History Department Announces Inter-disciplinary Seminar

The SAGU History department has announced a new inter-disciplinary seminar scheduled for March 30 through April 1, 2010. The seminar will feature sessions from professors in the History, English, Criminal Justice, Music, Church Ministries, and Bible & Theology programs. Additionally, the Drama department will perform a 3-act play of "The Clash of the Century" dramatizing events from the Scopes Monkey Trial.

All sessions will be conducted in the Mundt Room of the Full Life Center.

The schedule is provided below.
Competing Voices: Forty Years of Religious, Literary, and Social Change, 1890-1930
Seminar Schedule
Tuesday, March 30 (9:30-10:30)

Moderator:
Professor Loyd Uglow, Ph.D.

Session 1
"A Cacaphony of Voices: America in Context, 1890-1930"
Professor Gary D. McElhany, Ph.D.

Session 2
"The Literature of a New Century"
Professor D'Juana Montgomery, Ph.D.
Wednesday, March 31 (10:15-11:15)

Moderator:
Professor Loyd Uglow, Ph.D.

Session 3
"Cultural Captivity of Christianity: The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy"
Professor Bruce Rosdahl, Ph.D.

Session 4
"Evolution on Trial, Circa 1925 - The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial."
Professor David Pointer, J.D.
Thursday, April 1 (9:30-10:30)

Moderator:
Professor Loyd Uglow, Ph.D.

Session 5
"Evolution and Chrisitianity: From the Scopes Monkey Trial and Beyond
Professor Jeff Magruder, D.Min.

Session 6
"Jazz and Blues"
Mr. Tyrone Block
April 8-11

"The Clash of the Century" The Scopes Monkey Trial – Evolution vs. Creationism
Presented in McCafferty Hall.
Tickets are now available!