The third annual Undergraduate Humanities Conference at Sterling College will take place March 23 in Cooper Hall. This year’s conference is themed “Justice,” with plenary speaker D. Stephen Long, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. The morning will include two undergraduate presentations titled “Interventions of Justice: Embodying Theories of Justice in the Family” and “Institutions of Justice: Justice in Legal and Political Contexts.” The public is invited to all presentations.
Long will present his address “Truth in a Post Truth World” to the Sterling College campus in his plenary address. Long is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. Previously he worked at Marquette University, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, St. Joseph’s University and Duke Divinity School. He received the Ph.D. from Duke University, and is an ordained United Methodist Minister who served churches in Honduras and North Carolina. He works in the intersection between theology and ethics and has published over fifty essays and fourteen books on theology and ethics.
All presentations will take place in Cooper Hall.
10 a.m.
“Interventions of Justice: Embodying Theories of Justice in the Family”  Incubation Lab 1
11:20 a.m.
“Institutions of Justice: Justice in Legal and Political Contexts”   Incubation Lab 1
1:30 p.m.
“Truth in a Post Truth World”   Heritage Hall
Sterling College is a Christ-centered, four-year college located in Sterling, Kansas, with a mission to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith. For more information, visit www.sterling.edu.