PC announces centennial celebration events

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE will celebrate its 100th anniversary with events starting Aug. 29 and continuing until the end of the 2016 fall semester.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE will celebrate its 100th anniversary with events starting Aug. 29 and continuing until the end of the 2016 fall semester.

PROVIDENCE – Providence College will celebrate its 100th anniversary with events starting Aug. 29 and continuing until the end of the 2016 fall semester.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author; Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York; and Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and The New York Times op-ed columnist, are some of the speakers who will be featured at the conferences.

Providence College was founded in 1917 as a private, liberal arts university, administered by the Dominican Friars.

Upcoming Providence College Centennial Events:

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  • Aug. 31 – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and The New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof will mark the official opening of the Providence College centennial celebration with a keynote address, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
  • Sept. 13 – Renowned art historian Monsignor Timothy Verdon, director of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo and the Diocesan Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage in Florence, Italy, will present “The Dominicans and the Renaissance in Florence,” the first public lecture in Providence College’s Centennial Presidential Speaker Series. Verdon also will give a master class to PC students and faculty on Sept. 14 entitled, “The Art of Presenting Art: The New Florence Cathedral Museum.”
  • Sept. 23 – Clayborne Carson, scholar, author and curator of the Martin Luther King Jr. papers at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, will present a lecture in the Providence College 2016-2017 Humanities Forum series.
  • Oct. 1 – Grammy Award-winning trumpet virtuoso Chris Botti will cap PC’s St. Dominic Weekend celebration. Activities include the Friar 5K road race and an evening centennial event that will feature the world premiere of a film about Providence College produced by Mike Leonard, class of 1970, a former long-time “Today” show correspondent.
  • Oct. 21 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author, will provide the opening address, “The Presence of the Greatness of the Past,” as part of a weekend-long Liberal Arts Honors Symposium, “Truth and the Liberal Arts.”
  • Oct. 29 – Shiza Shahid, Pakistani social activist and co-founder of Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s Malala Foundation, will present the keynote address at the New Student Family Weekend opening ceremony.
  • Nov. 3 – Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York, will present the keynote address for Providence College’s Theological Exchange Between Catholics and Jews lecture series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate.
  • Nov. 15 – Rev. James Martin, author and editor-at-large of “America,” and “The National Catholic Review,” popular media commentator, and The New York Times best-selling author of “The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything,” brings the Gospels to life in “Jesus: A Pilgrimage.”

Providence College will announce second-semester speakers and events prior to the end of 2016. Information about the centennial celebration can be found here: http://centennial.providence.edu/

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