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2O16 Honors Symposium Lecture Series
Dividing Lines: Why Good People are Divided by Politics Religion Race & Gender
All lectures begin at 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public, lectures will take place in the
Arts and Technology Building inside the large community room (AT 139) on the FVCC campus.
Monday, February 15
The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders
Dr. Gregg Frazer - Professor of History & Political Science, The Master’s College - Santa Clarita, CA
Thursday, February 25
Race, Religion and Gender in Early American Politics
Mr. Clay Jenkinson - Humanities Scholar and Director of Dakota Sky Education, Inc. – Bismarck, ND
...appearing as Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, American lawyer, Founding Father and principal author of the Declaration
of Independence in an interactive program, with final comments from the scholar Clay Jenkinson
Wednesday, March 2
The Secret Psychological Influence
of Expectations for Agreement: Do Conformity Pressures Ultimately Create a Happy or a Divided Society?
Dr. Luke Conway - Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Montana – Missoula, MT
Thursday, March 10
Thinking about Race and Religion (Together)
Dr. Nancy Wadsworth - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver - Denver, CO
Thursday, March 17
Divided (and Righteous) We Stand: Psychological Insights on How Group Membership and Moral Values Lead to Conflict, and What We Can Do About It
Ms. Kate Johnson - Ph.D. Candidate, Values, Ideology and Morality Research Laboratory, University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, March 24
How the Constitution Should Unite Us on Politics, Religion, Race, and Gender
Dr. Leslie Griffin - William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV
For more information, contact Ivan Lorentzen at 406.756.3864 or [email protected] or visit
www.fvcc.edu/honorssymposium
The 2016 Honors Symposium is funded in part by the Kalispell branch of the American Association of University Women, FVCC Alumni and Friends, Humanities Montana, an a liate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Theodore Chase Endowment Fund. We welcome donations to this fund. Your contribution will ensure the future for innovative honors
lectures, programs and activities at FVCC. The ndings and conclusions of the 2016 Honors Symposium do not necessarily represent the views of Humanities Montana or the MONTANA National Endowment for the Humanities.
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