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10/9/00

LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS TOPIC FOR SLU SPEAKER

CANTON -- "Starting a Conversation About Liberal Arts Education" is 
the topic for the keynote speaker of the 2000 Hays and Margaret Crimmel 
Colloquium on Education at St. Lawrence University. Judith Berling, 
professor of history of religions at the Graduate Theological Union in 
Berkeley, California, will give the lecture on Thursday, October 26, at 
8 p.m. in Room 123 of Griffiths Arts Center. It is open to the public, 
free of charge.
	Berling is the author of two books on East Asian religions, The 
Syncretic Religion of Lin Chao-en and A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture: Negotiating 
Religious Diversity. She has also written and published widely on East 
Asian religions, especially about religion in China. Berling is a graduate 
of Carleton College, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
	The Crimmel Colloquium was established at St. Lawrence in 1996 by 
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Henry H. Crimmel, in memory of his parents. 
Its purpose is to bring to campus speakers to address issues of fundamental 
importance to the liberal arts college and to liberal education, especially 
those articulated and examined in Crimmel's 1993 book The Liberal Arts College 
and the Idea of Liberal Education: The Case for Radical Reform.

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