The Spirit of Peace Conference Schedule (subject to change)

Conference Schedule (subject to change)

Location: All sessions will be held in the Ashland University Dauch College of Business

Friday, March 20, 7pm

Inter-Religious Dialogue Panel  

Room 115    

• Semiha Topal, Program Manager for the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding at John Carroll University
• Ellen Posman, Chair of the Department of Religion, Baldwin Wallace University
• Heidi Eddy, Adjunct professor of Religion, Ashland University
• Craig Hovey (moderator), Professor of Religion, Ashland University

 

Saturday, March 21

8:00am – Registration opens, Coffee & light breakfast

8:45am – Welcome remarks (room 115)

9:00am – 10:30am: Session 1

A (Room 104)
Bill Warters Wayne State Community College	“20th Century Roots and Branches of Nonviolence Theory”
Semiha Topal John Carroll University	“Bridgebuilding and Religious Pluralism: Fostering Interreligious Understanding in a Divided World”
B (Room 105)
Brian Collins Ohio University	“Hindu and Buddhist Attitudes toward Sacrificial Violence”
Derek Kubilus First United Methodist Church	“Garden Variety Politics: The Subversive Witness of the Old Testament”

 

10:45am – 12:15pm: Session 2 

A (Room 104)
John Crowley-Buck John Carroll University	“Spiritual Resilience for Nonviolence Civil Resistance: An Ignatian Approach”
Connie Kassor Cuyahoga Community College	“The Sharp Edge of Compassion: Buddhist Perspectives on Anger and Peace”

B (Room 105)
Heidi Eddy Ashland University	“Inner Peace, Outer Peace: The Transformative Power of Compassion”
Nicole Kaufman Ohio University	“Listening, Witness, Creation: Women Leading Religious Experiences from Jail to the Execution Chamber”
C (Room 115)
Kailey Bradley Marian University	“Holding Loss, Cultivating Peace: Spiritual Support as a Foundation for Community Healing”
Danielle Ravitzki Independent Scholar	“Family, Forgiveness, and Justice:  Challenging the Moral Obligation to Forgive in Families”

 

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch, Room 115

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Panel Discussion, Room 115

Ohio Council of Churches P.L.A.N. (Pastors & Laity Advancing Nonviolence) How Might We Assess Ecosystem Wide Flourishing in a Context of Global Dialogue? Featuring Jason Bricker-Thompson (Executive Director, Compassionate Communicate Center of Ohio), Tom Carlisi (P.L.A.N. Training Team Leader, OCC), Fred Goff (Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer), and Amariah McIntosh (Associate Director & Director of Public Policy, OCC)

 

3:00pm – 4:30pm: Session 3

A (Room 104)
Ohio Council of Churches P.L.A.N. (Pastors & Laity Advancing Nonviolence)	“Experiential practice and developing an Action Plan for Outreach and Implementation of OCC P.L.A.N. in participants’ communities”
Jayne Wilcox Ashland Theological Seminary	Shalom-Making: The Primary Vocation of the Church
B (Room 105)
Elaine Stratton Hild Corpus monodicum, Uni Würzburg	“Peace at the End: Deathbed Practices in Historic Europe”
Katherine Brown Ashland University	“The Spiritual Foundation and Legacy of Lorenzetti’s Allegories of Good and Bad Government Fresco Cycle in Siena, 1338”