There
is no substitute for getting to know and working with colleagues to make
our lives and professions more vibrant. Time to meet, talk, and study together
collaboratively is of prime importance.
Here's what's coming in RSiSS workshops and seminars
Love, Kindness, and Compassion in the Ethics/Philosophy Course
A reprise of the event we co-sponsored in February and November with Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education. Participant response was such that we considered this event a regular "must." This time around will include participant suggestions from the first workshop, thus promising to make it better than ever. The event will take place in Chicago, April 24-25. More info.
Summer 2005
Teaching the World's Religions
Evaluations in the summer of 2004 rated this workshop 4.9 on a scale of 5 for "enjoyability and usefulness for my work." A great way to learn more, to get new ideas, to discuss issues with colleagues from across the country doing similar work. Summer 2005 in Philadelphia. Click here for details and registration.
Religious Texts and Classics seminar
This year, we'll deal with teaching the Qur'an and the Bhagavad Gita, in the nation's capital. More info.
Where We Began
Beginning with the Saint Francis Summer Seminars in 1997 we have brought secondary teachers and university scholars together to study, teach, and learn from one another. Conversations between teachers outside the seminar room have been as important to particpants as those within the official seminar setting.
Past seminars have included:
1997 The Bhagavad Gita (David Haberman, PhD)
1998 Early Mahayana Texts (Diamond, Heart, and Inquiry of Ugra Sutras) (Jan Nattier, PhD)
1998 The Mystical Poetry of Rumi (William Chittick, PhD)
1999 Bonaventure and Medieval Christian Mysticism (Ewert Cousins, PhD)
1999 The Upanishads (David Haberman, PhD)
2000 Seminar in Religion and Ecology at Bucknell University (Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD, John Grim, PhD, and R. Craig Kochel, PhD)
2001 Seminar in Religion and Ecology II at Bucknell University (with science teachers) (David L. Haberman, Ph.D., Mark I. Wallace, Ph.D., Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD & John Grim, PhD)
2002 Seminar in Religion and Ecology III at Loyola Marymount University (R. Craig Kochel, Ph.D., John Grim, Ph.D., Douglas Burton Christie, Ph.D., and Chris Chappel, Ph.D.)
2003 Seminar in Religion and Ecology IV at Loyola Marymount University (with teachers of science and English) (Christopher Key Chappel, PhD, R. Craig Kochel, PhD, Douglas Burton Christie, PhD, John Grim, PhD)
2003 Islam and the Qur'an at College of Preachers, Washington, D.C. (Carl Ernst, Ph.D)
For more information on these seminars, or for registration materials, contact info@rsiss.net
