Dr. Joe Kickasola
Lee University’s Department of History, Political Science, and Humanities will host Dr. David Dark and Dr. Joe Kickasola for the 11th annual Humanities lecture. Their presentation, “Devotion, Doubt, and Deconstruction,” will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 7 pm in the Johnson Lecture Hall of the Humanities building.
Drs.
Dark and Kickasola will both discuss how they have negotiated the tensions between academic interrogation and Christian devotion. They will then turn this question back to the audience: As lovers of Christ, our culture, and the life of the mind, how far should we go with our questioning and deconstructing?
Dr. Dark, assistant professor at the College of Theology, Belmont University, is the author of Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons, and Other Pop Culture Icons, and The Gospel According To America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea, which was included in Publishers’ Weekly’s top religious books of 2005. He lives in Nashville where he also teaches at the Tennessee Prison for Women and Charles Bass Correctional Facility.
Dr. Kickasola is professor of film and digital media at Baylor University. He is the author of The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: the Liminal Image which won the 2006 Spiritus Award for best writing in the area of religion and film. He has also published in numerous academic journals, including Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Moving Image Studies, and Christian Scholars Review, as well as several forthcoming anthologies focused on the cinema as it intersects with epistemology, religion, and metaphysics. He lives in New York City where he runs the Baylor Communication in NY program.
This event is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of History, Political Science, and Humanities at 423-614-8137 or email Dr. Mary McCampbell at mmccampbell@leeuniversity.edu.
Dr. David Dark