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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE CHESTER RONNING CENTER
A Note from the Director
Greetings!
January embodies a spirit of optimism, aspiration, and improvement as we embark on the new year with fresh resolutions and a renewed determination to achieve personal and collective growth. In this spirit, I am pleased to announce staffing updates and new events at the Centre.
We are delighted to have Danielle Doel join our team as our new program coordinator! She comes with experience and energy that has already lit up the office. Anticipate hearing more from her in the coming months!
We are also thrilled to announce exciting programming, including Shaun Boothe's performance of unauthorized biographies in honour of Black History Month. This promises to be an engaging and educational experience, celebrating diverse narratives and histories and we invite you to join us there on January 29th at 7 p.m.
David Goa's Philosopher's Café, hosted at the Fox and Fable, brought together a robust audience for a compelling discussion on "The Doctrine of Discovery: Colonialism & Indigeneity, State and Church."
We extend our gratitude to everyone who participated in and supported these events. Your commitment to the values of the Chester Ronning Centre is what makes our community vibrant and dynamic.
We hope you find warmth and inspiration this January and are looking forward to another year of meaningful engagements and enriching discussions.
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Wiebe
Director, Chester Ronning Centre
Associate Professor of Religion and Ecology Faculty Website
Have you met...
Ian Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities
Ian Wilson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the UofA's Augustana Campus. His research expertise is the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah, but he teaches a wide variety of courses that address religion.
A couple of his favourites are "Sex & Gender in Ancient Religions" and "Being Human: From the Bible to Blade Runner." Ian is the author of two books and more than twenty scholarly essays. His first monograph, Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah, won the RBY Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. His latest research focuses on the Bible's prophetic literature and ancient archives. Ian is also an avid cyclist, a coffee lover, and a very proud dad.
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Shaun Boothe’s Unauthorized Biography Series
Jan. 29, 2024 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Shaun Boothe is an award-winning hip-hop artist, TEDx speaker and creator of ‘The Unauthorized Biography Series’, which is a critically acclaimed musical project that celebrates the world’s greatest cultural icons through biographical raps songs Repackaging History through Hip-Hop.
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On Our Bookshelf
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Recommended by Ian Wilson, this book is as massive as it is bold. In more than 500 pages (not including endnotes etc.), Graeber and Wengrow take on the likes of Hobbes and Rousseau; explore the lives of ancient peoples in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas; and challenge pretty much everything we think we know about the history of human civilization. The book is insightful and entertaining. It's an extremely readable 500-pager, an uncommon feat of scholarly writing.
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