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Dates and Times: Friday, February 7, 7:00 to 8:30 pm and Saturday, February 8, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Location: Alps Rd. Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Rd., Athens, GA 30606 Join us for the A Common Call faculty conference with keynote speaker Dr. Gbola Adesogan (click on name to read his faith story), Professor of Animal […]
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Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 Time: 12:15-1:15 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the January meeting will be Dr. Amanda Giordano, UGA assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Services in the College of Education. Her topic will be “Understanding Systemic Privilege and Oppression… And Why It Matters”. Abstract below. Abstract: Privilege and
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Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Time: 12:15-1:15 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the December meeting will be Dr. Michael Covington. From 1984 until his retirement in 2013, Dr. Covington served as a research scientist in the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His topic will be “Artificial Intelligence and Christian Values”. Abstract below. Abstract: Depending
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Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019 Time: 12:30-1:30 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the November CFF meeting will be Dr. Yohannes Abate, UGA Associate Professor of Physics. A native of Ethiopia, he received his Ph.D. in physics at the U. of Iowa, was a postdoctoral fellow at the U. of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence
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Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Time: 12:15-1:15 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the October CFF meeting will be Dr. John Dunaway, Emeritus Professor of French at Mercer University. He taught for 42 years at Mercer where he started and lead the Christian faculty ministry on that campus for many of those 42 years. His
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Date: Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 Time: 12:30-1:30 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the first CFF meeting of the new semester will be Dr. Jana Harmon, Teaching Fellow with the C.S. Lewis Institute in Atlanta. Her topic will be “An Inside Look at Atheists Conversions to Christianity.” Dr. Harmon will speak on her study of
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We will gather on Saturday, August 17, from 5:30 to 7 pm at Alps Road Presbyterian Church fellowship hall for our annual kickoff dinner. We will also have as our guest that night Joe Bucha. Joe, and his wife Emily, were on Cru staff for 33 years. For the last 11 years Joe
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We have completed our monthly meetings for the 2018-2019 school year, but we plan to have another great slate of speakers and meetings beginning in the fall. If you would like more information about the UGA Christian Faculty Forum, you can contact us by clicking the “Contact” button at the top and fill out the
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019 Time: 12:30-1:30 Location: Tate 473 The speaker for the April CFF meeting will be UGA School of Social Work associate professor Dr. David Okech. David conducts research on human trafficking – the exploitation of men, women, and children for the purposes of labor and sex – and focuses on designing
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Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Time: 12:15-1:15 Location: Rooker Hall, Fireside Room (East Campus Village) The speaker for the March CFF meeting will be Lawrence Harris. Lawrence is the director and CEO of the Athens Community Career Academy, a charter program that gives high school students the opportunity to take core academic college courses, enroll
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