Andrew Hill - Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Philip's College
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Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program assists U.S. higher education institutions in expanding programs of academic exchange, by supporting non-U.S. scholars through grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international component and/or serve minority audiences. Both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit from this experience. This academic year 2019-2020, St. Philip's College is hosting Dr. Derick Wilson from Ulster University and the Corrymeela Peace & Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. We look forward to a year of living out the Fulbright mission to "educate, exchange, engage, and lead."

Below are the Fulbright Scholars of the US-UK Fulbright Commission for AY 2019-2020, including Dr. Derick Wilson.
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28 March 2020 - An Early Return Home Due to COVID-19

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06 March 2020 -  Fulbright Association Annual Banquet 

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San Antonio Chapter of the Fulbright Association
Annual Chapter Banquet
Friday, March 6, 2020
Dinner & Program: 7:00 p.m.

THE PLAZA CLUB
This is not a black-tie event, but The Plaza Club does require coat and tie for men and appropriate dress for women at all times. Free parking will be available in the Frost Bank Building beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The Banquet is financially supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of State and the National Fulbright Association. The grant cannot be used for alcohol purchases. The funding does allow us, however, to subsidize other costs of the Banquet. A cash bar will be a part of the event.
To join or renew, go to http://www.fulbright.org and choose the San Antonio Chapter as your affiliation:

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03 March 2020 - Conversation with Students at the Weekly
                              Meeting of the Philosophy Club

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15 February 2020 - 2020 Southwest Fulbright Symposium


Fulbright Scholar Presents at Southwest Fulbright Research Symposium

February 12, 2020
Alexa Saavedra, Strategic Communications Coordinator

St. Philip’s College will host the 2020 Southwest Fulbright Symposium on Saturday, February 15, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. in the Turbon Student Center (216).

The San Antonio Fulbright Association is an annual event that welcomes round-table presentations on the following topics: International case studies, a faculty and/or student international project; an unusual international experience; personal and professional reflections on international experiences; sharing of international institutional work; and perspectives on global issues and events.

St. Philip’s College Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Derick Wilson, will be among those presenting during the event. Since 2019, Dr. Wilson has been assisting the college to internationalize its courses and programs; drawing on his experience as a youth worker and community relations practitioner in Northern Ireland, a peace practitioner of reconciliation practices with the Corrymeela Community and an academic in education, peace, conflict studies and restorative practices.

The Southwest Fulbright Symposium focuses on promoting international educational and cultural exchange to foster a global network of all internationalists.
Coffee and breakfast will be provided at 8:30 a.m. For more information on the event, contact Andrew Hill at (210) 284-6494 or ahill76@alamo.edu.

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12 February 2020 -  The Source of Light Center

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Religion and Violence Series -
Living Together in Difference:
Upending Violence through Alternative Community-Building
with Derick Wilson, D.Phil.


  • Wed, Feb 12, 2020 7:00 PM Wed, Mar 25, 2020 9:00 PM
  • The SoL Center at University Presbyterian Church (map)
Schedule: Three sessions—Wednesdays, Feb. 12 and Mar. 25; and Monday, Apr. 20; 7-9 p.m.
Enrollment: 10 min./35 max.

A fascination with violence, often fed by gossip and media attention, takes us away from exercising our power of agency, from developing projects that build peace and secure the common good. As people from diverse faith and humanitarian belief positions, our task is to create and sustain new ways of living together in difference. In this course, we will explore philosopher René Girard’s work, which invites us to look at Christian and other religious cultures that model freedom and possibilities between people, not isolationism and defense. Participants will be invited to share their own daily practice about how we might build communities of contrast, or alternative communities to those of violence, bias, and toxicity, along with their own experiences of building relationships of trust with different others. Over the sessions, it is hoped that individual initiatives might come to be viewed as having a collective voice and even be part of a wider public voice that stands for Living Together in Difference.

Derick Wilson, D.Phil., currently is the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at St Philip’s College, San Antonio, until May 2020. He has been involved in ecumenical reconciliation practice and academic research on peacebuilding in Northern Ireland since 1965 as: a detached youth worker; a principal lecturer in youth work; and as director of the Corrymeela Reconciliation Centre. A member of the dispersed Corrymeela Community, he has worked on long-term initiatives with: critical community policing dialogues; engagements with prison officers and Category A prisoners; cross-party programmes for locally elected councillors; and residential education programmes for schools and youth agencies. As a Reader in Education he co-led a team of researchers on how organisational cultures supportive of a more shared society might be developed. He has been an Equality Commissioner, Assistant Director of the UNESCO Centre, a research member of the six-country European Union ALTERNATIVE Restorative Justice Programme and has managed ‘Creative Change,’ promoting mutual understanding among ten primary schools.


10 & 11 February 2020 -  Jefferson State College Lectures

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Irish Fulbright Scholar Hosts Insightful Lectures

Join Dr. Derick Wilson, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Ireland, for a workshop promoting, “Nurturing Hope”. Dr. Wilson will look at the dynamics of living together and what needs to be dissolved, and what needs to be promoted.

Lecture Schedule:

   Enmity, Distrust and Violence: Meeting Together, Encounter and Forgiveness?
  • Pell City Campus, Monday, February 10th, 10am, PC 201
The challenges of facing our separating histories, together. Some perspectives from Northern Ireland and the reconciliation action of the Corrymeela Community and other Civil Society groups since 1965.

   Living Together In Difference
  • Shelby-Hoover Campus, Tuesday, Feb 11th, 10am –noon, HSB 129BC

Derick Wilson has been involved in the Corrymeela Reconciliation Community since 1965. A husband, a father of four with ten grandchildren, he is Emeritus Reader in Education at Ulster University, specialising in Restorative Practices and was a Research Member of the European Union ‘Alternative’ Restorative Justice Programme, founder of the Mill Strand Integrated School, an academic member of the Victims and Survivors Forum. His doctorate was on facilitating meetings around contentious issues in mixed tradition groups and this work was applied to work with organisations in Civil Society, the Civil Service, Community Policing and City Council.

For questions, please contact Stacye Thompson at sthompson@jeffersonstate.edu

Bio:Derick Wilson has been involved in the Corrymeela Reconciliation Community since 1965. A husband, a father of four with ten grandchildren, he is Emeritus Reader in Education at Ulster University, specializing in Restorative Practices and was a Research Member of the European Union ‘Alternative’ Restorative Justice Program (2012-16).
A founder trustee of Mill Strand Integrated School (1987-92) and the Spirit of Enniskillen Award, he was an Equality Commissioner (2003-08), an academic member of the Victims and Survivors Forum and a former Chair of the Northern Ireland Youth Committee.
A detached youth worker (70-73), then establishing professional courses for indigenous youth workers (73-78), he directed the Corrymeela Centre (78-85), and at Ulster University: was a Research Fellow (85-89); established a 26 year University based action research program supportive of reconciliation (1990-2006); Assistant Director, UNESCO Center (06-09) and a Reader in Education (09-13).
His doctorate was on facilitating meetings around contentious issues in mixed tradition groups and this work was applied to work with organizations in Civil Society, the Civil Service, Community Policing and City Councils (1989-2006).
He was awarded: the MBE for Community Relations in 1994; a Distinguished Community Fellowship by the University in 2003; and a Lifetime Award for Services to Community Relations by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council in 2007.
He has been Visiting Research Fellow with: the Institute for Maori Education, Auckland University; Uppsala University, Sweden; and Waikato University.

“My community education practice is founded on the experience that in new relationships some people, formerly at enmity, can develop new possibilities together. In a historically conflicted society the relational spaces associated with how people meet, avoid or conflict with one another are dramatically shaped by historical and cultural dynamics, patterns of meeting and engaging, withdrawing and separating, and are influenced by stories and memories of how ‘they’ treated ‘us’.
At the same time, in the present moment, it is also possible to create new experiences of meeting in different ways. Should people be willing to take new opportunities and risks together, each present moment offers the possibility that people can choose differently, breaking old dynamics, meeting together in different, more hope filled ways.

This presentation is conducted through the Fulbright Scholar Program’s Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF). OLF enables Visiting Scholars to share their research interests, speak about their home country, and exchange ideas with U.S. students, faculty, and community organizations. Through these lectures, universities forge relationships with the Fulbright Scholar Program, Visiting  Scholars, and the Visiting Scholar’s home and host institutions.

YouTube Video Link: " Living Together in Difference "

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11 February 2020 - University of Alabama at Birmingham 
                                  Institute for Human Rights

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UAB hosts lecture to examine local and

global contexts of reconciliation Feb. 11


by Yvonne Taunton
February 07, 2020

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Institute for Human Rights will host guest speaker Derick Wilson, Ph.D., Reader Emeritus in Education with Restorative Practices from Ulster University, for a discussion about reconciliation in both local and global contexts Tuesday, Feb. 11, in UAB’s Heritage Hall, Room 500. The event begins at 3:30 p.m.  

Wilson has undertaken practical reconciliation work in Northern Ireland since 1965 and is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at St Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas. He is currently examining how this historically black college and Hispanic-serving institution is developing educational access and opportunity as a central approach in tackling poverty and underachievement. 

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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07 February 2020 - Birthday Lunch Andrew Hill

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30 January 2020 - Dinner with the peaceCENTER

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28 January 2020 - Building the Bridges Conversation

BUILDING THE BRIDGES!

Vital Steps to Span Gaps in SA Economics & Services
by Ann Helmke, Faith Liaison with SA Faith-Based Initiative*

Date and Time:  Tuesday, January 28, 2020; 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
Location:  Maestro Entrepreneur Center, 1811 South Laredo Street, San Antonio, TX 78207

The 2nd Community Conversation in a 4-part series on Poverty. Building collaborative bridges to span service and economic gaps in Our City!

About this Event

#1 NEED voiced and heard at the 1st Community Conversation on Poverty:
Explicit and intentional connective work across and between all nonprofits, congregations, governmental entities, and community!

WORK TOGETHER! COLLABORATE!
Come join these Conversation Starters in the How-Do-We Conversation to intentionally build the bridges:

1) Christian Reed-Ogba, ECHU Public Relations bringing community together through design, conversation and the digital world

2) Derick Wilson, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, St. Philip's College; member of Corrymeela Community, a reconciliation center in Northern Ireland since 1965

3) Edward Gonzales, Assistant Director of Neighborhood Housing Services Dept, City of San Antonio with extensive cross-sector experience in Human Services

4) Leonard Rodriguez, President/CEO of Westside Development Corporation, fostering economic development via urban communities

5) Patti Radle, community organizing via Inner City Development; SAISD School Board, former City Council, founding board member Haven for Hope, 2011 SA Peace Laureate

5) Shokare Nakpodia, the man behind DreamWeek, small business owner of The MightyGroup, bridge builder between people and ideas about tolerance, equality & diversity

6) Sister Denise LaRock, Interfaith Welcome Coalition, effective partnership across faith lines & community sectors in offering hospitality to immigrants & refugees

Bring your self, your expertise, your neighbor, your colleague, anyone you know that needs to be a part of this critical conversation in building the necessary bridges in San Antonio!

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26 January 2020 - The 14th Blessing of the Peace Makers &
                                 The 2020 San Antonio Peace Laureates

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14th Annual Blessing of the Peacemakers
 
14th Annual Blessing of the Peacemakers at Whitley Theological Center.
January 26 at 3:00 PM · San Antonio

We hope you'll be joining us at "The Blessing of the Peacemakers" on Sunday, January 26th from 3-5PM at the Whitley Center, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX.

If you can't make it, we'll miss you, but you can still take part online at our livestream thanks to NOWCastSA (The entire ceremony will also be archived for later viewing). Great music, light munchies, and wisdom from the San Antonio Peace Laureates, past, present & future. On this day we will bless and honor ALL the peacemakers – that means YOU! Come and Celebrate with us!

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During the Blessing of the Peacemakers the peaceCENTER appoints the San Antonio Peace Laureate: a local voice of wisdom, compassion and experience to speak for peace and justice in San Antonio.

The Season for Nonviolence, January 30 – April 4, is a 64-day campaign that demonstrates that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired in 1998 by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for a nonviolent world.


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23 January 2020 - DreamWeek Event #04 - The Red Cross

Our Shared Humanity: The Geneva Conventions in 2020
155 Years After the First Geneva Convention: 1864 Months After the 1864 Convention


Event Details
Andrew Hill, Associate Professor at St. Philip’s College, will address the philosophical and theological foundations of military ethics and international humanitarian law (IHL) found in the Geneva Conventions.
The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the core of international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. They protect people not taking part in hostilities and those who are no longer doing so. The endurance of the Geneva Conventions shows us what is possible when States take collective and individual action to uphold the law and humanitarian principles (Maurer, 2019).
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) acts as the guardian of international humanitarian law, a complex role that is closely connected with its own foundation and was later formally entrusted to it by the international community. The ICRC has worked on battlefields, and has made a very direct contribution to the process of codification, during which its proposals were examined, and which has led to regular revision and extension of international humanitarian law, notably in 1906, 1929, 1949 and 1977 (Sandoz, 1998).

Time:  (Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:  American Red Cross, 3642 E. Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas
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22 January 2020 - DreamWeek Event #03 - Citizenship

Citizens Together or Individuals Apart?
An inclusive conversation about: "are we committed to building respectful relationships together as diverse citizens?"


Event Details“Citizens Together or Individuals Apart?”
A conversation with Dr. Derick Wilson, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at St. Philip’s College and professional peace practitioner from Northern Ireland.
We are conceived in a relationship and then shaped and formed in a host of relationships through our life. Some set us free and give us confidence and others skew us, and sometimes demean us! We are relational beings!
Strong and robust democracies are made, in part, through the engagements between diverse citizens, not always agreeing but acknowledging one another’s rights as equal citizens. This common experience between us is not always explicitly acknowledged except at times such as Annual Commemorations, Public Holidays, singing the National Anthem and Voting.
This conversation is to ask:
  • are we committed to build respectful relationships together as diverse citizens?
  • are we committed to engage in robust conversations in which we respectfully share our honest differences and hopes about the societies we live in? , or
  • do we merely stand back and slide into living apart as individuals in much weaker and less cohesive democracies?
Time: (Wednesday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: St. Philip's College, 1801 Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, Texas

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21 January 2020 - Dinner with David Dahlin, Executive
                                Director at Charter for Compassion

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20 January 2020 - Martin Luther King, Jr. March

San Antonio marches in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Alamo City hosts the largest march in the nation with an estimated 300,000 participants.
Author: Megan Ball
Published: 10:41 AM CST January 20, 2020
Updated: 12:38 PM CST January 20, 2020


SAN ANTONIO — Thousands gathered in San Antonio for one of the largest MLK Day marches in the country.
The march to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday morning at the MLK Academy at 3501 MLK Drive. The march ends at Pittman-Sullivan Park.
Approximately 300,000 people were expected to participate in the march, making it one of the largest, if not the largest, march in the nation.
Today's march marks the 33rd annual MLK March. The 52nd Annual Commemorative Program will take place following the march.
According to the MLK Commission, the late Reverend Dr. Raymond "R.A." Callies Sr. organized the first March for Justice in 1968 to call attention to the need for basic infrastructure on the east side.
Nineteen years later on January 19, 1987, the Commission and the City of San Antonio held its first official Martin Luther King, Jr. March.
Since then, hundreds of thousands have flocked to the Alamo City to participate in the march.
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/community/san-antonio-marches-in-honor-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/273-9acb6cf8-df47-4011-b616-8ae4b7c8b115
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Derick and Dot Wilson, 20 January 2020, San Antonio, Texas

16 January 2020 - DreamWeek Event #02 - Peace Studies

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16 January 2020 - Re-Centering at the peaceCENTER

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15 January 2020 - World Affairs Council

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14 January 2020 - Arts & Sciences Division Meeting

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14 January 2020 - Fulbright Association of San Antonio

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12 January 2020 - DreamWeek Event #01

"Religion and Violence: It's Complicated"

This event explored the misconceptions, facts, and possibilities for peace and justice around the topic of religion and violence.
Panelists included:
   1) Roger C. Barnes, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of the Incarnate Word
   2) Sajida Jalalzai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Religion Department, Trinity University
   3) Simran Jeet Singh, Ph.D., Visiting Professor at Union Seminary (New York City, NY) and Host of Spirited.
   4) Derick Wilson, D.Phil., Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, St. Philip’s College; Reader Emeritus in Education and Restorative Practices, Ulster University (Northern Ireland)
St. Philip's College

The event began with a short reception running from 4:00-4:30p.
The discussion ran from 4:30-6:30p.
Co-Sponsors include: The Community Relations Council, the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, and the Faith-Based Initiative, Human Services, City of San Antonio.
http://dreamweek.org/events/
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11 January 2020 - St. Philip's College Spring Convocation

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Fulbright Awards to the US
2018-2019

Billions of dollars are invested into US higher education research. American institutions are some of the most highly regarded in the world.  The US-UK Fulbright Commission offers opportunities to academics and members of other professions to experience US higher education in the USA:
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