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Leah White, assistant professor of Communication Studies and director of Forensics, (319) 273-7200
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa —A public debate between representatives of the University of Northern Iowa Debate Team and the British National Debate Team will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the UNI Communication Arts Center, room 108.
Jacob Witt, a graduate student from Elma, Wash., and Keith West, a freshman from Ankeny, will represent UNI. The British Debate Team representatives will be Bobby Webster, a graduate of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Matt Butt, a student at the University of London.
The debate will be in parliamentary style, a format that allows audience members to ask questions and make comments to the debaters as they present their views. The topic for the debate will be: This house would ban hate speech on United States campuses.
“This debate topic is one that high school Lincoln-Douglas debaters also are discussing,” said Cate Palczewski, associate professor of communication studies. “Hence, the topic is particularly appropriate for high school speech students.”
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Leah White, UNI assistant professor of communication studies and director of the Forensics Program, at (319) 273-7200.
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Martha Reineke, Hearst Lecture Committee Chair, (319) 273-6233 or
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa —“The Historical Jesus” will be presented by John Dominic Crossan, emeritus professor in religious studies at DePaul University, Chicago, as part of the University of Northern Iowa Hearst Lecture Series, at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23, in UNI's Maucker Union Expansion.
Crossan will discuss the best method for reconstructing the historical Jesus. He draws on resources from cross-cultural anthropology, Judeo-Roman history, Galilean archeology and literary criticism.
Crossan is the author of 18 books on the historical Jesus and early Christianity, including “The Historical Jesus: the Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant,” 1991; “Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,” 1994; “Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus,” 1995; and “The Birth of Christianity,” 1998. He also has been cited as an authority on the subject in PBS, ABC, A&E and BBC documentaries. These documentaries have included “From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians” on PBS and segments on A&E's “Mysteries of the Bible.”
The UNI Department of Philosophy and Religion is the host for this year's series, which is funded by the Meryl Norton Hearst Chair in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.
For more information, contact Martha Reineke, UNI professor of religion and Hearst Lecture Series committee chair, at (319) 273-6233 or .
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