"The Worlds of Billy Graham" Conference
September 26 -28, 2013/Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
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Public Lecture
Thursday, March 21, 2013
7:00PM Blanchard 339
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
"'An Odd Kind of Cross to Bear': Being Mrs. Billy Graham,"
Dr. Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College
Anne Blue Wills is a co-director of the ISAE's "Worlds of Billy Graham Project." Dr. Wills is currently working on a biography of Ruth Bell Graham and is the author of several articles on various aspects of American religion.
She is an associate professor of religion at Davidson College in North Carolina and is the chair of the Research Committee of the American Society of Church History.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the ISAE at 630-752-5937, or send a note to: isae@wheaton.edu
Public Lecture: BGC Archival Research Lecture
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
7:00PM Wilson Suite, 4th Floor of Billy Graham Center
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
"Panda Huggers and Dragon Killers: Billy Graham, American Evangelicals and Sino-American Relations"
Dr. Tu Yi Chao, Fudan University
Since 1949 American evangelicals have held vigilant and sometimes hostile attitudes toward Red China. Billy Graham, the most influential evangelical leader of the 20th-century, played a unique role in Sino-American relations during the second half of that century. Although an outspoken critic of communism in the 1950s, two decades later Graham was promoting the opening of Sino-American relations and paving the way for renewed missionary work in China. His evolving attitude toward China and its impact on Sino-American relations provide a significant commentary on the changing perceptions and interactions between two world powers. This lecture explores the role American evangelicals have played in the recent story of SIno-American relations using Rev. Billy Graham as a case study.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the ISAE at 630-752-5937, or send a note to: isae@wheaton.edu.
Research Travel Grants for Projects Involving the Life & Career of Billy Graham
The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE) is offering a limited number of research travel grants for graduate students and younger scholars studying the life and career of Billy Graham. The grants are intended specifically to defray research, travel, lodging, and meal expense for research in the collections of the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
The BGC Archives contain an enormous collection of materials related to Graham, his ministries, associates, as well as records of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). Grants are available up to an amount of $500 on a competitive basis with special consideration provided for graduate students, junior faculty, and others at a distance of more than 75 miles from Wheaton, IL.
Grants are intended for use during the calendar year of 2013; all applications must be received by March 1, 2013. For further information and/or an application form contact the ISAE at isae@wheaton.edu or by tel. at 630-752-5437.
ISAE Announces "The Worlds of Billy Graham" Project Participants
The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE) has announced the core participants that will be featured as part of "The Worlds of Billy Graham" conference which will examine the career and legacy of the famed American evangelist. The conference will take place September 26-28, 2013 at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. Further information on "The Worlds of Billy Graham" project and conference will be forthcoming on this website.