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Cephas Omenyo is currently the John A. Mackay Professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also teaches at the University of Ghana, Legon. He has published, among others, Pentecost Outside Pentecostalism: A Study of the Development of Charismatic Renewal in the Mainline Church in Ghana (Zoetermeer, 2002). |
Tuesday, May 6 @ 3:30 PM
Alumni Association Board Room
Refreshments Provided
Co-sponsored by: The Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Christian Perspectives on Political, Social and Economic Thought; African and African Diaspora Studies; the Department of Sociology and Social Work; and the Nagel Institute
Thursday, April 10
Meeter Center Lecture Hall
3:30 p.m.
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Our 2008 guest lecturer is Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. In his most recent book, Gang Leader for a Day, Dr. Venkatesh recounts how he followed and befriended a Chicago crack-dealing gang, especially its charismatic leader. Dr. Venkatesh is a Professor or Sociology at Columbia University and the Director of the Center for Urban Research. |
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The Donald Bouma Lecture Series is a program of:
The Department of Sociology & Social Work, Calvin College
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Monday March 31, 2008 7:00 p.m. Commons Lecture Hall |
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Is religion opposed to rights? Does justice require curbing religious influence? Both popular and academic discussions of human rights tend to see religion as a threat. Thus 'enlightened' secularists are still given to alarmist accounts of how religious traditions squelch civil rights, or how confessional communities trample over human rights claims. On this account, only 'secular' democracy can secure justice, often precisely against the claims of religion.
But this version of the story has been called into question by recent research. On Monday, March 31, Calvin College hosts a symposium with two internationally-acclaimed scholars who have a very different story to tell. John Witte, Jr., Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, discusses the roots and origins of a modern account of human rights in early modern Calvinism. And Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus at Yale, digs back even further, arguing that modern intuitions about rights and justice are indebted to Hebrew and Christian scriptures - and cannot be sustained by a wholly secular ethos.
Co-sponsored by:
Service-Learning Center
Department of Sociology and Social Work
Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Tuesday March 18, 2008
3:30 p.m.
Alumni Association Board Room
Carol Jacobsen, Director of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project, a nonprofit effort working to free women wrongly convicted, presents clips from her films narrated by women in Michigan prisons and discusses her role as filmmaker. Dr. Jacobsen presents the argument of women who killed their abusers in self-defense and believe they did not receive fair trials.
Carol Jacobsen is Professor of Art, Women's Studies, American Culture, and Human Rights at The University of Michigan. Her social documentary work in video and photography focuses on issues of women's criminalization and censorship and is co-sponsored by Amnesty Internation, Human Rights Watch, the ACLU and other nonprofits.
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Social Work
Thursday May 3, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Commons Annex Alumni Association Board Room
Daniel H.Levine
Professor
Ph.D., Yale
Co-sponsored by:
The Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Christian Perspectives on
Politial, Social and Economic Thought
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The Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity
Kim graduated from Calvin in 2003 with a degree in Sociology and participation in the Calvin College Graduate Study Fellowship Program for Prospective Faculty of Color. Calvin established the Graduate Study Fellowship program to enhance the recruitment of ethnic minority persons to the college faculty.
Now pursuing in her graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Kim writes: "The fellowship will support my research that contributes to the understanding of the relationship between mental health and social stratifcation/ inequality of American Indians. "The goal of my dissertation is to explore the demographic prevalence of mental disorders of American Indians and the social contexts and individual experiences that contribute to the resiliency of American Indians in terms of their mental health."
Monday, November 13, 2006
Meeter Center
3:30 p.m.
Jose Casanova: "How Immigration is Changing the Face
of American Religion"
Jose Casanova, Chair and Professor of Sociology,
The New School, New York, New York
Promoted by the BykerChair in Christian Perspectives on Political, Social, and Economic Thought. Co-sponsored by the Calvin College Office for Multi-Cultural Affairs and by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity.
Wednesday, November 8
Alumni Association Board Room
3:30 p.m.
Promoted by the Byker Chair in Christian Perspectives on Political, Social, and Economic Thought. Paul Freston, Professor of Sociology, is the holder of the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair.
Thursday, November 2
Spoelhof Center 204
3:30 p.m.
Mwenda Ntarangwi, anthropologist at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, defines the scope of his presentation: "The classroom is a space that can enhance or hinder learning depending on the ability of the teacher and students to meet each other's learning goals. Whether in a traditional classroom or out in the field on a study abroad program, learning occurs best when both students' and teachers' cultural identities are acknowledged and mobilized. As cultural beings we bring to our learning environments specific worldviews and experiences that greatly affect our learning outcomes and teaching strategies. Sometimes our pedagogical styles as educators may differ with learning styles and expectations of our students. By taking an ethnographic approach to learning, and seeing the classroom as our fieldsite, I will share some of my own experiences in the traditional classroom set-up, in a service-learning course, and in a study abroad context in order to share the challenges and successes of teaching students from diverse backgrounds and experiences. I will show that students learn best when we as teachers approach the classroom just as anthropologists approach a new or different culture."
Sponsored by the Department of Multi-Cultural Affairs and the Sociology Department.
Tuesday, October 31
Meeter Center
3:30 p.m.
Bryan Froehle directs the St. Catherine of Siena Center and also serves as a member of the sociology faculty of Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.
Promoted by the Byker Chair in Christian Perspectives on Political, Social, and Economic Thought.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Chapel Undercroft
3:30 p.m.
Sociology Professor Kurt Ver Beek summarizes his review of quantitative
studies done of short-term missions (STMs) in the last decade in order to try to answer the question
of whether STMs are worth all of the time and money we are investing in them.
He gives recommendations for changes that may make STMs more
powerful in changing us and those we serve.
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Twelve students in the Sociology and Social Work departments were awarded monetary scholarships for the 2006-07 academic year. Donors, faculty, and scholarship recipients gathered in the Gezon Lobby for the annual award reception.
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Monday, May 1, 2006
Gezon Auditorium
3:30 p.m.
"Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the
Suburban North"
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Speaker: Thomas J. Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. |
Speaker: Thomas J. Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Drawing from his forthcoming book, Professor Sugrue will discuss the largely unknown Northern battlegrounds where grassroots activists fought to end discrimination and segregation: the rapidly expanding postwar suburbs. While the conventional narratives of civil rights in America have focused on the heroic battles of the South, "Jim Crow's Last Stand" turns our focus North to recount the victories and defeats of those who fought to open suburbia to people of all races.
Co-sponsored by the Urban Studies Minor, the Service Learning Center, the Political Science Department, the Office of Community Engagement, and the Department of Geology, Geography, and Environmental Studies
Brittney Stelpstra, Janelle Vandergrift, and Paul Vliem give presentations on Social Welfare, Project Neighborhood, and Service-Learning Activities at the Faith in Action Conferennce, held at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, in January 2006.
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Kimberly Huyser, Sociology Major,
Class of 2003, speaks at the Alumni Minority Lecture Series, Thursday, October 20, 3:30 p.m. in the Calvin College Meeter Center Lecture Hall. [More...] |
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Sociology Professor Kurt Alan Ver Beek's presentation is entitled "Lessons from the Sapling: On "Teaching" Faith and Justice."
Calvin Sociology professors Cheryl Brandsen and Jeffery Tatum participate in a panel discussion on issues surrounding Terry Schiavo featured in the Calvin Spark magazine.
"American Health Care System" by C. Brandsen
"Law at the End of Life" by J.Tatum
Jason Fileta, a May 2005 graduate of Calvin College, has been selected by the ONE Campaign as a member of a 100-person delegation to meetings surrounding the G8 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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"God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It"
Jim Wallis is the editor of Sojourners Magazine and the President of Call to Renewal. His most recent book bears the same title as his speech. Co-sponsored by the Student Activities Office and the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics.
"What Religious People Think of Reproductive Genetic Technologies"
Speaker: John H. Evans, Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of California, San Diego
The Donald Bouma Lecture Series is a program of The Department of Sociology and Social Work, Calvin College. Co-sponsored by The Seminar of Christian Perspectives in Science, Calvin College.
Student Joy Van Marion co-presented with Mark Mulder, Jeff Bouma, and Don DeGraaf on the topic "Connecting the Mind, Heart, and Hands Through Intentional Community at Calvin College." The summer study explored Worden Street, Project Neighborhood, and Pamoja House, three intentional communities at Calvin.
Sociology Professor Honored
Congratulations to Dr. Henry Holstege, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, who was presented with The Faith and Learning Award for 2005. Each year the Calvin Alumni Association honors a former Calvin College faculty member who has successfully and consistently integrated faith and learning in the classroom. This recipient is a master teacher, making a significant impact on Calvin students in training for a life of service in God's Kingdom.
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