2008-2009 Chaplain's Forum

Chaplain's Office Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Lectures and Events 2008-2009 

 

 

 

ARCHIVES 2007-2008

Lehigh University:  A Talk Sponsored by the Visiting Lecturers Committee,Chaplain’s Office, Asian Studies, Women’s Studies

Women in Tibetan Buddhism:

Problems and Promise in both Theory and Practice 

A public talk by

Professor Janet Gyatso

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University

 

 

 

Professor Gyatso will discuss historical women in Tibetan Buddhism, issues about gender politics, and some distinctive theories about gender from Tibetan communities. She will also consider the current debate about the reestablishment of the fully ordained nun's order in Tibet by the current Dalai Lama.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

4:10 p.m.

Sinclair Auditorium

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All are Welcome!

This presentation in the Spring series of University events on the Lehigh campus anticipates the visit to Lehigh in July, 2008 of Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama.  For other upcoming events go to the Lehigh

Lehigh University:  A Talk Sponsored by the Visiting Lecturer’s Committee

Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide

A public lecture by

Dr. Barry Magid

 

 

Barry Magid is a training and supervising analyst at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the founding Zen teacher of the Ordinary Mind Zendo in New York City, having received Dharma Transmission from Charlotte Joko Beck in 1999. He is the author of Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis (Wisdom 2002) and Ending the Pursuit of Happiness (Wisdom 2008).  He is also the editor of Father Louie: Photographs of Thomas Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Timken, 1992) and Freud’s Case Studies: Self Psychological Perspectives (Analytic Press, 1993).

 

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

4:10 p.m.

Sinclair Auditorium

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All are Welcome!

This presentation in the Spring series of University events on the Lehigh campus anticipates the visit to Lehigh in July, 2008 of Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama.  For other upcoming events go to the Lehigh web site:  http://www3.lehigh.edu/dalailama/events.html 

  Lehigh University:  A Talk Sponsored by the Visiting Lecturer’s Committee, The Chaplain’s Office, Lehigh Art Galleries and Museum Operations

Tibet Revisited, 20

Years:

The Photography of an Expedition to Tibet  

A public lecture and photographic presentation by

 

Elaine Ling

Internationally celebrated photographer and

Lehigh University Artist-in -Residence

 

I first met the Tibetans 20 years ago when I worked at the Patan Hospital in Katmandu. I was in charge of the women’s clinic and met many Tibetan patients.

 

My work led me to the refugee camps where families told me their stories and showed me their treasures.

 

 I followed my fascination of these nomadic people and visited Tibet. In 2007, 20 years later, I returned to find that Tibetan Buddhism is alive and well and that the old and the young are still pilgrims.

 

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

4:10 p.m.

Linderman Library - Room 200

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All are Welcome!

This presentation in the Spring series of University events on the Lehigh campus anticipates the visit to Lehigh in July, 2008 of Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama.  For other upcoming events go to the Lehigh web site:  http://www3.lehigh.edu/dalailama/events.html 

 

  Lehigh University:  A Talk Sponsored by the Visiting Lecturer’s Committee

Contemplative Education

 

A public lecture by

Thomas Coburn

President, Naropa University

 

      Dr. Thomas B. Coburn became president of Naropa University, Boulder, CO on July 1, 2003. Prior to assuming this post, Dr. Coburn served from 1996 to 2002 as vice president of the university and dean of academic affairs at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he was also the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies.

      Dr. Coburn holds a BA in religious studies from Princeton University and a MTS and PhD in comparative religion from Harvard University. He is a well-known scholar of the great goddess tradition in Hinduism. He has lectured broadly in the United States and India and is a widely published author specializing in comparative and Asian religion.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

4:10 p.m.

        Sinclair Auditorium                

 

All are Welcome!

This presentation is the first in the Spring series of University events on the Lehigh campus anticipating the visit to Lehigh in July, 2008 of Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama.  For other upcoming events go to the Lehigh web site:  http://www3.lehigh.edu/dalailama/events.html

                               

  Lehigh University’s Visiting Lecturer’s Committee, Chaplain’s Office, and The Dalai Lama Visit

Coordinating Committee

Adventures on Top of

the World:

A visitor's view of Tibet's cultural,

political, and geological place on the Earth

A talk and visual presentation by

Professor Dork Sahagian

Director, Lehigh’s Environmental Initiative

Professor Sahagian recently traveled to Tibet to determine when the Tibetan Plateau rose to become the "top of the world.”  His travels extended from the Potala Palace in Lhasa to the distant countryside. In this talk he shares his experiences with the people he encountered and the places he visited.  This talk will include a visual presentation of Tibet, which Professor Sahagian has called
“a truly unique, yet endangered gem on Earth.”

Wednesday, November 28

4:10 pm

Room

200, Linderman Library

All Are Welcome!

Mizero Children of Rwanda
Bringing, Building, Spreading: Hope


Thursday, November 15

7 p.m.

Packer Memorial Church

 

Mizero is a talented troupe of Rwandan orphans who carry an unforgettable message of hope and joy through song, dance, and drumming.

This non-profit group is touring the US and Canada to raise money for the young victims of the genocide and HIV/AIDS.

Mizero ( meaning “hope” in Kinyarwanda) has a mission to Bring, Build and Spread: Hope to orphans and other vulnerable children affected by the Rwandan genocide. And to share that faith with the future leaders of Rwanda so it can be passed on to future generations.

These children are serving as ambassadors, representing the over 1 million orphans in Rwanda. They are symbols of hope. And they are simply unforgettable, once you have experienced them and heard their story.

Sponosred by the Chaplain's Office and Global Union


Lehigh University presents

David Satcher, Ph.D., M.D.

Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities

Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health

Morehouse School of Medicine

16th Surgeon General of the United States

Confronting Disparities in Health:

Toward a Global Perspective

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

7:30 p.m.

Packard Lab Auditorium

Lecture Sponsored by:  W.M. Keck Foundation grant for Applied Life Sciences, Visiting Lecturers Committee, Health, Medicine and Society Committee, Chaplain's Office, Multicultural Affairs, Science, Technology and Society Program, Humanities Center and Women's Center

Diwali 2007: Roshni

Sunday, November 4th

4:30 p.m. (seating) 5:00 p.m. Show

Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center

tickets $10, $8 with Lehigh ID (dinner included)

For fiurther info contact:

Kavitha Krishnamoorthy at 908-331-0767

Siddarth Jain at 609-902-1915

In assocation with:

Global Union, Student Senate, Women's Center, Student Affairs, Penn Arts Council, Modern Languages, Multicultural Affairs, Lehigh India Club, Office of International Students, DesiHits.com, LU Bhangra, Global Citizenship, Dean of Students, Chaplain's Office, Lehigh HSC

The Department of Religion Studies presents

 

Susan Werner Brings “The Gospel Truth”

(“Hymns for the Spiritually Ambivalent”)

to Lehigh

 

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Susan Werner is one of the smartest, most entertaining singer-songwriters working right now. Her most recent project, “The Gospel Truth,” explores the role of the Church in America today. These “hymns for the spiritually ambivalent” challenge and affirm at the same time. They capture a variety of voices, from faithful and traditional to the critical and even the unconvinced. No single musical category or genre can capture Werner’s music, which is always diverse, fresh and compelling. Werner will present “The Gospel Truth,” through a performance, discussion and Q&A. The event is free and open to members of the Lehigh University community. Find out more about Werner and her music at susanwerner.com. Only 100 seats available!

 

“Always an impressive songwriter, Werner continues to compose sharp, funny, compassionate lyrics, a gift rare enough to set her apart.” (The Washington Post) 

 

“…a triply blessed artist who sings adroitly, plays the piano smartly and, best of all, writes songs of genuine distinction and high craft…one of the most innovative songwriters working today.” (Chicago Tribune)

 

 

October 30, 2007

4:45 p.m.

Zoellner Arts Center, Rm. 145

 

 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, ArtsLehigh, the Chaplain’s Office, and the Humanities Center.  For more information call 610-758-3353.

 

Lehigh University:  Visiting Lecturer’s Committee, Chaplain’s Office, Asian Studies and Department of Religion Studies

In Search of

Shangri-La

 

A public lecture by

Professor Donald Lopez, Jr.

Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies; Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan;

renowned scholar and award-winning author of numerous books, including: 

Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West

and

 The Madman’s Middle Way

 

Wednesday, October 17

4:10 p.m.

Sinclair Auditorium

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The Angry Monk: 

Reflections on Tibet

Professor Lopez will introduce and lead a discussion of this controversial Luc Schaedler film.

 

Wednesday, October 17

7:30 p.m.

Sinclair Auditorium

 

All are Welcome!

 

This presentation is the second in a series of events on the Lehigh campus anticipating the visit to Lehigh in

 July, 2008 of Tenzin Gyasto, the 14th Dalai Lama.  For other upcoming events go to the Lehigh web site:  http://www3.lehigh.edu/dalailama/events.html 

 

 

RAED JARRAR

CRISIS IN IRAQ:

POLITICS, OIL, AND REFUGEES

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2007

MAGINNES HALL 270

4:00 P.M.

Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to American Friends Service Committee.  After the start of the war in 2003, he directed the only door-to-door casualty survery group in post-war Iraq and established a grassroots organization that provided humanitarian and political aid to Iraqi internally displaced persons.  Since moving to the United States in 2005 he has contributed to several Iraq-relatedprojects. He writes Foreign Policy in Focus and AlterNet as well as maintaining Raed in the Middle, a web-log with analysis of current Iraqi political conditions,

Sponosred by the Progressive Student Alliance and Chaplain's Office

Public Lecture

 

Ms.Beldina Opiyo-Omolo, MPH

"The Face of AIDS:  Access and Care

in the Lehigh Valley and Kenya"

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

4:10-5:15 p.m.

Maginnes 102

 

Ms. Opiyo-Omolo is the program manager at AIDSNET, the Lehigh Valley’s regional authority for coordinating AIDS services among ten local medical and social service agencies.  She is originally from Kenya.   She received her MPH in Community Health at E. Stroudsburg U. in 2004.   In 2005, she co-founded The Alice Visionary Foundation Project, a non-profit organization in Kenya, which serves and supports children orphaned by AIDS and also provides educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for women living with HIV/AIDS. 

 

Supported by Lehigh’s W. M. Keck Foundation Grant for Applied Life Sciences;   Co-sponsored by: Biological Sciences, Sociology/Anthropology, Chaplain's Office and Religion Studies

 

NORA STREJILEVICH

Beyond the Language of Truth:

Testimony and Exile after Survival  

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April 17, 4:10

Maginnes 102

 

Nora Strejilevich, an ex-detainee-disappeared who survived the atrocities of the "Dirty War" in her country Argentina (1976-83), will talk about the act of giving testimony. Testimony after genocide voices the intimate, subjective, deep dimension of horror. Having witnessed the abyss of atrocity, survivors can no longer rely on knowledge or facts as the basis for thinking. It is mostly in the realm of literature where recounting becomes an elaboration of language so that it can invoke the true nature of the “event.” This talk addresses the role of testimony as a means for working through traumatic memories and for social and cultural resistance - a must for the ethical recovery of a community after the experience of utmost exclusion. 

 

 

Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, Berman Center, Humanities Center, Office of the Chaplain, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Global Citizenship, Women’s Studies. This event is part of the “Diaspora: Re-imagining Cultural Space” Project.

The Chaplain’s Forum

Lehigh University

 

The Jesus Tomb:

?

An informal talk and discussion with

Professor Ben Wright

Chair, Department of Religion Studies

 

Professor Ben Wright, who teaches courses in Bible, ancient Jewish and Christian literature, and the history of Judaism and Early Christianity, discusses the recent controversy over “The Jesus Tomb” documentary.  Professor Wright is uniquely qualified among Lehigh faculty to address this topic since his research focuses in the time period from about 300 BCE to the end of the first century, which includes the period of early Christianity.  

Author, co-author, and editor of several books, including Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism, Professor Wright’s research has focused in Jewish Wisdom literature, especially a book called The Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira; the translation of Jewish literature from Hebrew into Greek; and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

 

Thursday, April 5

Maginnes 113

4:10 p.m.

 

All are Welcome

 

Sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office and the Department of Religion Studies

Lehigh University Chaplain’s Office – 610-758-3877

The Chaplain’s Forum

Lehigh University

 Trial by Church 

A Church’s Discipline, a Minister’s Integrity

A Talk and discussion with

 

Reverend Beth Stroud

an ordained United Methodist pastor, Beth Stroud lost her clergy credentials in a 2004 church trial.

Rev. Stroud was found guilty of “practices declared by the United Methodist Church to be incompatible with Christian teaching” because she acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman.

 

March 20, 2007

(Rescheduled from February 20th cancellation)

Maginnes 102

4:10 p.m.

All are Welcome

Sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office, LBGTQA, Women’s Studies, Women's Center, Multi-Cultural Affairs

and Religion Studies

 "The Road Out of Guantanamo:

Resisting the War On Terror”

 

------FRIDA BERRIGAN------

 

                                                                 

eace activist Frida Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. She has led marches on Guantanamo in an effort to “make the prison and its victims visible to those who are responsible for their torture and abuse.”

 

February 26, 4pm

Maginnes 101

 

Sponsored by

Lehigh Chaplain's Office

Progressive Student Alliance

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2006 Archives

2006 Chaplain's Forum

Chaplain's Office Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Lectures and Events 2006 

 

EYES WIDE

OPEN

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BEYOND FEAR - TOWARDS HOPE

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AN EXHIBITION OF THE IRAQ WAR

Friday, October 6, 2006

10:00a.m - 2:00 p.m.

Packer Chapel Patio

Eyes Wide Open Across Pennsylvania is an exhibit that speaks directly to our hearts and reminds us of the human cost of war.   Over 120 pairs of empty combat boots--tagged with the names of PA. soldiers who have died in the current Iraq war--will be displayed, together with a visual representation of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died during the conflict.  As of July 2006, PA has lost over 124 soldiers, the third highest state casualty count in the US.  There will be a brief opening ceremony followed by the reading of the names of the 124 soldiers.

Sponsored by the Progressive Student Alliance, the Chaplain's Office, the American Studies Program, the Newman Center, the Muslim Student Association, and Counseling and Psychological Services, ArtsLehigh, Humanities Center

For further info on this program you can  go to:  www.afsc.org/pittsburgh

November 1, 2006

Sister Helen Prejean

author of  Dead Man Walking

 

"Dead Man Walking:  The Journey Continues"

 

Lecture at 7:30 p.m.

Packard Lab Auditorium

Book signing to follow lecture

Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and the Visiting Lectures Committee

Say Word! Hip Hop Theatre Festival

September 18-30, 2006

The Say Word! Hip Hop Theatre Festival, will bring over 25 artists (world renowned performers, local talent and Lehigh students) to campus for 13 days of programming.  The festival will host a revolving series of live music, dance, spoken word, dramatic performance, lectures, workshops and open mic nights.  This festival will be the first of its kind at Lehigh University, or in the Lehigh Valley for that matter! 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Visiting Lecturers Committee, Multi-Cultural Affairs and the Chaplain's Office

Peter Balakian

Armenian-American poet, writer and academic

September 14th

Whitaker Auditorium - 7:30 p.m.

Peters Balakian' award winning memoir, Black Dog of Fate, recounts the experience of his ancestors during the Armenian Genocide

Talk sponsored by the Visiting Lectures Committee, the Berman Center, the Humanities Center, the Chaplain's Office, the International Relations department the Lehigh Patriot and the College Republicans

ARCHIVES SPRING 2006

Chaplain's Forum

Chaplain's Office Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Lectures and Events

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"Sweatshops, Women, and Activism"

Tuesday, April 18th --7pm --Maginnes 112

Get informed about the reality of sweatshops, experiences of women workers, and what YOU can do about it!

Sponsored by The Women's Center, Women's Studies Program, Humanities Center, Chaplain's Office, and PSA.

 

“HAJJ EXPERIENCE” 

Speaker: Youssef E Chouhoud

                 MSA President and

                 Graduate Student

 

-Learn the significance of this sacred   Islamic ritual performed annually in Mecca by millions of Muslims.

*Lunch will be served*

 

Wed. April 12th, 12:00 p.m.

Whitaker 203

MSA MOVIE NIGHT

Film: “Inside Islam” -- A History Channel Production

-This film examines how the religion's central tenets helped spread Islam to the far corners of the world. It is a multi-faceted, illuminating introduction to a much misunderstood faith.

*Food and drinks will be served*

 

Thurs. April 13th, 8:00 p.m.

Maginnes 480

This event is jointly funded by the Global Union, Chaplain’s Office and the OISS director, Bill Hunter

MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION PROUDLY PRESENTS…

 

“Contemporary Muslim-Christian Relations from a Historical Perspective”

Lecture by

Khalid Latif

 

Khalid Latif is currently serving as the Muslim Chaplain at NYU.  In addition to being an educator with Abraham’s Vision, Brother Latif is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Islamic Studies with a concentration on Muslim-Christian Relations.  A young, dynamic, and eloquent speaker, Br. Latif draws on his diverse academic and professional background to offer an informed viewpoint on issues past and present.

 

Thursday, April 13, 2006

@ 4:00

Sinclair Auditorium

Lehigh University

 

Open to the Public

This event is jointly funded by the Global Union, Chaplain’s Office and the OISS director, Bill Hunter

Darfur Diaries: Message from Home" Film Screening

Tuesday, March 21, 4:00pm,

Whitaker Auditorium

The screening will be accompanied by a short presentation by  Professor Rajan Menon of International Relations, and will be followed by a discussion afterwards.

In October, 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After monitoring the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, the team set out with the goal of providing a platform for the people of Darfur to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future through this film that they made while there.

 

Co-sponsored by the Progressive Student Alliance, Religion Studies Department and the Office of the University Chaplain

The 2006 Inaugural Richard Connell Lecture

"Evolution and Atheism"

Professor Alvin Plantinga

University of Notre Dame

March 23, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.

Perella Auditorium  (Room 184)

Free and open to the public

Co-sponsored by the Religion Studies Dept. and the Chaplain's Office

Chaplain's Forum presents:

Ray Krone

 Death Row Exonoree

February 23, 2006 - 4:10 p.m.

 Maginnes Hall Room 102

Arrested in 1991 and sentenced to death row for a murder he did not commit, Mr. Krone refused to believe the legal system would convict him.  Ray was imprisoned for more than a decade and continued to fight through many appeals until with the help of attorney Alan Simpson he was able to convince an appeals court that DNA pointed to someone else.  Krone became the 100th person to be exonerated from death row since 1973. He has traveled throughout the US and Europe, telling his story to audiences that invariably are profoundly moved by the ordeal he survived.

Co-sponsored by the Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center, Progressive Student Alliance and the Witness to Innocence Project

Free and open to the public

Organ Recital - John Finney

February 17, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.

Packer Memorial Church

Internationally renowned and prize-winning organist, John Finny will present an organ recital in Packer Memorial Church

on Friday, February 17, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.  John is a distinguished artist-in-residence at Boston College and Director of the Univeristy Chorale and Boston College Symphony Orchestra.

The recital is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the Chaplain's Office at 610-758-3877

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration

Rev. Al Sharpton

Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Lehigh Univesity Zoellner Arts Center Baker Hall  

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by:

Aricana Studies

Chaplain's Office

Joint Multicultura; Program

MLK Celebration Planning Committee  

Office of Multicultural Affairs

Visiting Lecture Series Committee


2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Shirin Ebadi

"Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy"

(The 2006 Kenner Lecture)

Monday January 30, 7:45 p.m.

Packard Lab Auditorium

As a lawyer and Iran's first female judge, Shirin Ebadi has led the call for challenges in divorce and inheritance legislation and championed the right of womem, families, and children.  Ebadi challenges the narrow interpretation of Islam (both from within and without) with a view that underscores the essential compatibility of Islamic teachings with democracy, human rights, and legal protection for women and children,  She also challenges the West to discard misconceptions about Muslims and put into practice its democratic ideals in dealing with less powerful nations.  Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian citizen to be awarded the Nobel Peace Price.  She chronicles the Iranian reformist movement and her exceptional life in her forthcoming memoir, Iran Awakening:  A Memoir of Revolution and Hope.

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Women's Studies Program, Religion Studies Department, Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Humanities Center, Chaplain's Office, Global Union, and Office of International Students and Scholars.

Open to the public free of charge.  For more information call 610-758-3352

ARCHIVES 2005

Bioethics of Stem Cell Research

November 10, 2005 - 7 p.m. - Perella Auditorium

Renown scholar, Dr. Glen McGee (Director, Bioethics Instititue, Albany Medical College)

will discuss the ethical dilemmas posed by stem cell research

Co-sponsored by the Graduate Life Office and the Chaplain's Office

Intelligent Design:  What does it mean for science?  For religion?  a discussion with:
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 -- 4:10 p.m. -- Maginnes Hall Room 480

Dr. Michael Behe, Professor, Biological Sciences
Dr. Lynne Cassameris, Professor,  Biological Sciences
Dr. Steven Goldman, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Dr. Tamra Mendelson, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Dr. Michael Raposa,  Professor,  Religion Studies; E.W. Fairchild Professor, American Studies
Dr. Lloyd Steffen, University Chaplain/Professor, Religion Studies

Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office.  For further information call 610-758-3877.


                                                      ARCHIVES 2004-05

Nonviolence in the Age of Terrorism

- a public lecture-

by

Arun Gandhi

   Author, Journalist, Founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence


Wednesday, April 20, 2005, Packard Lab Auditorium -- 7:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Visiting Lecturer's Committee, The Department of Religion Studies, The Humanities Center, Asisan Studies, Progressive Student Alliance


Wheels of Justice - Eye Witness Accounts to Occupation in Iraq & Palistine.
Tuesday, November 16th -- 7:00 P.M. - Lewis Lab, Room 270

Having seen and lived with war, terror, and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, participants in the Wheels of Justice offer first hand experience irrespective
of partisan politics and sound bite sloganeering.  To build upon the growing domestic opposition to the war against Iraq and occupation of Palestine, the Wheels
of Justice Tour will cover the United States with education, outreach, training, active non-violent resistance, and community building.

Sponsored by: Progressive Student Alliance, Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center & Political Science Dept.


"James Baldwin: From Another Place" -- Film  - Sedat Pakay, Filmmaker
   Wednesday, November 17th - 4:10 p.m. - Humanities Center

"Prophetic Voice, Prophetic Witness:  The Living Legacy of James Baldwin"
   Thursday, November 18th - 4:10 p.m. - Linderman 200
   David Leeming - speaker - Author James Baldwiun:  A Biography
   Trudier Harris -  speaker - English Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

"James Baldwin Down From the Mountaintop" - Calvin Levels-One Man Performance
   Actor, Stage and Film, Tony Award Nominee
   Thursday, November 18th - 8:00 p.m. - Packer Memorial Church

All James Baldwin programs are sponsored by: Humanites Center, Visiting Lectures Committee, American Studies, Dept. of Theatre,
Religions Studies, Chaplain's Office, English Dept., The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Africana Studies, Spectrum Student Club,
Women's Center, Moravian College Office on Institutional Diversity.


 

  FALL 2004 Lecture Series:  Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office

      Identity and Power:  Fresh Perspectives on Feminism,
                           Fundamentalism and the Future
 

Schedule of Speakers

September 27:  Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards,  “What Can I Do?  How to Change the World
from Where You Are”   8 p.m., Whitaker 303.
Reception and book signing to follow.

        Richards and Baumgardner are the authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
        Together they have toured over 160 colleges and universities.  Their next book,
        Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism will be published in January 2005 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
 

October  4:  Christina Hoff Sommers, "Sex, Lies, and The Vagina Monologues."  7 p.m.,  Sinclair Auditorium.

        Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
       A former university philosophy professor, she is the author of  Who Stole Feminism?  How Women Have
       Betrayed Women and The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.

       Co-sponsored by the College Republicans, Young America's Foundation, the English Department, and the Humanities Center.
 

October 19:  Alicia Suskin Ostriker,  "The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions"
                                                                  7:30 p.m. Room 102, Maginnes Hall

     A major American poet known for the brilliance and compassion of her visionm Alicia Ostriker is the author of ten
        volumes of poetry including The Imaginary Lover, which won the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award.  She has also
        written Feminist Revision and the Bible.  She is a professor of English and creative writing at Rutgers University and has
        taught midrash writing in the United States, England, Italy and Australia.

     Co-sponsored by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies, English Dept., Religion Studies Dept., Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center, Women's
          Studies and the Women's Center
 

October 21:  Karen Armstrong, "The Battle for God."  7:30 p.m.,  in Packard 101

      Karen Armstrong is the author of the international best-seller The History of God, and many other books on religion,
       including Islam: A Short History, The Gospel According to Woman, Holy War, Muhammad, and The Battle for God:
      Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  In her lecture, Armstrong will present an account of the history
      of fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and discuss the continued growth of fundamentalist movements
      as a response to a technologically driven world with liberal Western values.

       Co-sponsored by  the Visiting Lectures Committee and the Religion Studies Department
 

October 25:   Marcia Ann Gillespie, “Our Bodies, Our Votes:  Women’s Health and the Election”  8pm in Whitaker 303

        As the former Editor in Chief of Essence and Ms. magazines, Marcia Ann Gillespie has been a trailblazer in the publishing
         world for more than two decades.  Time magazine named her "One of Fifty Faces for America's Future.”  Gillespie has
        written extensively about global women’s health issues.

       This lecture series is sponsored by the Women’s Center, Visiting Lectures Commitee, the Chaplain’s Office, and the Office of Graduate Student Life
 
 
 

SPRING 2004 ARCHIVES

LECTURE:  Dr.Carl Ernst -   " Islamic Ethics: From the Premodern to the Postcolonial"
                                                         April 6th - 4:15 p.m. - Sinclair Auditorium

Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on Iran and South Asia. His published research, based on the
study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of Islam and Sufism. His most recent book is
Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003). He studied comparative religion at
Stanford University (A.B. 1973) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1981), and has done research tours in India, Pakistan, and
Turkey, and has also visited Iran, and Uzbekistan. He has taught at Pomona College (1981-1992) and has been a visiting
lecturer in Paris and Seville. A faculty member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill since 1992, and department chair 1995-2000, he is now Zachary Smith Professor.

Sponsored by the Religion Studies Department and Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center, Asian Studies Program, Global Union, Department of
Interntational Relations and the Department of Philosophy.   Free and open to the public.

MYTHS AND REALITIES  of ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

DATE:   Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
Place: Lewis Lab270
at LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

        7:00 PM

SPEAKERS:  CINDY AND CRAIG CORRIE

Last year, one American  peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli Defense Force in Gaza Strip.  Before Rachel died, she had written emails to her parents and her friends, and letters were published by British newspaper Guardian.  These beautifully well written documents touched millions of people’s heart, and the parents of Rachel Corrie will speak their daughter’s live account of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sponsored by:  Progressive Student Alliance, Chaplain’s Office, Political Science Dept.,  Humanities Center, Multi-Cultural Center, Women’s Center, and LEPOCO


LECTURE: THE ACCIDENTAL MAKING OF AN ACTIVIST   OR   HOW TO GROW UP TO BE A PEACEMAKER

Lecture/Discussion with:  WINIFRED E. ROMERIL of Peace Brigades International:  March 22nd - 7:00 p.m. Whitaker Lab Auditorium
As a member of PBI, Ms. Romeril has served as an "unarmed bodyguard" in Guatemal and other Latin American nations and in Indonesia.  She is the author
of PBI's training manual for its Inodnesia Project and has served as evaluator of prospective BPI participants and has trained teams of human rights accompaniers.  A practicing Paramedic, she hold the B.A. in Latin American Studies and Spanish from Mount Holyoke College and the M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and the English Department  Free and open to the public.

LECTURE:  "The Challenge of Race"

A lecture by:   REVEREND JAMES CONE -  February 29th at 3:00 p.m
The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, 424 Center Street, Bethlehem.

Author of Risks of Faith and Black Theology and Black Power, Rev. Cone  is an ordained minister of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology of
Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Sponsored by the Unitiarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University's Chaplain's Office, Humanities Center,Africana Studies,
Multicultural Center, English Dept. and Moravian Theological Seminary and Shiloh Baptist Church.


 LECTURE:  " NONVIOLENCE IN A TIME OF WAR"

"NONVIOLENCE IN A TIME OF WAR," a lecture by journalist and peace activist
Colman McCarthy, will be presented Monday, February 9th, 7 pm, at Whitaker
Auditorium.

For 20 years Colman McCarthy has balanced his career as a columnist (including
some years at the Washington Post) with teaching courses on peaceful resolution
to conflict to more than 5,000 students at such institutions as Georgetown Law
School, the University of Maryland, various suburban prep schools, and a
detention center for troubled youth in the Washington area.

"Every day in my classrooms students devour the literature of nonviolence and
slowly commit themselves to living a life in which conflicts are settled
through the force of justice, the force of organized resistance to abusive
power, the force of truth -- satya -- and the force of love, not the force
of fists, guns, bombs, nukes or armies."  In our elementary schools, high
schools and colleges and universities, we have "a combined population of 50
million learners.  Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will
teach them violence."

Sponsored by the Humanities Center & the Chaplain's Office, the lecture is free
and open to the public.

Information: Professor Addison Bross / 610-758-3331 / acb2@lehigh.edu

   "SYMBOLIZING THE HOLOCAUST: Maus and Other Projects"

    Monday, February 23, 2004 -- Room 480 Maginnes Hall -- 4:15 P.M.

Author to discuss symbols of Holocaust-- Oren Baruch Stier, professor of religious studies at Florida International University, will speak at 4:15 p.m. Monday in Maginnes Hall.
Stier will discuss “Symbolizing the Holocaust: Maus and Other Projects” in a talk in Room 480 that is free and open to the public. The author of Committed to Memory:
Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust, Stier is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Representations of the Holocaust often rely on symbols to communicate their intended messages in a shorthand of signification. In many cases, these symbols originate
in the visual and metaphoric vocabulary of the Nazi era, though they frequently evolve and assume lives of their own beyond their use and application within the context
of World War II.
These icons become the building blocks of Holocaust memory. In his lecture, Stier will discuss some of these contemporary images and applications, with special
reference to Art Spiegelman's Maus volumes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning portrayal of the Holocaust in cartoon form.

Sponsored by the Berman Center, the Littauer Foundation, the Chaplain's Office and Religion Studies Department


2003 - Archives

TED CONOVER

THURSDAY, APRIL 3 – 4:15 PM - talk by Ted Conover in
Room. 200
Linderman Library.

Conover is a journalist, most renowned for his book NEWJACK:  Guarding Sing-Sing,
which won him the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Chaplain's Office.


Lecture:  Shalom Paul's will lecture at Lehigh on Monday, April 7: Topic: The Ever-Alive Dead Sea
Scrolls: Their Significance for the Biblical Text, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity.

Shalom Paul, Professor of Bible, Hebrew University,  discusses three areas of research revolutionized by
the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

                                               April 7, 2003

                                         4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
 

                     Location: Maginnes Hall, Room 480
                                   9 W. Packer Avenue
                                   Bethlehem, PA  18015

  This event is sponsored by Lehigh University - Berman Center for Jewish Studies.

                     For more information, contact Shirley Ratushny at 610 758-3352 or inber@lehigh.edu.

                     For more information, see http://www.lehigh.edu/~inber/programs.html.
                     A Berman Center Lecture co-sponsored by the Chaplain's Office.


Film:  Trembling Before G-D
  Intimately told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian. Panel
  discussion to follow the documentary, with panelists:  Rabbi Moshe Re'em - Temple Beth El, Professor
                     Larry Silberstein - Berman Center, Lloyd Steffen - Chaplain.
 

                           February 12, 2003
                                  7:00 p.m.

                              Location: Whitaker Laboratory
                                   5 E. Packer Avenue
                                   Bethlehem, PA  18015

                     Directions: Room 303

                     This event is co-sponsored by Lehigh University - Multicultural Affairs, Hillel Society, Berman Center,
                     Chaplain's Office, Safe Space, Office Of Multicultural Affairs

                     For more information, contact Rochelle Aubert at (610) 758-5973 or rda2@lehigh.edu.


The Producer of Al Jazeera to Speak at Lehigh

The Producer of Al Jazeera USA, Mr. Imad Musa, will speak on the looming
war with Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and Arab sentiment toward Americans in the Middle East,
during a presentation on:

Monday, Feb. 3
Whitaker Auditorium
4 p.m.

Imad Musa is a producer for Al-Jazeera Television in Washington, DC. He
studied journalism at George Mason University, in Virginia, and the
University of Missouri at Columbia. Imad worked as a correspondent for
Associated Press and Reuters news agencies in Jerusalem throughout the
'90s, covering the Palestinian Intifada, the Madrid peace conference and
the Oslo peace accords. In 1999, he helped establish Newsweek's Arabic
version. He has also worked at ABC Television in New York and Reuters
Television in Washington. At Al-Jazeera TV, he helps manage the
day-to-day news and produce a weekly talk show covering U.S. domestic
and international affairs, "From Washington."

Co-Sponsored by the Global Union and the Chaplain's Office


2002

Lehigh Chaplain's Forum:  WHEN RELIGION TURNS DESTRUCTIVE
A Conversation about the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas
December 3, 2002 at 4:00 p.m., The Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Avenue.

Guest Speaker: Jim Peck, Professor at Muhlenberg College.
Professor Peck is the first cousin to Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was
the victim of a 1998 hate crime when he was beaten to death.

Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.


Ever wonder what the Bible says about Homosexuality?

Come to a speaking engagement  on "Homosexuality and the Bible," with speaker Rev. Beth Goudy of the Metropolitan Community Church of Bethlehem. She will discuss The Bible and Homosexuality but will also share experiences of being targeted by hate-groups and offer suggestions for pro-active responses.

The event will be held in the UC Room 403, Thursday, November 21st.  A reception will follow the event and refreshments will be served.
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm. The Event is sponsored by Safe Space, The Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Chaplain's Office.


Lehigh Chaplain’s Forum: “FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM: VOICES OF INNOCENCE”  Monday October 14th, 4:00 p.m. , The Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Avenue

Press conference to start 3:30.

A Chaplain’s Forum event at Lehigh University will bring two former PA death row inmates to campus to talk about their wrongful convictions and imprisonment.  The talk will be held on October 14th at 4:00 p.m. in the Lehigh University Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Avenue.y.  The Lehigh visit is a part of a two-week series of public appearances throughout Pennsylvania by wrongfully convicted survivors of death row.

William Nieves, found innocent and released from Pennsylvania’s death row only two years ago, and Ray Krone, a Pennsylvania resident who was the 100th person in the United States released from death row after being found innocent, will be sharing their gripping tales with those in the audience.  The tour is organized by Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty and is co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council of Churches, the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.  The Progressive Student Alliance is co-sponsoring the Chaplain’s Forum on the Lehigh campus.

Opportunity will be provided to ask questions of the speakers, and information will be available at the presentation on all the issues related to the use of the death penalty in the United States, especially in Pennsylvania.

The issue of the death penalty has received much recent attention in the press lately.  The United States Supreme Court recently ruled on jury discretion in capital case sentencing, several United States District Courts have declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional, and the PA Senate Judiciary Committee had recent hearings on the issue of executing mentally retarded inmates.  This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the issue of the death penalty, whether a supporter or opposed to it, to put a human face on one the most serious problems involved with capital punishment, wrongful conviction and the possibility of executing an innocent person.

The “Voices of Innocence” program will continue with an evening event at First Presbyterian Church, 333 Spring Garden Street, Easton at 7:00 p.m., Monday evening, October 14th.

NOTE: A Press Conference with the presenters will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, October 14th at the Lehigh University Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, prior the Chaplain’s Forum presentation of “Voices of Innocence.”  Contact the Chaplain’s Office at 610-758-3877 with questions or requests for further information.


Chaplain's Office co-Sponsorship and Participation

                      War with Iraq topic of talks

                      Henri J. Barkey, the Bernard and Bertha Cohen Professor of International
                      Relations, will kick off a series of talks on the possibility of war with Iraq at 4 p.m.
                      Tuesday, Oct. 8th in Lehigh's Humanities Center at 224 W. Packer Ave.
                            Barkey, who served with the Office of Policy Planning in the U.S. State
                      Department from 1998 to 2000, will speak on "War With Saddam: The Case
                      For and Against." The series of talks,organized by professors from Lehigh
                      University's departments of English, history, international relations, political
                      science and religion studies, along with the Chaplain's Office, the Humanities
                      Center and the Faculty Development program, are free and open to the public.
                            "Our purpose is to create an awareness of how this historical moment
                      can affect the students and, moreover, of what their responsibility is in
                      determining whether the U.S. goes to war," says John Pettegrew,
                      professor of history and one of the organizers of events.
                            "In the past, American colleges and universities have played a crucial role in
                      public debate about war and peace. We believe that it is urgently necessary for
                      Lehigh and the wider community to engage in democratic discussion of the
                      proposed war on Iraq."
                            Nearly 50 faculty members across the university’s four colleges signed a
                      full-page ad that recently ran in the Lehigh student newspaper, The Brown and
                      White, asking: "Would you fight, kill and die to overthrow Saddam Hussein in
                      Iraq?" The ad urged students to critically assess the war policy being
                      promoted by the Bush administration, and "resist the rush to war."
                            This year's events follow a teach-in organized last fall in response to the
                      terrorist attacks of 9-11.
                            "It was quite successful in engaging students in informed discussion,"
                      Pettegrew said. "We promised ourselves that we would continue to do more in
                      that vein, and these talks are an outgrowth of that commitment."
                            Each of the talks in the series will be held at the Humanities Center: All
                      begin at 4 p.m. Future dates and topics are:
                                     Tuesday, October 15: "Terrorism, the U.S., and the Bombing of
                      Civilians,"  by John Pettegrew, professor of history
                                     Tuesday, October 22: "Media Culture: Pounding the Drum for War vs.
                      Imagining Peace," by Ted Morgan, professor of political science
                                     Wednesday, October 30: "War with Iraq: The Moral Issues," by Lloyd H.
                      Steffen, university chaplain and professor of religion studies
                                      Wednesday, November 6: "Should We Support This War?" by Seth Moglen,
                      professor of English

                      For more information, contact Pettegrew at jcp5@lehigh.edu or 610-758-3355, or
                      Dina Wills at dw03@lehigh.edu or 610-758-3638.


Carole Angier, author of The Double Bond:  the Life of Primo Levi (2002),
will speak at Lehigh Monday, November 11, at 4:15 p.m. in Linderman 200.

More information will follow.  This talk will be co-sponsored by the Philosophy Dept., Humanities Center, Dept. of English,
Dept. of Religion Studies, and the Chaplain's Office.

Archived Events

  Barry Lynn at Lehigh December 4

Barry Lynn, attorney, champion of religious liberty, and executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State will speak on the Lehigh University campus Tuesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.in the Sinclair Lab Auditorium.  He will address the topic, “Protecting Religious Freedom in a Time of Crisis: A Post 9-11 Evaluation of the First Amendment.”

 In addition to his evening lecture, the Humanities Center will be hosting a reception for Lynn at 4:10 p.m. at 224 West Packer Avenue.  In keeping with the Humanities Cen