Symposium

GORDON COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM--A TRADITION!

APRIL 23, 2009-Applications due April 3

Creation Care: The Challenges and Opportunities of the Ecological Crisis

Each year, a symposium enabling Gordon students and faculty to discuss contemporary issues outside the classroom is held across campus. This educational experience is almost exclusively student-initiated, reflecting a reversal of the usual faculty and student roles. After the theme is announced in the fall, students submit proposals for events fitting the theme. In these sessions, it is not unusual for a student to be in front of the class, with faculty sitting in the audience. Students or student groups are welcome to submit an application for any format of event that fits within the theme. In the past, events have included not only presentations, panel discussions and debates, but also poetry readings, dramatic performances, dance and music performances, art exhibits, and service projects.

Past and present themes include:

• 1998--Money and Possessions: Greed or Generosity
• 1999--Art at the Millennium: Makers and Consumers of Culture
• 2000--Who Is My Neighbor? Rights and Responsibilities at the Millennium
• 2001--Body Talk: Embodiment as Blessing, Constraint and Offense
• 2002--Seeds of Redemption: Evidences of Things Hoped For
• 2003--Work and Play
• 2004--Vocation: Called to Make a Life-Called to Make a Difference
• 2005--The Coming of Global Christianity: Turning the World Upside Down
• 2006--Peace, Justice and Reconciliation: Can You Have One Without the Other
• 2007--Authenticity: To Know Truly and be Truly Known
• 2008--Shalom: The Right Order of Things
• 2009--Creation Care: The Challenges and Opportunities of the Ecological Crisis