January Series to Hit the Road in 2008

Remote Web casts at a dozen sites around the U.S. will bring Calvin College’s 2008 January Series to such locales as Holland, Muskegon, Ann Arbor, Chicago and Kalamazoo.

Also included will be a downtown Grand Rapids site: Calvin’s new building at 61 Sheldon Boulevard, the former home of the Ladies Literary Club.

First-year January Series director Kristi Potter is excited about beaming 15 January Series speakers from the Fine Arts Center auditorium on campus to a variety of far flung locations.

“We did some of this last year,” she says, “but not nearly on this scale.”

Potter notes that although the lecture series comes at a convenient time for many, with its 12:30 p.m. start time, it can still be difficult for people to drive to campus, park, hear a speaker and then drive back to their workplace.

“With a downtown location,” she says, “we hope we can draw a new audience to the January Series.”

Other locations include churches in Ann Arbor, Holland and Chicago, among others, and schools in Muskegon and Florida.

The line-up for the 2008 series is set already with a number of interesting topics and speakers on tap. The series opens January 3 with Michael Mandelbaum speaking on “Democracy’s Good Name.” It concludes on January 23 with Sigval Berg speaking on “Energy: Our Responsibility.”

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