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THE ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES (ACTC) FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WHO ARE WE? OLD, NEW, AND TIMELESS
ANSWERS FROM CORE TEXTS
Tentative Agenda
As of January 31, 2008
Thursday, April 3-Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sponsored by
Assumption College
and Co-sponsored by
Saint Anselm College
Thomas More College
Thursday, April 3 - Sunday, April 6, 2008
Radisson Hotel, Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts
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| THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 |
| 2:00-5:30 PM |
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ACTC Board Meeting |
| 6:00-7:00 PM |
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Reception: ACTC Members and Conference Attendees |
| 7:00-8:00 PM |
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Dinner: |
| 8:00-9:00 AM |
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Opening Plenary Address: Wm. Theodore de Bary, Columbia University, author of Confucian Tradition
and Global Education, "The Great Civilized Conversation: the
Great Learning as a Classic Case in Point."
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 MORNING |
| 7:30-8:10 AM |
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Breakfast: |
| 8:10-9:05 AM |
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Presidential Welcoming Address: Phillip R. Sloan, President ACTC and Professor in the Program of
Liberal Studies, Notre Dame, editor, Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical,
and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project. Presidential Address.
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| 9:20-11:50 AM |
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Friday Morning Panels |
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| | | | | CONFERENCE SPONSOR’S PANEL: Assumption College. Fortin & Gonthier Foundations of Western Civilization Program and General Education | | | Barry Bercier, "The Unsettling Irreducibility of the Hebrew Scriptures." Patrick Corrigan, "Knowing One’s Self through the Nicomachean Ethics." Molly Brigid Flynn, "Aristotle on Autonomy and Maturity." Roger R. Corriveau, "The Journey Inward Leads the Way to Love." Marc A. LePain, "Who Dante Is and Who We Are." | | (5) | | Chair: Bainard Cowan, Assumption College and Louisiana State University | | | Seeking East Asian Traditions Part I: Asian World Classics in the Core | | | Hui-Xuan Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "The Confucian School’s answer for ’What constitutes a good life and a good society?’" Julie Steward, Samford University, "Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens." Yang Jie, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Who are we? The answers from Chuan Tzu." Lawrence Schmidt, Hendrix College, "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogating Human Nature with Mencius and Xunxi." Rachel Chung, Columbia University, "Rethinking the Li-Yue Relationship in Confucian Tradition." | | (5) | | Chair: David Eckel, Boston University | | | Reconsidering The Romans: What Can They Offer Us? | | | Matthew Larry Brownfield, University of Dallas, "Plutarch and the Limits of Roman Virtue." Robert D. Anderson, Saint Anselm College, "Cicero, the Moral Self, and Partial Choices." Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame, "On Being Moral and Political: A Reflection on Cicero’s On Duties." Roosevelt Montas, Columbia University, "The Concept of ’Self’ in Descartes and Marcus Aurelius." Jeffry C. Davis, Wheaton College, "A Pedagogy of Philologia: Using Quintillian’s Institutio Oratoria to Form Humane People." | | (5) | | Chair: Edgar Vélez, Columbus State Community College | | | Rhetoric and Philosophy: Seeking Identity in the Logos | | | Mark W. Walter, Aurora University, "Speaking Right Where We Meet: Logos, community, and value in ancient Greece." Eric Schwarze, Aurora University, "When We Are Persuaded." David R. Sweet, University of Dallas, "The Knot or Noose of Words." John F. Isham, Carthage College, "The Conjunction of St. Augustine’s Private and Public Identities." Jean-Marie Kauth, Benedictine University, "Who Are We? Integrating Institutional Core Texts into First-Semester Composition." | | (5) | | Chair: Paul Gallagher, Assumption College | | | Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Democratic Self | | | Richard Skinner, St. Edward’s University, "Discourse on Inequality: Arguing the Relevance of Rousseau." John Ray, Xavier University, "Making Ourselves Unhappy: Rousseau’s Condemnation of the Bourgeois." Joseph M. Knippenberg, "Tocquevillian Reflections on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement." Robert Von der Ohe, Rockford College, "Tocqueville: Understanding the Influence of (or on) the Classical School of Economics." Frank J. Rohmer, Austin College, "Tocqueville on the Democratic Self, Public, Opinion, and the Problem of Civic Education." | | (5) | | Chair: John Eastby, Hampden-Sydney College | | | Thinking Through Drama: Shakespeare’s Formation of Student Character | | | Christine Farina, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, "Using Core Texts to Teach Thinking Skills and Contextual Understanding of Who We Are to Students of the Arts." Mark Z. Muggli, Luther College, "When the World’s a Stage and a Million Monkeys Enter with Typewriters: Is the ’Much Ado’ They Create a Core Text or a Play Script?" Thomas Sorger, Roger Williams University, "Myth and Responsibility in Hecuba and King Lear." Gretchen Schulz, Emory University, Oxford College, "Hamlet, Core Texts, and the Interrogative Mode." Stephen Zelnick, Temple University, "Prince Hall, Model Prince." | | (5) | | Chair: Shirley Kagan, Hampden-Sydney College | | | What Makes a Paper A "Classic" in the Sciences? | | | Tim Haresign, Richard Stockton College, "What Makes a Core Text in the Sciences?" Kevin Vogel, St. Bonaventure University, "Just So Science Stories: What a Collection of Facts Doesn’t Reveal." Lyndall Nairn, Lynchburg College, "Who Are We? We Are Clear Thinkers!" William H. Donahue, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, "Lenz’s Law: Phenomenon and Metaphor." Don Whitfield, Great Books Foundation, to be announced. | | (5) | | Chair: Marian Glenn, Seton Hall University | | | Great Books: Student Comprehension and Use | | | Marcia Smith Marzec, University of St. Francis, "Who Are We through Who We Were: Helping Students Connect with the Tradition in a Classics Core." D. Ben DeSmidt, Carthage College, "Plato’s Pilot Proposal." Nancy L. Kelley, Villanova University, "Climate Change." John N. McDowell, Pacific Union College, "Student Progress in the Seminar Progress: An Examination of Change in a Great Books Program." Dale Alan Grote, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, "Great Books and the Returning Student." | | (5) | | Chair: Remica Bingham, Norfolk State University |
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 AFTERNOON |
| 12:10-1:00 PM |
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Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50 PM |
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Plenary Speaker, Joseph Bottum, Editor, First Things. Title of Address: to be announced. |
| 2:10-3:55 PM |
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Friday Afternoon, First Panels |
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| | | | | Learning to Connect the Advancement of Science with the Foreshadowings of Core Texts: How do we do it? | | | William James Cromartie, Richard Stockton College, "Animal and Human: New Ideas About Who We Are." Marian Glenn, Seton Hall University, "The Confessions of St. Augustine as Context for Neurobiological Theories of the Mind." | | (2) | | Chair: Donald Whitfield, Great Books Foundation | | | Who Are We? Core Texts and the Disciplines | | | Christopher A. Dustin, College of the Holy Cross, "Thoreau’s Roots and Branches."Wesley Null, Baylor University, "Curriculum Deliberators, Not ’Experts’: Aristotle’s Ethics as a Foundation for a Core Texts Curriculum." Denise Schaeffer, College of the Holy Cross, "Who Are We? Core Texts and the Disciplines." | | (3) | | Chair: Denise Schaeffer | | | Religious Identity Within the State | | | Norma Thompson, Yale University, "Aristotle on Political Identities and Spiritual Commitments." William James Hersh, Salve Regina University, "Democracy Demands Irony: Rousseau’s Civil Religion." Daniel Murphy, Saint Peter’s College, "Between Secular Humanism and Religious Humanism: Kant on Moral Education." | | (3) | | Chair: David Livingstone, Malaspina University-College | | | Identity as Consciousness & Process in the Western Tradition | | | Francis Degnin, University of Northern Iowa, "Chaos, the Middle Voice, and Self Consciousness." James Woelfel, University of Kansas, "Descartes and the Existentialists: The Continuing Fruitfulness of the ’Cogito’." Richard Gilmore, Concordia College, "Aufgehobung-ing Identity: Using Sophie’s World for Connecting Identity Themes in Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Hegel." | | (3) | | Chair: Bradford Smith, Oglethorpe University | | | Apollo and Dionysus | | | Kathleen Burk, University of Dallas, "Blood Rain: Intoxication and Inebriation in the Oresteia." Thomas J. McElligott, Saint Mary’s College of California, "The Bacchae and Faith." Lisa Hughes, Colorado College, "The Apollonian and Dionysian in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand." | | (3) | | Chair: Mathew Fisher, University of St. Francis | | | On the Edge of Stability: Saving, Endangering, and Destroying Regimes | | | Charles Claunch, University of Dallas, "Xenophon’s Cyrus and the Problem of Political Instability." Gregory Fried, Suffolk University, "By Law Unbound: Lessons on Executive Privilege from Aristotle and Locke." Roderick Hughes, St. Bonaventure University, "Visiting the Gap: Cat’s Cradle and A Canticle for Leibowitz." | | (3) | | Chair: Eric Berg, MacMurray College | | | Careful Reading: Student Acquisition of the Art | | | Kristen Coster, University of Dallas, "Propertius Compares His Dead Beloved to Patroklos." Charles Hamaker, Saint Mary’s College of California, "Judgment or Stratagem." Edwin Lee Conner, Kentucky State University, "How We Know: Keat’s Four Great Odes as an Epistemological Quartet." Kathleen Kelly, Babson College, "Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life in the First-Year Core." | | (4) | | Chair: Daniel Brooks, Aquinas College | | | My Big Fat Novel: Preparing the Core Feast | | | Emily E. Stelzer, University of Dallas, "Sterne’s Examination of Nature and Nurture in the Trista-paedia." Eamon Halpin, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, "Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary." Chad Redwing, Harrison Middleton University, "The Great American Misfit." Robert Frail, Centenary College of New Jersey, "Swann’s Song: Marcel Proust in the Post-Modern World." | | (4) | | Chair: James Walter, Southeastern Louisiana University | | | Sufficiency of Reason, Part I: Beginnings | | | Allison Rozek, University of Dallas, "Elihu as Representative of Rational Inquiry in the Book of Job." Kurt Fosso, Lewis & Clark College, "’Solutions at Our Feet’: Reasoning Innocence in Oedipus the King." Benjamin W. Westervelt, Lewis & Clark College, "Agency and Agony in Oedipus the King." Russell McNeil, Malaspina University-College, "Marcus Aurelius and the New Stoicism - A Philosophy for a World in Crisis?" | | (4) | | Chair: Patrick Flynn, Benedictine University | | | Politics, Fables, and the Imagination | | | Tony Brunello, Eckerd College, "Politics, Democracy, and Imagination." John-Paul Spiro, Villanova University, "Static Human Nature in The Prince." Jeremiah Conway, University of Southern Maine, "The Bible and Babel." Joseph Khoury, St. Francis Xavier University, "Henry V, Machiavellian King." | | (4) | | Chair: Roger Barrus, Hampden-Sydney College | | | Peering Through A Veil to See Women: Narrative Disclosure in Literature and Poetry | | | Tina J. Wray, Salve Regina University, "Who Are We, Whose Are We? Women as God’s Agents of Change in the Hebrew Bible." Judith Chelius Stark, Seton Hall University, "Voices and Visions of Women in Augustine’s Confessions." Henrietta M. Morelli, University of Saskatchewan, "’God’s Universal Law’: Fall and Regeneration as Movement from Femininity to Masculinity in John Milton’s Samson Agonistes." Paula A. Zeuge, Salve Regina University, "Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park: A Revolutionary Text." | | (4) | | Chair: Marilyn Thie, Colgate University | | | The Divided Self | | | Sandra Grayson, Saint Mary’s College of California, "The Divided Self of Gothic Fiction." Joan F. Peterson, Saint Mary’s College of California, "Magnitude and Dimension in Emily Dickinson." Carolyn Ayers, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, "Autobiography as Core Text." Jenny Olin Shanahan, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, "La División de la Persona: Bilingual Identity in a Chicana/o Core Text." | | (4) | | Chair: Jenny Shanahan | | | ACTC Workshop on Grant to Integrate Western and Asian Core Texts | | | ACTC is proposing a grant project to help institutions and faculty build core text curricula integrating classical texts from the Western and Eastern traditions. Parties interested their institutions building such curricula and integrating core texts from Asia and the West are invited to attend this workshop on the grant project. | | ( ) | | Chair, J. Scott Lee, ACTC |
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| 4:15-6:00 PM |
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Friday Afternoon, Second Panels |
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| | | | | On Friendship | | | Gabrielle Sutherland, Baylor University, "Exploring Identity and Legacy in the Epic of Gilgamesh." Matthew P. Lomanno, Saint Anselm College, "Aristotle on Useful Friends." | | (2) | | Chair: Martin Tracey, Benedictine University | | | Islam, Sufism, and the West: The Intersections of Religions through Mysticism and Character | | | Joseph S. Spoerl, Saint Anselm College, "Teaching the Life of Muhammad." Susan Bertolino, Temple University, "Sufi Meets Christian Mysticism: The Peregrination to Union with the Divine." | | (2) | | Chair: Katherine Meacham, Mars Hill College | | | Professional Life, Professional Thought: Recasting Professional Education Through Core Texts | | | Christian Schumacher, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, "H.G. Wells on Being an Engineer." Jeanne M. McNett, Assumption College, "Business Courses and Core Texts: Can They Be We?" Daniel Nuckols, Austin College, "Economics and Literature." | | (3) | | Chair: Grant Venerable, Lincoln University | | | Modernity, Post-Modernity, and the Question of Classics and Traditions of Literature | | | Dutton Kearney, Aquinas College, "The Forest and the Tree: Eliot and Pound on Classics." Maria Chiancola Glade, Salve Regina University, "A New Theory of Fiction in an Uncomfortable Practice of Reading: Virginia Woolf’s Pleasure and Bliss in Swann’s Way." James Norman Roney, Juniata College, "Szymborska and DeLillo: White Noise, Lyric Precision, and the State of the Canon." | | (3) | | Chair: Stuart Patterson, Shimer College | | | Sontag’s Wish: Erotics of Core Texts | | | Amy Collins, Rhodes College, "Love and Cholera: Charles Swann, Florentino Ariza, and the Eternal Feminine." Karen Felts, Orange County Community College, "’Big Rolling Kegs’and the Erotics of Teaching." Elizabeth Reyes, University of Dallas, "What the Whale Shows Us: Ishmael’s Epistemological Journey." Shayne Legassie, Columbia University, "Topothesia" | | (4) | | Chair: Mary Ann Drake, Mercer University | | | Exploring Foreign Policy Through Reason | | | Barry C. Knowlton, Stonehill College, "Xerxes’ Deliberate Expedition." Craig Waggaman, Radford University, "Reason and Foreign Policy: Aeschylus’ The Suppliants." Prescott Evarts, Monmouth University, "Cassandra: Aeschylus and C. K. Williams." Nir Eisikovits, Suffolk University, "Aimless, Boundless: Aristotelian Reflections on Israel’s Predicament." | | (4) | | Chair: Peter Wakefield, Emory University | | | Disposition of Soul: Glory, Contemplation, Happiness, and Harmony for Students | | | Michael Jones, University of Dallas, "Achilles and Destiny." Anne-Marie Bowery, Baylor University, "Two Models of Self-Comportment." Ann Charney Colmo, Dominican University, "Plato’s Cave and Descartes’ Mind." Raymond Ciacci, University of Chicago, "Some Perspectives on Who We Are." | | (4) | | Chair: Cynthia Rutz, Valparaiso University | | | Self, Conventions and Restraints, and Perennial Truths | | | Ryan Gorman, University of Dallas, "Examining Our Identity with Herodotus." Karl Schudt, Benedictine University, "We Are Achilles: Reflections on Homer and Traditions." Chris Beyers, Assumption College, "’Alles, was dazu mich trieb / Gott! war so gut!’: Pleasure, Obligation, and Self in Faust." Beth Mauldin, Oglethorpe University, "Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Apocalyptic Visions of the American Self." | | (4) | | Chair: Roderick Hughes, St. Bonaventure University | | | Philosophy and the Poets: An Argument in Every Place, a Poem for Every Sphere | | | David Roochnik, Boston University, "Plato’s Treatment of the Poets in The Ion." Stephanie Nelson, Boston University, "An Atomic Alphabet: Lucretius’ Poetry and Philosophy." Allen Speight, Boston University, "On Santayana’s Three Philosophical Poets." Joel Garza, Greenhill School, "Quien somos? Pa ‘donde Vamos?: Roberto Bolano’s Ulises in Savage Detectives." | | (4) | | Chair: Allen Speight | | | Figuring Out Who You Are and Who You Want To Be | | | Christopher Metress, Samford University, "Plato’s Republic and the Student as Craftsman." Allison Wee, Luther College, "’Godlike, or Scions of Evil?’ Mary Shelley Explores the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Human Nature." Susan Bussey, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, "Man Thinking About Emerson: A suggestion for re-teaching core texts." Deborah Vlock, Babson College, "Hard Times for the First-Year College Student." | | (4) | | Chair: Ellen McManus, Dominican University | | | Taking Stock of the Core: ACTC Veterans Look Backwards and Forwards | | | Ronald Weber, University of Texas at El Paso, "I Am My Father: Mentoring Through a Core Text." Keith A. Francis, Baylor University, "Darwin Arise! Or Not?" Kathleen Hull, Rutgers University, "The Aftermath of 9/11 at NYU: Core Texts and Context." Peggy Heller, University of King’s College, "The Decline of the ’West’?" | | (4) | | Chair: Peggy Heller, University of Kings’ College | | | Do Not Try This at Home: Core Texts as Cautionary Tales | | | Lynn Tatum, Baylor University, "An American Israelite Tragedy: King David and the Demise of Family Values." Ann McGlashan, Baylor University, "Left Behind: The Legacy of Suicide in Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther." Richard C. Burke, Lynchburg College, "The Cherry Orchard, Inertia, and Betrayal: The Failures of Love in ’A Comedy in Four Acts.’" Paula Bolduc, Salve Regina University, "Lolita is No Wimp." | | (4) | | Chair: Kurt Fosso, Lewis & Clark College |
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| SATURDAY, APRIL 5,2008 MORNING |
| 7:30-8:10 AM |
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Breakfast |
| 8:10-9:00 AM |
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Plenary Address: Anne Leavitt, Dean of Social Sciences, Malaspina University-College. Title: to be announced. |
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| 9:20-11:50 AM |
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Saturday Morning Panels |
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| | | | | Music in the Old and New Liberal Arts | | | Phillip R. Sloan, University of Notre Dame, "The Monochord Laboratory: A Means of Linking Science and Music in a Liberal Arts Core." Pierpaolo Polzonetti, University of Notre Dame, "Music as a Liberal Art: An Ancient Discipline for the New Millennium." Tell Gifford, Truckee Meadows Community College, "Boethius’ Musica Mundana Principle: Getting Students to Engage Music Beyond the Veneer of Emotions." Katherine Meacham, Mars Hill College, "’Who Are We?’ Explored with Musical Texts at Mars Hill College." Lee T. Lovallo, "Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess - A Defining Experience?" | | (5) | | Chair: Stephen C. Zelnick, Temple University | | | Teaching Aristophanes | | | Richard Myers and Patrick Malcolmson, St. Thomas University, "The Problem of the Demagogue." Roger Barrus, Hampden-Sydney College, "The Cultural Consequences of Democracy." Heidi Studer, University of Alberta, "Updating Aristophanes’ Clouds: Benefits and Drawbacks." | | (4) | | Chair: Darcy Wudel, Deep Springs College | | | Faith, Philosophy, and Belief | | | Anna Lännström, Stonehill College, "Hearing Voices: Socrates and his daimonion." Robin Bower, Penn State Beaver, "We Are Augustine: Confessions in the Classroom." Christopher Constas, Boston College, "The Medieval Invention of Faith." Luz Marina Barreto, Instituto de Filología Andrés Bello, "The Critique Against Slavery in Bartolomé de las Casas, Epifanio de Moirans and Francisco de Jaca." Stephen Shipp, University of Dallas, "The Human Hero in Milton’s Paradise Lost." Shirley Kagan, Hampden-Sydney College, "Tartuffe: Staging Religion." | | (6) | | Chair: Patrick Corrigan, Assumption College | | | On Family | | | John R. Fortin, Saint Anselm College, "Who We Are Through Family and Friends." Richard Heitman, Carthage College, "Toward a Penelopeia." Christine Bruun, Rockford College, "Filial Piety of Sons in the Aeneid." Deborah Schizer Scott, Temple University, "’Sister of My Soul’: Teaching Brother-Sister Literary Relations in Intellectual Heritage." Daniel Brooks, Aquinas College, "Disease and Self-Sacrifice in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House." | | (5) | | Chair: Page Laws, Norfolk State University | | | Hope and Despair in the Humanistic Project of Self-Knowing | | | Sharon B. Meltzer, City Colleges of Chicago, "Plato’s Euthyphro: Core Text of Western Humanistic Philosophy." Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, "Socrates Without Apologies." Nicholas Margaritis, Western Washington University, "Montaigne, Schopenhauer, and Self-Knowledge." Mary Troxell, Boston College, "Schopenhauer’s Pessimism and the Value of the Humanities." Christopher Alexander, University of Dallas, "Stephen Dadalus’ Un-Founded Identity." Louise Carroll Keeley, Assumption College, "The Knot of the Self: Learning form Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death." | | (6) | | Chair: James Woelfel, University of Kansas | | | Constructing Human Identity Through Core Texts | | | Christine Fletcher, Benedictine University, "Who Do You Say That I Am?" Ann Dunn, University of North Carolina at Asheville, "Othello in Context: Who Are We? Who Do We Think We Are? Who Are They? How Do We Know?" Spencer Hall, Rhode Island College, "’…and in the mind of man’: Constructing the Human in ’Tintern Abbey’." Patti Dillon, Spalding University, "Connecting the Differences Through Core Texts." Peter Rothstein, Juniata College, "Abe Kobo and the Search for a New, Modern Identity." | | (5) | | Chair: John McDowell, Pacific Union College | | | American Identity | | | Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina at Asheville, "John Winthrop’s ’A Model of Christian Charity’ and Who We Are." Robert J. Anderson, College of New Jersey, "William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation: Mirroring Our Times." Donald Marshall, Pepperdine University, "The Making of Americans: Benjamin Franklin’s ’Projects’ in the Autobiography." Glen E. Thurow, University of Dallas, "The Liberal Education of Abraham Lincoln." Arthur Rankin, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, "Whitman’s Epic America." | | (5) | | Chair: Anthony Brunello, Eckerd College | | | Core Texts in Undergraduate Honors Programs | | | Dan Cullen, Rhodes College, "Uniting Political Philosophy and Literature in Teaching Core Texts." Joan H. Digby, Long Island University, "Honors and the Experience of Literature." Alex Hahn, University of Notre Dame, "On Mathematics." David Rose, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "The Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum: Why and How." Richard Richards, University of Alabama, "Incorporating Science Texts in Core Curricula." | | (5) | | Chair, James Otteson, Yeshiva University |
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| SATURDAY, APRIL 5,2008 AFTERNOON |
| 12:10-1:00 PM |
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Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50 PM |
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Plenary Address: Theophus H. Smith, Emory University, Author,
Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America. Title of Address: "Dark Night of Our Souls’ Democratic Vistas."
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| 2:10-3:55 PM |
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Saturday Afternoon, First Panels |
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| | | | | CONFERENCE CO-SPONSOR’S PANEL: Thomas More College | | | To be announced | | (3) | | Chair: Mary Mumbach | | | Begin with the End: War and Memorialization as Core Texts in American Culture | | | Cecilia Macheski, LaGuardia/City University of New York, "Begin with the End: Edith Wharton’s War and Memory." Mary Anne Schofield, Villanova University, "War and Remembrance." | | (2) | | Chair: Prescott Evarts, Monmouth University | | | Conflicting Ideals, Conflicting Identities: The Search for Self Through Core Texts | | | Ken Betsalel, University of North Carolina at Asheville, "Why Heidegger Matters: Reading Core Texts through an Existential Lens." Paul Dry, "What’s New in Herodotus?" Martin Kearney, Southeastern Louisiana State University, "Shifty Characters and Shifting Identities in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew." Stephanie Walker, Norfolk State University, "Frying Bacon: Incorporating Core Texts at HBCU’s." | | (4) | | Chair: Richard Heitman, Carthage College | | | Are Democracies All They Are Cracked Up to Be? | | | Khalil Habib, Salve Regina University, "Aristophanes’ The Birds." James Wood, Boston University, "Freedom, Justice, and Empire." Peter Wakefield, Emory University, "Interlocutors with Democracy: Opposing Rejections of the Democratic Project in Plato and Rushdie." Richard Kamber, "The Fragility of Democracy: Reflections on Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here." | | (4) | | Chair: Glen Thurow, University of Dallas | | | Heart of Darkness & Heart of Hope: New Novels for the Core | | | Reena Thomas, University of Dallas, "The Morality of Makola." Laurel Ellen Eason, Catawba College, "The Colonial Legacy of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Arundhati Roy’s, The God of Small Things." Peggy Pittas, Lynchburg College, "The Story of Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo." | | (3) | | Chair: Stephanie Walker, Norfolk State University | | | Sufficiency of Reason II: Continuations | | | Martin Tracey, Benedictine University, "Who Are You? Resources for Discovery in Augustine’s On Free Choice of the Will." Montague Brown, Saint Anselm College, "Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason." Richard Liddy, Seton Hall University, "Bernard Lonergan’s ’Topics in Education’ and Core Texts." | | (3) | | Chair: Christopher Constas, Boston College | | | Mathematics: Can We Be Liberal Artists without It? | | | Tucker Landy, Kentucky State University, "Plato’s Timaeus, Quantum Mechanics, and the Pythagorean Dream." Dana Densmore, Green Lion Press, "Vanishing Differences, Vanishing Quantities." Ronald Mawby, Kentucky State University, "Dividing Lines: Mathematics and Wisdom." | | (3) | | Chair: Nicholas Maistrellis, St. John’s College, Annapolis | | | August Wilson: A Playwright Dramatizing Who We Are | | | Remica Bingham, Norfolk State University, "In Search of the ’Shining Man’: Identity and Spirituality in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s "Come and Gone." Page Laws, Norfolk State University, "From Tit to Tat: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson as Core Text." Benson Prigg, Lincoln University, to be announced. | | (3) | | Chair: Richard Burke, Lynchburg College | | | Myth, Classic Quality, and Satisfying the Soul: What Makes Myth so Important? | | | John Tutuska, University of Dallas, "No Nudes: Plato’s Sketches of the Soul." Max J. Latona, Saint Anselm College, "The Four Roots of Plato’s Recollection." Bruce Louden, University of Texas at El Paso, "The Odyssey and Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life." Anne Marie Flanagan, University of the Sciences, "Pan’s Labyrinth: Timeless Answers from Core Texts and Magical Realism." | | (4) | | Chair: Susan Bertolino, Temple University | | | Opening the Mind: Learning to Read for Form, Character, and Aesthetic Sense | | | Bradford Smith, Oglethorpe University, "First Thoughts on First Books: Hesiod in the Core." Mathew Fisher, University of Saint Francis, "’The Big Two-Hearted River’: Teaching a Literary Aesthetic." Carla Mettling, Columbia College, "The Thought Balloon: Defining Individual and Community in the Fiction of Alice Munro." | | (3) | | Chair: Donald Marshall, Pepperdine University | | | Human Uniqueness | | | Lois Marie Eveleth, Salve Regina University, "Emerson’s Transparent Eyeball." Vesna Marcina, Orange Coast College, "The Character of Obligation in Thoreau." Alicia Cordoba Tait and Alfred Martin, Benedictine University, "The Realization of Human Uniqueness as a Culmination of Scientific and Revealed Thought." | | (3/4) | | Chair: Patti Dillon, Spalding University | | | Seeking East Asian Traditions, Part II: Synthesis | | | Paul Contino, Pepperdine University, "Chuang Tzu and the Possibilities of ’Spiritual Humanism’." Michael Seth, James Madison University, "The Samguk Yusa: A Thirteenth Century and the Korean Myth of Origin." Jane Rodeheffer, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, "Self Cultivation in the Chinese Epic, Journey to the West: A Window to the Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions of the East." Ling Tian, Peking University, "Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives: Biblical Responses to China’s Social Needs and Their Implications for General Education in China." | | (4) | | Chair: Jane Rodeheffer | | | Nature, Science and God: Does Choosing One Deny the Others? | | | Cynthia Rutz, Valparaiso University, "’Am I My Brother’s Keeper?’: Our Relationship to Animals in Genesis and Darwin." Emily Cook, University of Dallas, "Ishmael’s Seaport: The Significance of his Nantucket Departure." James Russell Woodruff, St. Bonaventure University, "Created or Evolved? Locating the Controversy." Tim Wenzell, Seton Hall University, "The Core Curriculum: Writing, Religion, Science and Global Warming." | | (4) | | Chair: Mary Troxell, Boston University | | | ACTC Workshop on Developing a Community College Core Text Initiative | | | This workshop will discuss the development of a syllabus and structure for a grant proposal. The grant will help community college faculty create their own models of core text curricula which emphasize Western Civilization and reading skills. | | ( ) | | Chair: J. Scott Lee, ACTC |
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| | | | | A Glimpse of Character: Film and Biography | | | Ken Parker, Orange Coast Community College, "Aristotle on Punk: Applying The Poetics to Modern Biography." James Vest, Rhodes College, "Redefining Authorial Identity: Director’s Cameos in North by Northwest and The 400 Blows." | | (2) | | Chair: Christine Farina, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey | | | Psychology: The Philosophical Science of the Soul. Or is it? | | | Mary Ann Drake, Mercer University, "Care of the Soul: Plato to Jung." James Galezewski, Aurora University, "Critiquing Psychology via Philosophy." | | (2) | | Chair: Charles Hamaker, St. Mary’s College of California | | | Persuading Texts: What Makes Some Good and Some Just Awful? | | | Ellen McManus, Dominican University, "George Eliot and the 2008 Elections." John R. Holt, Centenary College of New Jersey, "Arthur Miller’s P.C. Adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People." Douglas Thompson, Mercer University, "Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front." | | (3) | | Chair: Dutton Kearney, Aquinas College | | | European Journeys and Recovering the Self | | | Barbara Witucki, Utica College, "Constructing Identities in Germaine de Stael’s Corinne ou L’Italie." Diane Fourny, University of Kansas, "Movement and Memory: The Journey of Self-Discovery in Goethe’s Italian Journey." D. William Turnage, University of Dallas, "Washington Irving and American Identities." | | (3) | | Chair: Ronald Weber, University of Texas at El Paso | | | Human Improvement, Human Progress: What Does Darwin Say to Our Students? | | | Debra Everett-Lane, Columbia University, "Who We Were, Are, and Will Be - Seen through a Darwinian Lens." Patrick Flynn, Benedictine University, "Darwin and Human ’Descent’ versus Human ’Ascent." John H. Eastby, Hampden-Sydney College, "Political Progress." | | (3) | | Chair: Matthew Lomanno, Saint Anselm College | | | Conceptions of Human Nature in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov | | | Predrag Cicovacki, College of the Holy Cross, "Dostoevsky’s Vision of Community." Maria Granik, College of the Holy Cross, "Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and the Politics of Love." Evgenia V. Cherkasova, Suffolk University, "The Human and Demonic in Dostoevsky’s Brother’s Karamazov." | | (3) | | Chair: John-Paul Spiro, Villanova University | | | Cultural Fidelity in the Hispanic Tradition: Imagining the Possibilities Between Solitude and Empty Internationalism | | | Leonardo Ordóñez, Rosario University, "Who Are We In Latin America?" Edgar A. Vélez, Columbus State Community College, "1 and 2 Maccabees: Cosmopolitanism and Fidelity to Cultural Identity." Pilar Valencia, Columbia University. To be announced. | | (3) | | Chair: Christian Schumacher, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar | | | Frieze, Ledger, & Photograph: Fictional Images of History in the Making of Identity | | | Gregory Marks, Hostos Community College, CUNY, "Seeing the Self Interpreted: Ekphrastic Hopes in the Aeneid." Claire Barbetti, Duquesne University, "’Kynde Knowynge’: Ekphrasis and the Dreaming of Self in Piers Plowman." Bainard Cowan, Assumption College and Louisiana State University, "Between the Big Woods and the Commissary: Faulkner on Heroic and Tragic Experience of Identity." Kathleen Kelly Marks, St. John’s University, "Cliché-Verre Photograph, Medusa, Self in Tony Morrison’s Jazz." | | (4) | | Chair: Kathleen Burk, University of Dallas | | | Core Texts and Core Art: Insight, Imagination, and Intelligibility | | | Delane O. Karalow, Lynchburg College, "Augustus’ Res Gestae Divi Augusti and Thomas de Celano’s Dies Irae." Diana Sands Wylie, Boston University, "Art and Revolution in Goya’s Paintings." Stuart Patterson, Shimer College, "A Universal Statement: Romare Bearden’s Odyssey." Ariela Freedman, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, "Fun Home: Drawing on the Canon." | | (4) | | Chair: Ann Dunn, University of North Carolina -- Asheville | | | The Difficult Text: Approaches for Students | | | Matthew Miller, Columbia University, "The Non-Identity of Aristotle’s Politics." Charles Sullivan, University of Dallas, "Approaches to the Topic of Positivism in the Western Civilization Core." Jon Mark Mikkelsen, Missouri Western State University, "Tocqueville, Descartes, and Democracy." Robert Strikwerda, Indiana University of Kokomo, "Durkheim on Who We Are: The Dualism of Human Nature." | | (4) | | Chair: Molly Flynn, Assumption College | | | Symbol, Folk Saying, and Folk Tales: Teaching Concise Understanding | | | Maria Polski, East-West University, "Proverbs as the Ultimate Communication Theory." Robert Gardner, Saint Mary’s College of California, "The Shield of Achilles."J. Gary Elliot, Kentucky State University, "Equally Earth and Spirit: The Symbol of the Ring in Plato’s Republic and in Folk Tale." Michael Daher, Henry Ford Community College, "The Complexions of a Machine: The Model T in Death in the Family and Ragtime." | | (4) | | Chair: David Sweet, University of Dallas | | | Virtue, Freedom, and Vice | | | David M. Dolence, Dominican University, "Choosing Vengeance or Justice: The Role Freedom Plays in Who We Are." Jason Giannetti, Regis College, "Plato’s Gorgias on Freedom and Virtue." Paul Gallagher, Assumption College, "Will the Real Callicles Please Stand Up?" Michael Krom, St. Vincent College, "The Lives of the Soul in Plato’s Republic." | | (4) | | Chair: Ben DeSmidt, Carthage College | | | ACTC Workshop on a New, Bridging the Gap Between the Humanities and Sciences Grant Proposal | | | ACTC ran a three-year curriculum and faculty development project on Bridging the Gap Between the Humanities and Sciences between 2003 and 2006. ACTC is applying for a new grant that will be an 18 month project. Parties interested in building relations, courses, and curricula that will Bridge the Gap on their campuses are invited to attend, as are "old hands" in the original project. | | () | | J. Scott Lee, ACTC and Nick Maistrellis, St. John’s College, Annapolis will brief attendees on the project. |
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| SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008 MORNING |
| 9:00-9:45 AM |
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Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45-11:00 AM |
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Business Meeting |
| Conference Closes |
| Thanks for coming! |
| Additional Attendees: |
| Fred Bauer, Assumption College |
| Gerald Butters, Aurora University |
| Janine de Novais, Columbia University |
| David J. DiMattio, St. Bonaventure University |
| Michael G. Dink, St. John’s College |
| Bruce M. Fingerhut, St. Augustine’s Press |
| Michael Jones, University of Chicago |
| Dale C. Larson, University of Dallas |
| Judy Lohr, The Scholar’s Choice |
| Molly M. Martin, Columbia University |
| Patricia Martinez Barrios, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia |
| Jeanne McCarthy, Oglethorpe |
| James M. Okapal, Missouri Western State University |
| Paul O’Reilly, Thomas Aquinas College |
| Ron C. Pullins, Focus Publishing |
| Judith L. Rothman, University Press of America |
| Frances M. Sweeney, Saint Mary’s College of California |
| Cynthia Wells, Messiah College |
| Jean Whitman, Hackett Publishing Company |
| Charles A. Wilson, St. Olaf College |
| Steven Woods, Tulsa Community College |
| J. Lenore Wright, Baylor University |
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