University Colloquium: Dr. Carol Grace Hurst
Love & Duty in the Final Chapter: Experiences of Home-based Caring for Family EldersCarol Grace Hurst, PhD, LCSWAssociate Professor of Social WorkEastern Mennonite University Dr. Hurst presents results of a qualitative inquiry exploring home based caregiving experiences for family elders. Elders with complex health challenges are often assumed to need institutional care. The ways that....
University Colloquium: Dr. Cathy Rittenhouse
Catherine E. Rittenhouse, DNP, MSN, CRNP, RNAssociate Professor of NursingEastern Mennonite University Based on the most recent data from the CDC, there were 26 million new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the US – almost half of these infections occurred in people aged 15-24 (CDC, 2021). The majority of the undergraduate student population....
University Colloquium: Cathy Smeltzer Erb
Embedding Restorative Justice Pedagogy in K-12 Instructional PracticeEmbedding Restorative Justice Pedagogy in K-12 Instructional Practice is the result of a research study that draws upon a framework of restorative justice in education pedagogy, developed in collaboration with Dr. Kathy Evans. The framework examines the intersection between three components of restorative justice (nurture healthy relationships, repair....
University Colloquium: Timothy Seidel
Violence, Nonviolence, and Resistance: Sumud and Struggle in Palestine Discussion on resistance movements often turns on representations of violence and nonviolence. But is there something about the violence/ nonviolence binary itself that obscures deeper understandings of popular struggle and the social, political, and economic conditions from which they emerge? In an effort to unpack that binary, this....
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....
University Colloquium: Daniel King
Revisiting Old Experiments: What Can Reenactment Teach us About Transforming Goals for Labs?Daniel King, PhDAssociate Professor of Physics and EngineeringEastern Mennonite University
University Colloquium: Martha Eads
Resources for Recovery: Reading Ron Rash’s Short Stories Alongside Formerly Incarcerated WomenMartha Greene Eads, PhDProfessor of EnglishEastern Mennonite University
University Colloquium: Paul Heidebrecht
“Engineering Peace?” with Paul Heidebrecht, PhDGiven the power of contemporary technologies—and the problems they create and exacerbate—it is often argued that the education of engineers should include the liberal arts. But what does engineering contribute to a liberal arts university? More particularly, what does an engineering sensibility offer to fields of study in the social....
University Colloquium: Simone Horst
The European Collection in the Menno Simons Historical Library contains many fine examples of rare books and marginalia. In this presentation, Simone Horst will share the findings from her summer sabbatical spent investigating the 16th-19th century volumes in the European Collection. She will highlight what she learned about the variety of bindings and provenance present....
University Colloquium: Kevin Seidel, Mary Ann Zehr, and Steven Johnson
Kevin Seidel, Professor of Literature in English; Steven Johnson, Professor of Visual and Communication Arts; and Mary Ann Zehr, Writing Instructor and Graduate Writing Coach lead the audience in a visually inspired discussion of several graphic novels and memoirs. The aim will be to heighten our appreciation for Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir The Best We Could....