Dr/. Susan Streeter Carpenter, an associate professor of English at Bluffton University, will talk about the writing process and read some of her recent fiction during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 6.
Free and open to the public, her presentation, “A New Story,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Instances of water-walking still happen in the world—and Jonathan Larson says he has found some.
Maybe not exactly parallel to what Jesus and the apostle Peter do in Matthew 14, but nonetheless what Larson called “real ‘water-walking’” deeds of moral courage in examples he provided Oct. 27 at Bluffton University.
And Jesus’ words to Peter—“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”—echo in every story, taken from the work and travels of Larson, Bluffton’s Spiritual Life Week speaker.
Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, gestures during an Oct. 27 discussion of her new book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control,” in Bluffton’s Musselman Library. The book is the first by Janzen, a third-year faculty member at the university and its 2015-16 C. Henry Smith Scholar. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto.
Tickets are available for the second concert in the 2015-16 Bluffton University Artist Series, by Heinavanker, a vocal ensemble from Estonia, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Performing since 1996, Heinavanker delves into early sacred music, ancestors’ traditions and contemporary imagination. Ancient Estonian folk songs, called runic songs, and folk hymns are important parts of the group’s repertoire.
The Bluffton University Nutrition Association (BUNA) will hold its annual fall dinner, benefiting both the Bluffton Community Assistance Corp. and the Lima-based Churches United Pantry, from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., Bluffton.
This year’s dinner will include homemade soup, bread and dessert. Nonperishable food items will be accepted, as will cash and checks made payable to BUNA. All proceeds will benefit the two food pantries.
Love the Photo—Don’t Like the Scent: Online Dating in the Age of Coffee Shops” will be Dr. Quentin Schultze’s subject for a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, in Yoder Recital Hall.
At the same time, Bluffton senior Tricia Latimer will discuss her research on cell-collagen interactions as part of the “First Tuesday at the Library” series in the Musselman Library Reading Room.
Both presentations are free and open to the public.
