ProvTalks

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

Event Location: Lecture Theatre

Event Description: Prov Talks is typically a one-day event featuring presentations from our university college and seminary faculty. The 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 Prov Talks involve students, faculty, and the public who come together as a community to ponder ideas of contemporary interest.

MORNING SESSIONS: 10 AM TO 11:30 AM

1. Caleb Plummer’s Cricket: Some Chirpings about Dickens and the Imagination | Michael Gilmour
   
2. Just Thirty More Minutes | Christopher Lortie
   
3. Every Green Herb of the Field: A Defense of Weeds | Miriam Shymko
   
4. How Do We Talk About Video Games? | Niklaas Schalm
   
5. Happily Ever After? | Cathy Rust-Akinbolaji

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1 PM TO 2:30 PM

1. Infection Diseases: If They Don’t Kill You…Are You Stronger? | Rebecca Dielschneider
   
2. Recording Campus Canaries: Establishing Long-term Datasets at Prov | Bruce Friesen-Pankratz
   
3. Faith Beyond The Text: Making Room For The Visual | Heather Macumber
   
4. Descent Into (Another’s) Hell: Extreme Empathy in Edith Stein and Charles Williams | Nicholas Greco

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