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Lectures @ Messiah College for Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

The Office of the President is pleased to announce the following lectures and talks hosted at Messiah. Please contact the individual Sponsor for further details.


		Centennial Keynote and Common Reading Convocation Tracy Kidder September 14, 2009; 7 p.m. Brubaker Auditorium, Eisenhower Campus Center Event is free, but tickets are required. Call the Ticket Office at 717.691.6036. Pulitzer prize-winning Author “Mountains Beyond Mountains” Contact: Shirley Groff, sgroff@messiah.edu Sponsors: Messiah College Centennial and Common Reading Committees

		Don Optiz September 16, 2009; 7 p.m. Alexander Auditorium, Frey Hall This is a free event. Seating is first come, first served. Associate Professor of Sociology and Higher Education “The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness” Contact: Lili Hagenbuch, lhagenbuch@messiah.edu Sponsor: The College Honors Program

		Dr. Matthew Stanley October 8, 2009; 7 p.m. This is a free event. Seating is first come, first served. Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University “The Values of a Religious Scientist: The Case of Arthur Eddington” Contact: Dr. Ted Davis, tdavis@messiah.edu Sponsor: The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science

		Dinesh D’Souza October 20, 2009; 7:30 p.m. Brubaker Auditorium, Eisenhower Campus Center Event is free, but tickets are required. Call the Ticket Office at 717.691.6036. Former Policy Analyst to Ronald Reagan, Author, "What's So Great About America?" and Christian Apologist Contact: Taylor Munoz, tm1243@messiah.edu Sponsor: Messiah College Republicans

		Dana Gioia Lecture October 28, 2009; 7:30 p.m. Hostetter Chapel Sanctuary Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and award-winning poet *“Arts in a Democratic Society”* Contact: Lili Hagenbuch, lhagenbuch@messiah.edu Sponsor: The College Honors Program

		Executive in Residence Lecture Richard Stearns November 5, 2009; 7:30 p.m. Alexander Auditorium, Frey Hall President of World Vision “The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect From Us?” Contact: Vicki Warkoczeski, vwarkoczeski@messiah.edu Sponsor: Office of Development and School of Mathematics, Engineering and Business

		American Democracy Lecture Dr. Louis Fisher November 10, 2009; 7 p.m. Parmer Cinema, Boyer Hall Specialist in Constitutional Law, Law Library of the Library of Congress “The Case Against ’Judicial Supremacy’: How Citizens Shape the Constitution” Contact: Robin Lauermann, rlauerma@messiah.edu Sponsor: The Center for Public Humanities

		Dr. Robert Russell November 14, 2009 Hostetter Chapel Sanctuary For ticket information, call the Ticket Office at 717.691.6036. Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences “Cosmology, Evolution, and Resurrection Hope” Contact: Dr. Ted Davis, tdavis@messiah.edu Sponsor: The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science

		Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Dr. W. Daniel Blair January 19, 2010; 9:45 a.m. Brubaker Auditorium, Eisenhower Campus Center Assistant Professor of American Sign Language & Director of the Center for Deaf Education, California Baptist University Disabilities and the Church in Dr. King's "Beloved Community" Contact: Dana Champion, dchampion@messiah.edu Sponsor: Office of Multicultural Programs

		Spring Humanities Symposium and Centennial Keynote Lecture Henry Louis Gates, Jr. February 25, 2010; 8 p.m. Brubaker Auditorium, Eisenhower Campus Center Event is free, but tickets are required. Call the Ticket Office at 717.691.6036. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University “Genetics and Genealogy” Contact: Shirley Groff, sgroff@messiah.edu Sponsors: The Center for Public Humanities and the Messiah College Centennial Committee

		Boyer Center Distinguished Lecture Series Mark Noll March 9, 2010, 7 p.m. Hostetter Chapel Sanctuary Event is free. Seating is first come, first served. Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame "God and Race In American Politics" Contact: Terri Hopkins, thopkins@messiah.edu Sponsor: The Ernest L. Boyer Center, Messiah College

		Centennial Keynote Lecture Philip Yancey April 7, 2010; 7 p.m. Brubaker Auditorium, Eisenhower Campus Center Event is free, but tickets are required. Call the Ticket Office at 717.691.6036. Award winning author and writer Contact: Sherri Hoffman, shoffman@messiah.edu Sponsor: Messiah College Centennial Committee

Lectures @ Messiah College for Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

2009 Spring Lectures