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Forester Lecture Series

Huntington University presents the Forester Lecture Series each semester. The lectures are designed to bring interesting persons and topics to the attention of students and the regional community. The Forester Lecture Series is open to the public and free of charge.

The Forester Lecture Series at Huntington University is coordinated by Dr. Jeff Webb of the Department of History. For further information, contact Dr. Jeff Webb at (260) 359-4243.

Scheduled presentations for the 2009-2010 academic year include:

	The Examined Christian Life Series "Making Friends with Darwin: A Christian's Painful Journey" Karl W. Giberson Professor of Physics, Eastern Nazarene College September 10, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Karl W. Giberson is Executive Vice President of the BioLogos Foundation, Director of the Forum on Faith and Science at Gordon College, and Editor at Large of Science and Religion Today. His books, including Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Religion and Science (Beacon Hill, 1993) and Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (HarperOne, 2009) have garnered national attention and have established him as a leading commentator on the relationship between religious belief and scientific inquiry. His presentation will focus on what it means to be an educated Christian and the role of higher learning in the journey of faith.
	The Adams Tribute Lecture Series "Obama and the Legacy of Martin Luther Kind, Jr." J. Kameron Carter Associate Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School October 13, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA J. Kameron Carter received degrees from Temple University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia, and is the author of a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press entitled Race: A Theological Account. He is a widely respected observer of the African-American experience in the United States and scholar of the historic black church in America. His presentation will address the King legacy in American religion and politics, and will offer a meditation on the future of religion in the United States.
	"What the Image Says: Visualizing Meaning Across Genres" Matt Mullins Poet and Author October 22, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Matt Mullins is a writer of screenplays, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and music, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Ball State University. His work has appeared in anthologies, literary journals, magazines and newspapers, including Descant, The Birmingham Poetry Review, Born Magazine, The Grand Valley Review, The Detroit Metro Times, The Furnace, and others. His presentation in the Forester Lecture Series also serves as the keynote address for the conference of the Indiana College English Association.
	"Diversity and Inclusion in 'Acts of the Apostles'" Ben Witherington III Professor of New Testament, Asbury Theological Seminary November 4, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Ben Witherington III is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has published numerous books in the fields of Theology and Biblical Studies, including his recent Troubled Waters: Rethinking our Theology of Baptism (Baylor, 2007) and The Problem with Evangelical Theology (Baylor, 2005). He was named General Editor of New Cambridge Bible Commentary Series and is a two-time winner of Christianity Today’s Best Biblical Studies Book of the Year Award (The Paul Quest, The Jesus Quest). His presentation will focus on the issue of diversity among the first Christians as recorded in the New Testament.
	The Walter and Georgiana Ball Lecture Series "Thinking About 1989" Gale Stokes Professor Emeritus, Rice University December 1, 7:00 PM Banquet Room, Habecker Dining Commons Gale Stokes is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History Emeritus at Rice University. He served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and received Fulbright, NEH, and Woodrow Wilson Center fellowships. His book, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (Oxford, 1993) won the Vucinich Prize for best book on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia. His expertise on communism’s collapse has been sought by the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour, NPR, and the Washington Post and many other media. His presentation will reflect on the meaning and significance of the fall of communism twenty years afterward.
	"The Consequences of our Stories Untold" Kao Kalia Yang Author and Speaker February 4, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Kao Kalia Yang was born in Thailand’s Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in 1980 and immigrated with her family to Minnesota in 1987. She received degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University, and is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008). Her book narrates her family’s journey from Laos through Thailand to the United States during the Vietnam War, and her own experiences with American culture. Her presentation will focus on the experience of immigration and acculturation in contemporary America.
	"Watchdogs in the Era of New Media" Daniel Bice Award-Winning Investigative Journalist March 9, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His work exposed secret gambling agreements, corrupt ministers, tribal campaign donations and bungled police investigations, earning him a national reputation as an accomplished political watchdog. Bice won the National Headliner Award in 2009, his second, and has won best project honors from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. His presentation will address challenges to the profession of investigative journalism in the new media environment of 24-hour news cycles, the internet, and the blogosphere.
	"Niebuhr's 'Christ and Culture' at Fifty" D. A. Carson Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School March 29, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Donald A. Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has received degrees from McGill University, Central Baptist Seminary, and the University of Cambridge. He is a highly respected scholar and author of fifty books, including the recent Christ and Culture Revisited (Eerdmans, 2008). He also co-founded The Gospel Coalition, which was formed to bring Christian leaders together to reform the church and transform the broader culture. His presentation will assess the importance of H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture on the fifty-year anniversary of its publication.
	Faculty Lecture Series "Race, Gender, Feminism and the Case of Edwidge Danticat" Todd Martin Professor of English, Huntington University April 27, 7:00 PM Zurcher Auditorium, MCA Dr. Todd Martin, Professor of English at Huntington University, teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth century British and American literature, and serves as director of the Core Curriculum. He has published on a variety of authors, including E. E. Cummings, John Barth, and Clyde Edgerton, though his recent interests lie in postcolonial literature—particularly the works of Haitian-American author, Edwidge Danticat. His articles on Danticat have appeared in The Explicator, Literature and Belief, Atenea: A Bilingual Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in the forthcoming collection, Cultural Representation in the Short Story Sequence.



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