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Explore connections to faith and get excited to earn up to three Chapel credits throughout Symposium Day! 
Thursday, April 16
 

8:00am EDT

ALL DAY DISPLAY | Art: Loveliness and Validity
Thursday April 16, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Loggia (Ken Olsen Science Center)
Much of the focus of art making and art viewing is exploration of what humans perceive as beautiful and right. This is sometimes achieved by looking in the opposite direction at where beauty is lacking and wrong exists. Artworks frequently explore aesthetic elements in an attempt to define or capture beauty, and they often reveal social ills as a plea for justice. ART151 students are required to...
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Speakers
A1
MF
Thursday April 16, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Loggia (Ken Olsen Science Center) Gordon College - 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984
  Arts Display

8:15am EDT

* Morning Mercies: A Time of Prayer and Praise for Symposium
Thursday April 16, 2026 8:15am - 8:45am EDT
KOSC 126
A session for corporate prayer, worship, and reflection to kick off CFI Symposium Day!

*Chapel credit available*
Speakers
MB
Thursday April 16, 2026 8:15am - 8:45am EDT
KOSC 126
  Interactive Experience

9:00am EDT

* Research with a Heart: Seeing, Discovering, Serving
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 127
As students currently pursuing senior theses, we understand that research is often viewed as a means to make someone “normal,” or to fix some disability that is seen as a “problem.” We’re aiming not to discourage research but to encourage the right mindset of how to go about it. The view of research as a means through which we “fix” people often invalidates the feelings and suffering...
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Speakers
EB
MH
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 127
  Interactive Experience

9:00am EDT

* CEL Immersion Trip Insights: How God is Moving in Silicon Valley
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 124
We had the wonderful opportunity to visit Silicon Valley this past spring break as part of the CEL Immersion trip to California. While we were there, we experienced many contrasting moments that led us to consider our theme of beauty and justice. We engaged with incredible people and technical advancements that made us hopeful for the future. Yet we also observed broken systems that challenged us...
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Speakers
CF
MB
SH
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 124
  Lecture/Presentation

9:00am EDT

Egyptian Identity, Encaustic Icons, and Syrian Mariology
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 125
Our project was inspired by individual province research from our current HIS216 History of Ancient Rome class taught by Dr. Hevelone-Harper. My portion of the project focuses on Egypt as a Roman Province and how Egyptian religious culture and art informed that of early Christian communities (St. Catherine's Monastery). I will compare the artistic styles/techniques of Egyptian funerary portraits...
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Speakers
MS
RB
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 125
  Lecture/Presentation

9:00am EDT

* JAF Debate Discussion: "The Pursuit of Beauty is a Distraction From the Work of Justice"
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 109
A debrief of the 22nd annual debate of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum. Students will discuss their experiences researching, collaborating on, and participating in the debate, as well as general thoughts on the topic.

*Chapel credit available*
Speakers
JB
JB
KC
AC
KD
EG
DH
CH
BP
WP
SR
JS
KS
JW
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
KOSC 109
  Q&A Discussion

10:00am EDT

* Faith Formation in a Secular Age
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOS 109 (Fowler Lecture Hall)
How do we foster faith formation for young adults within the educational setting in a secular age? Throughout my time at Gordon, I have wrestled with this concept, seeking to gain an understanding of the current state of the world around me. Is there a way to form sacred spaces in which we bring people into the Kingdom of God? I am seeking to explain how we can foster spiritual formation through...
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Speakers
LP
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOS 109 (Fowler Lecture Hall) Gordon College - 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984
  Lecture/Presentation

10:00am EDT

* Rethinking Waste: A Glimpse into Gordon's Sustainability Systems
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOSC 127
Restore Creation has invited Josh Nelson, a representative from Casella, to Gordon to present on zero-waste strategy and campus waste services. This presentation will give students and staff insight into how Gordon's waste is processed and managed. It will also highlight practical steps individuals can take to reduce waste. This event builds on the visit to Casella's new recycling facility that...
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Speakers
RC
CR
JN
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOSC 127
  Lecture/Presentation

10:00am EDT

* Student Panel: Exploring Justice in a Fractured World
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOSC 124
We have diverse students majored in literature, economics, environmental science, and international affairs who will discuss the questions below: 1.⁠ ⁠Is beauty necessary for justice, or can justice exist without beauty? 2.⁠ ⁠Who gets to define justice on a global scale? On what basis (e.g. cultural, national, institutional, etc.)? 3.⁠ ⁠Are government systems capable of upholding...
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Speakers
DD
KK
MF
RB
SD
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
KOSC 124
  Q&A Discussion

11:00am EDT

* The Idiom Exhibit
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 124
Gordon's student literary magazine, The Idiom, wishes for this session to be a chance to take a closer look at what goes into The Idiom and what it means to us. Some of the students who were published this year will share and read from their work, followed by an open discussion. A lot of the pieces in this edition are prayerful and reflective, which is the kind of writing that slows you down and...
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Speakers
AH
AD
AM
AC
GC
IS
JW
JP
JH
MF
NR
PB
SP
SD
TE
ZR
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 124
  Arts Event

11:00am EDT

* The Deeper Beauty France Hungers For
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 127
A quick 15-minute address on the underlying motif of beauty within French culture and their desperate need for the Gospel as we enjoy traditional French hors d'oeuvres. The people of France have so strayed from the true source of beauty, pursuing a temporal, fading ideal. Only about 1% of France is evangelical. France desperately needs to know the God from whom all beauty flows. Come to...
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Speakers
LC
EW
NF
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 127
  Interactive Experience

11:00am EDT

After Byzantium: Ottoman and Russian Competition for Imperial Legitimacy
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 109
When Constantinople fell to Mehmed II in 1453, the question of who inherited the Roman Empire became one of the most contested issues in early modern politics. My thesis examines how both the Ottoman sultans and Russian tsars claimed to be the legitimate successors to Byzantium, each constructing ideological frameworks to justify their assertions. Mehmed II proclaimed himself Kayser-i Rûm (Caesar...
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Speakers
HM
Thursday April 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
KOSC 109
  Lecture/Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Beauty in the Everyday: Restore Creation Photography Competition
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Jenks Library (near Bistro)
Restore Creation, Gordon College's sustainability department, has organized a photography competition on the theme of "Beauty in the Everyday." Through this competition, we encourage students to capture moments that reflect beauty, care, and life which may go unnoticed in everyday life. This provides a great opportunity for students to be creative while thinking about how they can capture moments...
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Speakers
RC
CR
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Jenks Library (near Bistro)
  Arts Display

12:00pm EDT

* Discovering Beauty and Justice in Community
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
Various experiences and opportunities through Community Engagement work have allowed students the unique privilege of meeting diverse groups of people, hearing stories of beauty, and seeing where the work of justice is being done in communities around us. Join us for an interactive experience as we engage with these stories and these communities, looking at where we have seen the image of God...
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Speakers
CE
AR
DY
KR
MS
OM
RD
SA
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
  Interactive Experience

12:00pm EDT

* Doing Justice to Mathematical Beauty Around the World
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 126
Edna St. Vincent Millay captured well how students of mathematics might think about beauty in her poem, "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare." But there is so much more beautiful mathematics out there than just in the ancient Greek and modern Western traditions we are familiar with! God has created us all able to do math, and this presentation will do justice to sometimes-neglected math from...
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Speakers
EW
KL
JM
SW
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 126
  Lecture/Presentation

12:00pm EDT

* Broken Systems, Restored Justice: A Kingdom Perspective
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
IJM and the Social Welfare Club hope to host a faculty panel discussing the role of systems in God's redemptive purposes. Both IJM and SWC advocate for justice for the most vulnerable, understanding a holistic vision for the part Christians play in bringing it forth. Through this panel, we aim to explore how broken systems can be transformed into avenues of redemption, reflecting both truth and...
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Speakers
IJ
AH
LC
JC
KC
SS
Thursday April 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
  Q&A Discussion

1:00pm EDT

* Senior Art Showcase Sneak Peek
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOS 109 (Fowler Lecture Hall)
The Senior Art Showcase Sneak Peek is a unique opportunity to hear from current art seniors about their artistic process for their thesis presentation. The Sneak Peek features short process presentations from each senior. The session will be followed by a short time for questions and answers. This presentation showcases the seniors' work-in-progress as they live out their pursuit of both beauty...
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Speakers
EB
JW
JV
JP
SX
VJ
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOS 109 (Fowler Lecture Hall) Gordon College - 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984
  Arts Event

1:00pm EDT

* "A Still, Small Voice": God's Voice Across the World
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
The Linguistics Club is hosting a time to listen to God's word shared in many of the languages represented at Gordon and hear from the work of linguistics students studying writing systems used around the world. We are reflecting on the beautiful things of language and considering how God is speaking across cultural and linguistic boundaries. We will be presenting multi-lingual Bible readings,...
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Speakers
LC
AT
AH
BL
EW
HH
JP
MC
MR
NM
RH
XP
YH
YC
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
  Lecture/Presentation

1:00pm EDT

* The Bible Boat and Jesus Bus: Christians for Climate Change Justice at COP 30
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
Rachael and I both attended the UN climate change conference as observers with a group of fellow Christians, and we would like to share our experience. There are evangelicals present in conversations of eco-stewardship and climate justice, and their work is ever growing. We would like to highlight this as encouragement to students and staff that there is a space within this controversial topic...
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Speakers
IM
RD
Thursday April 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
  Lecture/Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Chinese Characters: A Visual Representation of Semantics
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 125
This topic is what I am writing my Linguistics Honors Thesis on. I am looking at how the structure of Chinese Characters provides a different level of meaning through visual representation, differing from other writing systems that reflect pronunciation and/or spoken language alone. I aim to look at this writing system, that has been simplified and fetishized, from an objective standpoint, to...
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Speakers
KL
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 125
  Lecture/Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Roman Ideals of Beauty and Justice
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
Rome's culture has had a long and varied influence on societies that followed it, particularly in the spheres of art, architecture, law, and government. In this session students will display works of art inspired by the Roman world and present on diverse topics ranging from the apostle Paul's imprisonment, to gladitorial combat in Rome and Hollywood, Cicero's speeches, and Roman fashion.
Speakers
HC
AO
AO
BW
BP
CG
DE
EZ
HC
JB
KW
KN
MG
NS
RO
TD
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
  Lecture/Presentation

2:00pm EDT

* Twelfth Night: An Informal Discussion
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
A post-performance panel discussion on Gordon's recent production of Twelfth Night the Musical. Come learn about what went into creating the show and bring your own thoughts on Twelfth Night!

*Chapel credit available*
Speakers
BJ
ED
GC
GM
HJ
KC
SB
Thursday April 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
  Q&A Discussion

3:00pm EDT

* "But, Yet: A Theatrical Examination of Lament"
Thursday April 16, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
“How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart?”The Bible is full of hard questions like these. One of the unfortunate truths about living in a broken world is that we will inevitably experience suffering and injustice. Lament, the act of crying out to God in the midst of...
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Speakers
AE
CH
CH
ED
GC
HJ
JS
JP
KC
SE
Thursday April 16, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
KOSC 127
  Arts Event

3:00pm EDT

* Is Efficiency Beautiful? Rethinking Justice in the Age of AI
Thursday April 16, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
In an age where technological progress is measured by speed, scale, and efficiency, we rarely ask whether efficiency itself is beautiful, or just. My session would explore the environmental, political, and ethical consequences of the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure across the globe. As multinational technology companies invest millions in data centers and digital networks, developing nations...
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Speakers
AT
Thursday April 16, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
KOSC 124
  Lecture/Presentation

4:00pm EDT

A Celebration of Symposium Reception
Thursday April 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Loggia (KOSC)
Join faculty, staff, and students for some delicious refreshments and delightful conversations!
Thursday April 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Loggia (KOSC) Gordon College - 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984
  Symposium Panel

4:30pm EDT

* Symposium Theme Panel: A Conversation with Faculty, Staff, and Students
Thursday April 16, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Chairs' Room (KOSC)
Join faculty members Kelly Foster & Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, staff member Porter Sprigg, and senior Johnny Paul-Faina for a panel discussion of Beauty & Justice!

*Chapel credit available*
Speakers
JP
KF
KH
PS
Thursday April 16, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Chairs' Room (KOSC) Gordon College - 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA 01984
  Symposium Panel
 

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