Convocations

Summary of the 4th International Convocation of Unitarian * Universalist Women and People of Progressive Faiths, 5-8 September 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

To illustrate the Convocation theme "Weaving a Tapestry of Peace and New Perspectives," each Convo participant was asked to bring a square of cloth carrying a personal significance - and to write about it on a piece of paper.

This video is a tiny sample of the diversity and richness of the textiles, with inspiring stories that nurture the flame of our collective commitment to a more equitable, peaceful, and sustainable planet.

Dr. Porter has published and presented multi-lingually on women’s leadership and contributed to international NGOs’ programming for empowering people of all genders. She backs up words with action as a long-time Steering Committee member for Pitt’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program. She teaches core courses on gender and education as well as anchors anthropological seminars on schools and culture, fostering democratic competencies, building culturally responsive research repertoires, and learning from Indigenous education’s best practices. She teaches using many arts-based pedagogies and experiential learning that gets students out of the classroom.

A warm welcome to Transylvania, the birthplace of Unitarianism! Krisztina Sándor, co-president of the 4th Convocation and lay president of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, offers greetings from the House of Religious Freedom in Kolozsvár/Cluj. Formerly the residence of Unitarian bishops, the building is now a cultural center dedicated to the ideal of religious freedom and tolerance, recalling the 1568 Edict of Torda, the first law on religious freedom in Europe.