Thursday, July 2, 2015

Humanities

Departmental News
Several members of the department of Humanities attended the 2015 Christian Scholars Conference in Abilene June 3-5: Shenai Alonge, Susan Blassingame, Matt Byars, Carole Carroll, Kenneth Hawley, Micah Heatwole, and Ronna Privett.

Ronna Privett chaired a session at the 2015 Christian Scholars Conference entitled “Intergenerational Tension as a Way of Understanding Multicultural Literature.”  Two of the presenters in her panel were Carole Carroll, whose presentation was entitled “Malcolm X and Ella: Intergenerational and Gender Tension in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and X: A Novel” and Shenai Alonge, whose presentation was entitled “From Black Power to Black Lives Matter: The Intergenerational Struggle for Freedom in One Crazy Summer.”

Susan Blassingame participated in two panels. In the panel entitled “Gender in the Christian Academy: Constraints on and Opportunities for Women,” her presentation was entitled “Mentoring Female Students on Christian Campuses.” She was also the moderator of the panel “’Reading From Two Perspectives’: Glenn Pemberton’s Surely it is God who Saves: An Introduction to the Message of the Old Testament. ACU Press, forthcoming summer 2015, Perspective #1: ‘Making Core Curriculum Core: When Faculty Read (and influence) Texts beyond their Departments.’”

Matt Byars was a panelist in the session entitled “Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Reflections on One Writer’s Spiritual Journey.”

Kenneth Hawley was a respondent in the session entitled “Christian Faith and Practice in Medieval Literature.”

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