{"id":2289,"date":"2017-08-30T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/?page_id=2289"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:29:30","slug":"annual-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/annual-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 RCT Lecture<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Sa<\/strong>rah F. Farmer, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>Associate Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning
\n\u201cRestorative Hope: Creating Pathways of Connection in Women\u2019s Prisons\u201d<\/strong>
\nMarch 5, 2025<\/p>\n

Dr. Farmer discussed her recently released book\u00a0<\/span>Restorative Hope: Creating Pathways of Connection in Women\u2019s Prisons<\/em>. Amid dehumanizing conditions, incarcerated people strive to generate hope. As one returning citizen explains, \u201cHope is not just sitting around waiting for things to change. Hope is not always an individual making things change. Hope is sometimes a community making things change.\u201d What can theologians, teachers, and chaplains do to assist their work?<\/p>\n

In answering this question Dr. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishing. Combining theology and sociology, Farmer shows how theological education can help cultivate the resilience and connection that women describe as life-giving in and after prison. Based in her own ministry, this pedagogy incorporates artistic expression and critical thinking about justice to cultivate agency. Dr. Farmer was joined by BU doctoral student Stacey Yuen and BU alumnus Dr. Amanda J.G. Napior after her lecture for a conversation about the themes of her book and lecture.<\/p>\n

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2024 Film Screening<\/h3>\n

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A Once and Future Peace<\/em>\u00a0Film Screening<\/strong>
\nNovember 10, 2024<\/p>\n

An animated \/ live-action documentary exploring the past, present and future of Peacemaking Circles, and how this ancient restorative justice practice has been reimagined to keep youth out of prison. The film tracks the parallel stories of a troubled teen facing serious jail time, and the former Cambodian gang leader serving as his mentor. We were joined by the filmmaker, Eric Metzgar, and by Saroeum Phoung, one of the subjects of the documentary film, to talk about the peacemaking work occurring in Seattle and beyond that is inspired by the practice of peacemakers as taught by Harold Gatensby, Phil Gatensby, and others.<\/p>\n

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2024 RCT Lecture<\/h3>\n

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AnneMarie Mingo, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nAssociate Professor of Ethics, Culture, and Moral Leadership
\nDirector, Metro-Urban Institute
\nPittsburgh Theological Seminary
\n\u201cHave You Got Good Religion?\u201d<\/strong>
\nMarch 20, 2024<\/p>\n

Dr. AnneMarie Mingo was accompanied by Dr. Lenora Taitt-Magubane to discuss her recently released book\u00a0<\/span>Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women\u2019s Faith, Courage, and Moral Imagination in the Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The book is an ethical analysis of Black women\u2019s faith-based activism during the civil rights movement. Dr. Mingo conducted interviews with women who participated in the movement and developed the ethical argument of her book based on what she learned in those interviews. One of the women featured is Dr. Taitt-Magubane who was active in the movement and remained active in global social justice work for decades after. This conversation, facilitated by current student Daniela Harrigan, was hosted by Union United Methodist Church here in Boston.
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2022 RCT Lecture<\/h3>\n

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David Anderson Hooker, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nCounter Stories Consulting and Visiting Professor at BU
\n\u201cTransforming Historical Harms\u201d
\n<\/strong>October 20, 2022<\/p>\n

Dr. David Anderson Hooker introduced the Transforming Historical Harms framework that he has been central to developing. In this framework, Hooker helps us to see the ways that narratives shape our lives, our sense of self, and our worlds. Narratives, according to Hooker, give us the scaffolding and context for the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Far too often, these stories, shaped by historical narratives, confine us to long-standing forces of harm, injustice, and violence. Dr. Hooker helps us to see the power of co-creating new narratives within which we can live and tell new stories. In his words, he helps us \u201cnot [to try] to create a shared narrative of the future. [But to] create a narrative of a shared future.\u201d In other words, when transforming historical harms the work is not to create a new dominant narrative that predetermines our future but the space to narrate a future that is shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025 RCT Lecture Sarah F. Farmer, Ph.D. Associate Director, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning \u201cRestorative Hope: Creating Pathways of Connection in Women\u2019s Prisons\u201d March 5, 2025 Dr. Farmer discussed her recently released book\u00a0Restorative Hope: Creating Pathways of Connection in Women\u2019s Prisons. Amid dehumanizing conditions, incarcerated people strive to generate hope. As one returning citizen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13628,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2289\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}