Acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh explores the impact of global warming on the craft of narrative fiction in his latest work—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Ghosh will discuss this timely work with Insight Program
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an award-winning educator, writer, activist, and scholar who believes deeply that love, equity, and justice are closely intertwined. He writes and speaks regularly on issues of diversity, inclusion, civil rights,
Bestselling author and award-winning physicist Brian Greene will discuss the cosmic philosophical implications of modern physics. What are we to make of quantum physics, with its paradoxical descriptions of reality; or of string theory, with
Join us for a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer as she helps us rethink, reimagine and, renarrate our relationship to the sacred and the natural world. Can the objective, data-driven approach of science be enriched by
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An exploration of Whitman’s call in Leaves of Grass to “judge not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing.” Whitman’s inflects Jesus’s “judge not” as a call for radical democrats to
SCHEDULE | FEATURED SPEAKERS | ACCOMMODATIONS | SOCIAL HUB | REGISTRATION | BOOK EXHIBITS “Political Theology” covers a multidisciplinary field of research that engages the unwieldy relationship between religion and politics out of a desire for
Join President Serene Jones for a Knowledge and Nourishment webinar with David Fankhauser on Thursday, July 30 at 10:00 AM. An activist and Freedom Rider, Fankhauser spent time in Parchman State Penitentiary with the late
Union’s students, faculty, and staff are working hard to stay connected in this time of social distancing. Join this week’s Knowledge & Nourishment to learn about how we are welcoming new students and building community
Please join President Serene Jones on Thursday, September 24th at noon for the next edition of our Knowledge & Nourishment webinar series. President Jones will be in conversation with The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis to discuss the
Join us as we welcome new and returning students for the 184th academic year with words from Rev. Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones and Dr. Julia Kelto Lillis. https://youtu.be/0ZziiEW07e8
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