ACE Festival Keynote: Douglas Abrams
Two Truths and Three Lies About Hope and HumanityACE Festival Keynote featuring Douglas Abrams, one of the authors of The Book of Hope, EMU’s 2023-24 Common Read. In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? New York Times-bestselling author Doug Abrams will examine this most sought-after and least-understood element of human nature.....
ACE Festival Keynote: Luisa A. Igloria
What Poetry Offers: More than Feeling ACE Festival 2023 welcomes Luisa A. Igloria as our keynote speaker. Especially in these last few years of the pandemic and other experiences of global upheaval, there has been a rededicated interest in the public role of poetry and its relationship to social change. And while it’s true that....
“ACE Festival Keynote Presentation” – Dr. Fania E. Davis
ACE Festival 2018 Fania E. Davis Social Activist, Restorative Justice Scholar, Civil Rights Attorney Fania E. Davis is co-founder and director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY). Disparately impacting youth of color, punitive school discipline and juvenile justice policies activate cycles of youth violence and incarceration. RJOY works to interrupt these cycles by promoting....
Undoing Racism in the Food System: The Work of Soul Fire Farm
Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm is a nationally-recognized educator, farmer, and food justice activist. Soul Fire Farm is a family farm committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system.
“The Spiritual Aspect of Sexual Abuse in Religious Contexts” Father Tom Doyle
Gather with Father Tom Doyle for a presentation on The Spiritual Impact of Sexual Abuse in Religious Contexts. Father Doyle is a world-renowned Catholic leader, priest, canon lawyer, addictions therapist and long-time supporter of justice and compassion for clergy sex abuse victims.
“Jubilee: The Bible’s Vision for a Just Economy” – Shane Claiborne & Andrew Hanauer
Shane Claiborne, author, activist and Co-Founder of Red Letter Christians, speaks on Jubilee: The bible’s Vision for a Just Economy along with Andrew Hanauer, Campaigns Director of Jubilee USA Network. Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He....
“A Genealogy of Ideas” –Catherine Barnes and Lisa Schirch
Catherine Barnes and Lisa Schirch first met as students at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Their peacebuilding careers have since intersected in higher education and in the field. Part of their work has involved providing leadership and support for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), which in....
“Last Lecture” – Laura Yoder
In this event sponsored by Residence Life, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Laura Yoder, delivers her hypothetical “Last Lecture.”
Interpretation and its Fates: Clinic and Culture
We may not find it difficult to view interpretation as a way of making sense, but it may be more challenging to realize what else it may be. If “the age of interpretation is behind us,” as Jacques-Alain Miller has claimed, then what could it look like? What if interpretation has more than meaning to....
The Weight of Transgenerational Trauma – Dr. Marjorie Agosin
“Transgenerational trauma” is trauma that is transferred from the first generation of trauma survivors to the second and further generations of offspring of the survivors via complex post-traumatic stress disorder mechanisms. The descendant of Russian and Austrian Jews who perished in the Pogrom and the Holocaust, Dr. Marjorie Agosin’s family escaped from Vienna, Austria and....