The Valpo Core

Christian social ethicist Dr. James Nash will present “Science and Ethics: A Call for Interaction and Collaboration on Ecological Integrity” at 3 p.m., Friday, March 28 in the Huegli Hall Lumina Room. Following his lecture there will be refreshments and open topic round table discussion.

Dr. Nash is author of Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility and former director of the Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy.

http://www.intra.valpo.edu/index.php/chronicle?edition=223&section=2&article=4162&options=

25th Annual  Edward A. Seegers Lecture
Friday, March 28, 2008
4 to 5 p.m.
Tabor Auditorium, Wesemann Hall
Valparaiso University School of Law

Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law
The University of Michigan Law School

Lecture Title:  “Women’s Status, Men’s States”

In this discussion, Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon addresses the
masculinity of states as an overlooked and crucial dimension of
international politics.  She surveys the status of women around the
world and in the international system at the same time.  Professor
MacKinnon explains why she concludes that international approaches to
women’s rights offer distinctive promise for addressing sex
inequality.

Reception to follow from 5 to 5:30 p.m. in the Duesenberg Commons.

On Tuesday, April 1st at 6:30 pm, the St. Teresa of Avila Catholic
Student Center will be hosting a performance of the one-man show
Damien by Father Edward Evanko. There is no cost to attend the
performance; free will donations will be taken to benefit St. Luke’s
parish in Kentucky.

Father Evanko was a singer, Broadway performer, stage and television
actor, and Canadian television host before becoming a Ukrainian
Catholic priest in 2005 at the age of 63. Damien relates the moving
story of the Catholic Missionary Father Damien, who devoted his life
to caring and ministering to the lepers on the Hawaiian island of
Molokai. Eventually Fr. Damien contracted leprosy himself and died on
April 15, 1889.

Ronne Hartfield–renowned scholar, essayist and poet–will read from her family memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family and will discuss the importance of combating and counteracting skewed histories of race relations with “first-voice” narratives and supportive, intimate families and communities.  She’ll also bookend her talk with some of her own poetry that touches on these or similar themes.  The lecture will be followed by a Q and A.

Thursday, March 27th
7-8 p.m.
Neils Science Center, room 234

Hartfield has encouraged people to read a brief excerpt from her book.  Please email  Allison.Schuette-Hoffman@valpo.edu for a copy or for further information.

This event is generously co-sponsored by:
~ the Committee to Enhance Learning and Technology
~ the Project on Civic Reflection
~ the Christopher Center
~ Gus Sponberg, recipient of the Kapfer grant
~ Multicultural Programs
~ Christ College
~ the Department of Athletics

This event is free and open to the public.

A talk by Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives
Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 pm, in CCLIR 205

Peter Kornbluh is Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive, where he currently directs the Archive’s Cuba Documentation Project.

His work has long focused on Latin America. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra Documentation Project and director of the Archive’s project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua.

LINK to more information: Info on Kornbluh Lecture

Looking For a Major or Minor?

Stop by the Majors Fair!

OPEN HOUSE–Everyone is welcome, even if you already have a major and/or minor.

Wednesday, March 19th, from 3:00-5:00 pm
Union Great Hall

Representatives from many campus departments will be on hand to talk to you and answer questions about their departments, majors, possible career paths, etc.

***PIZZA SERVED!***

Valparaiso University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kress Lecture Series

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Neils Science Center 234
7:00 pm

“Science and Religion: How to End Their Unnecessary Conflict”

Dr. Murray Peshkin

Argonne National Laboratory

The destructive conflict over the teaching of evolution in American public
schools is illogical and unnecessary. One of its causes has been the failure
of the scientific community to address students and the general public about
what science is and does, what a scientific theory is and how we know when
to believe it, and especially about the strengths and limitations of science.
In this talk I will try to do better.

About the speaker:

Dr. Peshkin received the Ph.D. from Cornell University.  He was Associate or
Acting Director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory for
twenty years and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and
th American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He has also been a
Fellow of the Weizmann Institute of Science.