During this pandemic–as alternative to our usual in-person weekend event–Interfaith Scholar Weekend invites you to join us for six weekly interfaith Zoom conversations. Together with persons of various faith traditions, we will consider what it means to \u201cBear Witness\u201d <\/em>to Fresno\u2019s history of racism and redlining. All sessions are free and will be recorded!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We start each Zoom session at 4:00 pm on six consecutive Mondays from February 15 to March 22. All sessions are free! Registration on Eventbrite<\/a> is required for each session You can attend one or six sessions. See our Master Schedule<\/a> to find out which sessions you’d like to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew Fiala, PhD, Director of The Ethics Center, Fresno State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monday, President\u2019s Day, February 15, 2021, 4:00-5:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Each of our three quest scholars has made an important contribution to the history of racism and redlining in Fresno\u2014speaking from different vantage points, life experiences, narratives and scholarly pursuits and asking what it means to bear witness, and who gets to tell the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Bearing Witness with James Baldwin”<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of our series, we also invite you to take a deep dive into Eddie S. Glaude Jr.\u2019s book, Begin Again: James Baldwin\u2019s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own<\/em> (2020). In four weekly, 60-minute Zoom sessions beginning on Monday, February 22 and ending March 15, we offer four moderated interfaith, heart-based conversations when representatives from four faith traditions, and their respondents engage Professor Glaude\u2019s masterful reading of James Baldwin\u2014his life, his times, his legacy!<\/p>\n\n\n\nTime and Dates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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