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Keyes Seminar DayStimulating ideas and conversationsDr. Karen L. Kingability to know a fuller version ofhistory that we can think about,research and consider goingforward.”Dr. King’s research interestswithin the history of Christianityinclude women’s studies, orthodoxyand heresy, and the NagHammadi texts. She has writtenbooks on the Gospel of Mary andthe Gospel of Judas (with ElainePagels), which are texts withinthe Gnostic canon. Her currentinterests focus on the diversityof early Christianity; women andgender in early Christian life;and how violence, martyrdomand suffering shaped Christiantheology and practice.A former student of Dr. King,Milton Chaplain SuzanneDeBuhr describes her as “a brilliantscholar and educator whotakes an inquisitive approach,encouraging us to read what iswritten but also to look for whatis not being expressed in a particulartext.”Bingham Visiting ReaderLouise GlückAward-winning author LouiseGlück was on campus March 12as part of the Bingham VisitingWriters Series. Louise is theauthor of numerous books ofpoetry, including The Seven Ages;Vita Nova, winner of The NewYorker magazine’s Book Awardin Poetry; Meadowlands; The WildIris, which received the PulitzerPrize and the Poetry Societyof America’s William CarlosWilliams Award; Ararat, forwhich she received the RebekahJohnson Bobbitt National Prizefor Poetry; and The Triumphof Achilles, which received theNational Book Critics CircleAward.She has also published a collectionof essays, Proofs andTheories: Essays on Poetry, whichwon the PEN/Martha AlbrandAward for Nonfiction. Ms. Glück’s tenth book of poetry, Averno,was nominated for the NationalBook Award in 2006 and waslisted by the New York Times BookReview as one of the 100 NotableBooks of the Year. Her honorsalso include the Bollingen Prizein Poetry, the Lannan LiteraryAward for Poetry, and fellowshipsfrom the Guggenheim andRockefeller foundations, andfrom the National Endowmentfor the Arts. In September2003, Ms. Glück was appointedUnited States Poet Laureate bythe Librarian of Congress. Sheis a writer-in-residence at YaleUniversity.Louise GlückKeyes Seminar Day—alively day of informationand discussion—has been oneof Milton’s most importanttraditions since 1977. Recentlyrenamed, it honors its founder,faculty emeritus Peter Keyes, alegendary promoter of studentinterest in political process aswell as public and governmentalaffairs and service. In the Miltonspirit of developing students’confidence and competence tolive by our motto, “Dare to betrue,” Seminar Day brings tocampus individuals who havemade compelling choices. Ourguests during Seminar Day arescholars, business people, scientists,educators, writers, politicalleaders and artists making a differencein the world. More than20 speakers were on campus onApril 30, including many MiltonAcademy graduates; these menand women are experts and activistson a wide range of publiclydebated United States and internationalissues.Dr. Graham Allison, author ofthe book Nuclear Terrorism: TheUltimate Preventable Catastrophe,was this year’s keynote speaker,leading off the day. Dr. Allisondirects the Belfer Center forScience and InternationalAffairs at the Kennedy Schoolof Government, HarvardUniversity. He has served asspecial advisor to the secretaryof defense under PresidentReagan and as assistant secretaryof defense for policy and plansunder President Clinton. Dr.Allison has twice been awardedthe Department of Defense’shighest civilian award, theDistinguished Public ServiceMedal. Nuclear Terrorism: TheUltimate Preventable Catastrophe,published in 2004, is now in itsthird printing and was selectedby the New York Times as one ofthe “100 most notable books of2004.”Dr. Graham Allison, keynote speakerat Keyes Seminar Day, 2008Other speakers engaged withstudents throughout the dayincluded health-care policyexperts; social entrepreneursworking on issues such as educationalreform, sustainableagriculture, or malaria prevention;environmental activists;filmmakers; journalists; politicalactivists and shapers of publicpolicy; and a graduate promotingsocial change in and throughsports, who was a member of theU.S. National Soccer Team anda member of the U.S. OlympicTeam in the 1996 and 2004Paralympic Games.During each time block studentschoose from among many presenters.Exchanges that occuron Seminar Day stimulate ideasand conversations over weeksto come. Seminar Day is heldevery other year and alternateswith Community Service Day—another occasion that encouragesstudents to think beyond theirimmediate community and concernthemselves with the complexityand opportunity affordedby the world.Milton Magazine 65