Widening the Circle of UU Studies, the inaugural international gathering of the new Unitarian Universalist Studies Network, will encourage presenters and attendees to engage across multiple and intersecting disciplines with the 2020 Report of the Commission on Institutional Change, Widening the Circle of Concern (Boston: UUA, 2020) which analyzes structural and systemic racism in Unitarian Universalism.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/uusn23
Widening the Circle of UU Studies will include presentations from a variety of disciplines and perspectives that explore the imaginative, congregational, intellectual, and liberatory study of Unitarian Universalism. Beyond presentations, Widening the Circle of UU Studies will include an optional Thursday-afternoon field trip to Chicago area attractions, panels addressing a wide variety of topics, social hours and communal lunches and dinners, and a talk from our distinguished speaker, Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore. Sunday's worship will be led by Rev. Dr. Jay Atkinson and music led by Amanda Thomas, Mezzo Soprano.
For a detailed schedule and to register, please visit https://tinyurl.com/uusn23.
Hotels are within a five-minute stroll. Registration costs includes almost all meals, shared in community around collegial conversation. Come for a day, come for the entire UU Studies Network Convocation.