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Religion and Public Engagement
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Vision |
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RPE strives to enhance and support teaching, research, and community engagement through the creative exchange of life-enhancing knowledge consistent with the highest standards of teaching, research and collaboration. RPE expresses the motto 'Pro Humanitate' with integrity and accountability. |
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Mission |
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RPE strives to enhance and support teaching, research, and community engagement through the creative exchange of life-enhancing knowledge consistent with the highest standards of teaching, research and collaboration. RPE expresses the motto 'Pro Humanitate' with integrity and accountability. |
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Objectives |
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- encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration between Wake Forest University and diverse communities through culturally appropriate research, teaching, and the productive creation and exchange of life-enhancing knowledge and services according to the highest standards of scholarship and community well-being,
- identify and pursue grants and endowments on behalf of collaborative research projects in support of diverse community needs, concerns, and interests, and
- support and enhance the well-being of community members, students, faculty, staff, and administrators in culturally and academically appropriate ways, whether spiritually, intellectually, physically, or economically.
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Recent Speakers and Events |
- Dr. Gordon Bronitsky - Indigenous World Markets
and the Arts: Creating Entrepreneurial Networks
- Founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates,
which specializes in working with Indigenous talent
around the world in international cultural marketing of
traditional and contemporary art, music, and dance.
- In May 2009, Bronitsky and Assoc. staged ORIGINS: First
Nations Festival™, which brought Indigenous theater
companies and performers from around the world to
theaters and venues across London.
- Currently partnering with Diné College, the tribal college
of the Navajo Nation, to produce DinétahdééIiná Baahané‐
Stories of Life from Navajoland—A Navajo Performing Arts Festival.
- Sami Cultural Activist and Playwright, Harriet Nordlund - From Story to Play: A Theatre Improvisation Workshop.
- Dr. Paul Lauritzen -Oncofertility and Catholic Teaching on Procreation: What will the Vatican say about new fertility-preservation technques for cancer patients?
- Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Program in applied Ethisc at John Carroll University.
- He is a Member of the Ethics advisory Committee fro the Oncofertility Project at Northwerster University and a Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Religious Ethics.
- Native Movement: A Night of Cherokee
- The Raven Rock Dancers have rebitalized the stomp dance tradition for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
- The Warriors of Anikituhwa bring to life the Cherokee War Dance and Eagle Tail Dance
- Special appearance by Miss cherokki 2009, Rachel Hicks
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