Diversity in Wesleyan Center Initiatives

In the variety of conferences and symposia that the Wesleyan Center has put on, themes of diversity (gender, ethnic or international) have repeatedly occurred. What follow below is a sample of the conferences and events sponsored by the Wesleyan Center with the particularly relevant segments listed.

Wesleyan Center events are well attended by students and faculty as well as by individuals from the local community and from the academic community at large. While this is not an exhaustive list of the diversity-oriented sessions given at Wesleyan Conferences, it does indicate that women’s or minority issues are often included even in conferences that are not entirely devoted to diversity issues.

The Wesleyan Center did co-sponsor, with the Women’s Center, a conference on the place of women in the Christian, especially evangelical world.

February 1999 Conference: Inaugural Session of the Society for the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology
Themes: Gathering Together as Apprentices
Developing Together as Persons
Walking Together as Companions
Sessions: A Wesleyan Perspective on Children and Poverty
Commitment to Education by the Whole Community

November 1999 Conference: Religious Bridges to Peace in the 21st Century
Sessions: Islamic Tradition of Peace
Hindu Tradition of Peace
Protestant Tradition of Peace
Ecumenical Dialogue Panel

February 2006 Conference: Faith, Hope and Work
Sessions: The Salvation Army: A Good Place for Women to Work?
Work-Family Policies

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