The Valpo Core

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.

Guest speaker: Leon R. Kass, MD, PhD
Former Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics

Thursday, October 25, 6:30 pm
Community Room, CCLIR

Dr. Kass chaired President Bush’s Council on Bioethics 2002-2005. His published essays in biomedical ethics address issues of in vitro fertilization, cloning, genetic screening and genetic technology, organ transplantation, aging research, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the moral nature of the medical profession.

http://www.valpo.edu/christc/events.html

“A Platform of Reconciliation: The Truth Commission as a Means of Making Things Right in Societies in Transition”
by Hannah Cartwright, Senior

“In Pursuit of Truth: Searching for Significance in the Lives of Investigative Reporters”
by Joshua Weinhold, Senior

Thursday, October 18
6:30 pm
Mueller Hall Refectory

http://www.valpo.edu/christc/events.html

Homecoming Symposium—A 40th Anniversary Christ College Alumni Panel

October 4, 2007, 6:30-7:30 pm, Christ College Refectory, Mueller Hall

In this popular annual Homecoming event a panel of Christ College alumni will discuss life after Valparaiso University, with particular emphasis on the ways in which their Valpo education and experience in Christ College shaped essential aspects of their spiritual lives, careers, and personal relationships. This year’s special Symposium will mark the 40th anniversary of Christ College with speakers reflecting on CC life in each of the College’s four decades.

Panelists are David Paul Schreiber ‘77, Lead Pastor, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Indianapolis; Jane Knetzger ‘84, Director of Development for History, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, Boston; Philip C. Spahn ‘92, Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago; and Vanessa Burrows ‘01, Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C.

(http://www.valpo.edu/christc/SympFall07.htm)

Christ College Symposium

with guest speaker

Kevin Palys ‘00,
Independent Filmmaker

Thursday, September 20
6:30 pm
Mueller Hall Refectory

For more information, see: http://www.valpo.edu/christc/SympFall07.htm

With guest speaker Julia Kasdorf, Poet, The Pennsylvania State University.

Thursday, September 13, 6:30-7:30 pm

Christ College Refectory, Mueller Hall

This event is part of the Christ College Symposium series.