The January Series

The January Series

The January Series is an annual program of lectures and concerts at Calvin College, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the college's annual January Interim Term, students are encouraged to select a course of academic enrichments not offered during the regular semesters.

During the Interim, the college sponsors the daily hour-long cultural enrichment series called The January Series. Presented at 12:30 pm in the 1000-seat Fine Arts Center Auditorium on campus, the series is open without charge to students, faculty, and the community. Despite typical Michigan winter weather, the auditorium often fills up and the audience spills over into closed circuit television rooms. The Series has become an important part of the cultural and educational offerings in Western Michigan and has received nationwide attention. The International Platform Society, founded by Daniel Webster in 1834, has awarded TJS the Silver Bowl Award for "Best Campus Lecture Series in the U.S.A." three times (1994, 1995, and 1999) and has since retired the award.

In the twenty-year history of the series, speakers have included such notables as C. Everett Koop, Morris Dees, Garrison Keillor, Stanley Hauerwas, Paul Farmer, and many more.

External links

* [http://www.calvin.edu/january/ The January Series at Calvin College]

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January 7
John Witte, Jr.
"Family Life in Calvin's Geneva"
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January 8
John Ortberg
"Faith and Doubt"
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January 9
Sandra Steingraber
"Living Downstream: Health and the Environment"
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January 12
Victor Makari
"The State of the Church in the Middle East"
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January 13
Deborah & Loren Haarsma
"Creation, Design, Evolution, and Human Origins"
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January 14
Richard Norton Smith
"Lincoln - 2009: Looking Back and Looking Forward at our Presidents"
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January 15
Helen Epstein
"The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS"
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January 16
Robert Rooy
"A Witness to Change: Profiling the Empowerment of Poor Families"
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January 19
Harold Trulear
"In honor of Martin Luther "
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January 20
D. Michael Lindsay
"Powerful Faith: Evangelicals in American Culture"
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January 21
Christine Brennan
"From the Sidelines to the Locker Roomeryone's Responsibility"
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January 22
David Kinnaman
"unChristian: How a New Generation Sees the Church and Why it Matters"
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January 23
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"Refusing to be Silenced"
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January 26
Xavier Davis Trio
"In Performance"
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January 27
Sharon Cohn Wu
"International Justice: Using the Law to Fight for Human Rights"
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