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 […]
Category: CC Symposium
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 […]