The Christ College Symposium is one of the most hallowed traditions of Christ College. Each week, the CC community gathers together for an evening of stimulating discussion and debate on topics that are both timely and timeless. Throughout the academic year, Symposia will be offered in two formats: The Symposium Speakers Series (our featured lecture […]
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Mel Piehl Heads Cambridge Faculty Seminar
Mel Piehl, Ph.D., senior research professor in Christ College, will succeed Fred Niedner, Ph.D. senior research professor of theology, as the fourth director of the Cambridge Seminar for new faculty. The Cambridge Seminar is a vocational retreat for new tenure-track faculty held at the University’s study center in Cambridge, England, and represents the University’s commitment […]
Smith Named University Research Professor Grant
Julien Smith, Ph.D., will serve as University Research Professor at Valpo for the 2017–2018 academic year. The grant recognizes and encourages scholarly accomplishments and will afford Smith the opportunity to continue creative and original work. Smith, associate professor of humanities and theology in Christ College, will continue research on a book examining the portrayal of Jesus of […]
CC Honored in Congressional Record
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Navigating the In-Between: A Journey of Grace
Admission Free Sponsored by Christ College How do we navigate the space between who we are and who we would like to become, between the world as it is and world as we imagine it could be? In August of 2001, Kaethe Schwehn needed her own, personal Eden. She was a twenty-two-year-old trying to come to terms with a […]
The Past and the Good: Reflections on History and the Moral Life
Admission Free Sponsored by Christ College Inaugural Lecture Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is Professor of Humanities and History and holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He completed his MA (1992) and PhD (1996) at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of eight books, including […]
Mighty Be Our Powers
Admission Free Sponsored by Christ College The 2016 Louis E and Janice M Zeile Lecture on Christian Vocation Leymah Roberta Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her work in leading a Christian and Muslim women’s peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. She is founder and president of […]
The Arc of Faith: The Mind’s Journey Away from God and the Possibility of Return
Admission Free Sponsored by Christ College Mark W. Roche is Joyce Professor of German, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy, and former Dean of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. His publications have been on German literature and on philosophy, film, and higher education. He is the author of nine books, including Why Choose the Liberal Arts? (University of Notre […]
Eros, Affliction and Joy
Admission Free Sponsored by Christ College Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems […]