Discipline and Control in Calvinist Geneva Symposium

All events will be held Thursday, September 29 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library. 3:00 pm Jeff Watt “Calvin as Inquisitor? The Consistory and Social Control in Geneva.”  Description: The reformer John Calvin created and dominated the Consistory of Geneva, a type of morals court that has at times been referred to as

Reception for Cover to Cover Faculty Book Exhibit

The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center downtown has another Cover to Cover Faculty Book Exhibit on Thursday, August 31at 5:00 PM.  Two of MLC’s authors and their works will be featured:  Dr. O’Rourke and her co-edited The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell) and Dr. K. Summers and his monograph Morality After Calvin: Theodore Beza’s Christian

Classics Research Seminar by Dr. Yuliya Minets

254 BB Comer

Dr. Minets will share with us a discussion of a book proposal “The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Ancient Christianity” on Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 4:30 in 205 of BB Comer.

Annual Greek Festival 2017

Holy Trinity Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church 307 19th St S, Birmingham, AL, United States

September 21-23, at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Birmingham. Caravan/carpool will leave campus parking lot at Ferguson Center at 4:00 on Friday the 22nd to attend at 5:00. Free dessert for the participants!

Lecture: Queer Studies in Threatening Times

324 Lloyd Hall

A free public talk by Dr. Donald Hall, Herbert and Ann Siegel Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Lehigh University, reception to follow.