Public Lectures
Dr. Stephan Linton
Dr. Stephan Linton, visiting associate of the Korean Institute at Harvard University, will gave the following lectures to inaugurate the Korean Lectureship at Calvin College:
What Should Christians Do about North Korea?
Wednesday, March 26 @ 3:30 PM
Meeter Center Lecture HallWhy Should Koreans Care about North Korea?
Thursday, March 27 @ 3:30 PM
Calvin Seminary Auditorium
Cosponsored by: the Asian Studies Program at Calvin College & the Nagel Institute
Dr. Jehu J. Hanciles, February 14, 2008
Dr. Jehu J. Hanciles is the associate professor of mission history and globalization at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA. Dr. Hanciles delivered a lecture at Calvin College entitled:
Don't Be Refugees, Be Missionaries!
African Immigrants & the New Missionary Encounter with American Society
Tibebe Eshete, October 31, 2007
Assistant Professor of History, Calvin College
Marxism & Religion: the Paradox of Church Growth in Ethiopia
This lecture discussed church and state encounters during the period of the Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1990. Eshete provided documentary information regarding the persecutions of the evangelical church and how the church both survived and thrived in the midst of a daunting challenge through its clandestine existence and operations.
Listen to the lecture 
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Sponsored by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity and the Department of History, Calvin College
Dave Livermore, Ph.D., March 8, 2007
"Looking In Before Reaching Out"
Dave Livermore, Ph.D., Director of Global Learning Center at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and Author of Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Baker Books, 2006), spoke at Calvin College about using cultural Intelligence (CQ) to improve short-term missions and service learning effectiveness.
Calvin News & Media Coverage of the Lecture
Dr. Mariano Avila Lecture at Calvin College, March 12, 2007
Dr. Mariano Avila holds a Ph.D. Political Science and is a Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary.
This lecture addresses Mexican Evangelicals'
- Role in Mexican political history
- Participation in recent Mexican presidential elections
- Future role in Mexican public affairs
Cosponsored with Calvin Theological Seminary
Dr. Yiyi Chen Lecture at Calvin College, February 12, 2007
As a scholar on the Hebrew Bible and Jewish culture, Dr. Yiyi Chen will reflect on the encountering between the religion and culture value behind the Bible and the Chinese culture during the last two centuries With the fast economical development of China for the last two decades, and ever intensifying interaction with the western world, more and more Chinese are looking into one of the corner stones of western civilization, the Bible, for experience and inspirations in order to solve many social problems. Read more »
Dr. Solomon Nkesiga Lecture, October 3, 2006
Dr. Nkesiga, President of Kampala Evangelical School of Theology (KEST) in Uganda, gave the lecture:
"African Renaissance: Its Politico-Economic Initiatives, its Negations, and the Contribution of African Theology of Wisdom" 
This was a cosponsored by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, African Diaspora Studies Program, and the International Development Studies Program.
Dedication of the Nagel Institute, May 2006
The keynote address was given by Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Mission and World Christianity and professor of history at Yale Divinity School.