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Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life SCOTT CENTER

A Reading from The Chapter on Love

Sponsored by:
Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
In commemoration of Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, join Muslim Chaplain and Interfaith Advisor Zahra Moeini in a reading of the Chapter on Love in Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley. Riley’s writing uniquely combines the language for collective and individual liberation with a tongue of prayer, and a memorable meditation on love in its many layers and shades. Light refreshments will be served.

McCullough Crest Room

Yom HaShoah Film Screening, with director Melissa Hacker

Sponsored by:
Hillel and Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
We are thrilled to be screening the 1996 documentary film “My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports,” in honor of the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance Day. Even more thrilling, film director Melissa Hacker will join us in person for the screening and a discussion afterward. The film tells the story of The Kindertransport movement which brought nearly 10,000 children to Great Britain from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, before the advent of World War II, saving many of their lives.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

POSTPONED -- Prophetic Peacemakers in Spiritual & Religious Traditions (dinner discussion)

Sponsored by:
Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Join the Scott Center chaplains as they explore the dynamic lives of visionary and prophetic peacemakers in their respective religious and ethical traditions. Who are these exemplary visionaries and what made their peacemaking prophetic in ways that can inspire us today to respond and resolve social injustices, tensions or upheavals? 

McCullough Crest Room

The Qur'an & the Arabic Language

Sponsored by:
Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
The Islamic tradition and the Arabic language seem to be inseparable. Muslims recite their daily prayers in Arabic, read in the Qur’an in Arabic, and many of the phrases they use in daily conversations, like “InshaAllah” and “Alhamdulilah,” find their origins in the Qur’an - Islam’s sacred book. In this talk, Maryait Khader (Arabic Dept.) and Zahra Moeini (Scott Center) will discuss how this came to be, with a close look at early Islamic history and the Qur’an. How does the Qur’an refer to the Arabic language?

McCullough Crest Room

Mindfulness Retreat with Prof. Emily Proctor

Sponsored by:
Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Come take part in a half-day mindfulness retreat for students, led by Professor Emily Proctor.  We will learn and practice a variety of mindfulness activities tuned toward helping the mind connect with the body, all with the intention of deepening a sense of relaxed connection and relationship with the people and world around us.

Nourishing snacks and warm drinks will be provided through the morning.  Register by January 25 at go/mindwithbody/

McCullough Crest Room

Two dancers against a dark background

Practicing Change: Things to be Repeated- Dance Company of Middlebury

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series, Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Dance, The Center for Community Engagement, Dance Company of Middlebury, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, and Anderson Freeman Resource Center
The Dance Company of Middlebury, directed by Professor Lida Winfield is joined by several special guest artists:
Artistic Director Sydnie L Mosley and six Creative Partners, including alumna Jessica Lee ‘13.
SLMDances is a New York City based dance-theater collective that works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice.
Professor Jeff Buettner’s Sing the World into Place Winter Term course.
Music created by Professor’s McLean Macionis and Matthew Taylor and Lighting design by Bert Crosby.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$15 - General Public / $10 - Middlebury Faculty, Staff, Valid ID Holders / $8 -
Open to the Public