PROGRAMS | GAEDE INSTITUTE Archive: Spring 2018

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Nutrition, the Environment, and Faith

Panel Discussion

Monday, January 22

3:30pm | Founders Room

Mindful Eating Series

 

Reel Talk: “The Truman Show”

Screening and Discussion, with Ron See and Stephen Zylstra 

Tuesday, January 23

7pm | Adams 216

 

The Crooked Path Toward Faith 

Andrea Lucado

Thursday, January 25

7:00pm | Adams 216

Westmont Reading Series

 

Soap Bubbles and Mathematics

Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University

Friday, January 26

3:30pm | Winter 210

Mathematics Department Lecture

 

Twelfth Annual Stafford Reading

Paul Willis, Westmont College

Saturday, January 27

2:00pm | First Crossing Day Use Area (Los Padres National Forest)

 

Those Who Came Before Us: Santa Barbara's Chumash Heritage

John Johnson, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Monday, January 29

3:30pm | Hieronymus Lounge

Voskuyl Library Lecture

 

The Myth of Equality

Ken Wytsma, Kilns College

Tuesday, January 30

7:00pm | Hieronymus Lounge

Westmont in San Francisco Lecture

 

"What the Health"

Screening and Discussion

Angela D'Amour and Kenny Chism, Westmont College

Wednesday, January 31

7:00pm | Founders Room

Mindful Eating Series

 

Dangerous Knowledge? Reflections on the Protestant Legacy in India

Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College

Monday, February 5

3:30pm | Global Leadership Center

Fletcher Jones Chair Installation Keynote

 

Art, Theology and God’s Body: An Iconographic Probe of Past and Present

Brent Strawn, Emory University

Monday, February 5

7:00pm | Winter 210

Religious Studies and Art Department Lecture

 

Stewardship, Justice, and Creation Care 

Hal Conklin, Community Environmental Council

Tuesday, February 6

3:30pm | Founders Room

Sustainability Speaker Series

 

A Conversation on Youth and Vocation

with Steven Argue, Fuller Theological Seminary

Monday, February 26

8:30am-1pm | Global Leadership Center

 

Mindful Eating Workshop

Cynthia Toms, Westmont College

Wednesday, February 28 

5:30pm | Founders Room

Mindful Eating Series

 

Reel Talk: “I Am Not Your Negro”

**RESCHEDULED--NEW DATE APRIL 10** 

Screening and Discussion

Thursday, March 1

7pm | Adams 216

 

Shedding New Light on Life

**CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER** 

Audrey K (Ellerbee) Bowden, Stanford University

Friday, March 2

3:30pm | Winter 216

Pascal Lecture

 

Understanding Global Development Imperatives Through Big Data

Leeza Kondos, USAID, Bureau for Global Health

Tuesday, March 6

7pm | Founders Room

Global Studies and Data Analytics Lecture

 

Spider Webs, Epiphanies, and Veiled Identities: The Aesthetics of African Women's Writing

Kanchana Ugbabe, University of Jos

Thursday, March 8

7pm | Hieronymus Lounge 

Erasmus Society Lecture

Panel Discussion: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

with Amanda Silberstein, Carrie Stein Hill and Heidi Pullmann

Monday, March 19

3:30pm | Voskuyl Library 

 

The Race Set Before Us: Christian Liberal Arts and the Geographically Marked Body

Sameer Yadav, Westmont College

Responses by Caryn Reeder and Meredith Whitnah 

Monday, March 19

7:00pm | Hieronymus Lounge

Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture

 

2018: The Rise of Veganism and Vegan Studies

**CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER** 

Renan Larue, UC Santa Barbara

Tuesday, March 20

3:30pm | Founders Room

Sustainability Speaker Series

 

Knowledge in Crisis: Liberal Learning in a Post-Truth Age

The Seventeenth Annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts

Thursday, March 22 through Saturday, March 24

 

Guns and the 2nd Amendment 

Thomas Knecht, Westmont College

Tuesday, March 27 

7pm | Hieronymus Lounge 

Westmont Forum 

 

The Philosophy and Psychology of Religious Experience: Hume’s Challenges, and Potential Responses

Peter Millican, Oxford University

Wednesday, April 4

3:30pm | Winter 210

Philosophy Erasmus Lecture

 

Reel Talk: “Minority Report”

**CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER-RELATED SCHEDULE CHANGE** 

Screening and Discussion

Thursday, April 5

7:00pm | Adams 216
 

Genome Editing of Stem Cells to Treat Genetic Diseases

Matthew Porteus, Stanford University

Monday, April 9

4pm | Global Leadership Center

Keck Foundation Science Seminar Series

 

Reel Talk: “I Am Not Your Negro”

Screening and Discussion with Sameer Yadav, Carmen McCain, and Toya Cooper 

Tuesday, April 10 

7pm | Adams 216

 

Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing: The Pitfalls of Traditional Approaches and the Potential of New Models Aimed at Poverty Alleviation

Peter Greer, HOPE International

Wednesday, April 11

3:30pm | Global Leadership Center 

 

The Servant, the Idol, and the Image of God: Isaiah's Conversation with Creation 

Sandra Richter, Westmont College

With Holly Beers, Steven Tsoukalas, Tim Laniak, and Tremper Longman III

Monday, April 16

3:30pm | Global Leadership Center 

Robert H. Gundry Chair Inaugural Lecture 

 

Backyard Bounty: Reducing Food Waste and Increasing Food Security 

Darryl Kuehl, Santa Barbara Food Bank

Tuesday, April 17

3:30pm | Founders Room

Sustainability Speaker Series

 

Spontaneous Inferences in Perceptions of Groups

David L. Hamilton, University of California, Santa Barbara

Thursday, April 19

7pm | Winter 210

Psi Chi and Psychology Department Lecture

 

Waves of Black: Santa Barbara and the Environmental Movement 

Heather Frazier, University of California, Santa Barbara 

Saturday, April 21 

12:45pm | Winter 210 

Chemistry Department and American Chemical Society Lecture 

 

The Influence of Physiological States on Intergroup Bias 

Kyle Ratner, UC Santa Barbara

Monday, April 23

6pm | Winter 210 

Natural and Behavioral Sciences Lecture