Co-sponsored with The Seattle School for Theology and Psychology, 4-6 PM, 7-8:30 PM
4-6PM Love as Robust Prophetic Witness, 7-8:3PM Art as Resistance
Friday, March 17, from 4:00-6:00pm, the Office of Students & Alumni and The Well will host a workshop with Dr. Cornel West for advocates and ministers entitled Love as Prophetic Witness. Based on his experience as a scholar and an activist, and rooted in theological and historical contexts, Dr. West will draw from the wisdom of the past for our current situation. Dr. West will be leading us to consider perseverance, effective and joyful activism, and justice: “what love looks like in public.” There will be time and space to gather with others to wrestle with this material, listen for what emerges between us, and then bring our conversations into dialogue with Dr. West.
To preserve the intimate and collaborative nature of this workshop, registration will be capped at 40 participants.Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.