence of the emerging interest in the theory and practices of teaching in higher education, and continued with a brainstorming session which identified a range of contributions academic religion educators might make to these discussions on teaching. The topics of subsequent sessions followed the course of discussion in the group in both formal gatherings and informal conversation. Attention was given to identifying possible strategies for implementing these contributions in their exploration of the “passion” undergirding the conversation and practices of the teaching of participants, and the development of explicit long-range strategies for strengthening the teaching in planning among Chicago area religious educators for a project on critical reflection on teaching among their schools. Worship for the weekend included a call to Shabbat on Friday evening led by Hanan Alexander, and a morning prayer celebrating the communion of saints on Sunday morning led by Anne Wimberly. Participants Hanan Alexander, University of Judaism Ted Brelsford, Candler School of Theology Elizabeth Caldwell, McCormick Theological Seminary Margaret Ann Crain, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Susan Harlow, Meadville/Lombard Theological School Mary Hess, Boston College Brian Mahan, Candler School of Theology Robert Martin, Yale University – The Divinity School William Myers, Chicago Theological Seminary Robert O’Gorman, Loyola Institute of Chicago – The Institute of Pastoral Studies Rick Osmer, Princeton Theological Seminary Jack Seymour, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Kathy Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary (New York) Jane Vann, Union Theological Seminary , Presbyterian School of Christian Education Tony Vrame, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology Michael Warren, St. Johns University Department of Theology & Religious Studies Lynne Westfield, Center for Urban Theological Studies (Philadelphia, PA) Anne Wimberly, Interdenominational Theological Center

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AAR & SBL Session Doctoral Student Seminar Reunion Reception '19 P24-400 Sunday, November 24 - 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East) Reception for participants in 2016-19 Wabash Teaching Seminars for Doctoral Students. By invitation only. Wabash Center events at AAR & SBL Annual Meetings Wabash Center events at the ETS Annual Meeting

2019-20 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Religion Faculty Teaching Undergraduates We are mourning the loss of our friend, colleague, and workshop leadership team member David Sanchez who died suddenly in early April. Read more. We will be in touch with workshop participants regarding our plans for moving forward with the workshop. Participants Front Row: Jaclyn Michael (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga), Matthew Hotham (Ball State University), *Tom Pearson (Wabash Center), *Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez (Saint Louis University), George Faithful (Dominican University of California. Middle Row: *Bernadette McNary-Zak (Rhodes College), Shehnaz Haqqani (Mercer University – Macon), Rebecca Berru Davis (Montana State University), Emily Cain (Loyola University Chicago), *Swasti Bhattacharyya (Buena Vista University), Michele Watkins (University of San Diego), Sara Ronis (St. Mary’s University – Texas). Back Row: Kristy Slominski (University of Arizona), Tanner Capps (St. Andrews University), Stephen Waers (Point University), *Steven Ramey (University of Alabama), Jackie Wyse-Rhodes (Bluffton University), Thomas Hoklotubbe (Cornell College). *leadership/staff Dates First session: July 8-13, 2019, Wabash College Second session: January 16-19, 2020, Corpus Christi, Texas Third session: June 15-20, 2020, Online Fourth session: January 14-17, 2021, Online Leadership Team Bernadette McNary-Zak, Director Rhodes College Swasti Bhattacharyya Buena Vista University Steven Ramey University of Alabama Rubén Rosario Rodriguez St. Louis University Description This workshop will gather 14 early career faculty members from diverse scholarly specializations and institutional contexts (primarily teaching undergraduates), for a week in each of two successive summers and a winter weekend retreat. As a collaborative learning cohort of teacher-scholars, we will explore such topics as: • Relationship between scholarship and teaching • Professional and personal life in institutional context • Implications of intersectionality in the classroom • Course design and assessment • Issues of technology in education • Fellowship project design The workshop balances plenary sessions with small group discussions, individual and collaborative work, access to the Wabash Center teaching resources, as well as structured and unstructured social time. Workshop Goals Create a collaborative learning cohort of teacher-scholars Develop the practice of critical reflection on teaching Articulate the relevance of our courses inside and outside the academy Explore strategies for thriving in institutional and personal contexts Honorarium and Fellowship Participants will receive an honorarium of $3,500 for full participation in the three workshop sessions, plus local expenses and travel. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $5,000 workshopfellowship for work on a teaching project during the following academic year (2020-21). Read More aboutPayment of Participants Read More about the Workshop Fellowship Program FellowshipProjects Emily Cain - “'First, Do No Harm:’Trauma Informed Pedagogy in the Nontraditional Classroom" Tanner Capps - “The Art of Dialogue: Teaching Inter-religious Understanding Through the Arts" Rebecca Berru Davis - “Images that Transform: The Use of Art in Teaching Theology in an Online Environment" George Faithful - “Empowering Students to Build Bridges Between Their Passion for Social Justice and the Study of Abrahamic Religions" Shehnaz Haqqani - “Exploring Student Biases in First-Year Classes" Chris “Thomas” Hoklotubbe - “Threshold Concepts in Teaching the Bible in a Small Liberal Arts College" Matthew Hotham - “Beyond the ‘Muslim Bible’: Overcoming Student Resistance to Qur’anic Recitation in an Introductory Religious Studies Class" Jaclyn Michael - “Deconstructing the Foreign ‘Other:’ Teaching Asian Religions Through Asian-American Experience" Sara Ronis - “Integrating Trauma-Informed Pedagogy into an Introductory Theology Course" Kirsti Slominski - “Applied Religious Studies for Health Professionals" Stephen Waers - “Self-Location and Sympathetic Listening" Michele Watkins - “Toward a Race and Gender Conscious Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Undergraduates in Theology and Religious Studies" Jackie Wyse-Rhodes - “Re-centering Biblical Studies" Important Information Travel and Accommodations for Summer Sessions at the Wabash Center Policy on Participation Map of Wabash College Campus Things To Do In Crawfordsville - Recreation Travel Reimbursement Form Foreign National Information Form Payment of Honorarium Fellowship Program For More Information, Please Contact: Nancy Lynne Westfield, Director Wabash Center 301 West Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 765-361-6047 westfiel@wabash.edu

Teaching Against Islamophobia A16-208 Friday 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM The Hyatt Regency Granite Room - (Third Level) Follow-up gathering for participants in the “Teaching Against islamophobia” workshop, co-sponsored with the AAR.

Wabash Center Reception P17-501 Saturday8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Sheraton Downtown,I.M. Pei Tower Second Level - Grand Ballroom 1 Come join us for drinks and dessert as we celebrate our work with faculty in religious studies departments and theological schools. Meet past, present, and future participants from Wabash Center workshops, colloquies, consultations, and grants, and learn about current programming and resources to support your teaching.

Transferable Course Design P17-201 Saturday 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Convention Center - 201 (Street Level) Contingent faculty (those teaching part-time and those working full-time on a contract basis) are often called upon to teach multiple courses at short notice. Can course design empower preparation for a specific course, while also creating learning experiences transferable to other courses? Join leaders P. Kimberleigh Jordan (Drew Theological School) and Hussein Rashid (Barnard College) for conversation about how one might pursue both goals with integrity. Pre-registration is required. Space is limited to 50 participants. Send an email to Beth Reffett, reffettb@wabash.edu, to sign up. Registration deadline is November 1. Session Leaders: P. Kimberleigh Jordan,Drew Theological School, Panelist Hussein Rashid,Barnard College, Panelist