QLHE 2022-2023

Here are links to our past Quaker Leadings in Higher Education events, from 2022-2023.

Index

April 25, 2023:

Deconstructing the Master’s Tools:
Taking apart what was used to build the colonial-settler quaker Master’s House.

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
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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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March 28, 2023

Listening into Relationship:
Practices that Connect in the Secular Classroom

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.

Presenter:
Alice Elliott-Sowaal (she/her; they/them)
https://sfsu.academia.edu/AliceSowaal
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
San Francisco State University

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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Unfortunately we do not have a video of the presentation.

Here is the link to Alice Elliott-Sowaal’s PowerPoint.

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February 28, 2023:

Service-Learning Programs and Opportunities for Ethical Engagement

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

Presenters:

Christen Higgins Clougherty (she/her)
https://nobisproject.org/our-team/
Founder and Director
The Nobis Project
PhD, Quaker Studies
University of Birmingham, UK

Eric Hartman (he/him)
https://www.haverford.edu/users/ehartman1
Executive Director
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
Haverford College
PhD, International Development
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Moderator:

Walter Hjelt Sullivan (he/they)
Director of Quaker Affairs
Haverford College

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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December 20, 2022:
Complicating the Narrative: 
Being more neighborly in our pedagogy and our praxis

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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

Here is the link to Andy Stanton-Henry’s PowerPoint.

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November 29, 2022:
Understanding Contemplative Pedagogy:
Creating Practices that Sustain

In this workshop, we 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

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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

Here is the link to a resource website including a basic version of the PowerPoint.

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October 18, 2022:
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?

Presenters:
Margaret Benefiel, Ph. D. 
Executive Director
Shalem Institute

Bo Karen Lee, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology and Formation
Princeton Theological Seminary

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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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September 27, 2022: “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.

Presenter:
Robert Shetterly
American Artist
americanswhotellthetruth.org

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

Here is a link to the flyer.

Here is a link to the video of the presentation.

Here is the agenda and edited chat text from the presentation.

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