Winfield, Kan., Jan. 16, 2026 —Dr. Beatrice Marovich, associate professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College, will deliver the Beck Lecture at Southwestern College on Monday, Jan. 26, at 3:30 p.m. in Messenger Recital Hall in the Darbeth Fine Arts Center. The public is invited to attend and there is no admission charge.
The title of her lecture is “Difficulty Matters: How Classrooms Resist a Frictionless World.”
Marovich, who earned her PhD at Drew University, is a writer and academic who teaches in the Department of Theological Studies at Hanover College. Her research and writing is ecologically and speculatively oriented. She writes and thinks about living, dying, and dreaming in an animal body. She is the author of “Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living & Dying” (Columbia University Press, 2023).
The Beck lectureship, funded by Paul V. Beck to explore topics relating to science and religion, is an annual event on campus and brings in theologians, scientists, and philosophers from across the nation.
For more information about the Beck Lecture, email Jacob Goodson at Jacob.goodson@sckans.edu.