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Globalization and Religious Pluralism Series Part III
Globalization and Religious Pluralism are interrelated and influential in shaping our changing world. Students need to understand and act on the challenges and opportunities that are constantly being created as the world’s economies get integrated, as people travel across nations for business, work and pleasure, and as a technologically connected world responds to world events as local events or vice versa.
Globalization & Pluralism Series
Faith and Sustainability Panel: Religion and Ecology
Panelists:
Moderator:
Dr. Carl Riden, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Longwood University, and Dr. Anne C. Lund, Professor of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College
7 p.m., Wygal Hall
October 16, 2008
Reception to Follow
Faith and Sustainability – An Essay Competition
Topic: “How can faith-based values shape a sustainable world?”
First prize -- $150; Second prize -- $100; Third prize -- $75
(Prizes will be awarded during International Week, November 10-13, 2008)
Due Date: October 30, 2008
Open to all Longwood undergraduate students
Essay Length: 1000 – 1250 words (Typed, double-spaced)
All entries to be submitted as an email attachment and sent to: calhounli@longwood.edu
Sponsors: The Globalization and Pluralism Committee & the Office of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services
International Awareness Week:
"Chinese Companies Today & Tomorrow: Crouching Tiger or Hidden Dragon?" with Lily Run Ren, Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics
12:30 pm., Dorrill Dining Hall,
Nance Room
November 10, 2008
International Awareness Week
Energy Consumption and Conflict in the Developing World: Cases Studies from Bolivia and Nigeria Dr. Phillip Cantrell and Dr. William Holliday, History, Political Science, and Philosophy
7 p.m., Wygal Hall
November 11, 2008
International Awareness Week
“Think Globally, Act Locally: Virginia’s responsibilities and response in addressing climate change” with Glen Besa,
Chapter Director Sierra Club-Virginia
7:00 pm, Hiner 207
November 13, 2008
Festival of Lights
Pluralism and the Celebration of Faith Forum: Panelist (TBA) will discuss various holidays and holy days and their commonalities
7 p.m., Lankford Ballroom
December 3, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr. Program
Jerome Ringo, President of Washington, DC based alt-energy think tank Apollo Alliance and former Chairman of the National Wildlife Federation: Green–Economic Advocate
3:30 pm, Jarman Auditorium
January 22, 2009
Diversity Days: Keynote (TBA)
Globalization and Sustainability
7:00 pm, Wygal Hall
March 25, 2009
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International Awareness Week 2008
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
General Education Film Series
"Moolaade" (Drama about a West African village and those who oppose the practice of female circumcision. [subtitled]),
Library 147A&B, 7pm
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Monday, November 12, 2007
A China Update: A Brown Bag presentation and discussion
with William Dorrill, Ph.d
Former President, Longwood University
12:00 pm- 2:00 pm, Dorrill Dining Hall, Nance Room
Open to Public
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Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007
International Dimensions of the Environment, A Look at the Effects of Globalization
“Indigenous Farmers and Carbon Credits: How the Maori of New Zealand are Earning Income by Saving the Planet”
with
Jason Funk, Ph.d candidate
Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Stanford University
7:00 pm, Wygal Auditorium
Open to Public
Reception to Follow
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
General Education Film Series,
"Pan's Labyrinth"
(Oscar-winning drama about a young girl’s attempts to escape fascist Spain through fantasy. [subtitled])
Library 147A&B, 7pm
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Difficult Dialogue Series: Student Panel
Navigating Religious Pluralism:
Can Higher Education Address the Spiritual Dimension of Your College Experience? If yes How?, If not why not? Various students will attempt to address these questions.
Sponsor: Globalization and Pluralism Series, and the Office of Campus Ministries
Chinese New Year Program:
The Love of God in China with
Professor John Peale
Open to the Public
Reception and book signing to follow in the Lancaster Gallery
This well-researched and thorough work presents Chinese Christianity in a way that will lead Christians and others to better understand their faith and China. The Love of God in China examines various aspects related to Christianity in this socialist country, including:
Author John Peale objectively presents the competing and conflicting positions of the diverse Chinese Christian groups. As he identifies the challenges faced by Christian individuals and churches in China, he not only suggests resolutions, but also proposes what Western Christians could learn from their Chinese family in the faith. Peale explores the ways Christianity can be submerged into Chinese culture.
Co-sponsors: US-China Peoples Friendship Association, Central Virginia Chapter, the Longwood Greenwood Library, Center for the Visual Arts, Globalization and Pluralism Committee US-China Peoples Friendship Association, Central Virginia Chapter |
with Nayan Chanda, author of "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization,"
Open to the Public
Reception and book signing to follow
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Past Programs 2006-07
September 26, 2006
Hispanic-Latino Awareness Program, Difficult Dialogue I: The Immigration Debate
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm
Mr. Eric Gutierrez of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
Moderator: Assistant Professor Carl M. Riden, Sociology
Sponsors: The International Buddy Program
October 25, 2006
Campus Week of Dialogue: Difficult Dialogue II
Navigating Religious Pluralism
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm
Moderator:
J. Michael Utzinger, Hampden-Sydney College
Panel Members:
Dr./Rev. Carolyn Craft, Episcopal Priest/Rector
Sponsor: Globalization and Pluralism Series
October 26, 2006
International Coffee Hour Plus
Java Hut, 3:30-5:00pm
November 13-16, 2006
International Awareness Week: India and the United States -- Two Democracies on the World Stage
Featuring Former Ambassador Sreenivasan
November 13, 2006
Film and Discussion "Nalini by day, Nancy by Night"
Lewis Room (Dorrill Dining Hall), 12:30pm
Short Film and discussion about outsourcing jobs to India.
Moderators: Asst. Prof. Glen Dardick and Professor Sonali Gulati, Department of Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Photography and Film
November 14, 2006
Keynote address by Indian Ambassador Sreenivasan
"India and the United States Two Democracies on the World Stage”
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm
November 15, 2006
Study Abroad Open House: The World is our Campus; See the World, Get Credit...Study Abroad!
Host: Office of International Affairs
Ruffner 148 Commons Lounge, 4:30 pm - 6:00pm
November 15, 2006
National Geographic documentary, “China’s Lost Girls” – regarding Chinese policy designed to curb population
Sponsors: National Council on Economic Education’s International Education Showcase Grant and the Center for Economic Education
Hiner 207, 7:00 pm
Moderator: Professor of Economics, Sarana Thornton, Hampden-SydneyCollege
November 16, 2006
International Dance Program- Department of Modern Languages
Lankford Student Union Ballroom, 8:00pm - 10:00 pm
January 25-27, 2007
Longwood University Democracy Conference
American and The World: Sustaining Democracy In the Global Age
http://www.longwood.edu/democracy/
February 27, 2007
Patricia Carley, Associate Director of Policy, The United States
Commission on International Religious Freedom
“The
USCIRF Mandate: What we do and Why we do it”
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm
March 5, 2007
Video and Discussion, Acting on Faith: Women's New Religious
Activism in America. Various women of various faiths discussion the video
and offer a new perspective on pluralism
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm
March 20, 2007
Charles Kimball, Professor of Religion Wake Forest University,
"When Religion Becomes Evil”
Wygal Hall, 7:00pm. The keynote speaker for the Globalization and Pluralism
Series.
Sponsor: Globalization and Pluralism Series