Secularism on Campus
a Center for Inquiry Institute
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30-9:30 PM
Clapp Hall Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
4249 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA
This timely event about Secularism on Campus celebrates the
growing numbers of secular students on campuses today, and focuses on how their
secular campus activities are raising appreciation for nonbelieving and
freethought perspectives. Speakers include several leaders of secular campus groups
who will describe their impact on their campuses, and their struggles for
recognition and respect.
The rights of secular students to organize and get
recognized will be also discussed, in the aftermath of Duquesne University’s
rejection of a secular student group. The leader of that group, Colin
Stragar-Rice, is among our speakers. This Center for Inquiry Institute educational event is co-sponsored by the Center for Inquiry—On Campus, Center for Inquiry—Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Secular Alliance, and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
Student Leaders who will speak include:
Joshua Phillips, Secular Alliance, University of Pittsburgh
Jean Romanowski, Secular Alliance, University of Pittsburgh
Colin Stragar-Rice, Duquesne Secular Society (denied approval), Duquesne
University
Aaron Swartz, AHA! (Atheists, Humanists, Agnostics), Carnegie
Mellon University
Additional Speakers from the Center for Inquiry:
Debbie Goddard, Coordinator for CFI On Campus, and
Director of African Americans for Humanism.
Barry Kosmin, CFI Board Member, and Director of the
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College,
Connecticut.
John Shook, CFI Director of Education, and faculty member
of the University at Buffalo Science and the Public EdM program.
Registration: $20 for the public, $15 for Friends of the Center, FREE for students (valid student ID required).
We're sorry, the deadline for registering for this event has passed.
