Family Weekend
Home
Evaluation Form
Order Tickets
Lodging & Meals
Parking
Schedules
 • Friday
 • Saturday
Schedule Changes!
Friday Banquet
Parent & Family Resources
Parent Council
Contact Us
Roving WebCam

Mark Your Calendar for Family Weekend 2007!
October 19-20, 2007

Thursday "Early-Bird" Events, Family Weekend

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Even though Family Weekend officially begins on Friday, October 19, we know that some families are planning to arrive early. Here are some campus events and opportunities you might want to take advantage of. Check back on occasion as additional events may be added in October.
   
8:00 am - 7:00 pm Campus Store open
Be sure to check out the Family Weekend discounts and special sales!
Commons (lower level)
   
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
 Calvin Box Office open
Tickets ordered before October 12 will be mailed directly to your home; tickets ordered after October 12 may be picked up by you or your Calvin student at the Calvin Box Office in the Fine Arts Center.
Fine Arts Center
   
10:00 - 10:30 am Morning Chapel Service
College Chapel
   
10:00 - 10:30 am Spanish Chapel
Meeter Center Lecture Hall
   
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm Noontime Series: Behind and Beyond "Blood Diamonds"
Paul and Mary Kortenhoven, Christian Reformed missionaries in Sierra Leone since the 1980's, tell the story of the ruthless acquisition and sale of diamonds that devastated a beautiful African country.
Chapel Undercroft
(Tickets not required)
   
3:30 - 4:30 pm

Lecture: Navigating the Euro-American Enlightenment: Japan, Modernity, and Alternative Modernities
The History Department is sponsoring this lecture by Dr. Genzo Yamamoto from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. Refreshments will be served. Hiemenga Hall Room 429

   
7:00 - 8:00 pm Lecture: Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation
Renowned literary theorist J. Hillis Miller will lecture on “Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation” on Thursday, October 18 at 7:00 pm in the Calvin Chapel.  J. Hillis Miller has been called the most significant North American literary critic of the 20th century. Miller is renowned for his pioneering contribution to literary criticism and theory, and is perhaps best known as one of the Yale School of literary critics who instituted American deconstruction. Miller is also well-known for his work on reading as an ethical, as much as an intellectual, act.  This event is sponsored by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, the Office of the Provost, the Department of English and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. 
Calvin Chapel
   
8:00 - 10:00 pm

Film: The Bourne Ultimatum
Commons Lecture Hall (Commons Annex, lower level)
(Tickets not required)
   
9:00 - 9:45 pm Jazz Vespers
Fishouse (next to Johnnys)