Monmouth College to host
three talks Feb. 20-21
Release Date:
February 14, 2008
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College will host three talks in a 24-hour span on Feb. 20-21. The events are part of a trio of ongoing programs at the college – Great Decisions, Monmouth Associates and the AIA Lecture series.
The first event on the schedule is a Great Decisions program on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the college’s Stockdale Center. The focus will be on “U.S. Defense and Security Policy. Free and open to the public, the Great Decisions series is sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, a non-partisan, non-governmental association that works to increase Americans’ understanding of significant foreign policy issues.
Steve Bloomer, a senior development officer at the college and the former chief of staff for the Iowa Army National Guard, will lead the program, which he will preface with a 30-minute overview. An hour of group discussion will follow. The program will be the fifth in the series, which will conclude March 19. For more information, contact Ira Smolensky at 309-457-2102 or Amy de Farias at 309-457-2243.
On Feb. 21, psychology professors Kristin Larson and Joan Wertz will give a Monmouth Associates talk titled “Chopsticks and Hacky Sack” at noon in the Highlander Room. Larson and Wertz will discuss the one-week trip they led to China last month, and they will be joined by several of the students who traveled with them.
The program is free; a buffet lunch costs $8. Reservations for the meal and to use the college’s free shuttle van at the Public Square from can be made by calling 309-457-2316 or by going online at
www.monm.edu/alumni/associates.htm.
Later on Feb. 21, MC visiting classics lecturer Nicholas Gresens will deliver a talk at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Room of the college’s Poling Hall. He will speak on “Text as Trowel’s Edge: Homer, The Bible and the Origins of Archaeology.”
Sponsored by the Western Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the MC Classics Department, the Archaeology Lecture series is free and open to the public. CPDU credits are available for educators.
“The Homeric epics and the Bible are arguably the most influential pieces of literature in the history of western society,” says Gresens. “Because of their status, both have been used to write histories of the ancient world and both have been used to interpret archaeological remains.”
In his talk, Gresens will examine two periods in the history of the exploration of the archaeological record and note the changes that occurred in the time between them.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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