Willamette Institute for Continued Learning - On the Road for Peace from Northern Ireland to Mississippi 11-11-25

"Presentation by Willamette students Kate West, Kaitlin Imai, and Sawyer Garrison, with Professors Wendy Petersen and David Gutterman as moderators. The group will present reflections on their summer internships as they bridged divides and built community through art and storytelling. Interdisciplinarity has been at the center of Professor Petersen-Boring’s scholarship and teaching from the start. In addition to courses in History such as Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Love and Reason in the Middle Ages, Dante, and The Crusades, she offers many courses that wrestle with contemporary challenges at the intersection of ethics, climate change, and activism, such as Western Civilization and Sustainability, The Inner Life of Activism, and Climate/Race/Economy: New Systems Thinking. David Gutterman is a Professor of Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics at Willamette. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for REligion, Law and Democracy."