Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture to Sponsor February Series of Public Events

The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross is sponsoring a number of lectures by noted experts in the next month. The talks, which are free and open to the public, will take place in Rehm Library in Smith Hall on the campus.

Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m. — Francis Oakley, president emeritus and Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of Ideas at Williams College and former president of the American Council of Learned Societies, will give a talk titled “The Dominance of the Present Over the Past: The Church’s Forgotten Constitutionalist Heritage.” The event is part of the Deitchman Family Lectures in Religion and Modernity, which explores the place of religious and spiritual life in a world that is sometimes at odds with faith, other times in search of it, and always at work reshaping it.

Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. — Harold Bush, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University, will give a talk titled “Emmett Till’s Body and the Generativity of Bereaved Parents.” [This event has been canceled.]

Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. — Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley professor emeritus of historical theology and of the history of Christianity at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, will give a talk titled “Joachim of Fiore and History in Western Culture.”

Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. — Matt Cartmill, professor of biological anthropology and anatomy at Duke University, will give a talk titled “Evolution, Creation, and Eternity: What’s Wrong with the ‘Creation’ Part of Creation Science?” [This event has been canceled.]

Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. — Jessica Waldoff, associate professor and chair of the music department at Holy Cross, will give a talk as part of the Faculty Book Discussion series on her book, Recognition in Mozart’s Operas (Oxford University Press, 2006), an insightful discourse that uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of the composer’s best-loved operas. [This event has been canceled.]