{"id":9218,"date":"2025-02-08T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:17","slug":"a-pedagogy-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2025\/02\/08\/a-pedagogy-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pedagogy of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9219\" style=\"width:292px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism.webp 512w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2025\/02\/activism-400x400.webp 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Kari Mosel Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last year, Bates faculty member Brian J. Evans (Theater and Dance, Africana Studies) taught a First-Year Seminar entitled &#8220;Embodied Activism.&#8221; We wrote about the course and its community-engaged project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2024\/02\/25\/new-resources-for-understanding-our-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this previous blog post<\/a>. In that course, Evans invited his students to explore, among other things, how contemporary Mainers embody their activism. The result was <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fIn9Tvuc05HhFVTPxyZObxL-iojahINA\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a beautiful booklet<\/a> that shares those Maine-based stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At last month&#8217;s annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., Evans presented insights from that course in a session entitled, &#8220;Co-Creation in Education: Strengthening Communities through Curricular Partnerships.&#8221; He initiated that session with <strong>his own embodied activism<\/strong> as he used spoken word to invite attendees to exit the typical staid academic conference session and enter what we might call a pedagogy of love. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/project-pericles-inc_shine-artsandhumanities-spokenword-activity-7292288252038791169-PMCR\/?utm_medium=ios_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAADPyHQB11SJPanpIsWLC0U1G5kYdsFhNT4&amp;utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_campaign=share_via\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch a short performance of his poem &#8220;Shine&#8221; here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Evans&#8217;s community-engaged course was supported by the Maine-based activists who shared their experience and wisdom with his students, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, and the Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program\u2013a Mellon-funded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectpericles.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Pericles<\/a> faculty leadership initiative that supports innovative curricula deepening students\u2019 engagement with critical societal issues in order to contribute meaningfully to communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Bates faculty member Brian J. 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