Calendar
Our Summer 2024 program is here! Check calendar below for specific events.
Recurring events also hold each week (June 28-September 3, 2024), including:
Sunday Evenings Games! Kicking off each week with interactive fun from charades to WFC Jeopardy! and even flashlight tag…
Tuesday Afternoons WFC Book of the Summer discussions on The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
Wednesday Evenings S’more community campfires. What’s more “summer” than a campfire? Stars visible. Guitars/singing welcome.
Weekday Afternoons Summer Social Justice Institute. Our social justice fellows gather to discuss social movements & justice issues. Join for a session or volunteer as a mentor!
Friday Evenings Fun Night! Bring your talents to share with our community. Music, poetry, children’s plays, bad dad jokes. Every Friday. Open to all. Sign up ahead or let the spirit move you.
Saturday Mornings* Tamworth Farmers’ Market. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! We help arrange carpooling to the best farmers’ market & local gathering place. *Occasional Saturday morning programs. Check below.
Saturday Afternoons Community conversations. We open spaces for facilitated conversations on issues dividing the left, finding resilience among the horrors of 2024, and sharing hopes/ideas for the future of World Fellowship.
Saturday Evenings* Music and poetry, contra dancing and theater. Served up coffeehouse style to round out your week or hit a weekend high note. *Check below for specifics.
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How the Un-Tenuring of Faculty Affects Everybody (Eva-Maria Swidler, educator/historian)
13 July @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Over half of Americans go to some college and now most of the teachers they have do not have and will never have tenure. What does that mean for what they can and do teach and how they teach it? What does that mean for the political activities that they can afford (literally) to support the students in (like the encampments where we noticed it was all tenured faculty who were out there)? Etc. The lack of tenure has created an overall campus academic freedom collapse that affects courses and campus activities alike.
Eva-Maria Swidler is an environmental historian with particular interest in the fields of historical theory, agricultural studies, and world political economy. Her writing has appeared in the popular press and a wide variety of academic publications. Most recently she co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, coming out in October of 2022, and authored a chapter in Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion, forthcoming in early 2023, also from Routledge. She has taught at several colleges and universities and has a particular interest in alternative pedagogy and the philosophy of learning.