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The Roman settlement at Omrit: New discoveries made by the CSB/SJU archaeological field school in Northern Israel
No full textThe archaeological site of Omrit is located near ancient Caesarea Philippi in the northern part of modern Israel. Since 2012 archaeologists have been in the process of excavating the remains of a substantial Roman-period settlement that was especially active in the third through fifth centuries CE. In 2015 and 2016 a CSB/SJU team joined the project. In this Thursday Forum, we share with the CSB/SJU community the exciting and significant archaeological discoveries that we have made over the past five years. This site offers an excellent example of landscape transformation in antiquity -- a transformation that involved political shifts in power, complexities of religious worship and history, and the use and reuse of local environmental resources
Using 3D printing to enhance student learning in content areas
No full textAs part of the teacher preparation program at the College of St. Benedict and St. John\u27s University, students are required to take content area courses to prepare them with the content background to teach. One such course, elementary science content, is utilizing 3D printing to help students develop and learn the design process. Learning the design process by creating prototypes and 3D printing is an integral part of science and engineering standards they will one day be required to teach
OSB? OMG!
No full textThis talk will explore with as much honesty as possible the very real cultural adjustments that individuals may face when they come to work or teach at a Benedictine institution. Using feedback provided by recently hired employees at Saint Anselm and anecdotes garnered from three decades of experience, the speaker will consider the various responses people actually have to the Benedictine culture, responses which can range from curiosity, as in “Oh? my God” to shock, as in “Oh my God!” to possibly even spiritual contentedness, as in “Oh, My God!” Being mindful of these potential responses and the various levels of worry, indifference, or excitement they contain, can help Benedictine institutions better welcome and integrate individuals into their missions
Monks as Model Men: Gender Anomalies or Heroic Ideal?
Get PDFThe movie The Mask You Live In portrays gender socialization for men in the United States today as dominated by a trajectory emphasizing ruthless competition, a never-ending search for prestige in material wealth, and a largely self-serving quest to overcome and control women. The movie graphically depicts all the accompanying psychological dysfunction, legal difficulties, and emotional distress experienced by boys and young men desperately trying to conform to such a scripted model of masculinity. Anthropological research invites alternate ways of thinking about the relationship between sex and gender. This is especially true among those who claim a close relationship with the supernatural or transcendent. Can the methodology of cultural anthropology provisionally expand the consideration of gender variants to provide other ways of modeling masculinity without discarding the underlying gender binary altogether? Catholic Christian monastics —men and women who commit to communal devotional and service roles in the light of transcendent aims and ends—demonstrate the potential for providing healthier alternative masculinity scripts. More specifically, can monks successfully model and communicate such an alternative masculinity for men in a higher educational institutional setting
Sustainable polymers: plastics from plants
Get PDFPlastics and related soft materials are ubiquitous in today\u27s world. This presentation takes a look at why polymers have useful properties, where they come from, and why attention has shifted toward new, biorenewable materials
Fostering Cultures of Encounter: Framing Papal Teaching on Dialogue as Multi-Track Peacebuilding
Get PDFThis article demonstrates that there is a rough parallel between (1) Diamond and McDonald’s (1996) notion of multi-track diplomacy and (2) the four levels of inter-religious dialogue identified by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, along with two other levels discerned within papal teaching by the authors. Diamond and McDonald expanded the political science concept of dual-track diplomacy and, in the process, helped to buttress the legitimacy of peace studies discourse in that discipline. Comparably, this article seeks to introduce papal teaching on dialogue framed in terms of multi-track peacebuilding. As a result, it solidifies a latent resonance between Catholic Social Teaching and peace studies, a confluence that is shown to accord with Pope Francis’ teachings on cultures of encounter