Elizabethtown College News 
Back to top 9/26/2007 Notre Dame law prof to discuss 'Religion in the Public Square' A professor from the University of Notre Dame Law School will present “Religion in the Public Square: What Do Our Constitution and  Traditions Have to Say?” at 7 p.m., Oct. 8, at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Richard W. Garnett’s talk, cosponsored by Elizabethtown College’s Pre-Law Program and the Notre Dame Club of Harrisburg, is open to the public free of charge.Garnett's thoughts on the topic were conveyed in a recent USA Today opinion piece, available at http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/09/our-real-nation.html#more. Garnett is the John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame, where he teaches courses on criminal law, criminal procedure, First Amendment law and the death penalty. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy summa cum laude from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and as editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. After graduation, Garnett clerked for Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and then for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He practiced law for two years at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin, specializing in matters of criminal defense, religious liberty and education reform. Back to top 9/25/2007 George Harrison tribute scheduled for Oct. 4 “Here Comes the Sun,” an entertaining and enlightening chronicle of the musical and spiritual journey of George Harrison, will be  presented at 7 p.m., Oct. 4, at Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The event is open to the public free of charge. Tickets are not required, but limited seating is first-come, first-served.Through music, visuals and commentary about Harrison’s journey of self-discovery, this concert honors him and his principles of social action. The evening will feature a live performance by the Godfrey Townsend Band that pays tribute to Harrison’s artistic legacy, beginning with the Beatles through his creative work with the Traveling Wilburys. The event will also include film and photo projections of the Beatles in concert, video interviews with Harrison and images tracing his journey from childhood to India and into later life. And Joshua Greene, author of the bestseller “Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison,” will narrate, providing powerful insights from Harrison’s journey of self-discovery. Greene is an instructor at Hofstra University and an Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker. Back to top 9/13/2007 Gottfried publishes book on conservatism in America An Elizabethtown College professor and internationally known writer on political movements and political theory has published a  book that argues the American conservative movement has been largely an invention of journalists and Republican activists.In “Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right” (Palgrave Macmillan), Paul Gottfried writes that among the movement’s major accomplishments has been its ability to recreate its own past in a way that even its critics are now inclined to accept. “In the 1950s, the American conservative movement began as the invention of journalists and academics in reaction to the early Cold War and the attempt to construct a rallying point for opponents of international Communism,” Gottfried said. “It came to power at least partly by burying an older anti-welfare state Right, one that in fact had enjoyed a social following that was concentrated in small-town America. The newcomers played down the merits of those they had replaced; and in the 1980s the neoconservatives, who took over the postwar conservative movement, belittled their predecessors in a similar way.” Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College. A Guggenheim recipient, he is the author of numerous articles in intellectual history, ancient and modern historiography, and the European and American Right. Gottfried has also published ten books, the last three of them a trilogy on the democratic managerial states: “After Liberalism,” “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt” and “The Strange Death of Marxism.” Back to top 9/7/2007 Daniel Ellsberg to deliver Ware Seminar on Sept. 27 Daniel Ellsberg, former U.S. Department of Defense analyst who released the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times  and Washington Post, will deliver Elizabethtown College’s Ware Seminar on Global Citizenship on Sept. 27. He will offer his observations on the topics of citizenship and U.S. foreign policy during the talk, which is open to the public free of charge and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium, Esbenshade Hall.Ellsberg joined the Department of Defense as a military analyst soon after the start of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam and later worked in Vietnam as a member of the embassy staff. After leaving government, he and other military analysts were commissioned by the Department of Defense to study U.S. decision-making in Vietnam. In 1971, Ellsberg grabbed international headlines by leaking these classified documents to The New York Times and other prominent newspapers. Since then, his work for peace and social responsibility has earned him the Tom Paine Award and the Gandhi Peace Award. A $1-million endowed gift from Lancaster residents Judy S. '68 and Paul W. Ware created The Ware Colloquium on Peacemaking and Global Citizenship. Delivered annually under the auspices of the College’s Center for Global Citizenship, the Colloquium consists of three major elements: The Ware Lecture on Peacemaking, The Ware Practicum in Conflict Resolution and The Ware Seminar on Global Citizenship. Back to top 9/4/2007 Kraybill, co-authors write book on Amish forgiveness Marking the one-year anniversary of the Nickel Mines tragedy, Elizabethtown College professor Donald B. Kraybill and two co-authors have published a book,  “Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy (Jossey-Bass)," which tells the story of Amish grace in the wake of the Oct. 2, 2007 shooting. On Oct. 2, 2006, a gunman opened fire in a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, killing five girls and critically wounding five others. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. Before the sun set that day, members of the Amish community brought words of forgiveness to the gunman’s family. “Amish Grace” explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It examines how Amish practices of forgiveness parallel or diverge from other religious and psychological views of forgiveness. The book also asks why and how forgiveness became international news and what lessons of forgiveness from Nickel Mines are relevant for the larger world. Published by Jossey-Bass, “Amish Grace” was written by Kraybill, senior fellow at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies; Steven M. Nolt, professor of history at Goshen College; and David L. Weaver-Zercher, associate professor of religious history at Messiah College. Royalties from sales of the book will be donated to the Mennonite Central Committee, a relief, development and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. The book is available on the publisher's website, www.josseybass.com or on Amazon.com. Click Play to hear Professor Kraybill read an introduction to Amish Grace. |
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