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Colloquia from
past years:

2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06


THURSDAY COLLOQUY
(2005-06)


2005 (fall term)

  • Thu, Sep 22: Hans de Boer, “Encounters with Mao, Mandela, Castro, and others”

  • Thu, Sep 29: David Eiler (Professor Emeritus of Religion), Jerry Sweeten and David Hicks (Professors of Biology), “Intelligent Design”

  • Thu, Nov 3: Student Panel on “Religious Pluralism: Perspectives on Salvation”

  • Thu, Nov 10: Mitch Herniak '04 (Indiana University School of Law), “Sexual Privacy and the Case of Lawrence vs. Texas”

  • Thu, Nov 17: “Is God Nonviolent?”

  • Thu, Dec 1: Levi Haupert (student), “A Place for Nothing and Nothing in Its Place: An Inquiry into the Existence of the Void”


2006 (spring term)

  • Thu, Feb 2: Suzanna Collerd and Julián Gutiérrez, “US War on Drugs or War on the Rural Poor?”

  • Thu, Feb 16: Jongsoo James Lee (History and Political Science), “Varieties of Empire and Imperialism: A Historical Perspective”

  • Thu, Feb 23: Kathy Royer (Earlham School of Religion), “Taking the Next Step — Discerning the Path Ahead”

  • Thu, Mar 2: Dana Johnson (Brethren Volunteer Service), “The Role of Religion in the Break-up of Yugoslavia”

  • Thu, Mar 9: Travis Edward Turner Poling (student), “Critique and Calling: William Stafford as Anabaptist Poet”

  • Thu, Mar 16: Jorge Bula Escobar (Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence), “Economics and Religion: Close Encounters and Open Dilemmas”

  • Thu, Mar 30: Panel of Students and Staff, “Hurricane Katrina: Manchester College Community Relief Effort”

  • Thu, Apr 16: Leonard Williams (History and Political Science), “A Natural History of Neoconservatism from Kristol père to Kristol fils”

  • Thu, Apr 27: (Peace Week) Student Panel representing Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives, “Peace Through Religious Traditions”

  • Thu, May 4: Ritodhi Chakraborty (student), “The Philosophy of Physics”


2006 (fall term)

  • Thu, Nov 2: Jerry Sweeten (Biology), “Ecology and Spirituality”