Symposium -- September 19 & 20, 2024

Habits of Hope: Educational Practices for a Weary World

Sponsors

  InterVarsity Press Christian Scholar’s Review  Lilly Fellows Program

Schedule

Thursday

September 19, 2024
  • 5:00 PM to 5:45 PM – Hors D ’Oeuvres Reception
  • 5:45 PM to 6:00 PM – Welcome – Jon S. Kulaga (President, Indiana Wesleyan University), Video Greetings – Donna M. Carroll (President, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities) and Shirley V. Hoogstra (President, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities)
  • 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM – Dinner – Blessing of the Meal, Ian Eddie (Director of Research, Excelsia College)
  • 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM – Integration as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Philip Graham Ryken (Professor of Theology and President, Wheaton College); Session Host – Warren F. Rogers (David Blanchard Professor of Physics, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Coffee and Dessert
  • Emcee – Jerry Pattengale (University Professor and Co-Director of the Lumen Research Institute, Indiana Wesleyan University)

Friday

September 20, 2024
  • 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM – Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM – The Hope of Education – Kevin G. Grove, C.S.C. (Associate Professor of Theology, Chaplain to the Master of Divinity Program, and Pastoral Resident for Dunne Hall, University of Notre Dame), Session Host – Amanda Hontz Drury (Professor of Practical Theology, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM – Break
  • 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM – Conversation as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Cherie Harder (President, The Trinity Forum); Session Host – Jason D. Runyan (Professor of Neuropsychology, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Lunch – Blessing of the Meal – Joe Creech (Executive Director, The Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities)
  • 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM – Diversity as a Hopeful Educational Practice – Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu (Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Westmont College); Session Host – Linda Manganello (Associate Professor of Communication and Chief of Staff, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM – Break
  • 2:30 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, Nashotah House Theological Seminary); Session Host – Jeffrey Tabone (Director of Academic Programs and Student Formation and Assistant Professor of Humanities, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 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), Session Host – Lanta Davis (Professor of Humanities and Literature, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Hors D ’Oeuvres Reception
  • 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM – Dinner – Blessing of the Meal, Jon Boyd (Academic Editorial Director, InterVarsity Press)
  • 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Teaching as a Hopeful Educational Practice – David I. Smith (Professor of Education, Founding Director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, and Inaugural Coordinator of the De Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development, Calvin University); Session Host – Henrik Söderström (Ardelia Williams Professor of Visual Arts, Indiana Wesleyan University)
  • 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM – Coffee and Dessert
  • Emcee – Jerry Pattengale (University Professor and Co-Director of the Lumen Research Institute, Indiana Wesleyan University)

Sponsors

InterVarsity Press  Sagamore Institute  Indiana Wesleyan University   Christianity Today Excelsia College