Listening Relationships in a Changing Climate
Saturday, April 27, 2024
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium features presenters who consider the urgency of listening within the context of a changing climate. Listening, whether manifested as aural skills, interpersonal connections, or attunement with our local ecologies, opens up opportunities for learning and for building, renewing, and repairing relationships. Artists and scientists, writers and scholars will share how they “walk the talk” of listening and being in relationship, across communities and across species. Symposium attendees will also have opportunities to participate in experiential activities that center walking and listening.
The symposium is coordinated by Dr. Rachel Epp Buller as an extension of her Spring 2024 undergraduate course, Slow Art for Fast Times. It is also the culmination of the semester-long speaker series, Walking the Talk: Listening in our Disciplines, in which Bethel College faculty from across disciplines have shared ways in which listening informs their pedagogy and their research.
The symposium will be held in Krehbiel Auditorium, in the Luyken Fine Arts Center on the Bethel College campus, and is free and open to the public.
Funding for this symposium comes from the Lena Waltner Endowment for the Art Department and the Milford Greer Fine Arts Endowment at Bethel College
Schedule for the day
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Dr. Robert Milliman Introduction Dr. Rachel Epp Buller |
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| 9:15 a.m. | “Relational Listening as Climate Action” Morning keynote, Dr. Sheena Wilson |
| 10:15 a.m. | Short Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | “Telemetry and turtles: Insights on climate change by walking amongst turtles over ten years” Dr. Ben Reed |
| 11:00 a.m. | “Where I Find Myself: Labyrinthine Walking in Place” Dr. Joey Orr |
| 11:30 a.m. | “Valuing Care Work in the Movement toward Perennial Agricultures” Aubrey Streit Krug and Amy June Breesman |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 1:30 p.m. | “The Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe / Sacred Red Rock Project” Dave Loewenstein and Sydney Pursel |
| 2:00 p.m. | “Listening Matters: Holding Space Without Regret” Sheryl Wilson |
| 2:30 p.m. | Participatory breakout sessions: Walks led by students in Slow Art for Fast Times class Listening in Racial Healing Circles, led by members of the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center Walking and listening through radio telemetry, led by Dr. Ben Reed |
| 3:30 p.m. | Debrief session: Collective conversation and wrap-up |
| 4:00 p.m. | Reception with Salted Creamery |
Presenter Lineup
