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2003 Gulf States Colloquium on Faith and Scholarship

Sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Gulf States Graduate & Faculty Ministries,

in cooperation with the Christian Study Center of Gainesville

Date & Time: Saturday, February 22, 2003, 9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.

Location: The Christian Study Center of Gainesville, 112 NW 16th Street, Gainesville, FL (directions available via MapQuest)

Program Synopsis:

After a welcome and comments to frame the day's discussion, the Plenary Addresses will survey central, trans-disciplinary themes concerning the integration of faith and scholarship. Faculty Panelists will then reflect on and develop these themes and interact with attendees in a Question and Answer format. The Graduate Student Panelists will do the same, further advancing the discussion and implications for graduate students. Disciplinary Discussion Groups, led by the Faculty Panelist in one's field (or a closely related field), will then discuss specific ways the day's discussion relates and influences Christian scholarship in that field. Finally, the colloquium concludes with closing comments and a worship response.

Program Schedule:

Participants:

Dr. Charles Mackenzie, Plenary Speaker-Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. Dr. Mackenzie's distinguished teaching career includes positions at Columbia, Princeton and Stanford Universities. He served as President and Chancellor of Grove City College for twenty-one years. As an author, Dr. Mackenzie has published three books, contributed to five more, and penned more than fifty popular and scholarly articles. A recognized expert on the thought of Blaise Pascal, his most recent work is Pascal, Apologist for the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Dr. Samuel Hill, Plenary Speaker-Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Florida. Dr. Hill's exemplary career began with a Ph.D. in Religion at Duke University, and includes teaching positions across the South, including Auburn University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Florida, where he was Chair of the Religion Department from 1972-77. A prolific author and groundbreaking scholar on the history and practice of religion in the South, Dr. Hill serves on the Advisory Board of The Journal of Southern Religion, which confers the Sam Hill Award annually to honor the best student article published during the calendar year.

Dr. George Lebo, Faculty Panelist-Astronomy, U. Florida

Dr. Steve Payne, Faculty Panelist-School of Business, Florida State University

Cameron Anderson, MFA, Faculty Panelist-National Director, IVCF's Graduate & Faculty Ministries

Dr. Tahirih Lee, Faculty Panelist-College of Law, Florida State University

Dr. Tom Crisp, Faculty Panelist-Philosophy, Florida State University

Dr. Jay Lynch, Faculty Panelist, Closing Address-School of Medicine, U. Florida

Kevin Pittle, Graduate Student Panelist-Anthropology, Florida State University

Todd Best, Graduate Student Panelist-Religion, U. Florida

Jason Coleman, Graduate Student Panelist-Neuroscience, U. Florida

Tom Hunley, Graduate Student Panelist-Creative Writing (Poetry), Florida State University

Peter Focks, Graduate Student Panelist-College of Law, U. Florida

Others (to be determined)

Cost: $20 per attendee, payable during the Registration period the day of the colloquium. Make checks payable to "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship."

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