Annual University Lecture Series
This series is organized and hosted by the Christian Reformed Campus Ministry at Dalhousie and the University Chaplaincy at King's College. It is co-sponsored by the Christian Reformed Campus Ministry at Dalhousie, the University Chaplaincy at King's College, the Segelberg Trust, and the Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust.
This series intends to enrich Dalhousie's scholarly life and to testify to the contribution that Christian scholarship can make in the pursuit of academic faithfulness.
Our guest lecturer for 2010 is Dr. Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Associate Dean at Grinnell College in Iowa. Born in Nova Scotia, Dr. Skerrett was educated at Mount Allison University, Dalhousie Law School, and Harvard University. She has written and lectured on Christian responses to pain and loss, gender and religion, and religious practices of 'the body.' Dr. Skerrett has published many articles and is popular as a speaker throughout Canada and the United States.
Date: October 6-7, 2010
Topic: The Person and the Political: Theological Roots of John Rawls's Political Liberalism
First Seminar: "Critics of John Rawls's Political Liberalism: Justice without Goodness?"
Wednesday, October 6 @ 3:00 pm
Dalhousie Schulich School of Law (room TBA)
Second Seminar: "Theological Rawls: Person, Sin, and Community"
Co-hosted by the Philosophy Department at Dalhousie University
Wednesday, October 6 @ 7:00 pm
Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building (room TBA)
Public Lecture: "Social Contract or Commonwealth? The Person as Citizen of a Pluralistic Society"
Thursday, October 7 @ 7:30 pm
KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor of the New Academic Building, King's College