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Wabash Conservative Union to Host E. Christian Kopff

Posted on March 27, 2010, 10:26 am, by Adam Brasich '11 , in Events, Featured.

The Wabash Conservative Union is pleased to announce that we will host Professor E. Christian Kopff on Thursday, April 22 to speak on the merits of the classics in education. His lecture is entitled “Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.”

Dr. Kopff is professor and Associate Director of the Honors Program at University of Colorado. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also works in Italy with the University of Urbino. He has been a great asset to the Classics community, writing more than a hundred scholarly papers and reviews in addition to the book on which he will lecture: The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.

Dr. Kopff will lecture on April 22 at 12:00 PM in Center Hall 216 at Wabash College. The event is free and open to the public.

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About Adam Brasich '11

Adam Brasich is an independently minded individual from Fort Wayne, IN. A Religion major and Political Science/Ancient Greek double minor, he relishes good books and good conversations. He spends his free time delving into the worlds of Karl Barth, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Joseph Smith, and postliberal/narrative theology.

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