Category Archives: Online Events

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

Students Speak: The Spiritual and Moral Basis for Valiant Accountability on our Campuses

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
7:30-9 pm, eastern
On Zoom

As we prepare for our annual FAHE gathering – Valiant for the Truth – June 3-6 at Malone University, this event gave us the chance to hear the voices of students from communities too rarely heard on our campuses.

Dove John facilitated a conversation among our student panel around these queries

• What are the moral, spiritual supports for your witness? 
• To what extent have those supports come from your college? 
• In what ways do moral supports for truth telling need strengthening on our campuses?

Moderator Bio:

In 1983 Esther “Little Dove” John walked solo across the country to the United Nations for the cause of world peace, social justice and environmental protection.  She started a peace academy, worked as a mental health counselor and started an organization that places musicians in hospitals to perform at bedside for patients.  In 1987 she participated in the US-Soviet Peace Walk from Leningrad to Moscow with 200 Americans and 200 Soviet citizens. She worked in radio as a public affairs director, taught education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Antioch University Seattle and taught psychology at Seattle Central Community College.  She was site manager of Northwest Indian College at Muckleshoot and now is writing the memoirs of her 1983 peace walk.

Here is a link to the poster for this event.

Here is a link to the video of this event and other materials about it.

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

Becoming Valiant for the Truth: Confronting Empire, Structural Racism, Classism and Gender Discrimination

Monday, February 26, 2024

Made possible by your membership in FAHE.

How can we support one another (how can FAHE support you?) in overcoming the barriers in our wider higher education community to speaking the truth and holding ourselves and our institutions accountable for legacies of complicity in colonization and identity discrimination? What lessons can we draw from a history in which sincerely felt discernment proved false or was silenced by power or convenience?

Presenters:

Trayce N. Peterson

MA student/instructor
Human Rights Practice
University of Arizona

tom kunesh

Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy
University of Minnesota
Starr King School for the Ministry

Donn Weinholtz

Prof. Emeritus Educational Leadership
University of Hartford

Moderator:  

Stephen Potthoff

Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Peace Studies
Wilmington College

Here are materials archived from this event.

The BlackQuaker Project brings exciting news of two unique, online events we will be offering during this 2024 Black History Month.  

Monday, 5 February – “Truth and Justice: The BlackQuaker Project Challenges Quakerism in the 21st Century,” a Pendle Hill First-Monday Lecture

7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST (Zoom Webinar)

Join us for a radical Pendle Hill presentation in which special guest Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge joins Dr. Harold D. Weaver Jr. and the BlackQuaker Project team. Together they will present a new model for healing historical injustice with Retrospective Justice and showcase how our ministry, along with other Friends of Color around the world, are challenging Quakerism in the 21st century with new insights and new narratives. Register here to attend.

Saturday, 24 February – “The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum” 

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST (Zoom Webinar)

The BlackQuaker Project and Swarthmore College’s Department of Peace and Conflict Studies present “The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum,” a virtual symposium sponsored by the American American Friends Service Committee, hosted by Dr. Harold D. Weaver Jr., and moderated by Palestinian-American Quaker scholar-activist Dr. Sa’ed Atshan. They will be joined by Haverford College Africana and Religious Studies scholar, Dr. terrence wiley, and Friends Council on National Legislation administrator, Lauren Brownlee, for a series of presentations on the remarkable legacy of Friend Rustin, followed by an audience Q & A. Our distinguished panel will engage with the 2023 biopic Rustin, which we recommend viewing prior to this one-time event. Register here to attend.

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

Cultivating Skillful Hope:
Buddhist and Quaker practices that support transformation and liberation

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
7:30-9 pm, eastern
On Zoom

Daily we are asked to move in the direction of bravery, to stretch in the direction of goodness, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and vulnerability.  Yet life’s tender fragility, fear, and anxiety, and our own practiced self-sabotage can derail us from growing and thriving, leaving us fractured and afraid.

In this virtual event, we explore the wisdom of Buddhist mindfulness practices and Quaker faith and practice that support individual and collection transformation and liberation.  Centering practices to promote self-discovery, delight, spiritual discernment, compassionate inquiry, and renewal, you’ll leave the session with practices to support you in courageous and compassionate action to live with greater clarity and purpose.

Presenter:
Valerie Brown
Author, Facilitator, Coach
Founder and Chief Mindfulness Officer
Lead Smart Coaching, LLC

Moderator:
David R. Ross  
Research Professor
Department of Economics
Bryn Mawr College

Here is the poster for the event.

Deconstructing the Master’s Tools:
Taking apart the colonial-settler quaker Master’s House

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Audre Lorde’s 1979 response to white women academics, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”, resonates deeply in the field of colonial-settlerism of Turtle Island. Lorde was explicit about the use of racism, misogyny & heterosexism to build the ivory tower, but how were these tools used to indoctrinate and assimilate the indigenous population of Turtle Island on the USA Reservation Agency?

Presenter:
tom kunesh
Standing Rock lakota oyate desendant
Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy
BA, MA, MDiv.
University of Minnesota
Starr King School for the Ministry

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

Bio:
tom was a russian & farsi linguist in the US navy, & has degrees in spanish, religious studies, & atheism & liberation theology, from the University of Minnesota & Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. tom’s mom is enrolled Standing Rock lakota & had 13 kids. He attends sweats & Nashville Friends Meeting. He currently works with Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy.

Here are archived materials from this event.

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

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

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

Here are archived materials from this event.

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

Service-Learning Programs and Opportunities for Ethical Engagement

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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.

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:

Here is the video of this event, and other related materials.

The American Friends Service Committee & The BlackQuaker Project Present

THE 2023 BLACK QUAKER LIVES MATTER FILM FESTIVAL & FORUM

Celebrating the 125th Birthday of Paul Robeson!

Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist (1978) & The Proud Valley (1940)

Saturday, 8 April, 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time over Zoom

The 2023 Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival & Forum will soon conclude with a finale dedicated to the renaissance man: scholar and star athlete; screen, stage, and recording star; linguist and orator, Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Join us one final time on Saturday, 8 April, at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time for not one–but two–screenings in honor of the beleaguered leader’s 125th birthday. We will first screen the 1978 Academy Award winning short documentary, Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by film star Sidney Poitier. Following this 30-minute program, we will screen the 1940 UK feature, The Proud Valley, the film of which Robeson is the proudest of having made.  Afterwards, Dr. Harold D. Weaver will facilitate a post-screening discussion with two of the world’s leading experts on Robeson: University of Houston Professor Dr. Gerald Horne, author of the 2016 biography, Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary, and Yale University Professor Dr. Charles Musser, author of numerous publications on Robeson in cinema. All three scholars will participate in an audience Q & A following their discussion. On this occasion of his 125th birthday, we continue our commitment in 2023–after more than 50 years–to return Mr. Robeson to his rightful place in history.           

Register here for our final Saturday, 8 April, screening and forum which will begin precisely at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time over Zoom webinar.  You will receive a confirmation email upon registration and a Zoom invitation 24 hours in advance of the event  Programming begins precisely at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Attendees will receive a confirmation email upon registration and a link to join our webinar 24 hours in advance of the event.  We invite registrants to join our webinar at 12:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time for a prologue of songs by revolutionary artist himself, Paul Robeson. Please write to us at theblackquakerproject@gmail.com with your comments and questions. 

Peace and blessings,

The BlackQuaker Project