Symposium -- September 19 & 20, 2024
Habits of Hope: Educational Practices for a Weary WorldSymposium
Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Opportunities for Evangelical ScholarsSchedule
Thursday
September 19, 2024
- 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Hors D ’Oeuvres Reception
- 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM – Welcome & Dinner
- 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – The Hope of Education – Kevin G. Grove, C.S.C. (Assistant Professor of Theology, Chaplain to the Master of Divinity Program, and Pastoral Resident for Dunne Hall, University of Notre Dame)
- 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Coffee and Dessert
- 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Integration as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Philip Graham Ryken (President and Professor of Theology at Wheaton College)
- Emcee—Jerry Pattengale, Lumen Research Institute and Indiana Wesleyan University
Friday
September 20, 2024
- 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM – Breakfast
- 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM – Conversation as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Cherie Harder (President of the Trinity Forum)
- 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM – Break
- 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM – Experimentation as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Audrey K. Bowden (Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Zeppos College Faculty Head at Vanderbilt University)
- 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Lunch
- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM – Diversity as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu (Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Westmont College)
- 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM – Break
- 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM – Reading as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Hans Boersma (Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary)
- 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Break
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM – Writing as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Jessica Hooten Wilson (Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences)
- 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Hors D ’Oeuvres Reception
- 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM – Dinner
- 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Teaching as a Hopeful Educational Practice – David I. Smith (Professor of Education, the founding Director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, and the inaugural Coordinator of the De Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development at Calvin University)
- Emcee—Jerry Pattengale, Lumen Research Institute and Indiana Wesleyan University