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August 30, 2007
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College will host a series of lectures and other presentations throughout the 2007-2008 academic year, beginning with several public policy and human rights experts.
Joseph Loconte, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, leads off the year on Sept. 11 with a presentation on “James Madison and the Temptation of Terror,” at the American Founders Luncheon Series at the Rivers Club in Pittsburgh. He will follow with “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Moral Vision: Frodo, Friendship and the Power of the Ring” at 7 p.m. in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus. The evening presentation is free and open to the public.
Loconte helps direct the policy center’s program on evangelicals in civic life and served previously as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society at the Heritage Foundation. He has served as a human rights expert on a United Nations reform task force and has presented U.S. House Committee testimony. Loconte is author of “Seducing the Samaritan: How Government Contracts Are Reshaping Social Services.”
Sponsored by the Center and the Pittsburgh Federalist Society, the Founders Luncheon costs $17.76. To register, log onto www.grovecityconference/temptation_of_terror. Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. The program runs from noon to 12:50 p.m. The Rivers Club is located at One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., Pittsburgh.
The American Founders Luncheon Series brings to Pittsburgh respected scholars on America’s founding to present talks focused on the beliefs, actions and character of those leaders who pursued a “Great Experiment” in whether humans are capable of governing themselves.
Dr. Michael Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University, will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 in Sticht Lecture Hall. The presentation, “The Gospel of William Jennings Bryan,” is sponsored by the Faith and Politics working group of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College and is free and open to the public.
Kazin is an expert in U.S. politics and social movements during the 19th and 20th centuries. He has held faculty positions at American University and Stanford University and served as John Adams Chair in American Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford.
Lisa Thompson, liaison for the abolition of sexual trafficking for The Salvation Army’s national headquarters, and Patricia Green, a noted preacher and speaker on issues of sexual exploitation, trafficking and prostitution, will speak on human trafficking at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in Sticht Lecture Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
In her current position, Thompson works closely with The Salvation Army’s branches in developing countries where trafficking is widespread. She helped launch the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking, as well as the Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking, a partnership of faith-based, human rights and child advocacy organizations dedicated to establishing an international movement to eradicate trafficking of women and children. She works with The Salvation Army’s International Anti-Trafficking Task Force and The Salvation Army’s U.S. National Anti-Trafficking Council. A former policy representative for the National Association of Evangelicals, she has helped shape public policy, including playing a vital role in Congress’s passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000.
Green, a New Zealand native, is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God New Zealand, a mission partner with World Outreach International Mission and a social worker. In 1988, she founded Rahab Ministries, an outreach to Thai women in prostitution, and worked there until 2004. Since then, she has focused on the issues of combating trafficking and sexual exploitation internationally and travels extensively as a consultant to new and fledgling Christian ministries to women in prostitution. Green currently lives in Berlin, Germany, where she continues her work. She was instrumental in beginning an outreach, Alabaster Jar, for women working on the streets.
President of the Population Research Institute Steven W. Mosher will present “China’s One Child Policy” at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 in Sticht Lecture Hall. Widely recognized as an expert on global population, Mosher was the first American social scientist to live in rural China and write about it. He is the author of the best-selling “A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy.” His articles have appeared in “The Wall Street Journal,” “Reader’s Digest,” “The New Republic,” “National Review,” “Reason,” “The Asian Wall Street Journal,” “Freedom Review” and numerous other publications.
The Center will also host Charles Kesler, senior fellow with The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, at the Dec. 18 American Founders Luncheon Series at the Rivers Club in Pittsburgh.
In the spring semester, the Center will sponsor the second annual Ronald Reagan Lecture on Feb. 12, 2008, with Ed Meese, Reagan’s adviser and former Attorney General. The annual conference is set for April 10-11 and will focus on “Church and State in 2008.”
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