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Honors Forum Spr10

HON 999: Honors Forum

Schedule, Spring 2010

 

Semester	Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
S10	1-15	McInnis 120-21		Introduction
S10	1-22	Auditorium: 10:00am Windows on the World	Andrew Exum	God or Country? Balancing Faith and National Service in America
S10	1-22	Auditorium	Andrew Exum	America's Challenge in Afghanistan: The Politics and Strategy of Our War in Central Asia
S10	1-29		No Forum	Winter Retreat
S10	1-30	Black Rock Retreat	Chris Hall (Winter Retreat)	Spiritual Formation Part III: Habit Formation—Good and Bad
S10	2-5	McInnis 120-21		Honors College Business
S10	2-11	Auditorium Conversations that Matter	Brenda Salter McNeil	Topic: Racial Reconciliation
S10	2-12	Eagle Hall Great Room	Brenda Salter McNeil	Topic: Leadership
S10	2-19	Eagle Hall Great Room		On Preparing a Successful Application
S10	2-26		No Forum	Spring Break
S10	3-5		No Forum	Spring Break
S10	3-12	Eagle Hall Great Room	Chris Hall	Spiritual Formation Part IV: The Role of the Classical Spiritual Disciple
S10	3-19	Eagle Hall Great Room	Mike Andrews	Topic: Liberal Arts
S10	3-26	Gough Great Room	Richard Frost	Music and the Passion of Christ: How it Can Deepen  our Faith
S10	4-2		No Forum	Good Friday
S10	4-9	Eagle Hall Great Room		THC Business
S10	4-16	Eagle Hall Great Room	Beth Doriani	Emily Dickinson: A 19th Century Poet for the 21st Century
S10	4-23	HHC 200,233,222		Senior Presentations

 

Special Speakers:

 

Andrew Exum is a Fellow with the Center for a New American Security and is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on counterinsurgency. Most recently, Exum served as an advisor on the CENTCOM Assessment Team and as a civilian advisor to Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan. From 2000 until 2004 he served on active duty in the U.S. Army. He led a platoon of light infantry in Afghanistan in 2002 and a platoon of Army Rangers in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He is the author of one book, This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story from the Frontlines of the War on Terror (Gotham, 2004) and has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian and many other newspapers. His “Death From Above, Outrage Down Below” authored with David Kilcullen, appeared in the May 17, 2009 issue of the New York Times and helped to reset public conversation about the ethics and effectiveness of unmanned drone attacks in Afghanistan.

Brenda Salter McNeil is a leading speaker in the field of racial and ethnic reconciliation. She earned a MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and a DMin from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Palmer Theological Seminary). She has served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In 1995, in response to her growing passion for authentic racial healing, she founded Overflow Ministries, Inc., a nonprofit, faith-based organization devoted to the ministry of racial and ethnic reconciliation. She continues this work through Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC, a racial and ethnic reconciliation-focused speaking, training, consulting, and leadership-development firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Salter McNeil is also the coauthor of The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change (IVP, 2005).

Beth Doriani holds her BA in English from Calvin College, MA in English from Kent State University, and her PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She has serviced at Northwestern College (IA) as English Department chair and Faculty Development coordinator, Academic Dean at Malone College (OH), Vice President and Dean of Academics at Montreat College (NC), and most recently Regent University (VA) where she serves as Academic Dean for the School of Undergraduate Studies.  Dr. Doriani has also served as Associate Professor of English at Northwestern and held the rank of Full Professor of English at both Montreat and Regent. She is the author of Emily Dickinson: Daughter of Prophecy (UMass Press, 1996)

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