Come on out next week for the annual spring lecture sponsored by the Cambridge House, the Christian study center near the campus of the College of William & Mary.  Cambridge House is about fostering dialogue about the historically orthodox Christian faith within the campus academic community, offering hospitality to students, faculty, staff, and friends of the study center in the Williamsburg area.

But I Meant Well: Unlearning Colonial Ways of Doing Good
Wednesday, April 23rd   |   7 PM   |   Ewell Hall, Room 107
Our spring lecture, “But I Meant Well: Unlearning Colonial Ways of Doing Good,” will be presented by Dr. Jim Thomas at Ewell Hall.

Jim has worked as an epidemiologist and ethicist in more than 40 countries. As a social epidemiologist, he studied how social forces, such as mass incarceration, shape the distribution of health outcomes in a community. As an ethicist, he was the principle author of the first American public health code of ethics and now advises other countries as they write their codes. While in Ghana to coordinate with the World Health Organization on data collection following an Ebola epidemic, he visited Elmina Fort. Elmina is where Africans were enslaved and held to be put on ships to the Americas. Seeing a church in Elmina was a shock to Jim’s Christian faith. On Wednesday, April 23rd, he will talk about how he processed that shock over the following years and how it affects his international work now.

Jim is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at the French École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique.

If you can come, take a minute and RSVP, so that we can have a semi-accurate head count!  See you next Wednesday!