University Colloquium: Ron Shultz
Understanding the Needs of Dual Language Teachers Ron Shultz, PhDAssociate Professor of EducationEastern Mennonite University Across the country, bilingual teachers are in short supply. This has direct implications for Dual Language programs. Professional literature also suggests that equally problematic to the recruitment of DL teachers is their retention. Multiple factors can influence a teacher’s choice....
University Colloquium: Peter Dula
This seminar will be presented in person, and also livestreamed on EMU’s Facebook Live page. Theology and Ethics After Nature Peter DulaProfessor of Religion and CultureEastern Mennonite University Can nature tell us anything about morality? Can humans draw conclusions about how to live with each other and the land from observations about ecology? In recent years,....
University Colloquium: Jenni Holsinger
This seminar will be presented in person, and also livestreamed on EMU’s Facebook Live page. Ruralism and Resistance: Environmental Concern Among Mennonites in the U.S. Jennifer Holsinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at Eastern Mennonite University The case of Mennonites offers an opportunity to examine the intersection between rurality, religion and environmental perspectives. Drawing from her sabbatical....
University Colloquium: Andrea Saner
“In Many and Various Ways”: how the Ten Commandments and Covenant Code became Torah Andrea SanerAssociate Professor of Bible, Religion, and TheologyEastern Mennonite University Theological interpretation of scripture began in the 1990s as a Christian movement within English-language theology and biblical studies, as scholars rallied around a shared critique of historical criticism. Recently, the battle....
University Colloquium: Matthew Siderhurst
Fruit Fly Control in Mangoes on the Pacific Rim: Research Collaborations, Technology Transfer, and Zoom Matthew SiderhurstProfessor of ChemistryEastern Mennonite University Tephritid fruit flies are among the most damaging horticultural pests worldwide, damaging fruits and vegetables through the tropics and subtropics. Areawide pest management, in which neighboring farmers coordinate their control practices, has the potential....
University Colloquium: Saher Selod
Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on TerrorSaher SelodAssociate Professor of SociologySimmons University The declaration of a “War on Terror” in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks brought sweeping changes to the American criminal justice and national security systems, as well as a massive shift in the American....
University Colloquium – Steven Johnson
Documenting Vernal Pool Life – An Expanded VisionSteven JohnsonProfessor of Visual and Communication ArtsEastern Mennonite University Photographer Steven Johnson’s recent sabbatical offered him the opportunity to delve deeper into the oft-hidden lifecycles of the amphibians and macroinvertebrates found in the temporary ponds of our Appalachian forests. He developed a system for photographing minute copepods and....
University Colloquium – Rick Shenkman
Why is Democracy so @#$&! Hard?Rick ShenkmanHistorian, Author, Investigative ReporterGeorge Washington University’s History News Network In the 1940s, six in ten Americans hadn’t gone past the eighth grade. Today a majority have attended college. But surveys show that Americans today are no better educated about politics. A majority don’t even know that we have three branches....
University Colloquium: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Reading can save your life: living our lives in conversation with received narratives In the Shelter can be understood, in a way, as an homage to reading: reading poetry, reading religious texts, reading the story of your own life. This colloquium will explore the practice of reading, and the question about normative narratives in personal....
University Colloquium: Kevin Seidel
Ecotones of Scripture and Literature An ecotone is a landscape ecology term for the zone where two neighboring habitats interact. In his presentation, Kevin will explore how ecotones might help us think about the interactions between our readings of scripture and of literature. He will draw on his recent sabbatical-year experience teaching at the Oregon....