ProvTalks

Event Times: 10:00 am to 2:30 pm

Event Location: Main Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor Hanna Centre

Event Description: ProvTalks is typically a one-day event featuring presentations from our university college and seminary faculty. The 10 to 15-minute presentations encompass a wide range of topics and interests, highlighting the diversity of our Providence community and the different areas of research and study available to explore.

All lectures are free to attend. No registration required. There will be no regular classes so students can attend. The annual ProvTalks involve students, staff, faculty, and the public who come together as a community to ponder ideas of contemporary interest.

Session 1 – 10:00 to 11:30am

Doctor Dolittle’s Snail: Revelation 4:6, 10 and Hugh Lofting’s Apocalyptic Joke
Michael Gilmour

Heal to Learn, Learn to Heal: Arts-based Curriculum with Refugees
Elfrieda Lepp-Kaethler

The Exegesis of Father Brown
Christopher Lortie

The Sex Trafficking Crisis
Holly Ammerman

Watershed People: What It Means to Live Both Upstream and Downstream of Others
Bruce Friesen-Pankratz

Session 2 – 1:00 to 2:30pm

Does Christianity need Disability?
Daniel Rempel

Slant Poetry
Luann Hiebert

The World’s On Fire. Does God Care?
Jasmine Wiens

Trust in Science
Rebecca Dielschneider

Accipiters, Passerines, And Pollinators: An Avian Hermeneutic
Mat Lortie

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