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Moving Forward in Belonging: Engaging Willie James Jennings’ “After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging”

When: June 8, 2023, 1:45 pm - Thursday

Where: Stone Chapel

Session 4

Session Abstract

After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging, challenges individuals and institutions of higher learning not just to think through issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but to consider the very purposes of higher learning, both in universities and institutions focused on theological training. Jennings’ critique is simultaneously sweeping and personal, idealistic and practical. It compels us to consider how we have been formed and how educational institutions continue to form students, faculty, and administrators in the twin shadows of colonialism and racial capitalism. The assembled panel will help the audience think through how to take steps forward in engaging Jennings’ arguments at our institutions.

Speakers

Joe Creech, Valparaiso University, Convener

  • Joi Carr, Pepperdine University, Panelist
  • Raymond Carr, Harvard Divinity School, Panelist
  • Angela D. Sims, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Panelist
  • William Lofton Turner, Lipscomb University, Panelist
  • Willie Jennings, Yale Divinity School, Respondent

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James Cone with conferee at the CSC in 2017

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Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson delivering the CSC plenary address

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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivering the CSC plenary address.

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US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith delivering the CSC plenary address

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David Brooks engaging conferees during breakfast at the CSC

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