{"id":7132,"date":"2018-06-29T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:05:53","slug":"voices-of-conscience-national-touring-exhibition-opens-april-13-at-elizabethtown-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2018\/06\/29\/voices-of-conscience-national-touring-exhibition-opens-april-13-at-elizabethtown-college\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Voices of Conscience\u2019 national touring exhibition opens April 13 at Elizabethtown College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 2017, the United States marked 100 years since entering the World War I conflict. As Americans commemorated this historical landmark, Kauffman Museum of Bethel College in Kansas introduced a national traveling exhibit to help keep peace witness in mind.<\/p>\n

Elizabethtown College is the next stop on this national tour, showcasing the approximately 1,000-square-foot exhibit, titled \u201cVoices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War.\u201d<\/p>\n

The traveling exhibit lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of WWI peace protesters and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. This witness included men and women, religious believers and secular humanitarians, political protesters and sectarian separatists. They resisted U.S. involvement in the war, the enactment of military conscription, the war bond drives, and the denial of freedom of speech under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. For this resistance many suffered community humiliation, federal imprisonment and mob violence at the hands of a war-crusading American public.<\/p>\n

Organized in 10 themes that encourage exploration and reflection, the modules surround a recreation of an Alcatraz Prison cell, the site where Hutterite conscientious objectors were punished for refusing military participation. Text and quotes provide interpretation and raise provocative questions for viewers while large-scale graphics and photo-murals immerse visitors in the historical experience of witnessing for peace during \u201ctotal war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit opens at 7:45 a.m. Friday, April 13, at the College\u2019s High Library, and continues during regular library hours through Wednesday, June 2.<\/p>\n

Two evening events also coincide with the traveling exhibit.<\/p>\n

An opening reception\u2014with desserts and time to view the exhibit\u2014takes place from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, on the second level of the library with an interfaith peace panel following at 7 p.m. in the College\u2019s Gibble Auditorium.<\/p>\n

The interfaith panel reflects on religious perspectives on peace and conflict.\u00a0Participants from four faith traditions (Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism) discuss what their own religion says about war and their personal faith convictions about war.<\/p>\n

In addition, Steven Nolt, senior scholar of the College\u2019s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, presents \u201cWorld War I and Lancaster Peace Churches,\u201d at 7 p.m. Thursday April 26, in Hoover 110.<\/p>\n

He will talk about ways that Lancaster\u2019s peace church people experienced wartime pressures, sought to explain their convictions to their neighbors and to the government, and struggled to know how best to help those suffering from the war\u2019s effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2017, the United States marked 100 years since entering the World War I conflict. As Americans commemorated this historical landmark, Kauffman Museum of Bethel College in Kansas introduced a national traveling exhibit to help keep peace witness in mind. Elizabethtown College is the next stop on this national tour, showcasing the approximately 1,000-square-foot exhibit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,5,7],"tags":[490,1128,12],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-culture","category-campus-community","tag-achievements-2","tag-feature","tag-high-library","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}