The Valpo Core

V.U. Students for Life invites you to hear…

“Cloning & Stem Cell Research: Dispelling the Myths”

A lecture by Maylie Smith, who graduated from Valpo’s law school and specializes in bioethics issues. She will be discussing the currently debated issues of cloning and stem cell research.

—What is the difference between adult and embryonic stem cells?

—What are the ethical and moral problems with cloning? With embryonic stem cell research?

—How far has science come regarding these issues?

—Can we clone human beings?

—Can stem cells cure diseases or grow replacement organs?

Please come to this exhilarating lecture and discover things you NEVER knew that are crucial issues in our world!

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Noon: Pizza - 1 pm: Lecture
CCLIR 205 Tiered Classroom

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.

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.

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.

Thursday, February 7th, 9:00 pm

Union Squire Room

Hosted by: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

What does a world redeemed by God look like? Politically? Socially? Economically? In our own selves? Speaker Allen Wakabayashi will talk about the political, social, and personal conditions of this world and where God plays into it all. This event is free and free refreshments will be served.

A Lecture by Matt Glowacki

Monday, February 4th, 7:30 pm

Neils Science Center, room 234

Sponsored by Union Board-Hot Topics

Matt is an engaging and entertaining speaker who uses clips from popular television shows to highlight stereotypes in American culture. He is funny, interactive, and encourages his listeners to examine the many ways TV imitates life and life imitates TV.

On Monday, January 28th, Goshen College Philosophy Professor Darrin
Belousek will be sharing his views on the death penalty, which are
formed in part by his Mennonite Christian faith and his commitment to
pacifism and nonresistance.  The title of his talk is, “The Gospel of
Life and the Death Penalty: An Invitation to Conversion.”

This event is a part of St. Teresa’s Soul Smorgasbord dinner and discussion
series, and will be held in their downstairs Cafe Manna dining room.
A homecooked meal will be served at 6 pm, and the discussion will start
at 6:30 pm.  This event is free for all students, and everyone is
welcome to attend.  Please contact Timothy.Taylor@valpo.edu with any
further questions.

The author of a new book examining C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series will speak at Valparaiso University on Jan. 15.

Dr. Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, will discuss how medieval cosmology, a subject that fascinated Lewis throughout his life, offers the key to understanding the seven novels.

Dr. Ward’s talk, “C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Seven Heavens,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Huegli Hall on campus and is free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://www.valpo.edu/news/index.php?action=display&newsid=3339&sy=2007

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

and

The Office of International Studies

Valparaiso University

present

A Lecture by

Professor Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga

“Pyrenean Women and Immigration into the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

Thursday, December 6

7:00 pm

Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center

822 Mound Street, Valparaiso

Refreshments to follow

Professor Arrizalabaga is Maître de conférences and Chair of the Department of Applied Languages at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, VU’s partner university in France. She is a specialist in Basque history and immigration issues.

You are cordially invited to help us celebrate the VU-Cergy partnership.

Flyer for Arrizabalaga talk