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Is Any-Body Here?: Radical Embodiment in Teaching and Learning at Union Theological Seminary”
Proposal abstract :
Is Any-Body Here? advocates for bringing of our full selves, including our bodies to teaching and learning. In particular, it draws on the lived experience of eros, desire, and passion found in queer experience and connected to contemplative impulses and energies. This project will be an inter-generational wisdom building and sharing for two LGBTIQ+ faculty of color and one international LGBITQ+ student of color to explore the following questions: “What queer pedagogical wisdom can be cultivated and shared inter-generationally (senior faculty, junior faculty, doctoral student) if we take seriously “radical embodiment” as pedagogical stance? How might engagement with the arts and with contemplative practices foster cultivation of wisdom? What are effective pedagogical interventions for our teaching?” Through monthly dinner gatherings, arts events, contemplative practices, and deep on-going reflections, this project will live into and explore the possibilities of radical embodiment and intergenerational wisdom sharing in a particular local context.
Is Any-Body Here? advocates for bringing of our full selves, including our bodies to teaching and learning. In particular, it draws on the lived experience of eros, desire, and passion found in queer experience and connected to contemplative impulses and energies. This project will be an inter-generational wisdom building and sharing for two LGBTIQ+ faculty of color and one international LGBITQ+ student of color to explore the following questions: “What queer pedagogical wisdom can be cultivated and shared inter-generationally (senior faculty, junior faculty, doctoral student) if we take seriously “radical embodiment” as pedagogical stance? How might engagement with the arts and with contemplative practices foster cultivation of wisdom? What are effective pedagogical interventions for our teaching?” Through monthly dinner gatherings, arts events, contemplative practices, and deep on-going reflections, this project will live into and explore the possibilities of radical embodiment and intergenerational wisdom sharing in a particular local context.