Christ College Symposium
with guest speaker Gretchen Buggeln, Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities in Christ College, Valparaiso University
Thursday, September 24, 6:30-7:30 pm, Harre Union Ballroom
More information: http://www.valpo.edu/christcollege/assets/pdfs/sympfall2009.pdf
Christ College Symposium
“The Divine Handiwork: Evolution and the Wonder of Life”
with guest speaker Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science, Harvard University
Thursday, September 10, 2009
6:30-7:30 pm, Community Room, Christopher Center
For more details: http://www.valpo.edu/christcollege/assets/pdfs/sympfall2009.pdf
We encourage you to attend one or more of the symposia hosted by Christ College this Fall. They are Core-approved events (for 5th hour credit) and they offer interesting speakers on many different topics. Tonight’s symposium is on global warming. Each one runs from 6:30-7:30 pm in the Refectory in Mueller Hall. Click here for the whole Fall schedule:
http://www.valpo.edu/christcollege/assets/pdfs/sympfall2009.pdf
Tonight: “Global Warming and the Earth’s Future,” David Archer, Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Albert G. Huegli Lecture on Church-Related Higher Education
“Christian Vocation Then and Now: Is it Possible to Sustain a Christian Way of Life in the World?”
L. Gregory Jones, Dean of the Divinity School, Duke University
Thursday, February 12, 6:30-7:30 pm
Christopher Center, Community Room
Christian ethicist L. Gregory Jones is dean of the Divinity School and professor of theology at Duke University. An ordained United Methodist minister, he is the author of several books, including the acclaimed Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis. He has also co-edited The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher with Stephanie Paulsell, and Resurrecting Excellence with Kevin Armstrong. Jones writes a regular column, “Faith Matters” for The Christian Century, and he is co-editor of the scholarly journal Modern Theology. The Huegli Lecture on Church-Related Higher Education honors the fifteenth president of Valparaiso University, Albert G. Huegli (1913-1998), who served from 1968 until 1978.
This lecture is part of the Winter 2009 Christ College Symposium Series.
A Homecoming Symposium with Valpo Alumni
Christ College Symposium Series
Thursday, October 9, 6:30-7:30 pm, Christ College Refectory, Mueller Hall
In this popular annual Homecoming event a panel of Christ College graduates will reflect upon the ways their Valparaiso and Christ College experiences shaped essential aspects of their careers, relationships, and spiritual lives. Alumni panelists will be: Kate Goodman ’97, a writer currently staying home with three children and serving as lead moderator for the Denver Post’s blog and forum “Mile High Mama” (Denver); Ben Schnakenberg ‘00, associate at High Road Capital Partners and student in the executive MBA program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (New York City); Matt Provenzano ’00, Resident Physician, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery; and Stephanie Loomis Pappas ‘03, Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and composition at Northeastern University (Boston).
Christ College Symposium Series:
September 25, 2008, 6:30-7:30 pm, CCLIR Community Room
Meditation and Monasticism: Making the Ascetic Self in Thailand
with guest speaker Joanna Cook, George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies,
Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, England
Buddhism, more overtly than other religions, is a system of self-cultivation—a set of techniques by which followers mold themselves into particular kinds of persons, with reference to ideals, relationships and practices drawn from Buddhist traditions as locally constituted. In a consideration of monastic practice and identity, Dr. Cook, who took ordination as a Thai Buddhist nun for four months during her undergraduate years and for a year while writing her doctoral dissertation, will explore the ways in which people make religious and cognitive concepts real through learned bodily and mental experiences. She will examine the ways in which the personally transformative process of becoming a Buddhist monastic is in direct dialogue with the concerns of community living and the broader issues of modernization and cultural change.
Eric G. Adelberger, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Washington
A Public Lecture
Kress Lecture Series and
Christ College Symposium Series
Albert Einstein called his insight that gravitation is equivalent to an acceleration of the observer his “happiest idea.” Einstein’s idea formed the basis of the modern relativistic theory of gravity as a manifestation of curved space-time. Physicist Eric G. Adelberger’s lecture will describe the experimental evidence for this profound “Equivalence Principle,” which has relevance for exploring such elusive phenomena as antimatter and dark matter. The story of Einstein’s “happy” theory of gravity illustrates how profound ideas develop, how incorrect experimental conclusions can stimulate new insights, and how the best experimental techniques are sometimes the least obvious. Professor Adelberger’s talk is part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
When: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 6:30 pm
Where: Neils Science Center 234
LINK to Adelberger flyer
LINK to Adelberger bio
Sarah Deardorff ’04, Refugee Resettlement Case Manager, World Relief
Thursday, September 4, 6:30-7:30 in the Christ College Refectory, Mueller Hall
Christ College alumna Sarah Deardorff has worked with refugees overseas and in the United States through faith-based organizations, including the Lutheran World Federation, the World Council of Churches, and World Relief DuPage. In October she will begin a master’s program in forced migration at Oxford University in England as one of five Americans to win a fellowship for future international development and policy leaders from the Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Deardorff will review her work with refugees from Burma, Burundi, Iraq, and elsewhere and she will address current challenges and debates concerning the protection of refugees through programs providing education, food distribution, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS campaigns, repatriation efforts, and micro-enterprise initiatives.
More info on the Christ College Symposium Series:
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.
