The Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding
Events for the 2011-2012 academic year
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Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011
7:00 p.m. Lecture
Walter Theatre
Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts
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Gustav Niebuhr
Associate Professor in Religion & the Media
Syracuse University
“Beyond Tolerance"
“Gustav Niebuhr's remarkable and absorbing Beyond Tolerance comes at a time when religious fanaticism, with its perversion and violence, has emerged as a threat to civilization. Anyone involved or at least interested in dialogue among individuals, communities, and nations, will benefit from its wisdom and humanity.”
—Elie Wiesel
Gustav Niebuhr is Associate Professor in Religion and the Media at Syracuse University. A journalist for over 20 years with the Washington Post, New York Times, and other newspapers, Niebuhr is a leading voice about religion in American public life.
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Wed., April 11, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Ft. Howard Theater Bemis International Center
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Sean Callaghan, Lead Consultant at Strategic Impact
"Unlearning Racism: Confronting Apartheid in our Hearts"
From fighter to peacemaker: The last 30 years have taken Sean Callaghan from the battlefields of Africa to conflict resolution in Iraq. En route he has worked for sustainable peace and justice not only in his native South Africa, but also across the world.
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Recent past lectures
- 2011 Leonard Pitts, Jr., Recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and syndicated columnist with the Miami Herald since 1994
- 2010 Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of
Maryland and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban
Center at the Brookings Institution
- 2008 Alan Wolfe, professor of political science and director of the
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College
- 2007 Kevin Phillips, political analyst
- 2006 "In Conversation: An Evening with David Halberstam"
- 2005 Garry Wills: "The Importance of the Enlightenment to America"
- 2004 Reuven Firestone: "God and Allah Need to Talk"
- 2003 Michael Beschloss: "Presidents in Crisis
For more information on the the Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in
Public Understanding, please contact the Peace and Justice Center at pjc@snc.edu or call Catherine at (920) 403-3919.
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Norman and Louis Miller
About the Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding
The Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding was established at St.
Norbert College in 1993 by the Norman Miller Family Foundation in honor
of the life of Louis Miller, a native of Green Bay who died in 1989. At
that time, Norman Miller (pictured above), an area developer and longtime advocate for
human rights, stated, "I am pleased that my brother's name will be
memorialized through a continuing series [of lectures] at St. Norbert
College that will promote peace and better understanding." When Norman
himself passed away in 2008, his name was added to the title of these
annual lectures.
Continuing the legacy of the men for which it is named, the Norman and
Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding promotes unity,
communication and tolerance among different cultures, religions,
ethnicities and traditions. The lecture series celebrates human dignity
and encourages better understanding between people, both domestically
and internationally.
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