Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

The 4th Annual People, Place, Plates

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The 4th Annual People, Place, Plates

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Jenny Wed, 07/25/2018 - 10:33

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Growing for the Future: A Farm-to-Table Fundraising Dinner

Join us as we celebrate Fulton Farm and its commitment to educating for sustainability through food.

Enjoy an evening of local food and drink, music and prize drawings.

There will also be a preview of the Fulton Performance Project, a collaboration between the Fulton Center for Sustainability Studies, the Department of Fine Arts & Dance at ��˹��Ӱ��, and visiting dance artists Rori Smith. From August to November 2017, student and alumni dancers worked with Smith to capture the waning season on Fulton Farm, from the last summer harvests to the stillness of winter's approach. The dancers' movement responds to interviews conducted with farm staff and former interns, who spoke to Fulton Farm's unique sense of place and the embodied experiences they carry with them from time spent immersed in the land. (The film runs 6:45) and featuring the music of the Don’t Look Down Band.

Thank you to our sponsors. Cultivation Sponsor: Noelker and Hull Other sponsors: 393 Event Center, The Butcher Shoppe, The Cheese Haus, Falafel Shack, The Inn at Ragged Edge, Kuhn Orchards, McCleary Oil Company, Mercersberg Academy, Snavely's Garden Corner, SunnyHill Properties and Wild for Salmon.

Saturday, September 29, 5 - 9 p.m

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Undergraduate

Fulton Center

Love in the End Times: On Samuel Delany and #blacklivesmatter

wilson-admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:48:52 +0000

Love in the End Times: On Samuel Delany and #blacklivesmatter

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 11:48

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Love in the End Times: On Samuel Delany and #blacklivesmatter
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Samuel Delany is the preeminent African American science fiction writer. His novels and memoirs tackle the complexities of identity, race, and personal relationships. How might his writings help us respond to anti-black racism, from police violence to microaggression?

Vincent Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. In 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study. His research centers on the intersection of religion, politics, and race, and he is currently finishing a book project on the role of natural law in African American political thought. He is the author ofLaw and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose(Palgrave, 2009) and The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology (Stanford, 2011), as well as the editor, most recently, of Race and Political Theology (Stanford, 2012). When not at work, he participates in local political organizing, and he enjoys the company of his cats, Sophie and Little Malcolm. More information on his research is available here and here.

Supported by the Orr Forum, Proud Sponsor of the Return of the Apocalyptic lecture series

- See more at: http://www.wilson.edu/beyond-pragmatic-politics-african-american-scienc…

Beyond Pragmatic Politics: African American Science Fiction as Political Theology

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Beyond Pragmatic Politics: African American Science Fiction as Political Theology

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 7:00 am to 8:00 am

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 11:44

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Tue. Nov. 3 - Black Apocalypse & Christian Hope
Dr. Vincent Lloyd

Beyond Pragmatic Politics: African American Science Fiction as Political Theology
12 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Increasing awareness of police brutality and the disproportionate imprisonment of Black Americans have made us aware of just how deeply entrenched racism is. Incremental political change often seems futile. There is a long tradition of Blacks writing apocalyptic fiction in the face of deep-seated racism - but is such fiction political?

Love in the End Times: On Samuel Delany and #blacklivesmatter
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Supported by the Orr Forum, Proud Sponsor of the Return of the Apocalyptic lecture series

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Tim LaHaye's End-Times Theologies

wilson-admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:34:52 +0000

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Tim LaHaye's End-Times Theologies

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 8:00 am to 9:00 am

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 11:34

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Tue. Oct. 20 - Doomsday Scenarios
Dr. Kelly Baker

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign: Tim LaHaye's End-Times Theologies
12 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

I'll talk through some of LaHaye's more recent apocalyptic visions and how they are different, and less popular, than his previous Left Behind series. Signs of end times emerge as political events.

Evening: With a Shamble and a Moan: Zombie Apocalypses in American Culture
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Zombies bring about the end of the world over and over again in popular culture. These monster tales provide not only visions of a dystopian end, but also say much about current moment's humanity and inhumanity.

Kelly J. Baker is a freelance writer with a religious studies PhD who covers higher education, gender, labor, motherhood, American religions, and popular culture. She has regular columns at the Chronicle for Higher Education's Vitae project, Women in Higher Education, Killing the Buddha, and Sacred Matters. She’s written for The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, the Washington Post's Faith Street, and Brain, Child. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930, and The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture. When she’s not writing essays or wrangling children, she’s hacking away at collection of essays on apocalypses in America tentatively titled “The End of Us.”

Supported by the Orr Forum, proud sponsor of the Return of the Apocalyptic lecture series

Abrupt climate change and sea-level rise: How what we don’t know might hurt us

wilson-admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:11:21 +0000

Abrupt climate change and sea-level rise: How what we don’t know might hurt us

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 7:00 am to 8:00 am

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 11:11

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Tue. Nov. 10 – Climate Science
Dr. Richard Alley

Abrupt climate change and sea-level rise: How what we don’t know might hurt us
12 p.m. in Brooks Auditorium

Good News in the Greenhouse?.
7 p.m. in Brooks Auditorium
The big picture on energy, the environment, and our future.

Dr. Richard Alley has ranged from Antarctica to Greenland to help learn the history of Earth’s climate, and whether the great ice sheets will fall in the ocean and flood our coasts. With over 250 scientific publications, he has been asked to provide advice to the highest levels of government, and been recognized with numerous awards including election to the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. He hosted the recent PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators’ Manual, and has been compared to a cross between Woody Allen and Carl Sagan for his enthusiastic efforts to communicate the excitement and importance of the science to everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a92YHaTVlMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHP9Rh-ooh0

Sponsored by National Academy of Sciences
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Sacralizing the Secular: Bill McKibben and the Ethics of Sustainability

wilson-admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:07:50 +0000

Sacralizing the Secular: Bill McKibben and the Ethics of Sustainability

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 11:07

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Sacralizing the Secular: Bill McKibben and the Ethics of Sustainability
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Bill McKibben has been a prophetic voice for climate change for more than thirty years. As a writer, environmentalist and climate change activist, he has inspired college students across the country to become involved in environmental studies courses, campus sustainability initiatives, and more recently in divestment from fossil fuel protests. In many ways their passion and commitment to education and change makes them, in the words of a colleague, “the most religious students on campus.” Yet, this new religiosity is not tied to a particular religious tradition; many, in fact, are critical of religion; they are “spiritual, not religious.” In this presentation, I will talk about some of the reasons for McKibben’s influence, the impact these students are having on transforming their living and learning environments, and several of the challenges and controversies involved in this new, “engaged spirituality” movement.

Mara E. Donaldson (Wilson, ’71) is Professor of Religion at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Her areas of expertise include Religion and Modern Culture, Religion and the Arts, and Environmental Ethics. She has served on the Center for Sustainability Steering Committee and the Sustainability Investment Task Force. She is currently working on an essay about Bill McKibben’s influence on college students.

Supported by the Global Citizens Fund, proud sponsor of Confronting Climate Change
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The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis: Pope Francis’s Ecology Encyclical

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The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis: Pope Francis’s Ecology Encyclical

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 8:00 am to 9:00 am

wilson-admin Wed, 09/23/2015 - 10:57

Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Tue. Oct. 6 – Care For Our Common Home: Pope Francis and the Environment
Dr. Matthew Shadle

The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis: Pope Francis’s Ecology Encyclical
12 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

A number of pundits and politicians have questioned whether Pope Francis, a religious leader, ought to speak so strongly about the scientific questions of climate change and environmental destruction. In his recent encyclical Laudato Si’, Francis makes the case that our environmental crisis is at heart a spiritual crisis and therefore Christians churches must speak out on the issue. This talk will look at what Pope Francis has to say about spirituality, science, and our relationship with the earth.

Everything is Connected: Pope Francis and Integral Ecology
4 p.m. in Patterson Bay, Laird Hall

Throughout his recent encyclical Laudato Si’ Pope Francis insists that “everything is connected”: humankind is connected to the ecosystems in which we live, and social problems such as poverty and technological development are connected to our misuse of the natural environment. Although richly drawing on the Christian tradition, Francis points us in radical new directions by asking us to re-imagine what it means to be human in light of our place in the natural world.

Matthew Shadle is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. His expertise is in the tradition of Catholic social teaching and in Christian ethical thought on war and peace and economic justice. He has published The Origins of War: A Catholic Perspective (Georgetown, 2011) and articles in several theological journals. He and his wife live in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Supported by the Global Citizens Fund, proud sponsor of Confronting Climate Change