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From the Desk of Jill Crainshaw, Academic Dean Read this week's column and review all the academic related information you need to know for the week ahead. |
Announcements
"We are an Easter People" presents
Wednesday, April 10, 11:00am Wingate Hall, Room 202 In this session, professors Jill Crainshaw and Veronice Miles will look at the power of language and how it shapes experiences that can help people feel welcomed and included, and also alienated and separated.
Thursday, April 11, 11:00am Wingate Hall, Lower Auditorium Throughout April, the School of Divinity is hosting a series on cultivating conversation, commitment, and community. In this session, three Divinity students will discuss how to develop mutual respect among conversations and work towards achieving an environment in which each individual's contribution is valued.
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Outdoor Tai Chi - Today, April 8, 12:05pm - Hearn Plaza (in front of Wait Chapel)
Afternoon Tai Chi has arrived. Starting with today, Tai Chi will gathered on Monday's at 12:05pm in front of Wait Chapel on Hearn Plaza. Join with the Chaplain's Office in this practice of balance and well-being. Should there be inclement weather meet in the Meditation Room, Reynolda 23. For more information contact Chaplain K. Monet Rice.
Physical Wellness Club presents Yoga - Tuesdays in April, 4:00pm - Lower Auditorium| Join the Physical Wellness Club every Tuesday at 4:00pm in the Lower Auditorium for yoga.
TOMORROW: Looking at Christianity and Indian Culture - Tuesday, April 9, 7:00 - 8:30pm, St. Paul's Episcopal Church | In December/January, a group of twelve Wake Forest University faculty, Divinity students, and undergraduates traveled to India to study Christianity in India. This "Multicultural Contexts for Ministry" experience explored the Hindu religious context in India in order to understand the various forms Christianity has taken there. In this presentation, the students from the trip will discuss photos from the trip to analyze themes of religion and culture in relation to the Catholic Church in India, the Church of South India, Evangelical missions, and the Mar Thoma and Syrian Orthodox traditions. Join your colleagues for this exciting presentation. Reserve your free ticket here.
"A Holocaust Commemoration in Words and Music" - Tuesday, April 9, 7:30pm - Brendle Recital Hall | Rabbi Prof. Ettin will read prose and poetry by a variety of authors related to and reflecting on the Shoah. Prof. Goldstein will perform at the piano, featuring work by Gideon Klein composed in Terezin. The program runs for approximately one hour. Admission is free. www.college.wfu.edu/music
End of Year Banquet | The annual End of Year Banquet will be held at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Thursday April 25, at 6:00 PM. Sponsored by the Student Leadership Council, this is an annual celebration of graduating third year students as well as an opportunity to gather with friends, faculty, staff to mark the end of the academic year. Tickets are $12.00 and can be reserved by filling out the RSVP form here.
NEW DATE: Coffee with the Deans - Tuesday, April 30 - 11:00am, Lower Auditorium | Join the Wake Div Deans for Coffee on Tuesday, April 30 for a presentation and conversation about our school! There will be time for Q&A, but we would prefer all the topics to be coordinated so the Deans can address a topic with clear and responsible answers. Submit your questions and add to your calendar here.
Need financial assistance? | The School of Divinity offers two financial resources to help students: Stealey's Purse for students in emergency financial situations and Student Academic Conference Grants to attend academic or denominational conferences. For more information click here.
Chapel Blog | Miss a chapel service from last semester? Want to hear a chapel message again? Want to share a sermon with someone? We have renewed the Chapel Blog which features the audio from our chapel services. Check it out to hear many of our services from last semester and check it regularly for the audio from each sermon this semester! Check it out at http://wakedivchapel.wordpress.com/
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Weekly Community Gatherings
Centering Prayer - Monday, 11:00am - Wingate 213 | Join us for a time of meditation and contemplative prayer every Monday.
Chapel - Tuesday, 11:00am - Davis Chapel
| Preacher: Jimmy Gawne (MDiv '13)
Community Lunch following Chapel - Tuesday - Lower Auditorium | Join your fellow students, faculty, and staff for lunch.
Coffee Hour - Thursday, 11:00am - Lower Auditorium | Bring your mug, a treat to share (if you're able), and enjoy the company of community and conversation.
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Jobs and Internships 
Job of the Week
Fort Worth, TX - Texas Christian University invites applications for a full time, year-round anticipated position of Associate Chaplain. This position supports the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life (RSL) and the Division of Student Affairs, reports to the Minister to the University and works collaboratively with chaplains, campus ministers, religious life staff, student affairs professionals, student organizations, faculty, staff and members of the university community. The anticipated position posting will be late spring and the start date will be during mid to late summer.
>> View the detailed job listing for the position above and all available job listings (sorted by category) here.
Scholarships and Grants
Did you know that the Admissions Office keeps a list of external scholarship resources to assist you with finding scholarship and grants to support the cost of your education? There are a variety of awards available, some with certain eligibility requirements (i.e., location, denomination, etc.). View the complete listing of external scholarship resources.
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Save the Date - Upcoming Events
 After the Genome: A Conference on the Language of our Biotechnological Future
This Weekend! April 12 and 13
Benson University Center, Pugh Auditorium
The rapidity with which biotechnological advances appear and make their way into our lives is changing not just the ways we experience life, but how we understand ourselves. Many of these same technologies promise, or perhaps threaten, to change the nature of what it means to be human. An exploration of the intersection of biotechnology, ethics, language, religion, and science is both timely and critically important. This national forum will provide a location for leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the vital topic of how language is shaping medical ethics, religion, and competing visions of our biotechnological future. School of Divinity Professor Bill Leonard will present on Saturday at 1:00pm. For more information and to register, visit the conference website.
Articulations of Humanity In Black Religious Life: Perspectives on Religion and the Human Condition
Friday, April 19, 2:00 - 5:00pm
Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall
The School of Divinity, in partnership with Faces of Courage, The Humanities Institute, the Department of Religion, and the Office of the Chaplain, will host a symposium bringing together emerging and senior scholars for a dialogue on issues related to African American religious experience as part of the larger quest to live a complex humanity. The invited speakers will discuss the impact of religion on the human condition through topics such as the arts, literature, politics, post-race discourse, embodiment, gender, sexuality, poverty, and Hip Hop culture. Registration is free: add to your calendar and register here.
Speakers:
- J. Kameron Carter, Duke University School of Divinity
- Keri Day, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
- Marla Frederick, Harvard University
- Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University
Foodways and Roadways Exhibition
Friday, April 19, 5:30 - 8:00pm
Enterprise Center, Winston-Salem
This exhibition is a multimedia exhibit that features oral histories of local older adults, photo essays by middle school students, and archival images of Winston-Salem as it reflects on the local food environment, past and present. Sponsored by the Wake Forest School of Medicine Translational Science Institute's Program in Community Engagement and the Wake Forest University Documentary Film Program. For more information email [email protected].
Ordination of Dr. John Senior
Sunday, April 28, 3:00pm
Highland Presbyterian Church, Winston-Salem
Salem Presbytery cordially invites you to the ordination of John Senior to the office of Teaching Elder as the Director of the Art of Ministry at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Sunday, April 28 at 3:00pm at Highland Presbyterian Church (2380 Cloverdale Avenue, Winston-Salem). Reception will follow.
Outdoor Coffeehouse Performer: Green River Ordinance
Monday, April 8, 7:30pm, Mag Quad (rain location: The Barn)
For more information: http://wakestudentunion.com/
Music of Difference
Tuesday, April 9, 3:00 - 4:00pm, ZSR Auditorium 404
Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall
"Music of Difference" features flutist Catherine Branch and composer Robert Bradshaw. Catherine Branch a flutist with diplegic cerebral palsy, is passionately dedicated to exploring the arts as a vehicle to promote social inclusion for members of the disabled society. She will share the story of her Music of Difference Project along with Robert Bradshaw whose composition, Concerto No. 2: for Catherine is based on the rhythm of Catherine's gait. After performing music from the Music of Difference Project, Ms. Branch and Mr. Bradford will invite the audience to dialogue about how something as simple as sharing a musical experience can inspire conversation, awareness and positive change.
"Let's Misbehave"
Tuesday, April 9, 7:30pm, Magnolia Room
An original Cole Porter Revue. Directed by Michael Huie. $5 admission or free admission for those in formal attire.
Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by John E.R. Friedenberg
Wednesday - Satudray, April 10-13, 7:30pm, MainStage Theatre, Scales
In "Noises Off," Michael Frayn's hilarious backstage, onstage, all-the-world's-a-stage farce, we follow a fourth-rate touring company from the disastrous final dress of the bedroom farce, "Nothing On," through its run - watching as the farce onstage slowly falls prey to the personal affairs of the company off stage. More info here.
QWake
Thursday, April 11, 6:00 - 7:00pm, Benson University Center, Room 218
QWake is a safe and confidential conversation space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning students that takes place on the first Thursday of each month from 6-7 p.m. in Benson University Center, Room 218. QWake is moderated by the LGBTQ Center Program Coordinator, Melanie LeMay. This month's topic is being out for the summer and out in the workplace.
Future Sustainability Events
Food For Thought: Celebrate Earth Day at Wake Forest
Saturday, April 20th, 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Manchester Plaza
Food for Thought, this year's Earth Day celebration at Wake Forest, will include educational booths, local food vendors, and live dance and musical performances. Wake Forest affiliates are encouraged to bring their families. Some activities will be geared specifically towards families with children during the early part of the fair; all audiences are welcome to attend throughout the day. Find more information here.
Food Justice Summit
Saturday, April 20th, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Carswell Hall
The Food Justice Summit will seek to promote the advocacy and awareness of food justice issues in Winston-Salem and the greater North Carolina area. Presentations will include panels, lectures, and a documentary film. Contact Brittany Fornitois at [email protected] with questions. Find more information and RSVP here.
Submissions Now Being Accepted for the 2013 Elizabeth Phillips Award for Best Essay in Women's and Gender Studies
Please read the submission requirements below and consider the WGS request for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 Student Essays.
The seventh annual Elizabeth Phillips Award for the Best Essay in Women's and Gender Studies will be given in Spring of 2013. This award pays tribute to the late Elizabeth Phillips , Professor Emerita of English, for her exceptional scholarly commitment to the advancement of women's and gender studies.
Submission criteria and requirements:
- Submissions are solicited from both undergraduate and graduate level students (including law school).
- Essays must be no more than 25 pages in length, written for a class taught at Wake Forest University during the current academic year (2012-2013).
- Essays should demonstrate exceptional scholarly commitment to the advancement of women's and gender studies.
- Currently, all submissions must be written in English.
To submit a paper:
- Get permission from the student for the submission.
- Make sure each submission is accompanied by an email of support from the WFU faculty member, indicating whether the work was done to meet the requirements of a particular class or assignment.
- Make sure each submission includes:
- The name of the student
- The year of graduation
- Category (undergraduate or graduate)
- Student contact information after classes end (mailing address, cell telephone number, and email address)
If you have essays worthy of consideration from the fall 2012 semester, please send them electronically to Pat Gardea at [email protected] as soon as possible. We will contact you later regarding the deadline for spring 2013 submissions.
The Elizabeth Phillips Award Committee will evaluate each essay based upon its relevance to women's and gender studies and upon the quality, coherence and significance of the work. Each award recipient will receive a monetary prize and a framed certificate. Undergraduate winners will be honored at the Senior Awards Ceremony in the year they graduate.
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Future Area Events
This Week! The Promise of Religious Diversity: Dialogue after Religion: A Lecture by Dr. John Thatamanil, Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 7:30-9:00pm, McBride Room, Numen Lumen Pavilion, Elon University Campus | Over the last three decades, an immense and still growing body of literature has demonstrated that our ideas about "religion" are relatively recent and Western in origin. Many of the traditions we think of now as religions only became religions rather recently. So, just what is "religion" and what are "the religions?" Most importantly, what does it mean to speak of some aspects of our lives as "religious" and others as "secular" and not religious? Do all cultures recognize this distinction between the religious and the secular? And how do our definitions and theories about religion/the religious shape (and perhaps distort) our efforts at interreligious dialogue? Is religion something that requires exclusive allegiance like marriage in a monogamous society? Can one learn from and be transformed by the resources of more than one religion? Is that kosher? In this lecture, Thatamanil argues that our ideas about religion, like our ideas about race, must be rethought from the ground up if we are to move into a richly pluralistic future.
John J. Thatamanil is Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions at Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament. An East-West Conversation (Fortress Press, 2006). He is completing his second book, The Promise of Religious Diversity: Constructive Theology After "Religion." Prof. Thatamanil is a past-president of the North American Paul Tillich Society (NAPTS) and Project Director of the AAR's Summer Seminars on Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology. He teaches a wide variety of courses including "Process Theology," "Tillich and the Future of Theology," "Hindu-Christian Dialogue," and "Comparative Theology." He is currently working on figuring what "religion" is and how our notions about religion shape our attitudes toward other traditions and what we believe we can learn (or not) from them.
Saturday! Community Activism and the Media: Partnering for Good: A Lecture with Mary Landon Darden, Dean of Concordia University, San Antonio Center - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 3:30pm, Community Life Center, Elon Community Church | The Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society invites students, faculty, staff, and community members to join us for a lecture with Mary Landon Darden. In addition to working in higher education for the past two decades, she has a past woven with community activism and the media. Darden wrote, hosted, and directed a daily regional television show for four years; developed and hosted a radio show on KWBU/NPR; and during her career, wrote a monthly column and many dozens of magazine articles. During those years, Darden lead a number of community and regional initiatives, including one to preserve the air quality in Central Texas and another that organized the regional churches to provide shelter and assistance to more than 500 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. Darden used her media savvy to communicate with the public, promote the initiatives, as well as build support and momentum. Darden will discuss the way she partnered with the various media sources to achieve maximal success with each of her initiatives for change. Refreshments following.
Darden currently serves as the Dean of the Concordia University Texas San Antonio Center. She is the author of a book with the American Council on Education and Rowman and Littlefield titled, Beyond 2020: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education in America.
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