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Calvin College January Series 2013 – Remote Live Webcast
Robinson is a two-time Minnestota Music Award Winner for Best Gospel Artist and Group and has been voted Best Male Vocalist by the Minneapolis and Saint Paul entertainment paper, City Pages. He was performed with Aretha Franklin, nine-time Grammy Award winner Andrae Crouch, Kenny Loggins, the Sounds of Blackness, Bobby McFerrin, Barry Manilow, Jermaine Jackson, and others. For 20 years he served as Executive and Artistic Director of the Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir. Robert’s musical catalog includes twelve solo projects. In January 2010, Robinson launched his newest “Signature” CD and kicked off his latest tour. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described Robinson as “a volcanic talent”. His peformance as depicted as “glorious” by the Salt Lake City Deseret News, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune proclaimed Robinson to be “a soaring presence”.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013 – Remote Live Webcast
Pauley is a professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College and teaches American Oratory. He specializes in the area of the rhetoric of the American civil rights movement, American political rhetoric on civil rights issues, and colonial era American sermons. Pauley earned his Ph.D. from Penn State and is a past recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Communication Association’s Karl Wallace Memorial Award. He will speak to our audience on the topic of presidential speeches just days prior to the 2013 Presidential Inauguration.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013 – Remote Live Webcast
By 2050, world population will grow from 7 to 9 billion. Experts suggest agricultural output must double to provide the food, feed, fiber, and fuel to meet increased demand and provide relief to the one billion currently suffering from food insecurity and hunger. Yet analysts suggest we will not be able to bring new land into production , use more water than we do today, or expand the use of fertilizers and pesticides in ways that would not threaten the environment. The paths we take to feed a growing planet and meet the needs of consumer choice are the hot topics in agriculture today. Inevitably, they will involve tradeoffs, risks and compromise. Dr. Dwight Armstrong, CEO of the national FFA organization, will explore the issues that face domestic and global communities as they race against time to create balanced agricultural systems that will feed the world in a nutritious, sustainable way.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013 – Remote Live Webcast
Long-time ABC congressional correspondent and leading political pundit, Cokie Roberts is one of the most esteemed and brillant broadcast journalists of our time. Roberts currently serves as a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC Interview program This Week. Roberts also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one ofthe 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013 – Remote Live Website
Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; Prevention; Glamour;and others. She specializes in narrative science writing and has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father, Floyd Skloot, are co-editors of The Best American Science Writing 2011. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksis Skloot’s first book and it immediately became a bestseller. It tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Van Duzer is the author of “Why Business Matters to God: And What Still Needs to be Fixed” and dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. He is also professor of business ethics and law, and prior to his work with SPU he served as a partner with Davis A Wright Tremaine, an international law firm. Van Duzer has spoken at a number of different venues, including Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Gospel and Culture Lectures in 2010.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Captain Smiley, a Ranger and combat-diver qualified infantryman, was the Army’s first active-duty, blind officer and its first blind company commander. On April 6, 2005, he lost use of both eyes when a suicide car bomber blew himself up 30 meters in front of Scotty’s Stryker vehicle. Since that day, Smiley has surfed Hawaii, skied in Vail, skydived, climbed Mount Rainier, completed a triathlon, and graduated from Duke university’s Fuqua School of Business with his MBA. The Army Times named Captain Smiley its Soldier of the Year in 2007, and in 2008 he won an ESPY as the world’s Best Outdoor Athlete. Scotty, a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, recently taught the core course in leadership at West Point and now commands the Warrior Transition Unit at West Point’s Keller Army Medical Center. Captain Smiley was recently named a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Leadership Award.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and graduate students about exponentially growing technologies, and he is the founder of more than a dozen space and high tech companies. He has degrees in molecular biology and aerospace enginerring from MIT, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Mouw has served as president of Fuller Theological Seminary since 1993, after having served the seminary for four years as provost and senior vice president. A philosopher, scholar, and author, Mouw joined the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary as professor of Christian philosophy and ethics in 1985. Before coming to Fuller he served for 17 years as professor of philosophy at Calvin College. Mouw serves as a panelist in the online forum “On Faith” offered by the Washington Post. In 2007 Princeton Theological Seminary awarded Mouw the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life. Mouw has also participated on many councils and boards, and he currently serves as president of the Association of Theological Schools. He served for six years as co-chair of the official Reformed-Catholic Dialogue, and is a leader for interfaith theological conversations, particularly with Mormons and Jewish groups. Robert Millet is the leading Mormon theologian and a BYU professor. Together they will discuss the history of their interfaith dialogue, and explain areas where they agree and disagree.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.

Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Yang is the Director of Advocacy and Policy for the Refugee and Immigration Program at World Relief. In this position, Jenny works with members of congress, their staffers, and the administration to improve refugee and immigration policy. Previous to World Relief, she worked at the largest political fundraising firm in Maryland managing fundraising and campaigning for local politicians. Jenny has researched refugee and asylum law in Madrid, Spain through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is the co-author of Welcoming the Strangerwith her colleague, Matthew Soerens.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.