CLP: Sextacular in Conversation

Sex and Shame: Flipping the Script for Boundaries and Pleasure Speaker: Justine Ang Fonte, M.Ed., MPH (award-winning intersectional sex and health doctor) Tuesday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m. Daniel Recital Hall

CLP – US-China Relations: The View from The Chinese Embassy

The third-ranking diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in DC, Minister Jing Quan, will be visiting Furman on Tuesday, November 1. In addition to a long slate of diplomatic postings, he also served as a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution in 2004 and 2005. Minister Jing will give a public address at 11:30 a.m. in the Watkins […]

What Ought a Physician Do? Health Care Professionals and the Spiritual Concerns of Their Patients

"What Ought a Physician Do? Health Care Professionals and the Spiritual Concerns of Their Patients" (Program 1) November 1, 7:00 p.m., Younts Conference Center This event is intended for Health Care Professionals, Medical Students, Furman Faculty, and Furman MSCEM students. If seats are available, it will be opened to Furman pre-health students later. There will […]

What Ought a Physician Do? Obligations to Patients in the Case of Treatments that Violate the Caregiver’s Ethical Beliefs

"What Ought a Physician Do? Obligations to Patients in the Case of Treatments that Violate the Caregiver’s Ethical Beliefs" (Program 2) November 2, 1:30 p.m. (Location TBA with registration.) This event is intended for Furman Faculty, Furman MSCEM students, and Furman Pre-Health students. If seats are available, it will be opened to other Furman students. […]

Spirituality & End-of-Life Care: What I Learned from Fred

“Spirituality & End-of-Life Care: What I Learned from Fred” November 2, 6:30, Daniel Chapel Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, MD, Ph.D. (Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Research Scholar, Georgetown University) In this lecture, Fred’s story is formative in Dr. Sulmasy’s thinking, and this unique but also universal end-of-life narrative is the vehicle for […]

Best-Selling Author Eddie R. Cole to Speak at MLK Breakfast

Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville, SC

Celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Furman University will host best-selling author and UCLA professor Eddie R. Cole, who will speak at the MLK Community Breakfast on Friday, Jan. 13, at 8 a.m. in the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center on campus. The public is invited to attend. Tickets are […]

$50 – $400

CLP: Targeting homelessness in Greenville: What does it take to achieve ‘safe, affordable homes for all’?

Trone Student Center, Watkins Room

As housing prices increase and the population of Greenville continues to grow, the challenges of finding and keeping safe, affordable housing continue to rise for many of our neighbors. At this CLP, attendees will get a chance to learn about the causes and consequences of homelessness, particularly in Greenville County, through a conversation between Dr. […]

CLP: Thinking Biography: A Reading and Discussion with Kate Clifford Larson

Furman Hall 214, McEachern Lecture Hall

In a CLP sponsored by the Furman University Department of English, Kate Clifford Larson, author of biographies on Harriett Tubman, Fannie Lou Hammer, and others, will read from her work and discuss her process of writing biographies, from archival work to the creative exercise of telling someone else's story. Larson is a New York Times […]

CLP: Dostoevsky on Conscience and the Revolutionary Spirit: The Case of Demons

Trone Student Center, Burgiss Theater

Populism, the pandemic, and resurgent socialism have recently brought Americans to ask revolutionary questions, reconsidering the nation’s founding narrative and its very identity, past and future.  America, of course, was birthed in revolution. What distinguishes the American revolution from other great historical revolutions? What are the origins and the consequences of the revolutionary spirit? How […]

CLP: Prosecuting Acts of Hate: The Federal Response to ‘Unite the Right’

Trone Student Center, Burgiss Theater

As the chief federal prosecutor for the Western District of Virginia, then U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen pioneered a new approach to convicting racist rioters. In this presentation hosted by the Pre-Law Society, Judge Cullen will discuss the rise of white supremacy and domestic terrorism in the U.S. He will describe the August 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, […]

CLP: Claire Whitehurst – ‘Color and Space’

Roe Art Building, Littlejohn Lecture Room 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville, South Carolina

The Furman Art Department presents a lecture by artist in residence, Claire Whitehurst Friday, Feb. 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Roe Art Building, Littlejohn Lecture Room. "Color and Space" explores queer entanglement, memory and time through color, form, surfaces and composition in her paintings. The presentation will include images of her process, inspiration and […]