This Week at Baylor: Sept. 30 – October 6, 2018
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by Jessie Jilovec, student newswriter
WACO, Texas (Sept. 27, 2018) – This week, Baylor University will host Ken Burns, an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, along with several speakers in music, entrepreneurship, Christian activism, chemistry, biology and history. Two movie screenings and two concerts will be held along with the Rhythm and Rhyme Symposium and the Drumwright Family Lecture.
MONDAY, Oct. 1
Chapel Highlights – Chapel will feature mission TED-style talks during services at 9:05, 10:10 and 11 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.
Anthropology Seminar – Baylor’s Institute of Archaeology will host Austin Reynolds, Ph.D., University of California - Davis, who will present “Genomic Insights into Human History and Health.” He will speak from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. in Room 301 of Marrs McLean Science Building, 1214 S. Fourth St. For more information, visit the anthropology website.
Beall-Russell Lecture – Baylor will host Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Ken Burns for the Beall-Russell Lecture Series at 3:30 p.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. Burns has produced and directed some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. This event is free and open to the public, and a limited number of tickets are available at the Bill Daniel Student Center ticket office, 1311 S. Fifth St. For more information, visit the Beall-Russell website.
Lyceum Series Lecture – Baylor’s School of Music will host four sessions for the Lyceum Series Lectures featuring a master class with Michael Heaston, vocal coach and director of opera studies at Rice University. Heaston will hold sessions from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Roxy Grove Hall in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. The remaining two sessions will be on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website.
Fernando Ortega Concert – George W. Truett Theological Seminary and Texas Baptists will host Fernando Ortega, a singer-songwriter in contemporary Christian music, for a performance at 7 p.m. in the Paul W. Powell Chapel at Truett Seminary, 1100 S. Third St. Admission is free, and registration is strongly encouraged. He also will perform at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Truett Chapel. For more information, visit the Truett website.
Movie Mondays at the Hippodrome – Movie Mondays presented by Baylor’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the department of history will continue this week with a showing of “Defying The Nazis: The Sharps’ War.” The film portrays a little-known yet important mission by an American minister and his wife to rescue refugees and dissidents in Europe before and after the start of World War II. This film is co-directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky. The screening will be at 7 p.m. at the Waco Hippodrome, 724 Austin Ave. Tickets are free and available at the Waco Hippodrome Box Office, the Bill Daniel Student Center ticket office or online.
Civic Life Summit – Baylor Public Deliberation Initiative will host the Civic Life Summit Oct. 11 and 12 featuring President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., the Honorable Chet Edwards, M.B.A., and Elizabeth Ligawa, M.Div, M.S.W. Regular registration is $95 and is due Oct. 1. After Oct. 1, late registration is $115, and online registration closes Oct. 5.
TUESDAY, Oct. 2
Lyceum Series Lecture – Baylor’s School of Music will host the Lyceum Series featuring a master class with Michael Heaston, vocal coach and director of opera studies at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Heaston will hold sessions from 4 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Roxy Grove Hall in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. The series also will be held on Monday, Oct. 1. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, visit School of Music website.
World Cinema Series – Baylor’s department of modern languages and cultures will screen “The First Grader” for this week’s World Cinema Series at 6 p.m. in Bennett Auditorium in the Draper Academic Building, 1420 S. Seventh St. The Swahili film portrays the story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, an illiterate 84-year-old Kenyan man who enrolls in school upon learning the government’s promise of free education for everyone. For more information, visit Baylor’s modern languages and cultures website.
Concert Jazz Ensemble – Baylor’s Concert Jazz Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave. The ensemble is led by Alex Parker, director of the Wayne Fisher Jazz Program at Baylor. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the School of Music website or call 254-710-3991.
Confessions of an Entrepreneur Lunch Speaker Series – Martha Heard and Holly Harris are the featured guests as part of the Confessions of an Entrepreneur Lunch Speaker Series at 12:30 p.m. in Rooms 143 and 144 of the John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, located in the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third St. The series features local entrepreneurs who have achieved entrepreneurial success taking non-traditional paths. Heard and Harris own Sironia, a restaurant on Austin Ave. in Waco. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 254-710-1694.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3
Chapel Highlights – Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist, speaker and author, will speak during Chapel services. Claiborne founded The Simple Way, an intentional community in Philadelphia, and heads Red Letter Christians, a Christian movement. He will speak at 9:05, 10:10 and 11 a.m. in Waco Hall, 624 Speight Ave. For more information, visit the Spiritual Life website.
Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium – Julia Laskin, Ph.D., William F. and Patty J. Miller Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University, will present “New Developments in Preparative and Imaging Mass Spectrometry: From Materials Science to Biology” at a colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the chemistry website.
Souls of China Lecture – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson will speak about the explosion of faith and the uncertainties regarding how to lead a moral life in contemporary China. Johnson has spent nearly 20 years in China reporting and writing on the country’s society, religion and history. His critically acclaimed book, “The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao,” is looks at the resurgence of diverse faith practices in China after years of religious persecution. The lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Marrs McLean Science Building auditorium, Room 101. For more information, visit the College of Arts & Sciences website.
THURSDAY, Oct. 4
Rhyme and Reform Symposium – To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning penning her call for labor reform, “The Cry of the Children,” Baylor University, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Manchester will present a symposium starting at 10:45 a.m. in Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall, 710 Speight Ave., followed by various sessions throughout the day. Sessions will be either in-person or livestreamed in the library. The final session will end at 5 p.m., followed by a reception. The symposium will continue Friday, Oct. 5. For a detailed list of events and times, visit the Rhyme and Reform website.
Hispanic Heritage Banquet – The Baylor Hispanic Student Association and the department of multicultural affairs will host the annual Hispanic Heritage Banquet in honor of Hispanic Heritage month at 6 p.m. in the Barfield Drawing Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center, 1311 S. Fifth St. The event will feature a meal, musical entertainment and keynote speaker Lisbeth Carolina Arias, who founded the clothing brand, Descalza. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for general admission. Tickets are available at the ticket office in the Bill Daniel Student Center. For more information, call 254-710-3004 or email Geoffrey Griggs.
Drumwright Family Lecture – Baylor’s Honors College and Honors Residential College will host the ninth annual Drumwright Family Lecture at 4 p.m. in the Alexander Hall Reading Room in the Honors Residential College, 1413 S. Seventh St. Robert P. George, Ph.D., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Ph.D., president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, will be featured panelists. A reception will immediately follow the lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Alexander Hall Reading Room. For more information, visit the Honors College website.
FRIDAY, Oct. 5
Rhyme and Reform Symposium – To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning penning her call for labor reform, “The Cry of the Children,” Baylor University, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Manchester will present a symposium starting at 11 a.m. in Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall, 710 Speight Ave., followed by various sessions throughout the day. Sessions will be either in-person or livestreamed in the library. The final session will end at 6:30 p.m. For a detailed list of events and times, visit the rhyme and reform website.
Biology Seminar Series – The department of biology will host Michelle Evans-White, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas. She will speak from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Room B.110 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave., and will present, “Can nitrogen and phosphorus be contaminants in stream detrital food webs?” For more information, visit the biology website.
Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium – Daniel Mindiola, Ph.D., Presidential Term Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Titanium-Carbon Multiple Bonds and Their Role in the Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Volatile Alkanes and Methane Olefination” at a colloquium from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave. For more information, visit the chemistry website.
Movies at the Mayborn – An outdoor screening of “Hocus Pocus” at 7 p.m. will show at Mayborn Museum Historic Village for college students. Food and admission to the movie is free for Baylor students with valid student ID card. For more information, visit the Mayborn website.
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