Maxine Greene's Wide Awakeness: A Global Forum on Poetic and Social Imagination
January 17, 2026 ✦ Online ✦ 9:00 am–3:00 pm EST ✦ Free for Students / $10 for others
Maxine Greene’s Wide Awakeness: A Global Forum on Poetic and Social Imagination is a one-day online conference that invites educators, artists, scholars, and practitioners into a shared exploration of Aesthetic Education.
Aesthetic Education is an approach to learning that cultivates perception, imagination, emotional awareness, and meaning-making through engagement with art, beauty, and sensory experience. It is not simply about learning about art, but about learning how to notice more deeply, feel more fully, interpret thoughtfully, and respond creatively to the world around us.
This global forum brings participants together to reflect on Maxine Greene’s enduring legacy and to consider questions such as:
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How do Maxine Greene’s ideas translate across languages, cultures, and contexts?
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Why is Aesthetic Education essential to contemporary educational communities?
Participants are invited to a day of dialogue, reflection, and shared inquiry focused on what it means to remain wide awake to one another and to the world.
Spring Lecture Series: Walking with the Migrant: Jubilee, Justice, and Hope
February 12, 2026 ✦ Online ✦ 7:00–8:00 pm CT
The 2026 Spring Lecture Series will examine the spiritual, scriptural, and ecological dimensions of migration through the lens of Catholic faith, exploring it as both a lived human experience and a call to solidarity, justice, and hope in today’s world. Join us for the first lecture, "Stranger and Sojourner: Scripture's Migration Narratives," presented by Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, Ph.D., as she explores how Scripture’s migration stories reveal God’s presence among those on the move.
Spring Lecture Series: Walking with the Migrant: Jubilee, Justice, and Hope
March 12, 2026 ✦ Online ✦ 7:00–8:00 pm CT
The 2026 Spring Lecture Series will examine the spiritual, scriptural, and ecological dimensions of migration through the lens of Catholic faith, exploring it as both a lived human experience and a call to solidarity, justice, and hope in today’s world. Join us for the second lecture, "Creation on the Move: Ecological Migration in an Integral Ecology," presented by Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin, S.T.D., as he examines how climate change and ecological degradation drive migration, and how Catholic social teaching calls us to respond.
Spring Lecture Series: Encountering Christ at the Border: Contemporary Migration Stories
April 9, 2026 ✦ Online ✦ 7:00–8:00 pm CT
The 2026 Spring Lecture Series will examine the spiritual, scriptural, and ecological dimensions of migration through the lens of Catholic faith, exploring it as both a lived human experience and a call to solidarity, justice, and hope in today’s world. Join us for the third ad final lecture, "Encountering Christ at the Border: Contemporary Migration Stories," presented by Dylan Corbett, as he shares accounts of migration stories and pastoral reflections that reveal Christ in today’s migrants and refugees.