PAR SOCIETY UPCOMING EVENTS:
Tuesday, February 7, 2012:
"In Defense of Platonism: The Thing Maker Argument"
Jason Bowers
5PM Bear 200
ONGOING EVENTS:
- PAR Society meetings occur on every other Tuesday. For more information, contact the faculty advisor to the society, Dr. Pasulka, at pasulkad@uncw.edu. You can also come by the PAR Office to add your name to the email distribution list.
PAST EVENTS:
- October 26, 2010 Human Sacrifice: The concept of human sacrifice as a necessary part of religious experience is shared across time and geography by groups that never had interactions. During this meeting, PARS vice president Rachel Poole will explore this cultural phenomenon, touching on groups such as the Aztecs, ancient Mesopotamian Biblical interpretations, and the modern day cult of Kali in India. Discussion will follow.
- November 9 Diwali Hindu Festival
- November 16 Food Ethics
- Spring 2008 PAR graduation ceremony May 16th, noon in Madeline Suite at Wagoner Hall
- 2007-2008 B. Frank Hall Lecture, Dr. William Dever, one of America's most famous Biblical archaeologists, spoke on “Did God Have a Wife?” Tuesday, April 1, 8 pm. Morton Hall 100
- Walt Conser received the NC Society of Historians’ Ethel W. Twiford Religious History Book Award for his Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina (Kentucky, 2006). Congratulations, Walt!
THE DISCERE AUDE MENTORING AWARD
HAS BEEN PRESENT TO
PROFESSOR FERENC ALTRICHTER
Professor Ferenc Altrichter has received the very prestigious Discere Aude Mentoring Award for 2009. This particular award is presented to UNCW faculty who are nominated by students of theirs who have themselves achieved high academic distinction. This is the first time that a PAR professor has received this award.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute hosted first-ever James Megivern Lecture on April 20, 2010
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James Megivern
Speaker Series & Dinner
Tuesday, April 20 from 6-8pm
Sessions include: - Public Education & Teaching Religion Across the Nation with Diana Pasulka, Ph.D.
- How Jim Changed My Mind on The Death Penalty & Retributive Justice with Sam Murrell, Ph.D.
- Teaching New Testament at UNCW: Thirty Years of Good Cop, Bad Cop & the Bible with George Zervos, Ph.D.
- Can Religion be the Basis for Ethics? with Scott James, Ph.D.
- Universal Human Rights: Exemplifying Megivern as a Gentleman, Scholar, Humanitarian and Activist with Don Habibi, Ph.D.
Dr. George Zervos Dr. Scott James
Dr. Nathaniel Sam Murrell Dr. Don Habibi
Dr. Megivern with Dr. Walt Conser Dr. Megivern, Dr. Gauthier and Mrs. Megivern
and Janet Conser
Dr. Heath White meets Dr. Megivern
August, 2009 UNCW and Pender County receive Million Dollar grant to improve Amercan History Education in North Carolina grant written by Dr. Diana Pasulka, PAR Department. http://teachingamericanhistorync.org/
Dr. Diana Pasulka, University Coordinator, and Cara Ward, Project Director
for Teaching American History in North Carolina
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Dr. Philip KitcherTHURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2008 7:30 P.M. – Burney Center
Dr. Kitcher, an internationally famous philosopher of science, and John DeweyProfessor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will be speaking on the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on science and culture. This event is co-sponsored by the UNCW Evolution Learning Community, funded by Academic Affairs, and the Excellence Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW.
FACULTY AWARD 2008
- PAR Associate Professor Teddy Burgh learned recently that his book Listening to the Artifacts: Music Culture in Ancient Palestine (Continuum, 2006), was selected as winner of the 2008 Wachsmann Prize, presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
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