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The Spring Barbour Lecture is planned to honor the late Professor Ian Barbour, emeritus.  Guest panelists of five distinguished scholars will take the stage on the Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema to discuss topics that were central to the intellectual work of Ian Barbour:  theology and evolution; environmental ethics; process philosophy; and ethics, technology, and the human person.

The scholars are: 

Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology

Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

Nancy Howell, St. Paul School of Theology

Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Bob Russell, Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA)

The sponsors of this event are the Religion Department, the Office of the President, Dean of the College Office, Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Women Visitor’s Fund and ENTS.

The 2014 Lindesmith Lecturer is Professor Wendy Doniger. She will speak on “Freedom of Speech in India, from the Vedas to the Present”. Professor Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade…

3:15 – 4:15pm in Weitz Center, Lounge Over Main Entrance (LOME).  We will discuss selections from The Hindus and a New York Review of Books article.  RSVP to Sandy Saari…

Lori Pearson, Carleton College Chair of Religion Department, Professor of Religion was awarded a New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read the full story.

Ian Barbour, came to Carleton in 1955 and was a pioneer in founding the Science, Technology and Public Policy program at Carleton (now ENTS) and began his career at Carleton…

Weitz Cinema, Historic memory or memory of history, by Noemi Schory, award-winning Israeli filmmaker, Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies. Contact Louis Newman.

Religion Dept.’s “life after Carleton meeting”.  Deb Olien (Career Center), Asuka Sango (Religion) and Beth Wright ’93 talk with students.  Lunch provided Deb, Asuka and Beth will talk with students…

Learn about the Religion department and any questions/concerns about the major requirements, course offerings, career planning, etc.  Pizza will be served.  Professors Michael McNally and Asuka Sango will be on hand to field any questions you may have.  Location – Religion Lounge – 3rd floor Leighton

Professor Naomi Seidman’s talk is “The Marriage Plot:  Sexuality, Secularization and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Literature”. 

This talk will explore how secularizing processes in the late 18th and 19th centuries worked through art forms, such as fiction, to educate about and cultivate new Jewish heterosexual norms and ideals, which countered and challenged, among other things, homo social and sexual norms in the “traditional” religious world.

Larry L. Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Ethics Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary in NYC, is the guest lecturer honoring Carleton’s Ian Barbour, Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Emeritus.  A brief synopsis of his discussion:  He will contend that while, on the one hand, there is growing recognition of a planetary ecological crisis, on the other there is widespread denial that the chief underlying reasons (the industrial paradigm, now global capitalism, and unprecedented human population) must be addressed in ways that fundamentally call them into question. This poses basic challenges both to modern science and to religion – which he will expand on during his talk.   The Barbour Lecture is jointly sponsored by the Religion Department, ENTS and EThIC.