Faculty Session Monday, August 23 | Immediately Following General Session | Marriott Center

2021 University Conference

“Having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another.” — mosiah 18:21

faculty session Monday, August 23 | Immediately Following General Session | Marriott Center

Welcome C. Shane Reese Academic Vice President

Opening Hymn “How Firm a Foundation” Sheri Peterson, organist School of Music Brent Wells, conductor School of Music

Invocation Daniel H. Olsen Chair, Geography

Faculty Awards C. Shane Reese Academic Vice President

Musical Number Concertino in A-flat By Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Brian Blanchard, horn School of Music Stephen Beus, piano School of Music

Remarks C. Shane Reese Academic Vice President

Closing Hymn “High on the Mountain Top”

Benediction Ellie L. Young Chair, Counseling Psychology and Special Education 2021–2022 forum schedule Theme: Creating a Beloved Community

September 28, 2021 Martin Luther King III is a lawyer and an American human rights advocate. As the oldest son of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III serves as an ambassador of his parents’ legacy of nonviolent social change. King served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004. He has devoted his life to working in the nonprofit sector to promote civil rights and global human rights. King is committed to the personal and educa- tional development of youth and has initiated several programs to support and nurture young people.

October 26, 2021 Rev. Dr. Andrew Teal is a chaplain and fellow at Pembroke College and a lecturer in theology and reli- gion within Oxford University. He is warden of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and a trustee of several charitable organizations in Oxford. He has published in the UK and Europe in English and in Russian on patristic and modern theology. Among his recent publications is Inspiring Service: Interfaith Remarks with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland at Oxford, published in 2019 by the BYU Religious Stud- ies Center. Teal will join the BYU Maxwell Institute in fall 2021 as an affiliate faculty member.

November 30, 2021 William J. Barber II is a pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and a prominent figure in the current civil rights landscape who sits on the NAACP National Board of Directors. He is also the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, cochair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and the author of four books. Barber is regularly featured in media outlets and has received various awards, including the MacArthur Founda- tion “genius grant” in 2018 and the North Carolina Award—the state’s highest civilian honor—in 2019.

January 25, 2022 Marilynne Robinson has written multiple fiction and nonfiction works. Her first novel,Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Gilead (2004), received a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her third novel, Home (2008), received the UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Robinson was a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Iowa from 1991 to 2016. In 2012 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

February 15, 2022 James Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He has been a staff writer for The Atlantic since the late 1970s. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the 2018 book Our Towns: A 100,000- Mile Journey into the Heart of America, which was a national bestseller and is the basis of a forthcoming documentary. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and The American Prospect, among other publications. Fallows has written several books and has won several prestigious awards. He also worked for President Jimmy Carter as chief speechwriter.

March 29, 2022 Amy Chua is a graduate of Harvard Law and a writer who currently teaches at Yale Law School as the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. Chua has written several books, including two studies of international affairs, a parenting memoir (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother), a book on ethnic- American culture and its correlation with socioeconomic success within the United States, and, most recently, a book about tribal loyalties in American politics and its foreign policy (Political Tribes).

The theme being considered for the 2022–2023 academic year is “Stewardship.” Please send nominations for speakers to [email protected] by September 30, 2021.