2025 Conference Schedule

Date – Time	Session	Panel Title	Name	Institutional Affiliation	Paper Title
Thursday, April 3

3:00 Board of Directors Meeting

4:00 Registration Opens

6:00 Opening Reception Sponsored by the Teagle Foundation

7:00 Dinner and Presidential Plenary


Friday April 4

7:45 Breakfast and Plenary




9:00 – 10:45 Session One	1a	Leadership for the Ages: Enduring Insights from Classical Texts	Sponsored by the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership
			Jeff Beneker (ch)	UW Madison
			Carey Seal	UC Davis
			Alexander Stajkovic	UW Madison

	1b	“One can never leave the Romans”	Stuart Warner (ch)	Roosevelt University	“Stuck in the Middle with You”: Montesquieu on Brutus, Cassius, and Cato Taking Their Own Lives
			Vickie Sullivan	Tufts University	Machiavelli’s Many Romes
			Svetozar Minkov	Roosevelt University	Leo Strauss’s Notes on Dante’s “De Monarchia”

	1c	Language, Talk, and Rhetoric	David West	Ashland University	The Importance of Being Socrates in Cicero’s De Oratore
			Noah Hyatt	Baylor University	Praising Bad as if It Were Good: Plato’s Phaedrus and the Importance of Truth in the Art of Rhetoric
			Brittany Guzman	University of Dallas	Let’s Talk About It: Hesiod’s “Talk” in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics
			Matthew Dean	Tulane University	Philology as Philosophy: Gadamer’s Critique of Heidegger

	1d	Uses and Abuses of Religious Traditions	Jarrett Carty (ch)	Concordia University	Pascal’s Pensées, the Jews, and the Bible
			Paul Lewis	Mercer University	King David: Very Model of Modern Major Messiah?
			Timothy Sutton	Samford University	Dante and Ratzinger on Limbo
			Patrick Harris	Rhodes College	The Gospel According to Borges: Encountering the New Testament in the Secular Classroom
			John Kerr	St. Mary’s University of Minnesota	The Eumenides as a Model of Restorative Practices

	1e	Core Texts, Refracted	Roger Barrus (ch)	Hampden-Sydney College	Dante’s Ulysses
			Le Dung Rohmer	Austin College	Nguyen Tuong Thiet’s “My Mother An Dong Unit”: Making the Inaccessible Accessible
			Kathryn Lawson	University of King’s College	Stand and Unfold Yourself: The Philosophy of Hamlet
			Bretton Rodriguez	University of California, San Diego	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Classical Tradition
			Lisa Jennings	Valparaiso University	Chinua Achebe, “Dead Men’s Path” and Paulo Freire, <Pedagogy of the Oppressed>

	1f	Teaching Core Texts Where the Students Are: Community Colleges, Virtual Learning Communities, and High School Programs	Ted Hadzi-Antich (ch)	Austin Community College	Beyound the Classroom: Community Seminars at Community Colleges
			Sarah Skwire	Liberty Fund, Inc.	One Fell Swoop: Reading Shakespeare with Whomever Shows Up
			Jonathan Gondelman	Catherine Project/Jack Miller Center	Gulliver and the “Life of the Mind”
			Kerri Pope	Austin Community College	Engaging Dual-Credit Students Through Close Reading and Small Group Discussion

	1g	Reading and Teaching Hegel	Jason Wallace (ch)	Samford University	Should Anything Hegel Ever Wrote be Taught as a Core Texts?
			Daniel Murphy	Saint Peter’s University	Hegel, Mind and Norms
			Joseph Keegin	Tulane University	Hegel’s Critique of Morality in the Philosophy of Right
			Peter Wake	St. Edward’s University	“The wounds of the Spirit heal and leave no scars behind”: Hegel on Confession, Forgiveness, and Philosophy

11:00 -12:30 Session Two	2a	Oglethorpe’s Core at 80 years	Sponsored by Oglethorpe University
			Judith Levy (ch)	Oglethorpe University	Core Scaffolding Initiative
			Stephen Mattern	Oglethorpe University	ePortfolio Pilot
			Jay Lutz	Oglethorpe University	The Individual, Society and Civic Responsibility in Ibsen

	2b	The Psychology of Tyrrany	Alan Pichanick (c)	Villanova University	The Tyrant’s Soul in Republic 9
			John-Paul Spiro	Villanova University	The Psychology of Tyranny in Marlowe and Shakespeare
			Margaret Matthews	Assumption University	Gabrielle Suchon on the Psychology of Tyranny

	2c	Machiavellian Leadership	Michael Dink (ch)	St. John’s College, Annapolis	Citizen Virtue in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
			Cristiana Conti-Easton	Austin Community College	Truthful Speech and Leadership: Lessons from Machiavelli and the Book of Jeremiah
			Borden Flanagan	American University	Metaphysics from out of politics–in Machiavelli?


	2d	Augustine’s Art: Conversion and the Confessions	J. Scott Lee (ch)	ACTC–Co-founder, Retired Executive Director	On Augustine’s Confessions and Divine “Arts”
			Richard Rawls	Georgia Gwinnett College	Augustine of Hippo’s “Liberating Arts”
			Timothy Troutner	Assumption University	“Where Was Reason in the Garden: A Retrospective Solution to the Problem of Confessions 8.”
			Elayne Allen	University of Notre Dame	Augustine’s Hopeful Transformation of Leisure and Political Action in The City of God

	2e	Normalcy, Exclusion and Human nature	Aran Gharibpouh (ch)	Austin Community College	Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil”: Towards New Articulations of Individuality
			Quan Gan	University of Texas, Austin	Intellectual Tradition as the Locus of Human Nature: Kang Youwei and the Path for Collective Transformation
			Paul Gray	Brock University	Marx and the Mastery of Nature
			Susan Dodd	University of King’s College, Halifax	On the Tyranny of the Normal

	2f	Core Novels 1	Lee Trepanier (ch)	Assumption University	Public Leadership From Below in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
			Rene Paddags	Ashland University	The Education of a Modern Man: The Three Musketeers and D’Artagnan
			Mary Mathie	University of Texas at San Antonio	All the Heroism of Principle: Jane Austen on the Judgment of the Young
			Becky Dibiasio	Assumption University	Mary Shelley, Twenty-First Century Influencer

	2g	Reason: Ancient and Modern	Daniel Maher (ch)	Assumption University	Constructing Modern Reason as Rule
			Samuel Stoner	Assumption University	On Kant’s Platonism
			Alex Priou	University of Austin	How to Beat Your Father: A Beginner’s Guide to Best Practices


12:30 Lunch and Plenary		“Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Hebraic Strain in American Thought.”	Wilfred McClay (Hillsdale College)	Sponsored by the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership

2:00 – 4:30 Session Three	3a	Studying Foreign Languages Through Core Texts	Sponsored by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
				Veronica Mayer Bryant (ch)
				Joshua Parens

	3b	Core Texts and Leadership on TV – 1	Erin Dolgoy (ch)	Rhodes College	The Good Life in The Good Place: Socrates on the role of the philosopher
			Kim Hurd Hale	Coastal Carolina University	Bureaucracy, Leadership, and Law in The Good Place: Machiavelli and Montaigne
			Benjamin Isaak Gross	Jacksonville State University	Animating the Presidency: Education through Comedy

	3c	Human Nature and the State	Joe Knippenberg (ch)	Oglethorpe University	Elites and ‘Our Democracy’
			Jacob Rodriguez	Baylor University	The Spirit of the Laws: Human Nature and Regime Transformation
			Graham Harrison	Graduate Student at the Braniff Graduate School at the University of Dallas	Nobility and Agricultural Responsibility in the works of Alexis de Tocqueville
			Nicholas Allmaier	Tulane University	Rousseau’s Mosaic Moment: Religion and the Limits of Political Philosophy in The Social Contract
			Joshua Shmikler	University of Mount Saint Vincent	Leading Workers, Warriors, and Philosophers against the Universal and Homogeneous State: On the End of Leo Strauss’s “Restatement”

	3d	Pain, Suffering, and Compassion	Robert Anderson (ch)	Saint Anselm College	Aristotle on Sorrow in Book 10 of the Nicomachean Ethics
			Ethan Cutler	Boston College	Compassion False and True: Nietzsche on the Praxis of Nihilism
			Laura Crawford	Samford University	“Solving the Body Problem: The Role of Resistance in “Revelations of Divine Love”
			Natlie Moreira	Baylor University	Bare Humanity: Arendt’s Lesson on Lessing
			Giulia Ricca	Columbia University	Are stories good for us? Boccaccio and Manzoni on the beautiful and the public good

	3e	What makes a leader?	Mary Elizabeth Halper (ch)	St. John’s College / Humanities at Hertog	On Not Giving One’s All: Rev. Farebrother’s Partial Ambition in Eliot’s Middlemarch
			Bryn Ford	University of Houston	The Art of the U-Turn: Backflipping Philosophically with Cicero (and Plato)
			Michele Rozga	Norfolk State University	Václav Havel’s leadership: the art of the struggle against transactional systems
			Minn Thant	Michigan State University	Leading Across the Line: Ernst Junger’s Lessons in Storm of Steel

	3f	Core Novels 2	Amy Thomas Elder (ch)	University of Chicago	Oh! That unfulfilments should follow the prophets.
			Lin Atnip	University of Chicago	The Politics of the Pequod
			Lauren Weiner	Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization	Dostoevsky’s Devils and Ours
			John Hope	Huron University	Anna Karenina and the Ladder of Love

	3g	Lectio on Machiavelli’s Prince	Creighton Rosental (ch)	Mercer University
			Kevin Honeycutt	Mercer University
			Daniel Kapust	University of Wisconsin
			Matthew Oberrieder	Rogers State University


	3h
		Lessons for Leadership in Plato and Aristotle	Mariana Flores-Rabasa (ch)	Universidad Panamericana	The Philosopher-King: The Pursuit of Knowledge and Justice in Leadership
			Alex Istok	Samford University	The Legal Setting of Plato’s Apology: Helping Students Discuss Truth and Justice
			José María Llovet	Universidad Panamericana	Aristotle on Good Leadership: a reading of Politics I & III
			Deborah De Chiara-Quenzer	Boston College	Good Decision and Prudence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

4:45 – 6:30 Session Four	4a	: Civic Education Through Core Texts: Opportunities for Program Growth	Sponsored by The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
			Bradley Jackson (ch)	ACTA



	4b	Core Texts and Leadership on TV- 2	Erin Dolgoy (ch)	Rhodes College
			Evan Lowe	Arizona State University	The Impossibility of Civic Happiness? The Difficulty of Virtue and Persistence of Fortune
			Aaron Kushner	Arizona State University	We Are the End of the World: Reforging America out of the State of Nature on The Walking Dead
			Kevin Kearns	Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi	Presidential Leadership in Locke, The Federalist Papers, and Mad Men

	4c	Homeric Leadership	Kerri Pope (ch)	Austin Community College	Odysseus the Autocrat and Athena the Transformer: An Exploration of Leadship in Odyssey
			Ján Hreško	Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia & Professional College of Journalism, Prague, Czech Republic	Reading the Iliad as a Crisis of Leadership
			Christine Kern	Azusa Pacific University	Returning Leaders in the Odyssey: Valuing Connection in Community
			Erica Johnson	University of Dallas	Odysseus’ Embrace of Mortality and Mutability

	4d	In Tune with the World: Music and Character Formation	Michael Krom (ch)	Saint Vincent College	Aristotle on Music for Citizenship and for Rule
			Matthew Post	University of Tulsa	Experiencing transcendence through music as core text
			Lanta Davis	Indiana Wesleyan University	Putting music into classroom rhythms
			Simon Frazier	Independent	Socrates via Spengler: Toward Philosophic Life and Education in 2025 America

	4e	Tech, Science and Leadership in Classical Political Thought	Paul Diduch (ch)	University of Colorado Boulder	“Techne and the Idea of Nature in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Politics”
			Gregory McBrayer	Ashland University	The Floating Phoenician Finds Physis: Recovering Xenophon’s Natural Philosophy
			Tobin Craig	Michigan State University	The Classical Case Against a Technological Science: Notes on Seneca’s Letter 90
			Travis Hadley	Collin College	“Technological and Moral Necessities in Thucydides’ “War of the Peloponnesians and Athenians”

	4f	Oaths & Honor	Lynn Tatum (ch)	Baylor University	“Le Morte d’Arthur” Redux: Tennyson (and other’s) Reappropriation of Thomas Malory’s Pentecostal Oath
			Ann McGlashan	Baylor University	“To Preserve, Protect, and Defend: Can Malory’s Pentecostal Oath still be a Blueprint for Leadership in the 21st Century?”
			Peter Mc Donald	Baylor University	Feudalism and Liberalism in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws
			Anthony Jones	Baylor University	Monarchical Moderation: How the Prince Subtly Leads the People to Liberty and the Common Good

	4g	Expanding the Core	Daniel Breyer	Illinois State University	Cross Cultural Philosophy as a Great Converstaion
			Sean O’Neil	University of Nevada, Reno	Teaching Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzān in a Core Texts Curriculum
			Daniel McDonald	Ashland University	Douglass’s Narrative: A Common Text Accross FYS
			Tommy Johnson	Woods Charter School	Autonomy, reason, and the theatre: Engaging Antigone in an Economics and Personal Finance Course
			Jay Black	Mercer University	My Country and My People: The Chinese people and character

Saturday April 5

7:45 Breakfast and Plenary		Stephen Zelnick, ACTC’s First President

9:00 – 10:45 Session Five	5a	Contentious Virtues of Leadership	Sponsored by the Hertog Foundation
			Hadar Hazony (ch)	University of Notre Dame	Nietzsche on the Paradox of Education and Leadership
			Jack Bevacqua	University of Notre Dame	Alexis de Tocqueville on the Crisis of Modern Love and Friendship
			Avi Dugginapeddi	Stanford University	Captain Delano in Benito Cereno: American Hero or American Idiot?
			Ethan Nylen	University of Oxford	Gentleness: The Preparation for Philosophy and Politics in Plato’s ‘Laws’
			Andrea Ray	University of Chicago	Geist and the Good Citizen

	5b	From Medieval to Modern	Joshua Parens (ch)	University of Dallas	“Is Descartes’s Meditations a work of enlightened kalam?”
			Joseph Macfarland	St. John’s College	Demoting Metaphysics and Promoting the Vernacular: Connected Puzzles in Dante’s Convivio (The Banquet)
			Gregory McBrayer	Ashland University	Reading Erasmus’s Education of a Christian Prince as Response to Machiavelli
			Douglas Kries	Gonzaga University	Robert Bellarmine’s Controversies on the Problem of Religion, Politics, and Writing

	5c	Voices from the Attic: Canadian Philosophers on Education for Public Leadership	Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill (ch)	American University	Northrup Frye and the Imagination in Undergraduate Education
			Geoffrey Kellow	Carleton University	George Grant and the Love of Learning.
			David Edward Tabachnick	Nispissing University	Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media at 60
			Toivo Koivukoski	Nispissing University	A Love of One’s Own: How the Good Touches Ground in National Belonging

	5d	Healing Philosophy	Sam Stoner (ch)	Assumption University
			Matt Dinan	St. Thomas University	Ravelstein’s Convalescences
			Derek Duplessie	Assumption University	Philosophical Palliatives in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
			Mary Townsend	St. John’s University	The Charms of Healing in Plato’s Charmides 155e-157d
			Paul Kirkland	Carthage College	A SicSickness unto Health: Recovering Philosophic Life in Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human

	5e	Lies Like the Truth: Deception and Education in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle	Samuel P. Hage (ch)	Tulane University	Achillean Sacrifice and Socratic Virtue in Plato’s Apology
			Jordan Poyner	Catherine Project	Justice and Deception in the Court of Achilles
			Victor Udwin	The University of Tulsa	Homer’s Odyssey as Reference Point to Understanding Plato’s Ideas About Educational Process
			Matthew Oberrieder	Rogers State University	“Two Going Together…”: Socrates and Homer
			Patrick Corry	Villanova University	“Let There Be One”: On Many Readings of Homer’s Appearance in Metaphysics Lambda

	5f	The Art of the Core	David Carl (ch)	St. John’s College	The Politics of Visual Literacy: Teaching Visual Arts in a Liberal Arts Context
			Mark Walter	Aurora University	“Actuality Overpowered by Appearance”: the Social Force of Beauty in Schiller and Beyond
			Richard Kamber	The College of New Jersey	Tolstoy’s What is Art? as a Revolutionary Text
			Martha Bayles	Boston College	How to Stream Shakespeare

	5g	(More) Contemporary Novels and the Core	Judith Levy (ch)	Oglethorpe University	Shining towards an Ethics of History: Spacetime, Race, and Motherhood in Beloved and The Shining
			Sandra Hernández-Gonzalez	Universidad Panamericana	The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006), by Muriel Barbery
			David Dolence	Dominican University	The (Science) Fiction of Leadership
			Christopher Snyder	Mississippi State University	Finis Africae: Limits and Otherness in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose

11:00 – 12:30 Session Six	6a	The Humanities and Civic Education	Sponsored by the Jack Miller Center
			Thomas Cleveland	Jack Miller Center
			Greg Mc Brayer	Ashland University
			Alex Duff

	6b	On Fate, Prayer, and Divine Will	Francis Grabowski (ch)	Rogers State University	Bound by Moira: The Tension Between Fate and Divine Will in Homer’s Iliad
			Matthew Oberrieder	Rogers State University	Prayer, Chance, and Fate in Plato’s Alcibiades II
			Victor Udwin	The University of Tulsa	Fate or Necessity? An all-important distinction in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.
			David Tingey	The University of Tulsa	Joseph’s Fate, Divine Will, and the Refunctionalizing of Myth

	6c	Educating for Greatness	Matthew Young (ch)	Elon University	“To study men and things”: Education Beyond the Great Books.
			Alfredo Watkins	Duke University	Education as Quest: Liberal Arts in the Heroic Life
			Josh Renfro	Purdue University	Horses, Homer, and Egyptian Philosophy in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander

	6d	Before the Law	Seemee Ali (ch)	SMU	The Secret of Oedipus at Colonos
			Michael McShane	Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture	A Wedding in Another Key – A Dream of a Civil City in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
			David Sweet	University of Dallas	The Euthyphro: A Preface to the Republic.
			Elizabeth Reyes	Thomas Aquinas College	“I durst not so much as dare”: Ahab’s Ancient Wound

	6e	The Novels of Chaim Potok	Alex Taylor (ch)	Christendom College	Crucifixion as Exile and Atonement in Chaim Potok’s Asher Lev Novels
			Hannah Luke	University of Dallas	The Role of Place in the Creation of Art in My Name is Asher Lev
			Annemarie Krall	University of Dallas	Faith and Excess in The Gift of Asher Lev

	6f	The Human Touch: Friendship, Connection, Legacy, and Leadership	Janet Dougherty (ch)	St. John’s College Annapolis, MD	How to Hunt for Friends
			Frank Pagano	St. John’s College	Liberal Education, Envy and Sophistry
			Shih Yu “Franklyn” Wu	Dharma Realm Buddhist University	The Paradox of the Island

	6g	Pedagogies and the Core	Phillip Sloan (ch)	University of Notre Dame	“The Phenomenology of the Core Text Discussion Seminar”
			Stuart Patterson	North Central College	What is Power?: Hannah Arendt on Action in Public
			Cana Beverage	University of Dallas	“And Glaucon Laughed” (And So Did We): Pedagogical Laughter in Plato’s Republic
			Grant Potts	Austin Community College	Walking the Road to Larissa in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

	6h	Stoicism, Humanism, and Law in Montaigne’s Essays
			Christopher Edelman (ch)	University of the Incarnate Word	Montaigne’s Mitigated Stoicism
			Neil Robertson	University of King’s College	Montaigne’s Critique of Renaissance Ambition
			John Colman	Ave Maria University	Montaigne and Plutarch on Socrates’s Daemon

12:30 Lunch and Plenary

2:00 Session Seven	7a	ACTC and HBCUs: Thoughts toward Future Collaborations	Joshua Parens (ch)	University of Dallas	The Liberal Arts as the Possession of All
			Page Laws	Norfolk State University (retired) Dean Emerita?	To Be Young, Gifted and…Martian? Nikki Giovanni’s AfroFuturistic “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)” as Core Text Poem
			Elizabeth-Jane McGuire	Villanova University	The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
			David Metzger	Old Dominion University	Between the Lines or Within the Veil?: the logic of speculation and “fancy” in Chapter X of Du Bois’ Darkwater

	7b	America and Some “isms”	Annie DeVries (ch)	Samford University	A Core Texts for Nationalism? The Practice and Theory of Giuseppe Mazzini and Ernest Renan
			Mark Meyers	University of Saskatchewan (Canada)	Teaching the History of Democracy and Authoritarianism: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” as a Core Text
			Evelyn Behling	University of Notre Dame	Aristotle, Populism, and Defining the Political Need for Expertise
			Tony Bartl	Angelo State University	State Constitutions as Core Texts: Texas
			Simon Frazier	Independent	Socrates via Spengler: Toward Philosophic Life and Education in 2025 America

	7c	Virtue,Law, and Leadership
			Alex Istok	Samford University	The Legal Setting of Plato’s Apology: Helping Students Discuss Truth and Justice
			John McCormack	Aurora University	What Would Mahavira Do? Governance and the Jaina _Acaranga Sutra_ in the Mauryan Era (3rd Century BCE)
			Justin Howe	Clemson University	The Excellence of Water: On the Principle of Yielding in the Daode Jing and the Zhuangzi
			John Eastby	Hampden-Sydney College	Algernon Sydney and the Republican Need for Politcal Virtue
			Andrew Carico	John Adams Academy	American Patriotism: A Contested Virtue
		removed Ellen Rigsby
	7d	Reading and Re-Reading	Claudine Davidshofer (ch)	High Point University	Kierkegaard’s Prefaces: Lessons in Effective Communication
			Elizabeth Ferszt	Oglethorpe University	Enkidu is Neanderthal? Reading Gilgamesh as Literary Anthropology
			Stefanos Kourkoulako	University West, Trollhattan, Sweden	Daedalus Calling Forth an Ariadne-Less Theseus Reader
			Mark Makin	Biola University	“Save us from deceiving ourselves”: Reading as a Spiritual Practice in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
			Jason Stevens	Ashland University	The Gettysburg Address as Civic Education

	7e	How Not to Lead: Kings, Tyrants, and Villains	John Norton (ch)	Concordia Irvine	Confronting Wolsey
			Sean Bortz	Concordia University Irvine	Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and His Critics: Leadership in Henry VIII’s England
			Kevin Walker	University of Mary	How to Not be a Tyrant: Lessons from Thomas Aquinas
			John Kern	Pepperdine University	The Medieval Ruler in Two Registers: Thomas Aquinas and Niccoló Machiavelli on Virtú and the Morality of Ruling Well
			Taddy Kalas	Augustana College	Agrippina in the Hallway: Crises of Leadership in Racine’s Britannicus

	7f	Leadership, Philosophy, and Politics in Plato’s Republic	Maxwell Anthony (ch)	Teachers College, Columbia University	Plato’s Katabasis as Propaideia
			Juan Ignacio Riveros	Universidad de Los Andes	Socratic Leadership
			Michael Chiariello	St. Bonaventure University	In defense of “a most wretched idiot”: reflections on Glaucon’s tale of the Ring of Gyges.
			Carol Kowara	University of Chicago	The Guardian Class of Kallipolis: Political Deterrent to the Young yet Model City to the Old

	7g	Shakespearean Statesmen	Frank Rohmer (ch)	Austin College	To Be Caesar: Shakespeare on Greatness Surpassing Virtue
			Ann Charney-Colmo	Dominican University	Prudence in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
			Joseph Reisert	Colby College	The tragic greatness of Caius Martius Coriolanus
			Carol McNamara	Great Hearts America	Shakespeare’s Grasp of the Feminine: Power and Purpose – The Political Skill of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra
			Michael Lucchese	Liberty Fund	“A Good Heart is the Sun”: Immature Machiavellianism in Shakespeare’s Henry V

	7h	Where are We Leading the Liberal Artists? A Panel Discussion on What We are Forming Leaders For	Alex Taylor (ch)	Christendom College	Education for the Politics of Spiritual Warfare: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and the Impotence of Nietzschean Liberal Education
			Megan Russo	University of St. Thomas, Houston	“To the advantage of the liberal arts”: Josef Pieper and Property Ownership as Liberal Learning
			Melissa Dow	University of West Florida	Educating for Hospitality: Robert Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb
			Daniel Spiotta	Christendom College	To Bear a Wary Eye: How Engaging Hamlet Habituates Revision
			Natalie Moreira	Baylor University	Arendt on Benjamin: Refitting Pearls of the Past in Contemporary Settings

4:45 – 6:30 Session Eight	8a	New Thinkery Demo	Alex Priou (ch)	University of Austin (UATX)
			Gregory McBrayer	Ashland University

	8b	“Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791” A Demo of Reacting to the Past as a Core Text Pedagogy	John Moser (ch)	Ashland University	Teaching Rousseau and Burke with Reacting to the Past
			TBA
			TBA


	8c	Core Poetry	Antony Lyon (ch)	UC San Diego	“To speak on their behalf in my own tongue”: Seamus Heaney on poetry and conscience
			Brendan Luke	University of Dallas	Poetry in the Works of Thomas Aquinas
			Sarah Houser	Benedictine College	“Roland is fierce, Oliver is wise:” Dilemmas of Leadership in the Song of Roland
			Hilda Ma	Saint Mary’s College of California	Night Sky and Ancient Seas: Ocean Vuong, Homer, and Expanding the Great Conversation
			Jeffrey Davis	Wheaton College	Dreaming and Debating About the Purpose of Life in The Parliament of the Three Ages

	8d	Consortium Meeting	Representatives from each Institution in the ACTC Liberal Arts Consortium.

	8e	Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Natural Science	David Arndt (ch)	Saint Mary’s College of California	Astronomy as a Liberal Art: Time and Number in Aristotle and Heidegger
			John Anders	Trinity University	Kolmogorov, The Euclid of Probability Theory
			Terence Kleven	Central College	“Alfarabi’s Account of the Five Rational Arts: An Exposition of The Book of the Utterances Employed in Logic, sections 52-53”
			Sarah Karam	Concordia University Irvine	Revolution to Resistance: The Political Nature of Science from Copernicus to Feyerabend



	8f	Reading Black Authors in a Core Text Curriculum	Tom Merrill (ch)	American University	The Bottomless Well under the Cathedral at Chartes: James Baldwin’s Reflections on Core Texts in “Stranger in the Village
			Jason Miller	North Carolina State	Walking Harlem: Langston Hughes’s “Theme for English B”
			Sarah Marsh	Seton Hill University	Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jefferson, and the Science of Human Equality
			Joseph Spoerl	Saint Anselm College	Race and Culture in Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”


6:45 Closing Reception
Sponsored by the Hertog Foundation

Sunday April 6

9:00 Continental Breakfast and Business Meeting