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January Series conversations

Each year the January Series Office sets up small group meetings in which honors students can meet with the special guest speaker for that day. Here are some pictures of speakers and small group meetings from January 2006.

Photos by Mary Taber Lind

Paul Farmer: Renowned doctor, specializing in infectious-diseases, and anthropologist from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmer is the founder of Partners in Health , a public health charity established to help care for the world's most impoverished communities in Haiti, Russia, Peru, and most recently, Rwanda.
 
Dr. Linda Silverman is world-renown as the leading expert on visual-spatial learners, in fact, she coined the term. She is a practicing clinical and counseling psychologist and the founder of the Institute for Advanced Development and the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of “Upside-down Brilliance: The Visual Spatial Learner.”
   
Lauren Winner is author of "Girl Meets God" and "Mudhouse Sabbath" where she explores her conversion from Judaism to Christianity. Currently at work on her doctorate in American history at Columbia, Ms. Winner contributes regularly to numerous magazines including, "Christianity Today," "Christian Century," "New York Times Book Review," "Washington Post Book World," and many other journals.
   
The author of the global bestseller “As the Future Catches You,” Juan Enriquez is a preeminent authority on the economic and political impacts of the life sciences. Mr. Enriquez is Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy.
   
James Doyle is a veteran litigator and writer, whose cases have ranged from death row appeals and murder trials to civil liberties cases. He is an author of "True Witness: Cops, Court, Science, and the Battle for Misidentification".
   
Eugene Peterson, now retired, was for many years James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also served as founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. In addition to his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the New Testament, "The Message," he has written many other books. His most recent book is entitled, "Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places", a conversation in spiritual theology.