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SUMMARY:Last Lecture Series: The Tyranny of Reason
DESCRIPTION:Join the Centennial Institute for our upcoming Last Lecture event with CCU Provost Dr. David Corbin. \nReason has traditionally been an instrument of wisdom and liberty. However\, taken too far\, it quickly becomes an engine of intellectual and political domination. \nIn this last lecture\, Dr. Corbin examines how the quest for certainty and comprehensive knowledge can corrupt reason and reasonableness\, elevating abstract systems over prudence\, tradition\, and human limits. Drawing on thinkers from Isocrates to Pierre Manent\, Dr. Corbin argues for recovering a humble\, historically grounded reason oriented toward truth\, liberty\, flourishing\, and faithfulness. \nInspired by the story of former Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch who\, after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis\, presented a final lecture of lessons he had always wanted to share with his students\, Centennial Institute posed the question to Colorado Christian University’s top faculty and staff: “If this was your last chance to address your students\, how would you summarize your accumulated wisdom into a concise summation?” \nLast Lecture Series: Dr. David Corbin\nMonday\, November 9\, 2026\n4:00 pm – 5:00 pm MT\nFran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall; Anschutz Student Center\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nRegister Now \nMEDIA CREDENTIALING: While members of the media are welcome to attend our events\, they are not allowed inside university buildings or facilities for the purpose of reporting unless they have received prior approval in writing from the Communications and Creative Services Department. For more information on how to apply for a media credential\, please email centennial@ccu.edu. \nAbout Dr. David Corbin \n \nDr. David Corbin is the provost of Colorado Christian University. He brings to CCU a distinguished record of leadership in higher education administration\, institutional development and classical Christian education. \nDr. Corbin is passionate about cultivating a university community ordered toward grace and truth. He believes the work of the provost is not merely administrative but formative—shaping curricula\, mentoring faculty\, and strengthening academic programs in pursuit of Colorado Christian University’s mission and strategic priorities. \nDr. Corbin\, his wife Catie\, and their children reside in Colorado Springs\, Colorado.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/last-lecture-series-dr-david-corbin/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Issue Monday: Neither Sovereign nor Slave – Remaining Human in the AI Age
DESCRIPTION:Join Centennial Institute and The Institute for Christian Anthropology at the Colson Center for a conversation with Christopher Watkin\, Associate Professor in European Languages at Monash University. \nArtificial intelligence promises to place extraordinary powers at our fingertips. It writes\, advises\, creates\, organizes and responds to our commands\, offering each of us something like the privileges of a sovereign. Yet the technologies that appear to serve us can also train our desires\, flatter our assumptions\, deepen our dependencies and quietly reshape what we understand a human being to be. The would-be sovereign risks becoming a slave. \nDrawing on Scripture and Christian wisdom\, Christopher Watkin explores how AI intensifies the characteristically modern predicament of the sovereign slave\, and why the Christian vision of humanity offers a richer alternative. Human beings are neither autonomous masters of their world nor obsolete machines waiting to be surpassed. We are creatures made in the image of God\, endowed with a dignity we receive rather than manufacture or earn. The lecture will consider what this vision means for our use of AI\, our relationships\, our work and worship\, and for the challenge of remaining fully human in an age increasingly shaped by intelligent machines. \nIssue Monday: Neither Sovereign nor Slave: Remaining Human in the AI Age\nMonday\, November 16\, 2026\n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MT\nFran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nRegister Now \nMEDIA CREDENTIALING: While members of the media are welcome to attend our events\, they are not allowed inside university buildings or facilities for the purpose of reporting unless they have received prior approval in writing from the Communications and Creative Services Department. For more information on how to apply for a media credential\, please email centennial@ccu.edu. \nAbout Christopher Watkin \nChristopher Watkin is Associate Professor in European Languages at Monash University\, based in Melbourne\, Australia. His work investigates how people make sense of the world\, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary French thought\, social critique\, and competing accounts of what it means to be human. He is the author of numerous books\, including Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Zondervan Academic\, 2022). \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/issue-monday-neither-sovereign-nor-slave-remaining-human-in-the-ai-age/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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