November 5, 2025
This program is presented by the Clarke Forum and the Morgan Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the departments of sociology and Africana studies and the First-Year Seminar program.
Bettina L. Love, an author, activist and professor of curriculum and teaching at Columbia University, will visit Dickinson College to present her work on the importance of emotionally grounded teaching. The lecture, “Love, Joy, Creativity & the Brain: The Heart of Culturally Responsive Education,” will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium (ATS). This is Dickinson’s annual Morgan Lecture. The event is free and open to the public. The program will not be livestreamed nor recorded for future viewing.
Love will explore ways in which teaching rooted in love, joy and emotional attunement can reform schooling. Love will emphasize how culturally responsive education promotes student comprehension, community resilience and prosperity by blending strategies, stories and evidence-based research.
Love holds the esteemed William F. Russell Professorship at Teachers College, Columbia University, with special expertise in curriculum and teaching. Her research includes abolitionist teaching, hip-hop education, educational reparations and art-based education as a catalyst for civic engagement, among other subjects. She is the author of the bestselling book, “Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal,” which was awarded the distinguished Stowe Prize for Literary Activism in 2024.
The Morgan Lectureship was endowed by Dickinson’s board of trustees in 1992. It was created in grateful appreciation for the distinguished service of James Henry Morgan of Dickinson’s class of 1878, an emeritus professor of Greek, dean and president of the college. The lectureship brings to campus a scholar-in-residence each year to meet informally with individuals and class groups and to deliver the Morgan Lecture on topics in the social sciences and humanities. Recent scholars have included Kwame Anthony Appiah, Allissa Richardson, Roosevelt Montás, Audra Simpson and Deirdre Cooper Owens.
The program is presented by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Morgan Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the departments of sociology and Africana studies and the First Year Seminar Program. For additional information, please visit clarkeforum.org.
Further information
- Location: Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: Free