Please join us for our upcoming CHYS Colloquium, “What does it mean to practice a Pedagogy of Kindness?” on Friday, Oct. 4 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. with guest speaker Cate Denial. 

The hybrid event will take place in CRN 207 and on Lifesize.

This presentation will explore three tenets of compassionate teaching: justice, believing students, and believing in students. We’ll reflect together on what kindness (and its lack) has meant to us within academia, and how we can – piece by piece – assemble a kind approach to pedagogy that meets the needs of our students and ourselves in a time of great change.

The faculty and staff will be putting on a potluck lunch with coffee and tea for those who attend in person.

If you are attending in person, please be there for 11 a.m. to get your food and get seated. If you are attending virtually, please log on for 11:15 a.m.

All are welcome!

Speaker Bio:

Cate Denial is the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Her new book, A Pedagogy of Kindness, is now available from the University of Oklahoma Press. Her historical research has examined the early nineteenth-century experience of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in Upper Midwestern Ojibwe and missionary cultures, research that grew from Cate’s previous book, Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country (2013). From July 2022 to December 2023, Cate was the PI on a $150,000 Mellon-funded grant bringing together thirty-six participants from across higher education in the United States to explore “Pedagogies, Communities, and Practices of Care in the Academy After COVID-19.” Cate consults on teaching in higher education with individuals, departments, and institutions in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.