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by | March 9, 2023 · 3:38 pm

Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival Event 4

The American Friends Service Committee & The BlackQuaker Project Present

THE 2023 BLACK QUAKER LIVES MATTER FILM FESTIVAL & FORUM

Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Loved The Stars 

Saturday, 18 March, 1:00 PM EDT over Zoom

The 2023 Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival & Forum will soon return with its fourth event, honoring the life and legacy of Benjamin Banneker. On Saturday, 18 March, we will screen Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Loved The Stars (1981), a television film starring the renowned artist-activist Ossie Davis as the legendary astronomer, surveyor, mathematician, and almanac publisher. Born a free man of Senegalese descent, Banneker attended Quaker Meeting for much of his life, helped survey the boundaries of Washington, DC, and even petitioned Thomas Jefferson to recognize Black liberation efforts. After the film, we will have the unique opportunity to learn more about Benjamin Banneker’s life and legacy from his Black and White descendents: retired educator Gwen Marable, Northwestern University scholar-linguist Dr. Rachel Jamison Webster, and educator Pamela Williams. All three will be participating in our post-screening dialogue, followed by an audience Q & A.

Register here for our Saturday, 18 March, screening and forum. Programming will take place over Zoom webinar and begins precisely at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. We invite our registrants to join our webinar early, at 12:40 PM EDT, for a mini-concert of selected African American freedom music. Please write to us at theblackquakerproject@gmail.com with any questions or comments about the festival-forum.

Peace and Blessings,

Dr. Harold D. Weaver

Film Festival-Forum Director, Curator, and Host

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by | March 9, 2023 · 3:26 pm

QLHE: Listening Into Relationship (Rescheduled)

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presents:

Listening into Relationship:
Practices that Connect in the Secular Classroom
(Rescheduled from January)

In this workshop, the facilitator models how to use contemplative listening practices that help educators bring alive course content and help students get to know themselves and their peers.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
7:30-9 pm, Eastern U.S. time
To register: tinyurl.com/FAHE-03-28-23

(If you previously registered for this event, it would help us if you would re-register so that we know that the new date works for you.)

Presenter:
Alice Elliott-Sowaal (she/her; they/them)

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
San Francisco State University

Moderator:
David R. Ross  (he/him)
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

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by | February 25, 2023 · 12:01 pm

Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival Event 3

The 2023 Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival & Forum
Saturday, 4 March, 1:00 PM EST: Sisters In Freedom
Black & White Women in the Abolition Struggle: Sarah Mapps Douglass

Join us on Saturday, 4 March, as we celebrate Women’s History Month with a unique look at early collaboration between Black and White women fighting for African American emancipation. The third event of the Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival & Forum honors Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) an abolitionist, educator, artist, and author. She is a member of the Morrey-Bustill Quaker family, which produced two centuries of African American Friends, and is also an ancestor of Paul Robeson. For our program, we will screen Sisters in Freedom, which tells the stories of trailblazing Black and White women, our honoree among them, who organized for both gender equality and the abolition of slavery. After our screening, we will host a discussion between eminent Haverford historian Dr. Emma Lapsansky-Werner and Joyce Mosley, author and historian of the Morrey-Bustill family (of which she is a member). Following their dialogue, our guest experts will participate in a Q & A with our audience.

How To Register

Register here for our Saturday, 4 March, program which will take place over a Zoom webinar. You will be sent a confirmation email upon registration and will later receive a link to join our webinar 24 hours in advance of the event. 
Programming will begin precisely at 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time though we invite you to join us early, at 12:40 PM EST, when we open the webinar for a 20-minute prologue of Paul Robeson music. All our remaining events are free and open to the public with prior registration. Please write to us at theblackquakerproject@gmail.com with your questions or comments.

Peace and blessings,
Dr. Harold D. Weaver 
Festival-Forum Director, Curator, and Host

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by | February 6, 2023 · 5:16 pm

QLHE: Service-Learning Programs

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presents:

Service-Learning Programs and Opportunities for Ethical Engagement

Tuesday, February 28, 2023
7:30-9 pm, Eastern U.S. time

Practices to advance community-campus engagement that support more just, inclusive, sustainable communities and positive partnerships across disciplines and geographies. 

Made possible by the members of  FAHE.  Your voluntary contribution in support of FAHE and this lecture series is greatly appreciated.

To register: tinyurl.com/FAHE-02-28-23

Presenters:

Christen Higgins Clougherty (she/her)
Founder and Director, The Nobis Project

Eric Hartman (he/him)
Executive Director, Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Haverford College

Moderator:

Walter Sullivan (he/him)
Director, Quaker Affairs, Haverford College

Poster for this event:

FAHE – Feb 23 – Service-LearningDownload

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by | January 8, 2023 · 2:49 pm

QLHE: Listening into Relationship

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher
Education series presents:

Listening into Relationship:
Practices that Connect in the Secular Classroom

TO BE RESCHEDULED

More than ever, as educators we are aware that we are living in a wounded world. Yet we are also alive with the promise of the classroom as a potentially transformative space in which new forms of being can manifest. In this workshop, we will engage some listening practices that are designed to help those in the secular classroom work toward these ends. These simple practices bring alive course content while they also help students better know themselves and their peers. 

Your voluntary contribution in support of FAHE and this lecture series is greatly appreciated.

Presenter:

Alice Elliott-Sowaal (she/her; they/them)
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
San Francisco State University

Moderator:
David R. Ross (he/him)
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

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by | December 29, 2022 · 5:27 pm

QLHE: Complicating the Narrative

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presented:

Complicating the Narrative:
Being more neighborly in our pedagogy and our praxis

Tuesday, December 20, 2022
7:30-9 pm, eastern

Grounded in a well-known TEDTalk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and their own experience as rural people, Jennifer and Andy raise up the “dangers of a single story” and some ways to help our students do the same in the stories they tell.

Presenters:
Jennifer Elam
https://pendlehill.org/product/art-as-souls-sanctuary/
PhD Psychology
University of North Carolina
Retired School Psychologist
Writer and Workshop Leader


Andy Stanton-Henry
https://esr.earlham.edu/faculty-staff/andy-stanton-henry/
Master of Divinity
Associate Director
Quaker Leadership Center
Earlham School of Religion


Moderator:
Trayce N. Peterson
MA student/instructor
Human Rights Practice
University of Arizona

Bios:
Andy Stanton-Henry is a writer, Quaker minister, chicken-keeper, and distraught Reds fan. He holds degrees from Barclay College and Earlham School of Religion, and is a doctoral student studying Open and Relational Theology. He carries a special concern for rural leaders, leading to his recently published book Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders. Andy has also trained in spiritual direction, labyrinth facilitation, conflict transformation, and entrepreneurial ministry. He currently serves as associate director of the Quaker Leadership Center at Earlham School of Religion. A native Buckeye, Andy now lives in East Tennessee with his spouse, Ashlyn, their blue heeler Cassie, and their laying hens.


Dr. Jennifer Elam began her study of psychology in 1969 and served in many settings until her retirement in 2014. In 1995, Jennifer was led to go to Pendle Hill for a four-week internship and ended up staying, studying spirituality, and working in Quaker ministry for 25 years. She is presently following leadings to use her life-time of work in psychology, spirituality and social justice to develop classes/workshops, using creative media – writing/poetry, dance and visual art – as led by Spirit for healing. Currently, she offers a workshop called “Mediating Trauma through Creative Expression” with Gloria Stearns-Bruner. In June of 2022, her third PH pamphlet called “Hillbilly Quaker” was published and she is now leading workshops on “Identities.” She is feeling called to interfaith ministry.

Jennifer grew up on farms in Kentucky but her parents could not make a living. At age 11, her family moved to Chicago on what was then called the “hillbilly highway” so that her parents could work in factories for 20 years. When the pandemic hit, Jennifer was in KY working on estates settlements as both her parents had died, six days apart. Figuring she could no longer go back and forth from PA to KY, she moved back. At this time, she is working on what the future holds for herself and the farm that has been in her family since the 1790’s.

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by | November 5, 2022 · 12:35 pm

QLHE: Understanding Contemplative Pedagogy

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presents:

Understanding Contemplative Pedagogy: Creating Practices that Sustain 

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
7:30-9 pm, eastern

To register: tinyurl.com/FAHE-11-29-22

In this workshop, we will discuss the basics of Contemplative Pedagogy and break down four types of contemplative practices for how it is and can be used in classrooms.

Presenters:
Aleks Babić (they/them)
https://www.guilford.edu/multimedia/videos/2019/02/public-health-guilford-college-video
Assistant Professor
Chair/Coordinator, Department of Public Health
Guilford College


C. Wess Daniels (he/him) 
https://gatheringinlight.com/
William R. Rogers Director
Friends Center and Quaker Studies 
Guilford College

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by | November 4, 2022 · 2:40 pm

QLHE: Soul of Higher Education

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presented:

The Soul of Higher Education: 
Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the 21st Century

How does the current dominant epistemology in higher education mitigate against contemplative teaching, learning, and research? How can a contemplative culture be nurtured in the classroom?

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Presenters:
Margaret Benefiel, Ph. D. 
https://shalem.org/staff-board/#office
Executive Director
Shalem Institute

Bo Karen Lee, Ph. D.
https://www.ptsem.edu/people/bo-karen-lee
Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology and Formation
Princeton Theological Seminary

Here is a link to a video and other materials from this event.

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by | October 1, 2022 · 11:13 am

First Quaker Leadings in Higher Education Event of the New Academic Year: Truth Tellers

Welcome to the first event of the Fall 2022 QLHE series.

Friends Association for Higher Education’s Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series presented, in partnership with Twin Seas Media:

Truth Tellers: Higher Education, the Arts, and Social Justice

The importance of Truth, Creativity, and the Human Story in our classrooms, our institutions, and society.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Presenter:
Robert Shetterly
American Artist
americanswhotellthetruth.org

Moderator:
Matt Zisk
Attorney and Retired Professor
Founder and Executive Director
Cherry Brook Arts

Here is the link to the video and other information about this event.

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by | August 29, 2022 · 9:29 pm

ESR Virtual Tour

Interested in potentially attending the Earlham School of Religion (ESR)? Attend this virtual information session on Tuesday, August 30! Here is where to register:

https://esr.earlham.edu/event/virtual-info-session/

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