Colloquium on the American Founding Events
This Fall the Colloquium was held on September 28 & 29, 2007.
Talks & Speakers for the Colloquium Weekend
"Faith and the Challenges of Secularism"
Date: Friday, September 28
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Description: English Writer and Philosopher Roger Scruton speak.
Location: Cole Assembly Room
Converse Hall
"Schmentoring: Mentoring Gone Askew--with Even Better Results"
Date: Friday, September 28
Time: 8:00 pm
Description: Edward Tenner is a professor in the History and Sociology of Science Departments at the University of Pennsylvania. Tenner is the author of the book entitled Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences"
Location: Lewis Sebring
Valentine Hall
"Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Beseiged"
Date: Saturday, September 29
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Description: Roger Scruton, English writer and philosopher, will speak.
Location: The Babbott Room
The Octagon
"Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century"
Date: Saturday September 29
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Description: Amy Wax, professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak.
Location: The Babbot Room
The Octagon
"Racial Preferences and the Schools in Seattle"
Date: Saturday, September 29
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Description: Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the Ninth Federal Cicruit Court of Appeals will speak.
Location: Lewis Sebring
Valentine Hall
"Can the Judges themselves Violate the Constitution?- and Other Matters: A Conversation"
Date: Saturday, September 29
Time: 2:00 p.m. (following Judge O'Scannlain's speech)
Description: John Mercer Walker, Jr., Chief Judge of the Second Federal Circuit Court of New York, will speak.
Location: Lewis Sebring
Valentine Hall