Workshops
Interested in having further discussion with Dr. Smith as your guide?
Dr. Smith Signature Workshops
Invite Dr. Smith to engage your community in the work of interpretation, images, the bible, and Howard Thurman! She does both in-person and virtual workshop experiences.
She has worked with Chautauqua Institute, Calvin Institute, Wabash Center for Teaching, and various denominational, interfaith, and nonprofit organizations (methodist, baptist, episcopal, presbyterian, Jewish, non-religious, etc.).
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For diverse ecumenical and interfaith settings. This workshop is a guided journey through Thurman readings, images, and discussions. It invites participants to reflect, engage, and create models for meaning-making practices that are aware of “others” as well as the self. See Dr. Smith’s essay, “Thurman-eutics: Howard Thurman’s ‘Clothesline’ for the Interpretation of the Life of the Mind and Journey of the Spirit,” in the edited volume called, “Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide, and Prophet.
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For diverse ecumenical and interfaith settings. This workshop explores the meanings of the Gospels’ death and/or resurrection accounts through the visual and literary works of African American artists and writers. It re-introduces participants to themes of judicial interrogation, crucifixion, community witness, and resurrection from the perspective of the African American experience and story. See Dr. Smith’s essay, “Witnessing Jesus Hang: Reading Mary Magdalene’s View of Crucifixion through Ida B. Wells’s Chronicles of Lynching” in the thirtieth-anniversary edition of the iconic volume, Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation.
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For Christian groups, particularly affinity groups and retreat experiences. A guided journey through parable interpretation using the bible and textiles.
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For Christian settings interested in interpretations of familiar New Testament texts, particularly the Gospels, from the works of 19th century African American women.
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For Christian study and learning communities. Introduces those books of the New Testament often neglected in the study of the bible. It is a journey of discovery focusing on the language, imagery, and themes of these books of the bible.