Monthly Archives: August 2019

Holly Gage is hosting a lunch and learn on Thursday

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Hello everyone!

Holly has asked me to pass along some information about an upcoming “lunch and learn” event she will be hosting next week!

She’ll be in the second-floor breakroom at noon next Thursday, September 5, to talk all about healthy living and setting yourself up for success with your goals — no matter what those goals are.

She has a few tips for how to be more conscious about health and well-being, but she is hoping to spark a conversation about how you talk about health, as well. She has some handouts to get everyone talking. It’s going to be an informal but enlightening conversation.

Bring your lunch and your appetite for knowledge! Please let me or Holly (gageha@MiamiOH.edu) know if you plan to attend, so we know how many to expect!

~~Elizabeth
Friendly Neighborhood Content Guru

2019 Interfaith Town-Gown Book Club

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Hello friends!

The Council of Diversity and Inclusion was invited to this year’s Interfaith Town-Gown Book Club event by the Multifaith Engagement for Transformative Action (META) Collective, and they have extended the invitation to anyone who is curious and interested in coming. You may recognize the META Collective as something mentioned by John-Charles Duffy at the IT Diversity Film Festival a couple weeks ago.

Here is some more information. Reach out to meta@miamioh.edu if you have any questions!

Dear Faculty & Staff Member of the Council of Diversity and Inclusion, 

You are invited to register for the annual Interfaith Town-Gown Book Club event. Please click this link to register:  Registration for 2019 Town-Gown Interfaith Book Club . We also invite you to extend this invitation to other faculty and staff members in your respective division who may be interested in attending.The event brings together religious, spiritual and secular leaders from both on and off campus in Oxford, Ohio together to:

  • Cultivate a sense of belonging and inclusion, on campus and in local communities, for students, staff, faculty, and community members who have different identities in relation to religion. 
  • Create healthy spaces of engagement where students, staff, faculty, and community members who orient around religion differently can develop religious literacy, appreciative knowledge, and bonds of friendship. 
  • Collaborate with campus and community partners, across lines of religious, spiritual, and secular difference, around common values toward more just and flourishing communities.

This year’s Multifaith Engagement for Transformative Action (META) Collective Committee book club will read Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs. The Town-Gown Book Club event will take place over three days on Friday October 4th, 11th and 18th from 12- 1:30 pm at The Oxford Interfaith Center located at 16 S. Campus Avenue.There will be an opening panel session featuring two of our very own META leaders, Dr. Kathy Goodman and Director Center for American and World Cultures, Tarah Trueblood. Attendees are invited to participate on all three dates. You are welcome to register even if you are only able to commit to one or two of the dates. The book club will provide leaders a chance to meet and engage in in-depth conversations in small groups on interfaith engagement at Miami University and in our greater community of Oxford, (Butler County), Ohio. Lunch will be provided, please indicate dietary restrictions in the registration link.

Registration is open until September 13, 2019. Please register as seats for this annual event fill up quickly. Please share this invitation with individuals in your respective departments and centers, both on and off campus. A copy of the book will be delivered to your address if you are located off campus and will be dropped off to your office if you are on campus, no later than September 30th. Please note, discussions will be on selected pages from certain chapters with conversation guides provided. You are not expected or required to read the entire book to participate.

Register for the Town-Gown Book Club event.

Join us for the Diversity Film Fest 2019!

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The IT Services Diversity Committee is excited to be hosting our annual lunch and film festival event next week on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.

There will be a catered picnic lunch on the Boyd lawn, and then we will move into Boyd 107, where we’ll show a film called “Of Many,” a documentary about a relationship between an orthodox rabbi and imam in New York City. From the film’s website:

“Through a series of voyages to communities struck by catastrophe, we witness young religious Jews and Muslims working together and overcoming long-standing divides. Timely and humorous, this short documentary offers an inspiring and hopeful narrative in the face of a seemingly irreconcilable conflict.”

More information can be found at the film’s site: http://www.ofmanyfilm.com/

We’ll invite discussion afterward. John-Charles Duffy, an assistant teaching professor in the Comparative Religion department here at Miami, will be there to facilitate the discussion.

Please join us! We expect the event to go from 11:30 am to 2 pm. Calendar invite forthcoming!