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Public Lectures

Our mandate is to educate the whole people of God—and that includes the Christian community of Vancouver and beyond. We offer free public lectures by our own world-class faculty, and by visiting scholars, teachers, and authors from around the world.

We host two regular lecture series—Summer Lectures and the Laing Lectures—as well as special events throughout the year.

Most of our lectures are recorded and available as audio downloads through RegentAudio.com

Summer Lectures

In the Spring and Summer Sessions, we host lectures every week to highlight the research of our regular faculty and our visiting summer lecturers. 

Next Public Lecture
Mar
25
Monday, 1:30PM

Thinking Through Music and Fashion

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With Nicholas Chong

With Andrew Chung

With Fiona Dieffenbacher

This colloquium is part of Thinking Through the Arts, a two-day series that gathers emerging scholars to discuss the interplay between the arts, the world around us, and our inner lives. Sponsored by Veritas Forum and Regent College, these events are free and open to the public.

About the Event

Join us at Regent College (Room 2) to hear from emerging scholars in the fields of music and fashion as they discuss the interplay between the arts, beliefs, and societies. Three 30-minute presentations will be followed by questions and discussion.

  • Nicholas Chong, Beethoven and the Catholic Enlightenment: Rethinking Musical Modernity
  • Andrew Chung, Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
  • Fiona Dieffenbacher, Fashion—Interfaith Dialogues in Academia

About the Speakers

Nicholas Chong is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the undergraduate Core Curriculum at Columbia University. Chong specializes in the music of the late Classical and Romantic eras in Germany and Austria, with a particular focus on the ways in which the creation and reception of musical works relate to religious, political, and intellectual history. His first monograph, The Catholic Beethoven, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. With Daniel K. L. Chua, he is also co-editor of Rethinking Beethoven and the Enlightenment, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Andrew Chung serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of North Texas. His scholarly work specializes in the history and theoretical analysis of 20th and 21st-century European and American art music in experimental and avant-garde traditions. With a BA in music and neuroscience & behavior from Wesleyan University and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in music from Yale University, Dr. Chung has strong interdisciplinary interests. His publications appear in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Resonance: A Journal of Sound and Culture, and Sound Studies. His 2019 article, “What is Musical Meaning? Towards a Theory of Music as Performative Utterance” in Music Theory Online was a winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Award in 2022. He is currently working on a book manuscript called Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster.

Fiona Dieffenbacher is an Associate Professor of Fashion and Associate Dean in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, where she teaches a range of fashion courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her research is located at the intersection of dress, embodiment, and spirituality, with a particular emphasis on the ‘space in between’ theory and practice. In 2020, she founded The En[...]Clothed Collective, a global group of practitioners, poets, artists, and researchers who center bodily knowledge as a practice in order to articulate theory, and in 2023 she launched a public program entitled Fashion-Faith: Rituals and Dialogues that aimed to open up conversation across faith based practices. The second edition of her book Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process was published by Bloomsbury in December 2020. She is an editor of Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry. Please visit her website at www.fionadieffenbacher.com.


Upcoming Public Lectures
Mar
25
Monday, 7:00PM

Thinking Through the Arts: Coherence and Wholeness in Music

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With Loren Wilkinson
With Mia Chung

Co-sponsored by Veritas Forum and Regent College, Thinking Through the Arts gathers emerging scholars to discuss the interplay between the arts, the world around us, and our inner lives. These events are free and open to the public.

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Mar
26
Tuesday, 1:30PM

Thinking Through the Visual Arts

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With Jonathan Anderson
With Snow Yunxue Fu
With Christina Carnes Ananias

Co-sponsored by Veritas Forum and Regent College, this two-day series gathers seven scholars who are emerging as leading contributors to the study of music, fashion, and visual art. These events are free and open to the public.

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Mar
26
Tuesday, 7:00PM

Moral Machines: Social Values, Technology, and Critical Constructivism

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With Craig Gay
With Brent Waters
With Andrew Feenberg
With Jens Zimmermann

Dr. Andrew Feenberg will demonstrate the ways in which the technologies we use are not neutral but incorporate social values and norms. Drs. Craig Gay and Brent P. Waters will respond.

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Apr
5
Friday, 7:30PM

Jazz Book Launch: Improvising Church, by Mark Glanville

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With Mark Glanville

Come hear the Mark Glanville Jazz Trio at a musical book launch in the Regent Atrium. Share in music and refreshments, as we celebrate his new book, Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul (IVP Academic).

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Apr
9
Tuesday, 7:00PM

Book Launch: Incarnational Humanism (2nd edition), by Jens Zimmermann

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With Hans Boersma
With Jens Zimmermann
With Jonathan Anderson

The Houston Centre invites you to celebrate the launch of the second edition of Jens Zimmermann’s acclaimed book, Incarnational Humanism. The book offers an understanding of what it means to be human that is rooted in the incarnation of Christ.

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Apr
15
Monday, 12:30PM

Holy Club 2.0: Early Methodism in the Young George Whitefield’s Diary, 1735–36

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With Bruce Hindmarsh

Join us in Room 100 for a session with James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity Bruce Hindmarsh. Bruce will discuss "Holy Club 2.0: Early Methodism in the Young George Whitefield’s Diary, 1735–36."

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