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Event Tag Archives: resident scholars

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Thomas SchonbergThomas Schönberg in concert

13 December 2013 8:00 pm
  • Venue: Emmaus Hall Chapel, School of Theology and Seminary
  • Categories: Concert
  • Tags: bach, music, resident scholars
This concert by Resident Scholar Thomas Schönberg will feature 3 cello suites by Bach—No. 2, 3 and 5.

author reception flyerLiturgical Press Celebrates Local Authors

11 November 2015 3:00 pm
  • Venue: Liturgical Press Showroom
  • Categories: Author Reception
  • Tags: Liturgical Press, resident scholars
Join us as we celebrate local Liturgical Press authors, including Resident Scholars Rick Gaillardetz and Ben Durheim.

doctrine of discoveryDismantling the Doctrine of Discovery

29 October 2016 5:30 pm
  • Venue: Faith Mennonite Church
  • Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
  • Tags: decolonization, doctrine of discovery, Mennonites, resident scholars
Resident Scholar Anita Amstutz will share her writing project, “My Heart is Indigenous: Of Mennonites, Bees and Land," on October 29, 2016 in Minneapolis.

doctrine of discoveryDismantling the Doctrine of Discovery

05 December 2016 3:30 pm
  • Venue: Quadrangle Building 235
  • Categories: Author Reception, Exhibit
  • Tags: Anabaptists, doctrine of discovery, Exhibit, Indigenous, Mennonites, resident scholars
Resident Scholar Anita Amstutz will host a reception and conversation about the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery exhibit on Monday, December 5, 2016.

Lunch and Learn with Tonya Lawrence

12 December 2016 12:00 pm
  • Venue: Collegeville Institute
  • Categories: Scholar Presentation
  • Tags: Brown-bag Lunch and Learn, resident scholars, scholar presentation, short-term residencies
Short-term resident scholar, Tonya Lawrence, presented her work at a Lunch and Learn event at the Collegeville Institute Butler Center on December 12, 2016.

Play and WisdomPlay and Wisdom: Liturgy and the Liberal Arts

22 February 2017 7:30 pm
  • Venue: Quadrangle Building 264
  • Categories: Lecture, Scholar Presentation
  • Tags: Benedictine Spirituality, Brendan McInerny, higher education, lecture, liberal arts, liturgy, play, resident scholars, theology
Resident Scholar Brendan McInerny will present an alternative view of liberal arts as rooted in a theological account of play on February 22, 2017.

From Occupation to Colonization: Israel and the Palestinians

22 March 2017 11:30 am
  • Venue: Quadrangle Building 170, Founders Room
  • Categories: Scholar Presentation
  • Tags: Brown-bag Lunch and Learn, colonization, Israel, occupation, Palestine, resident scholars
Join Resident Scholar Arland Jacobson at this Lunch and Learn presentation about the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Registration required.

Women in the Church, a Biblical Perspective

08 April 2017 7:00 pm
  • Venue: Christ Church Newman Center
  • Categories: Lecture
  • Tags: Biblical scholar, lecture, resident scholars, women in ministry, women in the church
Sandra Schneiders, IHM and former Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute, will give a lecture titled "Women in the Church, a Biblical Perspective" on April 8, 2017 in Saint Cloud, MN.

reflectionA Walk in the Forest

21 April 2017
  • Venue: Collegeville Institute
  • Categories: Scholar Presentation
  • Tags: reflection, resident scholars
After spending the Spring 2017 semester at the Collegeville Institute as a Resident Scholar, Carmel Posa wrote a final reflection about her experience.

Eastern ChurchAn Ecumenical Hymnal in the Eastern Church

14 November 2017 3:30 pm
  • Venue: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
  • Categories: Lecture
  • Tags: Eastern Orthodox, hymnal, hymns, lecture, liturgy, resident scholars
On Nov. 14, Resident Scholar Nicholas Denysenko will lecture on the vitality and unique theology of a popular hymnal from the Eastern Church.
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