Bring an object/symbol that holds sacred, secular, spiritual, or religious meaning to you, and share your story about its relevance with others. This is a sharing and listening experience; it is not designed to change someone’s beliefs. It is relational in that we share our lives and listen mindfully, with self-awareness.

Sponsors: Mindfulness & Contemplative Inquiry Center; Educational Leadership

This is the kick-off to a six-week program dedicated to fostering conversation and reconciliation around race in our community. Over the six weeks, attendees will meet in heterogeneous groups to move through a guided curriculum that includes video teaching from keynote speakers like Brian Tome and Chuck Mingo, as well as on-site presenters and group leaders.

Help make this night the beginning of a series of conversations that challenge bias and foster authentic communication about what we can do to challenge prejudice and racial disparities in the world around us right now.

Sponsor: Crossroads Oxford

Join students, faculty, staff, and community members for an “intentional dinner party.” Eat delicious Mediterranean food, and participate in table discussions about topics related to identity and interfaith and social justice.

Register for the dinner

Sponsors: Hillel at Miami University; Oxford Presbyterian Church; Office of Community Engagement and Service

Hear from four faith leaders/activists: Rev. Dr. Donald K. Gillett (Lexington, KY), Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia (Columbus, OH), Darsheel Kaur (Dayton, OH), and Rev. Scott Elliott (Mt. Vernon, OH). Panelists will talk about the ways they engage in mindful living, and they will answer questions about how their faith informs their activism for social justice and peace.

Sponsors: EDL 685; Office of Diversity Affairs; Mindfulness & Contemplative Inquiry Center

People from across campus and in the community will read names of those who perished in the Holocaust.

Sponsor: Hillel at Miami University

Open to 10 students. Come along on a tour of four different places of worship (Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Muslim) in the Cincinnati area. We'll spend about a half hour exploring each location, followed by dinner and discussion.

Interested in coming? Contact Ziva Shachar.

Sponsor: EDL 685

Arranged is a film about two young women--one an Orthodox Jew, the other a Muslim--who meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year, they learn that they share much in common, not least of which is that they are both preparing for arranged marriages.

This free film screening will be followed by discussion. Food will be served.

Sponsor: Comparative Religion Student Association

Note: This event was erroneously publicized as starting at 5:30 p.m. The event begins at 5:00 p.m.

Chris Edmonds's father fought in WWII and journaled the experience. Upon his father's death, Pastor Edmonds discovered the journals, which tell a remarkable story of his father saving many lives during the Holocaust. Pastor Edmonds will share the story through video, conversation, and Q&A.

This program serves as a culmination of both Better Together Week and the annual Genocide and Holocaust Education Programming.

Sponsor: Hillel at Miami University

Immediately following Chris Edmonds's talk in Benton Hall at 5:00, all are invited to share a Shabbat dinner in the Club Lounge at Goggin Ice Center, starting at 6:30.

Sponsor: Hillel at Miami University

Enjoy free food and entertainment by student and community groups on the main stage, as you browse information tables for student groups representing a variety of religious, secular, and spiritual perspectives. There will be arts and crafts, door prizes, and community fellowship.

Sponsor: Interfaith Center/Interfaith Council