Monday, December 13
12:00 PM - Rotary International/Carl Wilhelm Stenhammar - "End Polio Now"
iWireless Center
3:00 - 4:00 PM - Farewell Reception for Al DeSimone
Wilson Center
4:00 - 5:00 PM - All LSFY Faculty Meeting
Board Room, College Center, 2nd floor
7:00 PM - Season of Light Planetarium Show
Admission is free, but reservations are requested 309.794.7327. The program is not recommended for children ages 7 and under. Doors will open 15 minutes before the program. Late-comers will not be admitted.
John Deere Planetarium and Carl Gamble Observatory
Tuesday, December 14
11:30 AM - Tuesday Reflection - Tamara Johnson, '11
Ascension Chapel, Founders Hall, 2nd floor
10:45 AM - Voice Seminar
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Full Faculty Meeting
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
5:00 PM - International Faculty Development Seminars from CIEE Meeting
4:30 PM - Snacks and socializing
CEC Classroom, Sorensen Hall, 1st floor
5:15 PM - Julsmörgåsbord Christmas Buffet and Sankta Lucia Festival
The public is welcome. Ticket Price: Buffet is $10.95 adults, $5.25 children; Sankta Lucia festival is free
College Center Dining Room
7:00 PM - Season of Light Planetarium Show
Admission is free, but reservations are requested 309.794.7327. The program is not recommended for children ages 7 and under. Doors will open 15 minutes before the program. Late-comers will not be admitted.
John Deere Planetarium and Carl Gamble Observatory
Wednesday, December 15
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Bible Study Group
led by Pastor Priggie
Bring your lunch, if you wish, and a Bible
Chicago Room, College Center
7:00 PM - Season of Light Planetarium Show
Admission is free, but reservations are requested 309.794.7327. The program is not recommended for children ages 7 and under. Doors will open 15 minutes before the program. Late-comers will not be admitted.
John Deere Planetarium and Carl Gamble Observatory
11:59 PM - Deadline for submitting Presidential Research Fellowship Applications
via email to Mary Koski
5:00 - 6:00 PM - Deans' Meeting with Department & Program Chairs
Olin Auditorium
Thursday, December 16
9:30 - 10:30 AM - Coffee and Conversation
CEC, Sorensen Hall, 1st floor
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Annual Christmas Convocation
Centennial Hall
4:00 PM - Lessons and Carols
The public is invited
Ascension Chapel
5:00 PM - Julsmörgåsbord Christmas Buffet
Augustana employees and their families gather around a traditional Swedish smörgåsbord to celebrate our community. Ticket Price: $10 adults, $5 children 5-12, free to younger children. Maximum of $33 for employee and immediate family
College Center Dining Room
7:00 PM - Season of Light Planetarium Show
Admission is free, but reservations are requested 309.794.7327. The program is not recommended for children ages 7 and under. Doors will open 15 minutes before the program. Late-comers will not be admitted.
John Deere Planetarium and Carl Gamble Observatory
8:00 PM - Lessons and Carols
The public is invited
Ascension Chapel
Friday, December 17
All Day - Liberal Arts Through the AGES Exhibition
Exhibit on view today through February 12 (closed during winter break Dec. 17-Jan. 10). Public museum hours are noon-4:00 PM Tuesday-Saturday and when special events are held in Centennial Hall.
Centennial Hall
All Day - Deadline to inform Mark Salisbury your intention of using the IDEA SRI for Winter term courses
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM - President's Holiday Open House
Dahl President's Home, 1100 35th Street, Rock Island, IL
4:00 PM - Friday Conversations - Discussion with the Exploratory Task Force for a Combined Center for dining, library and student activities
3:30 PM - Refreshments
Wilson Center
6:00 PM - Christmas Recess Begins
Saturday, December 18
Sunday, December 19
Volume 8, Issue 16 - December 13, 2010Faculty News
Dan Lee recently returned from China, where he spent a month as Guest Professor in the Shanghai Normal University College of Philosophy. While in China he:
- Taught two short courses at the Shanghai Normal University College of Philosophy, one entitled "Basic Ethical Theory," the other entitled "The Re-Forming Church,"
- Presented a paper entitled "Religions of Peace and the Paradox of Violence" at an international conference on Christianity and Islam held in Shanghai,
- Presented a paper entitled "Pacifism, Just War Theory and the Crusade: Christian Perspectives on the Morality of War" at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China,
- Presented a public lecture at Shanghai Normal University entitled "Christian Fundamentalism, the Tea Party Movement and American Politics: An Analysis of the 2010 Election,"
- Visited the Shanghai Museum, which has a superb collection of Chinese jade and Chinese porcelain, no fewer than five times (but not more than five times,)
- Attended more than fourteen but fewer than sixteen concerts and recitals at the Shanghai Normal University Conservatory of Music, and
- Became proficient eating Chinese noodles with chopsticks.
Kristy Nabhan-Warren's article "'Blooming Where We're Planted': Mexican-descent Catholics Living Out Cursillo de Cristianidad has just been published in U.S. Catholic Historian. Vol. 28, Number 4, Fall 2010. Kristy's piece is one of seven invited articles for this special issue, "Remembering the Past, Engaging the Present: Essays in Honor of Moises Sandoval." Sandoval was a pioneer in U.S. Latino Catholic Studies and the essays that appear in this special issue show how U.S. Latino Studies are rooted in and have branched off of Sandoval's scholarship and activism.
Kristy's article "Embodied Research and Writing: A Case for Phenomenologically Oriented Religious Studies Ethnographies" has just been published by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is available online in PDF at: http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/lfq079?ijkey=mqul49rkIzRpVIA&keytype=ref
This article will appear in the journal's hard copy in the Spring of 2011.
