Annual University Lecture Series
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. It is co-sponsored by the Christian Reformed Campus Ministry at Dalhousie, the University Chaplaincy at King's College and the Segelberg Trust.
Our guest lecturer for 2008 is Dr. James K. Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI.
Date of Lecture Series: October 1-2
Topic of Dr. Smith's talks:
Politics Takes Practice: Augustine, Postmodernity, and the Liturgies of Liberalism
First Seminar (Co-hosted by the Philosophy department at Dalhousie):
"Philosophy of Religion Takes Practice: Liturgy as Source and Method in Philosophy of Religion"
Location: Room 1170 in the FASS Building
Second Seminar (Co-hosted by the Contemporary Studies Program at King's College):
"Whose Augustine? Which History?"
Location: King's College
Public Lecture:
"The Politics of Desire: Augustine and Contemporary Politics"
Location: Alumni Hall, King's College
You can read James Smith's latest blog post at: Fors Clavigera
James Smith is the author of a number of books including:
Speech
and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation [Routledge, 2002], Introducing
Radical Orthodoxy [Baker Academic, 2004], Jacques
Derrida: Live Theory [Continuum, 2005], Whos
Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault
to Church [Baker Academic, 2006].