Our Original Sin
October 1, 2019 |
How might we confront our universities' role in what Jim Wallis has called America's original sin?Perhaps we need our very own Vergangenheitsbewältigung - however we might imagine that.
It's a tough question. The type most worth asking. And the type that should be informed by deep academic expertise. So we've launched a search for a new faculty member in Critical Ethnic, Black and/or Race Studies to join the college's existing scholars in this and related fields.
Today many experts from around the country have gathered at Xavier to wrestle with that and related questions. So I encourage you to engage the symposium on campus sponsored by Universities Studying Slavery.
Neglected to register? No problem. All are welcome to the 3-4:15pm panel in Conaton Board Room, at which C. Walker Gollar and a panel of students will address Xavier's own connections to slavery.
Or stop by the Clocktower Lounge in GSC to see the work of Angela Franklin, our Artist in Residence. To meet the artist, visit between 4 and 5pm. (Pictured above is the same artist's "If the Cultivation Of Tobacco is an Art Form--Behold the Artists.")
