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HISTORY DEPARTMENT DISTINGUISHED
LECTURE SERIES, SPRING 2007
All
lectures are free and open to the public
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 Tues, Feb 6, 6:30 p.m.: Robert Orsi (Charles
Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Harvard
Divinity
School), Eastern
Nazarene College: 15 Shrader Hall. On Tuesday, February 6,
6:30pm, Professor Robert A. Orsi will give a free public lecture at ENC
on “The Dangerous Imaginations of Catholic Children in Mid-20th Century
U.S.” Orsi is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion
in America at Harvard Divinity School. He has authored and edited
a number of books, chapters, and articles on a variety of topics,
including Catholic devotionalism, specifically relationships between
humans and saints; religion in the industrial and post-industrial city;
religion and immigration and migration; religion and gender; and
religious responses to suffering and pain. His Thank You, St.
Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
won the Organization
of American Historian’s1998 Merle Curti Award. In
2003 he was elected president of the American
Academy of Religion, the
world’s largest association of religion scholars.
Orsi’s lecture will be based on
a
larger project concerning growing up
Catholic in the United States in the twentieth century. (He has
conducted hundreds of interview with believers across the
country.) His work
raises questions about children’s distinctive religious experiences and
what it means to become persons within specific worlds of religious
practice and imagination.  Professor Orsi's talk is sponsored by
the ENC History Department Lecture Series. View poster.
*Wed,
Feb 14, 7:30
p.m., Owen
Gingerich, “Proof and Persuasion: How Galileo Changed the Rules of
Science” Eastern
Nazarene College: 15 Shrader Hall. Owen Gingerich is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and
History of Science at Harvard University. His research
interests have ranged from the recomputation of an ancient Babylonian
mathematical table to the interpretation of stellar
spectra. He
has written several other books, the most recent of which is God’s Universe.
Gingerich will examine the intellectual controversy over the Book of
Nature versus the Book of Scripture, novel scientific interpretations
versus a highly literal reading of the Bible. He will explain how
Galileo abandoned the traditional ways of establishing scientific
truth, and by so doing, effectively changed the rules of science
forever.
Wed,
March 7, 6:30 p.m.: Bertram
Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Milbauer Emeritus Professor of
History,
University of Florida, and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University), “Honor in the American South and
the Middle East.” Location: ENC, Shrader Hall, 15. In 2007 Oxford
University Press
will republish Bertram Wyatt-Brown's classic study, Southern Honor: Ethics and
Behavior in the
Old South (1982, 1983). It was a finalist for the American
Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. "A fellow of the National
Humanities
Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of
Humanities, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton, he has
served as President of the Society for Historians of the Early American
Republic (1994), St. George Tucker Society (1998-99), and Southern
Historical Association (2000-01)."*
Wyatt-Brown will be speaking at ENC on the role honor has played and
continues to play in regional and world crises. The lecture is
free and open to the public.
Tues,
March 27, 6:30 p.m.: Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto (Prince of Asturias Professor in the
Department of History, Tufts University), “Amerigo Vespucci and the
Naming of America, 500 Years after.” Co-sponsored by the Historical
Society. Location: Eastern
Nazarene College: 15 Shrader Hall.
Fri,
April 20, 1:30-3:30
p.m., “Origins Roundtable.” Participants include: Ronald
Numbers (Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine,
University of Wisconsin-Madison); Jon Roberts (Professor of
History, Boston University); Karl Giberson
(Eastern Nazarene College); Donald Yerxa (Eastern Nazarene
College)
Sponsored by the Polkinghorne Society at
Eastern Nazarene College.
Location: TBA.
*Not sponsored by the ENC History Department
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