WHAT THE BODY REMEMBERS:
A dije Post-Election Community Conversation on Healing and Liberation

Facilitated by Dr. Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde

Wednesday, November 4
2:00–4:00 p.m.

Please join us for our upcoming dije Post-Election Community Conversation on Healing and Liberation as part of the School’s diversity, inclusion, justice, and equity (dije) initiatives.

The Zoom link will be available to all who register.

ABOUT THE EVENT

During the event, we will explore the following questions:

• How do you care for yourself during these difficult and turbulent times?
• What are contemplative practices?
• How can they address specific experiences (e.g., stress, conflict) related to racial trauma?
• How can they help build and sustain community during difficult times?
• How can you create and sustain a personal/community practice?

Participants will also engage in contemplative practice during the event.

Community Conversations are times when all members of the SOE community are invited to address issues affecting members of our community, learn from and with each other, and promote the values of dije in the SOE. We hope that your attendance can lead to the cultivation of new connections across the SOE community.

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde, Ph.D.
Founding Director of The Graduate Mentoring Center and Visiting Lecturer, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde’s research and creative work are grounded in contemplative practices and respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. Dr. Abegunde’s most recent poetry and essays appear in Tupelo Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, North Meridian Review, and FIRE!!!, the digital journal for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. She is the commissioned poet for the exhibitions Be/Coming and Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams. She is a visiting faculty member in African American and African Diaspora Studies, and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center, at Indiana University Bloomington.