center Calendar

Here is a quick overview of upcoming lectures and conferences.  Click on one of the links below for more event details.

September 22, 2009
11:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m., 106 Prothro Hall (Perkins School - click here for map)

Both lectures are free and open to the public

 Tate-Willson Lecture: Nigel Biggar - Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford - will discuss "Behaving in Public: Christian Ethics in a Polyglot Secularity" in two lectures.
  • The 11:30 a.m. lecture will be "Between Distinctiveness and Consensus."
  • The 7:00 p.m. lecture will be "Behaving in a Polyglot Public."

For more information, contact the Graduate Program in Religious Studies Office, 214-768-2432. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Program in Religious Studies.
September 24, 2009 (click here for more details) A panel discussion on the legal, ethical and journalistic issues surrounding the making of NOVA’s documentary film, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. Participants include the Hon. John E. Jones III, the federal judge who barred a Dover, Pa., public school district in 2005 from teaching "intelligent design" in the science curriculum; Paula Apsell and Melanie Wallace, NOVA producers of the documentary; plaintiff's counsel Eric Rothschild; and Laurie Lebo, author of The Devil in Dover.
September 25, 2009 (click here for more details) Panel discussion on intelligent design, creationism, and evolution in the schools with the Dover, PA, intelligent-design trial judge, The Hon. John Jones, III; plaintiff's counsel, Eric Rothschild; Hiram Sassser, chief litigation counsel, Liberty Legal Institute; and Professor Lackland Bloom.
November 5, 2009, Public Scholar lecture (click here for more details) Professor Jenia Turner, SMU/Dedman School of Law, will speak on "Ethical Dilemmas of International Criminal Defense Attorneys"