Carmen House Speaker Series

Speaker: Dr. Timothy Norman

• Friday, December 12th, 6:30 PM 8:00 PM
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Carmen House Speaker Series

Monday, November 3, 12 Noon ET

Join Denise Daniels and Elaine Howard Eckland as they discuss Working for Better, a groundbreaking exploration of how to express Christian faith in professional settings, including the campus, without compromising beliefs or alienating others. Register below to receive webinar link.

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We have long been living in a broken world. And yet, there are ways that our current cultural moment seems to be particularly confusing to many.

Many of us wonder: “what exactly is wrong with the world?” This Friday evening at 6:30 at our current Carmen House venue, we will be hearing from Bible scholar Ingrid Faro for a talk entitled “Is There Evil?: Retrieving the Language of Evil in the Public University for the Common Good.”

Our event is open to anyone in the OSU campus community, as well as life-long learners beyond the campus. Come grab a bite to eat and join us for a fascinating presentation with audience Q and A.

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Speaker: Dr. Ben Burkholder

• Friday, March 21, 6:30 PM 8:00 PM
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Join us on February 27, 2025 for a global, multi-generational day of prayer for revival and awakening on college campuses worldwide.

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It should constantly be our care to see God’s presence in everything, and not only to raise our minds to him when we are at prayer. — Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) 

How do you plan to observe Lent this year? Will you fast from something?

Will you add a devotional experience? The options before us are vast, but one thing tends to reliably bear fruit: sharing one’s Lenten practice with a community. Whether you have never observed a Lenten prayer practice before or if you have regular traditions, we invite you to enter into a gentle rhythm of prayer with us this year.

During Lent, InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Network, Women Scholars and Professionals, and Faculty Ministry invite you to a “retreat in daily life.” Starting on Ash Wednesday, March 5, we will follow an adapted version of the Spiritual Exercises together.

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March 12, Noon
with NICOLE MASSIE MARTIN In this transformative resource for leaders of all ages, Nicole Massie Martin leads us through seven areas of traditional leadership that need to be reframed: power, ego, speed, performance, perfection, loyalty, and scale.

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February 20, Noon

We might be discouraged, disillusioned, or devastated by our work. We might experience trauma or harassment on the job, or we may have experienced work loss by getting fired. If you’ve been beat up, burnt out, or brokenhearted by work, you’re not alone.

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Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 1:00 pm ET/10:00 am PT

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“AI & Christianity” with Joanna Ng and Rosalind Picard. This free 75-minute virtual symposium is open to ASA members and the general public alike. It includes key elements of the ASA approach — an opening talk on a vital science-faith issue of the day followed by Q&A. We are delighted that ASA Fellow Derek Schuurman will be facilitating this important conversation.

Joanna Ng is a former IBM-er, pivoted to a start-up founder, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, specialized in Augmented Cognition, by integrating with IoT and Blockchain, in the context of web3, by applying design-thinking methodology. With forty-nine patents granted to her name, Joanna was accredited as an IBM Master Inventor. She held a seven-year tenure as the Head of Research, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies, IBM Canada. She has published over twenty peer-reviewed academic publications and co-authored two computer science books with Springer, The Smart Internet, and The Personal Web. She published a Christianity Today article called “How Artificial Intelligence Is Today’s Tower of Babel” and published her first book on faith and discipleship in October 2022, titled Being Christian 2.0.

Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory; co-founder of Affectiva, which provides Emotion AI; and co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, which provides the first FDA-cleared smartwatch to detect seizures. Picard is author of over three hundred peer-reviewed articles spanning AI, affective computing, and medicine. She is known internationally for writing the book, Affective Computing, which helped launch the field by that name, and she is a popular speaker, with a TED talk receiving ~1.9 million views. Picard is a fellow of the IEEE and the AAAC, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Masters and Doctorate, each in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT. Picard leads a team of researchers developing AI/machine learning and analytics to advance basic science as well as to improve human health and well-being, and has served as MIT’s faculty chair of their MindHandHeart well-being initiative.

Many of our local chapters, affiliates, and partner organizations will be hosting watch parties and a list of them will be posted here as we get closer to the event. If you are interested in holding a watch party, email dana@asa3.org.