Westminster College

Join us for Westminster's 2020 Hancock Symposium on "Vision & Values" – learn about life beyond Earth, COVID-19 in MO, mental health, climate change in fiction, and the impact of cultural/racial history and other factors on the preservation of historic sites. 

Live streaming schedule, Sept 16 (all times in CDT):

9:15 am - James L. Green, NASA Chief Scientist - “The Search for Life Beyond Earth in Space and Time"

10:30 am - Bill Whitmar, Laboratory Director, Missouri Public Health Laboratory - "COVID-19 Pandemic Response: The Story from Those Who Live It Daily"

1:15 pm - Susannah Cahalan, best-selling author, mental health advocate - “How Illness Led to Insight: From Brain on Fire to The Great Pretender”

2:30 pm - Dr. Amy Brady, Editor-in-Chief, Chicago Review of Books, expert on climate fiction, with Omar El Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian novelist - “Imagining Climate Change Through Fiction"

6:15 pm - co-hosted by America's National Churchill Museum - “Our Buildings Shape Us: A 2020 Vision for Two Fulton Monuments” - panelists:

Carmen Brandt, President, George Washington Carver Cultural Center Board of Directors \\ Victor B. Pasley, Retired Executive, Xerox Corporation \\ Dr. Gary Kremer, Executive Director, The State Historical Society of Missouri \\ Timothy Riley, Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator, America’s National Churchill Museum 

More info at symposium.westminster-mo.edu/

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