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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

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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

Breaking the Academic Mold: Liberating the Powerful, Personal Voice Inside You Writing Workshop - Wabash Center & Collegeville Institute (Online) Many scholars yearn to speak to a broader audience through creative nonfiction, blogs, op-eds, and memoir. This workshop is for academics who have written mainly for peers but long to share their knowledge or personal experience in a more innovative way with a wider audience. Participants in this workshop will develop their writing voice in service of topics about which they care, and about which they have some expertise. A combination of seminars, workshops, and individual instruction, our week together will help you unlearn the worst academic habits, free your creative spirit, structure your work 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. This inaugural Wabash Center/Collegeville Institute workshop is by invitation only. Invited participants are scholars and teachers of religion and theology. Due to COVID precautions, the workshop will meet in the virtual sphere via Zoom. Dates Wednesday, July 21 through Monday, July 26, 2021 Leadership Team Sophfronia Scott, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, Alma College Michael N. McGregor, Writing Faculty, Collegeville Institute Dr. P. Kimberleigh Jordan, Associate Director of Educational Design, The Wabash Center Participants Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School Nami Kim, Spelman College Rodolfo R. Nolasco, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Maureen H. O'Connell, La Salle University Mayra R. Rivera, Harvard University Shively T. J. Smith, Boston University School of Theology Lakeesha Walrond, New York Theological Seminary Ralph Basui Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary For Questions: P. Kimberleigh Jordan Associate Director of Educational Design The Wabash Center jordank@wabash.edu

2021-22 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Theological School Faculty (digital format) Dates of Sessions July 8, 2021 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST August 19, 2021 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST September 9, 2021 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST October 21, 2021 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST November 11, 2021 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST December 16, 2021 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST January 20, 2022 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST February 17, 2022 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST March 17, 2022 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST April 28, 2022 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EST Leadership Team Amy Oden Ph.D., Independent Scholar Ralph Basui Watkins, MFA, D.Min, Ph.D., Columbia Theological Seminary 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 Participants Frederick David Carr, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College Sarah F. Farmer, Indiana Wesleyan University Rebecca Seungyoun Jeong, Portland Seminary Yohana Agra Junker, Claremont School of Theology Jina Kang, McCormick Theological Seminary Justin Nickel, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Allison L. Norton, Hartford Seminary Sue K. Park, Columbia Theological Seminary Susan Bigelow Reynolds, Candler School of Theology - Emory University Kimberly D. Russaw, Christian Theological Seminary James Elisha Taneti, Union Presbyterian Seminary Catherine D. Williams, Lancaster Theological Seminary Colin H. Yuckman, Duke Divinity School Description This cohort experience invites teachers who are in their first years of teaching to join a community of peers and leaders who value the cultivation of capacities for empathic care, generative collegiality, and imaginative reflection about teaching as socially responsive craft, vocation and employment. Our conversation will recognize the liminality brought on by the COVID 19 pandemic, the need for Black Lives Matter protests, and the social uncertainty in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election. We will grapple with such questions as: Who is the self who teaches? What is required to accurately read institutional contexts? What kinds of self-care are needed to be a generative and passionate teacher? In what ways might early career colleagues contribute to the health of the institution? Considering the seasons of a teaching career, what are the metrics of good teaching in the early years? What pedagogies might strengthen my teaching? What are the unforeseeable challenges for which a peer conversation might be beneficial? This cohort builds itself through the exploration of: the significance of embodiment in and beyond the classroom institutional culture and politics emerging pedagogies and pedagogical encounters the spirituality, imagination and creativity of teaching the agency and commitments of the teacher who knows teaching as liberative the multiple epistemologies which might need to inform 21st century teaching the impacts of larger sociopolitical and economic dynamics on whom, what, how, and where we teach The workshop will gather 16 faculty peers, 2 co-leaders, and a staff person to establish an online cohort for enhanced teaching and deepening of the teaching life. Workshop Goals To create a generative space in which participants can reflect on their vocation, craft and employment as teachers To engage participants as they reflect on a variety of practices, methods, wisdoms of being a teacher of adult learners To encourage participants to own and develop their sense of embodied agency in their teaching, institutional life, and career path To develop peer relationships with colleagues who also pursue improved teaching To consider self-care as necessary for the health of family, community, career and self To envision teaching as a form of sociopolitical activism within specific cultural framework Participant Eligibility 2-5 years in a tenure-track, contingency, or continued contract Job description and contract that is wholly or primarily the responsibility of teaching Teaching in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada Doctoral degree awarded by January 2021 Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than June 2022 Institutional support to participate fully in workshop sessions and to complete teaching fellowship project in the 2022-23 academic year Application Materials Please complete and attach the following documents to the online application: 1. Application contact information form 2. An introductory letter that describes the challenges and opportunities at your institution as regards to your teaching, scholarship, and/or service. (200 words) 3. Application Essay: When you critically and imaginatively reflect upon your teaching, to what metaphor or simile do you aspire and why? How does this metaphor or simile present itself in your classroom teaching as well as in relationship with colleagues? What are the joys and challenges of embodying this metaphor or simile as you teach adult learners? (600 to 750 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, Rector, 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 $2,500workshopfellowship for work on a teaching project during the following academic year (2022-23). 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)

2021-22 Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Religion Faculty Teaching Undergraduates (digital format) Dates of Sessions July 14, 2021 2:30 to 6:30 PM EST September 1, 2021 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST October 6, 2021 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST November 3, 2021 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST December 1, 2021 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST January 12, 2022 2:30 to 6:30 pm EST February 2, 2022 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST March 2, 2022 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST April 6, 2022 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST May 4, 2022 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST one hour asynchronous time will be added to each session Participants Sunder John Boopalan, Canadian Mennonite University Laura Carlson Hasler, Indiana University Dixuan Yujing Chen, Grinnell College Christy Cobb, Wingate University Jessica Coblentz, St. Mary’s College Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago Divinity School Jason Jeffries, University of Denver Jaisy Joseph, Seattle University Jin Young Kim, Oklahoma State University Jeffrey D. Meyers, DePaul University Nermeen Mouftah, Butler University Michelle Wolff, Augustana College Stephanie M. Wong, Valparaiso University Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University Leadership Team Tat siong Benny Liew, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross Maureen O’Connell, Ph.D., LaSalle University Paul Myhre, Ph.D., Wabash Center Instructions for Leaders For More Information, Please Contact: Paul Myhre, Senior Associate Director Wabash Center 301 West Wabash Ave. Crawfordsville, IN 47933 myhrep@wabash.edu 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 $2,500workshopfellowship for work on a teaching project during the following academic year (2022-23). Read More about Payment of Participants Read More about the Digital Workshop Fellowship Program Important Information Policy on Participation (Digital Cohort) Foreign National Information Form Description This cohort experience invites teachers who are in their first years of teaching to join a community of peers and leaders who value the cultivation of capacities for empathic care, generative collegiality, and imaginative reflection about teaching as socially responsive craft, vocation and employment. Our conversation will recognize the liminality brought on by the COVID 19 pandemic, the need for Black Lives Matter protests, and the social uncertainty in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election. We will grapple with such questions as: Who is the self who teaches? What is required to accurately read institutional contexts? What kinds of self-care are needed to be a generative and passionate teacher? In what ways might early career colleagues contribute to the health of the institution? Considering the seasons of a teaching career, what are the metrics of good teaching in the early years? What pedagogies might strengthen my teaching? What are the unforeseeable challenges for which a peer conversation might be beneficial? This cohort builds itself through the exploration of: the significance of embodiment in and beyond the classroom institutional culture and politics emerging pedagogies and pedagogical encounters the spirituality, imagination and creativity of teaching the agency and commitments of the teacher who knows teaching as liberative the multiple epistemologies which might need to inform 21st century teaching the impacts of larger sociopolitical and economic dynamics on whom, what, how, and where we teach The workshop will gather 16 faculty peers, 2 co-leaders, and a staff person to establish an online cohort for enhanced teaching and deepening of the teaching life. Workshop Goals To create a generative space in which participants can reflect on their vocation, craft and employment as teachers To engage participants as they reflect on a variety of practices, methods, wisdoms of being a teacher of adult learners To encourage participants to own and develop their sense of embodied agency in their teaching, institutional life, and career path To develop peer relationships with colleagues who also pursue improved teaching To consider self-care as necessary for the health of family, community, career and self To envision teaching as a form of sociopolitical activism within specific cultural framework Participant Eligibility 2-5 years in a tenure-track, contingency, or continued contract Job description and contract that is wholly or primarily the responsibility of teaching Teaching in an accredited college or university theology, religion, or religious studies department in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada Doctoral degree awarded by January 2021 Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than June 2022 Institutional support to participate fully in workshop sessions and to complete teaching fellowship project in the 2022-23 academic year Application Materials Please complete and attach the following documents to the online application: 1. Application contact information form 2. An introductory letter that describes the challenges and opportunities at your institution as regards to your teaching, scholarship, and/or service. (200 words) 3. Application Essay: When you critically and imaginatively reflect upon your teaching, to what metaphor or simile do you aspire and why? How does this metaphor or simile present itself in your classroom teaching as well as in relationship with colleagues? What are the joys and challenges of embodying this metaphor or simile as you teach adult learners? (600 to 750 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.