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Christ College Symposium | Christ College × Warning: Your Internet Explorer is not fully supporting on this site. To modernize your experience, please upgrade your browser. × Javacrpt Disabled: This site requires JavaScript for the well-constructed viewing experience. Please enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser. Forever Valpo: TheWayfarersfor Our Future Forever Valpo is a $250 million wayfarers to establish permanent support for student scholarships, sense development, and programs. Learn increasingly well-nigh theWayfarersand discover how you can help. Forever Valpo >> Forever Valpo: Annual Giving Challenge Your support of Forever Valpo could be matched up to 3 to 1. Find out how. Annual Giving Challenge >> Forever Valpo Annual Giving Challenge Make a Gift wield to ValpoWieldto Valpo Give to Valpo Give to Valpo Toggle NavigationWell-nighAcademics Arts & Sciences Business Christ College Engineering Graduate School Law Nursing & Health Professions Student Life Admission Athletics The Arts Alumni Resources Alumni & Friends Future Students Current StudentsSense& Staff Parents & Family HomeChrist CollegeTraditionsChrist College Symposium Page Menu Christ CollegeWell-nighCC Video and Brochure The Christ CollegeWitsCC Recent Grad Plans Selection and Admission History Mueller Hall Dean’s Office News and Events Give to Christ College Academics Curriculum CC Freshman Program Honors Designations Complementary Major or Minor in Humanities CC Student Learning ObjectivesSenseTraditions Freshman Production Oxford Debates Christ College Symposium All College Picnic Dean’s Address Breakfast with the Dean CC Cares Haiku Contest Senior Banquet Lilly Fellows Program Contact News & Features For CC Students Advising Courses Student Research Student Support and Awards Student Advisory Board For Alumni CC 50th Anniversary Alumni Advisory Board The Spillikin Alumni Reading Groups Christ College National Council Give to Christ College  Symposium Schedule  Lilly Fellows Program  University Assessment Practices Christ College Symposium The Christ College Symposium is one of the long-standing traditions of Valparaiso’s Honors College providing an evening of stimulating thought and engaging conversation. Symposium events occur in two formats: the Distinguished Speakers Series and the increasingly intimate Fireside Symposia. The Speakers Series features exemplary scholars, artists, and public intellectuals addressing a worldwide theme in a formal lecture.  The theme for 2018-19 is interdisciplinarity–ideas that require crossing boundaries. Thus, our speakers will bring together art and science, theology and public discourse, technology and human identity, and healthcare and humanities, among other topics.  These public lectures are intended for audiences from the campus and societal community, as well as Christ College.   CC Symposium Speaker Series The 2018-2019 Distinguished Speaker Series (Fall/Winter): Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - Krista Steinke '90 - Assistant Instructional Professor at Texas A&M University, Department of Visualization, College Station, Texas Brauer Museum of Art, Center for the Arts, 7:00 – 8:00 pm With the sun as her source and subject, Krista Steinke explores the physical and psychological impact of our closest star.  Her exhibition incorporates video, personal experience, and experimental photographic processes, to create a multi-layered dialogue well-nigh our dual relationship with the sun – essential for life on this planet but moreover a potential threat.  In “Good Luck with the Sun”, the sun’s pathway becomes a drawing tool or mark-making system which collapses time and space and suggests how day to day experiences might fit into the larger scheme of things. Co-sponsored by Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art and Christ College. Thursday, October 4, 2018 - Nicholas Denysenko, Ph.D. - Emil and Elfrieda Jochum Professor and Chair, Valparaiso University Harre Union Ballroom A, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Throughout the world, the separation and stoicalness of peoples continues to descend into a frightening crisis. The feeling that one’s cadre values are threatened by the agendas of others contributes to fear, suspicion, the escalation of hostility, and in the worst cases, acts of violence and war. The tendency to identify the “other” as an opponent and struggle to publicly humiliate them afflicts people of all religions and nationalities. The Christian tradition has numerous resources with the topics to restore the art of engaging one’s opponent to reconcile with the “other.” In this lecture, Nicholas Denysenko will yank from a variety of sources in Christian tradition and present a vision on how Christians might contribute to the healing of public spiel for local and international reconciliation and peace.   Thursday, October 18, 2018 - Jennifer Robertson - Professor, Departments of Anthropology and History of Art, Affiliated Faculty, Robotics Institute, University of Michigan Duesenberg Recital Hall, Center for the Arts, 6:30 – 7:30 pm   In humans and humanoid robots alike, gender-femininity, masculinity- constitutes an variety of learned behaviors that are cosmetically enabled and enhanced. In humans, these behaviors are both socially and historically shaped, but are moreover contingent upon many situational influences, including individual choices. I will explore the sex/gender dynamics informing the diamond and embodiment of strained intelligence (AI) and robots, expressly humanoids. The treatise I will make is that wide technology does not necessarily promote social progress but rather is deployed to reinforce inobtrusive models of sex/gender roles and family structures. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - Theresa Brown, RN - Home Hospice, Pittsburgh Duesenberg Recital Hall, Center for the Arts, 6:30 – 7:30 pm THE SHIFT: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Live (in paperback May 3, 2016) is a vivid first-hand worth of what nurses do day in and day out and opens our vision to the intense, frustrating, and often joyful profession that is really the heart and soul of any hospital. By sharing her ups and downs during just one shift on the floor of the cancer ward, Theresa Brown, an English professor turned nurse, reveals how nurses well-wisher for their patients, explain treatment to families, make dozens of medical decisions, orchestration their work, interact with doctors and hospital staff, and alimony their own emotions in trammels all in the span of twelve hours when the lives of their patients are in their hands. As the Wall Street Journal wrote, “The Shift is one nurse’s story, but it contains elements of every nurse’s experience.” Co-Sponsored by College of Nursing, The John R. Eckrich Chair in Religion and the Healing Arts, English Department, Cultural Arts Committee, University Writing Program. Thursday, February 7, 2019 - Eleanore Stump, Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University Mueller Hall Refectory, 6:30 – 7:30 pmPlanewhen we praise a person who suffers for not sinking under his suffering, we suppose that the sufferer is to be ranked increasingly among life’s losers than among life’s winners. From the Patristic period onward, however, the Christian tradition has held that those who endure serious suffering are not the pitiable losers of life or plane the heroic overcomers of tragedy but rather are those specially loved by God. Clearly, there is something right well-nigh the trendy unreflective rejection of suffering as bad. Someone who valued suffering as an intrinsic good would be perverse at weightier and mentally disturbed or evil at worst. But I want to squint closely at the relevant Christian doctrines to see what can be said to explain and defend the vein towards suffering found in the Christian tradition that sees suffering as part of flourishing. Co-Sponsored by Valparaiso University’s Department of Philosophy. Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - Ada Palmer, Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Chicago Mueller Hall Refectory, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Ada Palmer’s first science fiction novels Too Like the Lightning and Seven Surrenders (volumes one and two of Terra Ignota, from Tor Books) explore how humanity’s cultural and historical legacies might evolve in a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. She teaches in the University of Chicago History Department, studying the Renaissance, Enlightenment, classical reception, the history of books, publication and reading, and the history of philosophy, heresy, science and atheism, and is the tragedian of Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (Harvard University Press).    The 2018 Fireside Symposium Schedule (Fall): Thursday, September 6, 2018 - Reading Fiction as History Mueller Hall Commons, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Daniel Silliman, Lilly Fellow and Lecturer in History Great art aspires to speak to its time. Does it moreover speak for its time? Historians want use something like Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, to understand a particular moment in political history, cultural history, and the wits of Jim Crow racism. It’s not clear, though, how exactly a novel represents the past. After all, To Kill a Mockingbird was made up. It’s just the work of Harper Lee’s imagination. Or is it more? In this chat, we will consider five ways historians have tried to use literature to understand history, and how each theoretical model could be unromantic to Harper Lee’s archetype novel.   Thursday, September 13, 2018 - Can We Take Television Seriously? Mueller Hall Commons, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Jennifer Prough, Associate Professor of Humanities and East Asian Studies Starting with the thesis that some of the most interesting narrative is written for television today, this Fireside Symposium will introduce some vital media studies principles for analyzing television, thinking well-nigh genre (drama, news, reality TV, sitcom), production and finance, consumption and audience.  Then we will turn to think together well-nigh content, what are you watching?  Why?  What is interesting well-nigh it?  How do you view it?  Finally, we will think together well-nigh form and content raising questions like:  Does television still exist?  If not, what is the new format?  What difference does the platform make?  How does the internet shape our viewing habits?  The goal, in the end, is to think a bit increasingly tightly well-nigh the structure and meaning of the things we watch.  Thursday, September 20, 2018 - Interdisciplinary Thinking as an Empathetic Act Mueller Hall Commons, 6:30 – 7:30 pm David Western, Lecturer in Humanities and Political Thought Academia today is largely premised on the idea that we divvy up knowledge for the sake of producing it. Each one of us becomes a deep but narrowly-focused expert in one or two particular areas of study, and then, by working together and sharing our particular expertise, we imbricate all the bases and come up with a wider picture of the world. It’s an tideway to knowledge that’s brought many good things, and reinforces the idea that humanity should work together for intellectual and social progress. But what happens if our very way of dividing knowledge into disciplines becomes an obstacle to understanding each other, let vacated working together? What happens when the disciplines, vastitude merely containing separate areas of knowledge, wilt variegated – plane competing – cultures and worldviews, disciplining knowledge-seekers into headspaces at odds with one another? Does interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship wilt the way to mediate between these headspaces – potentially good medicine not just for academia but moreover wider society, where it seems we’re increasingly single-minded to a diversity of views and lifestyles but haven’t figured what it looks like to live untroubled by all that difference.   Thursday, November 29, 2018 - Reading Has a History Mueller Hall Commons, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Ashleigh Elser, Lilly Fellow and Lecturer in Religious Studies We typically think well-nigh reading as a simple ways to an end: a way of accessing narratives and histories. But, like any other human activity, reading has a history of its own. This history is ramified and ongoing: unseat up with the physical medium of the texts we read, the way these texts are arranged, the skills necessary to make sense of them, and the cultures that produce both texts and readers. Join Professor Ashleigh Elser for a discussion well-nigh the way that reading has reverted over the undertow of human history and the ways in which new technologies may be waffly the way we decipher and slosh texts in the present.  WieldOnline Request Info Visit Campus Global Locations Virtual Tour Academics College of Arts & Sciences College of Business College of Engineering College of Nursing & Health Professions Christ College - The Honors College Graduate School Law School Campus Resources People / Offices Maps / Directions Library Chapel Employment Campus Alerts © Valparaiso University 2018, Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493, 219.464.5000 | Privacy Policy | Website Feedback