Building on the foundation of the Thursday Food for Thought series, the SPU Library began inviting member of the SPU community to share scholarly and creative works in progress. The library hosted Creative Conversations from Autumn 2013 to Spring 2018.
2013/2014
Fall
Winter
Spring
2014/2015
Fall
Winter
Spring
2015/2016
Fall
Winter
Spring
2016/2017
Fall
Winter
Spring
Thursday, April 20th
12–12:50 p.m.
Habit, Virtue, Writing
There are many pedagogies that a writing teacher might use: feminist, Marxist, process, post-process, structuralist, post-structuralist, to name a few. But is there such a thing as Christian composition? In this talk, Peter Wayne Moe, assistant professor of English and director of campus writing, will look to pieces of student writing in order to share what a Christian writing pedagogy might look like.
Thursday, May 4th
3 - 3:50 p.m.
The We of Me: Writing the Relations that Define us
Our stories often find their significance where the “me” and the “we” intersect. This talk will consider the ways the personal essay decenters the self to make room for another’s experience, complicating and enriching the individual in the process
Thursday, May 11th
12–12:50 p.m.
Sex, God, & the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
This book guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith—mired in sexual shame and dysfunction—and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The book walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intimate partnerships and sexual lives. It provides clinicians a way to understand the faulty sexual ethic of the early church, while revealing the hidden mystical sex and body positive understanding of sexuality of the Hebrew people. The book also includes chapters on strategies for a new sexual ethic, on clinical steps to heal religious sexual shame, and on specific sex therapy interventions clinicians can use directly in their practice. Finally, it offers a four step model for healing religious sexual shame and actual touch and non-touch exercises to bring healing and intimacy into a person's life.
2017/2018
Fall
Thursday, November 30th
12-1 p.m.
"Creating Art through Collaboration: Presenting Saci and The Greater Trumps"
Winter
Friday, January 26th
12–12:50 p.m.
Finding Home: Seattle is a house we all need to afford
Claudia Castro Luna served as Seattle's Civic Poet from 2015-2017 and will serve as Washington State Poet Laureate 2018-2020. Join us as we hear a reading of works in progress by Claudia Castro Luna, Tent City 3 residents, and SPU students.
Thursday, February 8th
3–3:50 p.m.
Thinking in the Open
Philosophers Rebekah Rice, Patrick McDonald, Leland Saunders, and Matthew Benton (including members of the undergraduate Philosophy Cadre) will reflect together on the tendency of philosophers to want to expose their work-in-progress to the most powerful critiques available, even before publication, and, as they do so, communicate a sense of what it is like to write for and publish within such a sharing but critical culture.
Thursday, February 22nd
12–12:50 p.m.
Racial Microaggressions in Faith-Based Contexts
Racial microaggression is one of the most widely researched topics in recent multicultural psychology literature. But what might racial microaggressions in a Christian context look like? In this talk, Paul Youngbin Kim (Associate Professor of Psychology) and Sarah-Ann Moh (undergraduate student in Psychology) will discuss their ongoing project to create and validate a research instrument assessing racial microaggressions experienced by students enrolled in Christian higher education institutions.
Spring
Thursday, April 12th
12–12:50 p.m.
How to Blog like an Academic
This event is part of a series of panels on "How to Do Scholarship" put on by the Writing Center, Library, and Center for Scholarship & Faculty Development. Speakers from across campus will address the difficulties and delights of writing and publishing.
Thursday, April 19th
12–12:50 p.m.
How to Pitch a Book Proposal
This event is part of a series of panels on "How to Do Scholarship" put on by the Writing Center, Library, and Center for Scholarship & Faculty Development. Speakers from across campus will address the difficulties and delights of writing and publishing.
Friday, April 27th
12–12:50 p.m.
Open Scholarship, Open Science
Research in psychology is changing. Historically, scientists did their work privately, in their own labs. Now, a generation of young researchers are experimenting with a new model. These researchers are implementing open science - a model of transparency and materials sharing (e.g., data, code, survey materials) that take full advantage of the internet as a means of sharing science. Come hear how Dr. Carpenter and his team of SPU students are experimenting with these new models and hear the direction the field is going, away from the traditional "paper" model of study and more toward peer-reviewed "study websites".