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Spring 2020 Public Events

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  A Conversation on Youth and Vocation
Andrea Gurney, Westmont College
Friday, January 10, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Global Leadership Center
(more information)
Christian Slavery: Religion and Race in Early America
Katharine Gerbner, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, January 15, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Erasmus Society Lecture (History and English)
  Reel Talk: “Biggest Little Farm”
with Kenny Chism, Cynthia Toms, and Amanda Sparkman
Thursday, January 23, 7:00 PM
Adams 216
Sponsored by the Gaede Institute and SustainableWestmont
Environmental Justice, Race, Gender, and Labor
Maricela Morales, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy
Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Sustainability Series
  What I Learned About Moral Commitments By Thinking About Moral Education
Kyla Ebels Duggan, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Thursday, February 6, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Erasmus Lecture (Philosophy)
Character Matters: Civility in Uncivil Times
Jim Taylor, Westmont College
Thursday, February 13, 5:30 PM
The University Club (1332 Santa Barbara St.)
Westmont Downtown Lecture
  Paul and Roman Imperial Theology
John Dominic Crossan, DePaul University
Thursday, February 20, 4:00 PM
Global Leadership Center
Westmont-UCSB Joint Lecture on the New Testament and Early Christianity
  Reel Talk: “Human Flow”
Thursday, February 20, 7:00 PM
Adams 216
  Precision in the Vestibular System
Faisal Karmali, Harvard Medical School
Monday, February 24, 11:30 AM-12:35 PM
Founders Room
Kinesiology Department Lecture
The Paris Agreement and Global Environmental Action
Kate Bryant, Westmont College
Tuesday, February 25, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Sustainability Series
  Still Dreaming: Race, Ethnicity and Liberal Arts Education
including presentations by Louis P. Nelson, Estela Mara Bensimon, and Reggie Williams
February 27-29
The 19th Annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts (more information)
Conversation Plenary Address: "Racial Equity: Higher Education's Unpaid Debt"
Estela Bensimon, University of Southern California
Conversation Westmont Chapel Service: "Christianity at the Door of No Return"
Reggie Williams, McCormick Theological Seminary
Conversation Plenary Address: "Race, Ethnicity and Alterity: Lessons from the Study of Religion"
Rudy Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Conversation Plenary Address: "Educated in Tyranny: An Institution Grappling with its Legacy of Slavery"
Louis P. Nelson, University of Virginia
Race, Memory, and Monuments After Charlottesville
Louis P. Nelson, University of Virginia
Monday, March 2, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Gaede Institute Lecture
Peace-Loving Indians? Recovering a Missing Piece of American History
Richard Pointer, Westmont College
Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture
  You Belong! Living the First-Generation College Experience
Leon Harris, Biola University
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) Westmont Students in Sustainability
Monday, March 23, 6:00 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Sustainability Series

 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) Applying Analytical Tools to Ovarian Cancer Detection
Rebecca Whelan, University of Notre Dame
Friday, March 27, 3:30 PM
Winter 210 
Chemistry Department Lecture

The Literature of Epidemics
Marilyn McEntyre, UC Berkeley
Friday, April 3, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
co-sponsored by the Pre-Health Club and the English Department

 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) Campus Sustainability Update and Charge for the Summer!
Kenny Chism, Westmont College
Tuesday, April 14, 3:30 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Sustainability Series

 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) Telling the Samaritan Woman's Story
Caryn Reeder, Westmont College
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 PM
Hieronymus Lounge
Gender Studies Lecture

 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) A Snake in the Spring Rain: How Global Biodiversity is Responding to a Changing Climate
Amanda Sparkman, Westmont College
Thursday, April 16, 5:30 PM
The University Club (1332 Santa Barbara St.)
Westmont Downtown Lecture

 

(CANCELED OR POSTPONED) Srinivasa Ramanujan Interdisciplinary Symposium
Saturday, April 18