Arts and Lectures Events Fall 2008

The Bluffton University Arts and Lecture program provides an opportunity for shared academic and cultural experiences among faculty, staff, and students across departments and disciplines.  Lectures present ideas, issues, and problems significant for general education and society at large.

All undergraduate students are expected to earn a total of 2 credits by graduation.  Students earn ½ an academic credit for every 15 Arts and Lecture events they attend.  At least 1/3 of the Arts and Lecture Credit earned must be from attendance at Tuesday morning Forums.

Students do not register for Arts and Lecture Credit, nor will they be charged for this credit. 

  • When you go to an event listed on this Web page, you will need to present your student I.D. at the entrance to be scanned.
  • When leaving the event, you will need to scan out with your student I.D. 
  • The registrar's office will add this credit to your transcript as it is earned.  (attendance at 15 events at least 5 of which were forums for each .5 credit)
  • Your I.D. needs to be scanned in and out by you personally.  Please don't ask someone else to scan your I.D.  You need to stay for the entire event in order to receive credit.  
  • If you have questions related to our Arts and Lecture program, please contact the registrar's office at ext. 3321. .

FALL 2008  FORUM  EVENTS
Tuesdays at 11 a.m.
Founders Hall (unless otherwise noted)

(Additional events will be added to this page as they are approved throughout the semester)

Month Date Event title
August 26 Opening Convocation "An Historic Opportunity to Overcome Poverty in America", Ron Sider
September 2 Advising - No Forum
9 Presidential Forum, Jim Harder
16 Steve Kriss
23 Cross-cultural Student Presentations @ 11:00 a.m & 7:00 p.m. (you will receive credit for only 1 attendance)
30 Pathways Scholar "Faith in a Time of Fear", Amy Gopp
October 7 SLW: "Justice: A Life of Worship", Justin McRoberts
14 Fall Break - No Forum
21 "Faithful Living in Our Sports-Obsessed Cultural, David King
28 Presidential Leadership Forum, Paul Worstell
October 30 Thursday - Special Evening Forum:  "Living With Uncertainty in a complex World:  Issues in Iran", Robin Wright - Founders @ 7:00 p.m.
 November 4 Town Hall Forum
11 Pathways scholar: "Blindsided by Grace: Finding Blessing at the the Perfect Storm of Postmodern Life", Robert Molsberry
18 Daniel Hughes
25 Navajo Code Talkers of WWII - Gerald Snow
December 2 Christmas Choral Concert - Yoder Recital Hall @ 11:00 a.m. (Seating is limited and is available on a first-come, first serve basis)
             

 ARTS EVENTS
Expect arts events to last 1.5–2 hours To receive credit, you must attend the entire event.

Month Date Time Place Event
September 11 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Artist Series: Toledo Symphony Orchestra
October 16 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Artist Series: Adaskin String Trio
October 19 2:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Fall Choral Concert
November 1 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Fall Instrumental Concert
November 6 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Artist Series: Zagreb Saxophone Quartet
November 12, 13, 14, 15 7:30 p.m. Ramseyer Auditorium Fall Play:  Whatever Kindles by Tricia Gates Brown (Credit given for only one attendance)
November 16 2:30 p.m. Ramseyer Auditorium Fall Play:  Whatever Kindles by Tricia Gates Brown
November 20 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Faculty Recital:  Michelle Latour
December 5 7:30 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Christmas Choral Concert
December 7 4 p.m. Yoder Recital Hall Handel's Messiah

*For Artist Series you must pick up a ticket at the music department office, x3347. Seating is limited. For Winter Choral, Winter Instrumental and Camerata home concerts general admission tickets are required. Call the music department at ext. 3239. ** Call ext. 3239 for May Day Musicial tickets.

FRIDAY COLLOQUIA 
4 p.m., Stutzman Lecture Hall, Centennial Hall

Month Date Name/Title
September 5

Michelle Latour, "Eat, Pray, Sing"  - Yoder Recital Hall

Septmeber 26 Jeff Gundy, "Planes, Trains, Buses, Bikes, Shoe Leather, and an Occasional Auto: Rigorous Scholarly Wanderings in Salzburg and Central Europe" (Note:  Date was changed from September 19th to September 26th)
October 10 Jim Harder and Karen Klassen Harder, "Bluffton Cross-Cultural Education: Discovering Connections with China"
October 24 Chuck Daws, "Designing Sensors From Platinum Compounds Which Change Color, Or If I Knew What I Was Doing It Wouldn't Be Called An Experiment"
November 7 Cindy Bandish, "Moral Lessons from 1790s Gothic fiction: A study of Caleb Williams"
November 21 Sally Weaver Sommer, "Building Bridges of Understanding between the Peoples of North America and Iran"

   Bluffton University students, faculty, or staff who wish to propose an additional event for arts and lecture credit should contact Gayle Trollinger, Ph.D., associate dean of academic affairs. Include in the proposal a brief rationale as to why the event should count for arts and lecture credit. As they are approved, additional events will appear at this site.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS
This list will be updated regularly with new events

Date Time Event/ Title/ Location
September 8   7 p.m.      Live Music and Spoken Word Performance, "The Promise of the City," Bryan Brown and Michael Sider-Rose, Yoder Recital Hall
October 6  7:30 p.m. Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, Yoder Recital Hall
October 9  9 p.m. Justin McRoberts Concert, Bob's Place
October 20 6:30-8:30 p.m. "Teen Sex and the Law", Juvenile Court Judge Derryberry, Marbeck Center-Krieder Room, sponsored by Social Work Club/Social Science Club
October 22 9 p.m. Constitution Day Event, sponsored by the Forum Committee, Centennial Hall, Room 211
October 23 4 p.m. Lecture/Reading by nonfiction writer Joe Mackall of Ashland University, Musselman Library Reading Room
October 23 2:30 p.m. **NEW**  Presidential Predictions and Picking apart the Polls:  A Practical Political Primer for Potential Pundits - Stutzman Lecture Hall, sponsored by the Mathematics Department
October 28 8:00 p.m. Political Round Table Discussion of the Issues, Yoder Recital Hall, sponsored by Bluffton University Young Democrats and College Republicans
November 14 4:00 p.m. "CPT:  Twenty Years and Counting" by Kathleen Kern, sponsored by Pathways and Bluffton University Theatre, Musselman Library Reading Room
November 20 7:30 p.m. "From Farm to Table:  MCC-UN Seminar Student Presentation on Global Food Security Crisis" - Centennial Room 205