An assistant professor of philosophy from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., will
come to Westmont to talk about how cultural myths of female and male eating relate
in important ways to how men and women generally react to desire. Christina Van Dyke鈥檚
lecture 鈥溾�業鈥檒l Have a Salad and Diet Coke鈥�: Eating as a Gendered Act,鈥� will be at
Kerrwood Hall in Hieronymus Lounge, Friday, Jan. 12, at 3:30 p.m. The free talk is
open to the public.
David Vander Laan, 蜜桃传媒 associate professor of philosophy, says Van Dyke鈥檚 lecture will address how the Christian traditions of fasting and feasting present us with a way to reclaim a healthy attitude toward our hunger.
Van Dyke graduated from Calvin College and earned her doctorate at Cornell University. She has been teaching at Calvin since 2001.
Her areas of areas of expertise include medieval philosophy, philosophy of mind and metaphysics, ancient philosophy and feminist philosophy. She is the co-author of a forthcoming book on Thomas Aquinas鈥檚 ethics.
The lecture is sponsored by the 蜜桃传媒 philosophy department.