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| Session 1 | Friday, 8:45 am – 10:45 am | | | | |
| | 1a | Oikos and Polis: The Domestic Roots of Politics (P85) | Samuel Hage (ch) | Tulane University | Athens, Jerusalem, Saxony: Edward Gibbon on the Roots of the Modern West |
| | | | Alexandra Baro | Saddle River Day School | The Sum of Small Things: Politics in Anna Karenina |
| | | | Joseph M. Keegin | Tulane University | Frontier Intellectualism: On the Past and Future of Philosophy in America |
| | | | Jordan Poyner | Catherine Project | The Threshold of Wonder: On the Relationship between Household, Regime, and Philosophy in Homer’s Odyssey |
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| | 1b | New Wine in Old Terms (P152) | Daniel Maher (ch) | Assumption University | Charity Ends at Home in Bacon’s Advancement of Learning |
| | | | Bernard Dobski | Assumption University | The Shifting Meaning of Place in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy |
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| | | | Borden Flanagan | American University | Ontology and Politics in Thucydides |
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| | 1c | Where Matters | Mary Elizabeth Halper | St. John’s College | Place and Un-Place: Reading the Iliad Online |
| | | | Antony Lyon | University of California San Diego | Poetry in the Landscape: Simon Armitage and the Stanza Stone Trail |
| | | | Michele Rozga | Norfolk State University | “From the myriad thence-arous’d words”, a “ductile anchor” is formed: place in Walt Whitman |
| | | | Marc Jolley | Mercer University | Text as Place and Place as Text |
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| | 1d | Sacred Places | Emma Cohen de Lara (ch) | Amsterdam University College | A Place of Meaning? |
| | | | Nikolas Holweger | University of Dallas | Tensions of Creation: Seeking Order in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones |
| | | | Emily Langston | St. Johns College | Place and Time on the Magic Mountain |
| | | | Sarah Babcock | Dharma Realm Buddhist University | Finding Our Place Through Communal Ritual Creation |
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| | 1e | Journeys and Wandering | Enrique Banús (ch) | Universidad de Piura | The traveller and the space: going home as indicator |
| | | | Bretton Rodriguez | UC San Diego | History, Legend, and the Mediterranean in Tirant lo Blanch |
| | | | Matthew Young | Elon University | On Homecoming in ‘Hannah Coulter’ |
| | | | Elizabeth-Jane McGuire | Villanova University | Sir Gawain and the Liminality of the Natural World |
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| | 1f | In the World, But Not Of It | Christian Warner (ch) | Hillsdale College | Pascal’s Pensees and our place in the world |
| | | | Therese Netzer | Faulkner University | The Consolation of the Consolation |
| | | | Robyn Long | Baker University | Teaching Primary Texts of the First World War |
| | | | Stuart Patterson | North Central College | Laozi as the Author (Function) of the Daodejing |
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| | 1g | What Kind of Place is America (Supposed to Be) | Peter McNamara (ch) | Arizona State University | Place and Cultural Appropriation in Ralph Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station.” |
| | | | Geoffrey Kellow | Carleton University | The Autobiography and Franklin’s Myth of Self Making |
| | | | Jeremy Bailey | University of Oklahoma | The Ambition of Jefferson’s Second Inaugural |
| | | | Wyatt Hill | University of Dallas | Publius’ Prudence in the Federalist Papers |
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| | 1h | The Search Program at Rhodes | Kenneth Morrell (ch) | Rhodes College | Eighty Year of Search: 1944 to 2024 |
| | | | Susan Satterfield | Rhodes College | The New Minor in Humanities |
| | | | Patrick Harris | Rhodes College | Search: Regional Travel-Study Modules |
| | | | Ella Coleman | Rhodes College | Search: The Rhodes Caracal Society |
| | | | Sarah Dassinger | Rhodes College | Search: Liberal Arts in Prison Program |
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| Session 2 | Friday, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | | | | |
| | 2a | (Re)Placing Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric in the Contemporary Core (P125) | Matthew Oberrieder (ch) | Rogers State University | Katharsis and Wonder in Aristotle’s Poetics |
| | | | Matthew Post | University of Tulsa | Ethos and Pathos in teaching Literature: Rich Resources or Manipulations? |
| | | | Victor Udwin | University of Tulsa | A Look Beneath the Scars Left when Aristotle Separated Poetics from Rhetoric |
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| | 2b | Wrestling With the Past for the Present (P178) | Theodore Hadzi-Antich Jr. (ch) | The Great Questions Foundation and Austin Community College | Humanity and People |
| | | | Natasha Whitton | Baton Rouge Community College | Connecting Experience: Teaching The Plague Before and After COVID |
| | | | James Bennett | Huntington Jr. College | Difficult Topics and Classic Texts in the Classroom |
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| | 2c | Locating Ourselves | John Anders (ch) | Trinity University | Legendre on Least Squares: the Role of Place from Dunkirk to Evaux to Montjouy |
| | | | Peter Ulrickson | The Catholic University of America | Topology and Aristotle’s Place in It |
| | | | Erica Johnson | University of Dallas | The role of “Place” in Aristotle’s Definition of Motion and Newton’s Inertia: How will this controversy end? (Or will it continue forever?) |
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| | 2d | Home is Where . . . | Lisa Jennings (ch) | Valparaiso | Unexpected Junctures of Place, Home, and Connection in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s” |
| | | | David Anderson | University of Oklahoma | Coriolanus At Home |
| | | | Miriam McElvain | University of Dallas | Penelope’s Oikos and Kleos: Place and Faithfulness in the Odyssey |
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| | 2e | Travel Writing and Memoir | Michael Krom (ch) | St. Vincent’s College | The Wanderings of St. Augustine |
| | | | Kristina Markman | UC San Diego | Why I Teach John Mandeville’s Travel Narrative |
| | | | Jay Lutz | Oglethorpe University | Terry Whitmore’s Memphis-Nam- Sweden |
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| | 2f | Where’re You From? Race, Class, and Liberal Education | Joshua Shmikler (ch) | College of Mount Saint Vincent | Du Bois on the Limits of Liberal Arts Education |
| | | | David Carl | St. John’s College | Reflections on W. E. B. Du Bois’ “Of the Wings of Atlanta” from The Souls of Black Folk |
| | | | Kristen Koenig | Concordia University, Irvine | Utilizing the Sociological Canon to Teach about the Inequality of Place |
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| | 2g | The Liberal Arts and Accreditation (P165) | Rob Manzer (ch) | AALE | Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind |
| | | | James Guest | Independent Scholar | Leo Strauss, What is Liberal Education |
| | | | Joshua Parens | ACTC, President | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Higher Learning in America |
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| Session 3 | Friday, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm | | | | |
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| | 3a | Shakespeare After All at 20 (P22) | Daniel Cullen (ch) | Rhodes College | Marjorie Garber on MacBeth |
| | | | Carol McNamara | Great Hearts Institute for Classical Education | Marjorie Garber on the Merchant of Venice |
| | | | Stephen Wirls | Rhodes College | Marjorie Garber on Measure for Measure |
| | | | Marjorie Garber | Harvard University | |
| | 3b | Prudence, Knowledge, and the Human Good (P73) | Frank Rohmer (ch) | Austin College | On the Dutiful and the True: Cicero on the Prudential Resolution of the Inescapable Tension between the Competing Goods of the Active and Contemplative Life |
| | | | Ann Colmo | Domincan University | Prudence in Aristotle’s Politics |
| | | | Randy Olson | St. Michael’s College | Between Opinion and Knowledge: The Place of Phronesis in Plato’s Meno |
| | | | Daniel Palm | Azusa Pacific University | Prudential Men and Regimes: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War |
| | | | Joseph Reisert | Colby College | Prudence in Burke’s Political Thought |
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| | 3c | Liberal Education Without Borders I (P132) | Ethan Cutler (ch) | Boston College | Leaping and Ruminating: Nietzsche’s Genealogy as an Education in Reading |
| | | | William Little | Duke University | Erotic Pride: The Problem with Alcibiades |
| | | | Andrea Ray | University of Chicago | Spinoza on Political Friendship |
| | | | Kevin Haz | University of Notre Dame | Hegel’s Dialectic of Lord and Bondsman: Liberation Through Formation |
| | | | Rachel Wagner | University of Toronto | The “I” in Oedipus: Recovering Sigmund Freud’s Approach to Core Texts |
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| | 3d | Faith, Freedom, and the State | Patrick Gray (ch) | Rhodes College | Reading the Parable of the Talents with Capitalists and Marxists |
| | | | David Willey | Baylor University | “The Gospel and the pagan Wilde”: Uses of the Bible in Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” |
| | | | Grant Potts | Austin Community College | The Place of Reason in Religion: Cicero on The Nature of the Gods |
| | | | Yiyang Zhuge | Boston College | Tocqueville on Religion and Politics |
| | | | Michael Chiariello | St. Bonaventure University | “The coherence of Sartre’s Existentialism” |
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| | 3e | Patriotism and its Limits | Peter McDonald (ch) | Baylor University | The Tragedy of Patriotism in Aeschylus |
| | | | Matthew Post and Emma Cohen de Lara | University of Tulsa/Amsterdam University College | Can virtue lead us to attack the place where we live? Platonic and Aristotelian reflections on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus |
| | | | Robert Abbott | St.John’s College | Is there a “World Elsewhere” for Coriolanus? |
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| | 3f | Plato and Place | Norman Fischer (ch) | Clark Atlanta University | The Appearance of Nature in Plato’s Meno |
| | | | Charles Conellan | University of Dallas | Athens as a Character (and Beyond) in Plato’s Crito |
| | | | Sarah Houser | Benedictine College | Socratic Philosophy and the Importance of Place in Plato’s Crito |
| | | | John Pascarella | Utah State University | Socrates’ Enduring View of Democracy’s Character |
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| | 3g | Philosophy and the Cult of Home and Hearth (P103) | Stephen Matter (ch) | Arizona State and the Public Interest Fellowship | Socrates and Kingmaker, Socrates as Teacher |
| | | | Luke Spitzley | Michigan State University | The Argument and Action of Plato’s Minos |
| | | | Quinn Rifkin | St. John’s College | Herodotus’ Analysis of Law |
| | | | Ethan Garafalo | St. John’s College | Abandoned in Hostile Lands: the Socratic Meno and the Absence of Civic Education |
| | | | Juan Ignacio Riveros Silvestro | University of Navarra | Putting Down Roots: A Reading of Republic 347a-d |
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| Session 4 | Friday, 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm | | | | |
| | 4a | Classical Political Philosophy and Founders (P122) | Gregory McBrayer (ch) | Ashland University | Lycurgus, the Legendary Lacedaemonian Lawgiver |
| | | | Alex Priou | University of Colorado | A Redemption from Decadence: Socrates’ Parting Myths to Glaucon |
| | | | Paul Diduch | University of Colorado | The Problem of Succession in Xenophon’s Persia |
| | | | Tobin Craig | Michigan State | One Founder? Two Founder? Three Founder? More? An Interpretation of Livy on the Romulus-Numa Sequences in Ab Urbe Condita |
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| | 4b | Women’s Places | Kirsten Lodge (ch) | Midwestern State University Texas | Teaching Christine de Pizan’s City of Women in a World Literature Course |
| | | | Annalise Devries | Samford University | Duty, Tragedy and Justice in the Women of Sophocles |
| | | | Taddy Kalas | Augustana College | Displaced Women: Context, Pretext, and the Critique of Reason |
| | | | Margaret Matthews | Villanova University | Gabrielle Suchon on Women’s Right to the Philosophical Life |
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| | 4c | Lost and Found in Translation | Brendan Cook (ch) | University of South Florida | If Plato were a Roman: “Traces of the old flame” in Marsilio Ficino’s Latin translation of Phaedrus |
| | | | Maia Campbell | University of Dallas | The Function of “Sad Stories” in Shakespeare’s Henriad (from Richard II to Henry V) |
| | | | Veronica Mayer Bryant | American Council of Trustees and Alumni | Universalism and Exceptionalism of Place in Language and its Teaching |
| | | | Casey Wheatland | Texas State University | Machiavelli’s Martial Critique of the Renaissance in the Mandragola |
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| | 4d | Places of Dying and Death | Isaiah Mitchell (ch) | University of Dallas | The Corpse in “The Faerie Queene” |
| | | | Melissa Johnson | Biola University | At Home with Death |
| | | | Kenneth Odom | Faulkner University | Re-Reading Creon |
| | | | Anand Mangal | University of Dallas | Haec Est Domus Ultima – Hades Is Our Final Home |
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| | 4e | The Evolving Core | Creighton Rosental (ch) | Mercer University | RePlacing the Canon: Perspectives on Diversifying the Core Texts |
| | | | Timothy Sutton | Samford University | Thomas Aquinas Refuses to Bless the Aristotle-Osteen Partnership in General Education |
| | | | Kerri Pope | Austin Community College | Finding Meaning in Change: The Story and the Student |
| | | | Harrison Glaze | Baylor University | Re-Placing Modernist Epic: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen Reads The Waste Land |
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| | 4f | Situation and Skepticism | Kari Brooks (ch) | University of Dallas | Armchair Philosophizing: Descartes, Doubt, and Displacement |
| | | | Sujung Kwon | St. John’s College | Pure Reason of Kant: How Does Kant Solve Hume’s Problem |
| | | | Robyn Long | Baker University | Revisiting the Scottish Enlightenment in Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic 2020 |
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| | 4g | Aristotle in His Place (P188) | Colin Redemer (ch) | St. Mary’s College of California | Augustine: An Unlikely Aristotelian? |
| | | | Sheldon Dance | John Adams Academy | Grammar and the Modern Mind |
| | | | Marcus Otte | University of Dallas | Suarez and the Theory of Substantial Form |
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| Session 5 | Saturday, 8:45 am – 10:45 am | | | | |
| | 5a | Leo Strauss’ The City and Man and A Revisiting of the Ancient Presentation of Science (P118) | Travis Hadley (ch) | Collin College | Thucydides on Poetry, Oracles, and the Pursuit of Truth |
| | | | Paul Diduch | University of Colorado | Should Socrates’ Discovery of the Primacy of Form be Construed as a Theory of Forms? |
| | | | James Guest | Independent Scholar | On the Relation of Political Philosophy and Philosophic Science in Aristotle |
| | | | Joshua Parens | University of Dallas | Strauss’s Portrait of Socrates in His Chapter on Aristotle in City and Man |
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| | 5b | Pop Culture Pairings | Richard Kamber (ch) | The College of New Jersey | Groundhog Day: A Parable of Self-Authorship in Small Town America |
| | | | Bryan Santin | Concordia University Irvine | The Bard of Avon meets the Bard of Compton: Notes on Teaching William Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar |
| | | | Michael Nichols | Purdue University | The Dark Knight Returns: A Graphic Novel in the Transformative Texts Classroom |
| | | | Lucas Hatlen | Concordia University Irvine | Pixilated Pedagogy: The Strategic Integration of Video Games in the Classroom. |
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| | 5c | Displacement, Discontent, and Anxiety | David Carl (ch) | St. John’s | When there’s no there there, then where is it? Literature at the Edge of Meaning or Teaching the Unteachable: Stein’s Tender Buttons. |
| | | | Laura Crawford | Samford University | Stop Waiting for Godot: Modernity, Uncertainty, and Distraction |
| | | | John Collman | Ave Maria University | The Origin of the Essays – Montaigne’s “Of Idleness” |
| | | | Joseph Malfitano | University of Dallas | FOMO, or Why that girl looking over your shoulder would rather be someplace else, accounted for in light of de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America |
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| | 5d | Humans in the Natural World | Bryn Ford (ch) | University of Nevada | Hesiod, the Dao De Jing, and Humanity’s Place in Nature: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Teaching Ancient (and Modern) Cosmologies |
| | | | Roderick Soper | Concordia University Irvine | How Do I Understand Nature |
| | | | Cristiana Conti | Austin Community College | “Does the eagle soar at your command?” (Job 39:27): Exploring the Interplay between Environmental Degradation and Humanity’s Relationship with the Natural World in the Creation Theology of the Book of Job. |
| | | | Sarah Karam | Concordia University Irvine | Wilderness through the feminine lens of Mary Austin |
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| | 5e | Morality, Situation, and Society | Bryan Richardson (ch) | Hillsdale College | Denis Diderot and the Enlightenment’s Sexual Revolution |
| | | | Joshua Trevino | University of Tennessee Chattanooga | Nietzsche’s Timeline of Philosophers and Moralities |
| | | | Susan Dodd | University of King’s College | Augustine’s Theory of History? |
| | | | Robert Anderson | St. Anselm College | Augustine and the Goldilocks Problem of Human Happiness |
| | | | Robyn Long | Teaching Primary Texts of the First World War | The Beyond of Here: The Meaning of the Person in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or |
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| | 5f | Teaching the Core | John Hope (ch) | Huron University College | “War and Peace” in War and Peace: Disciplinarity in the Context of Core Texts Pedagogy |
| | | | David Arndt | St. Mary’s College of California | How To Teach Sciences As Liberal Arts? On Geometry |
| | | | Daniel Deen | Concordia University Irvine | The Guiding Blindness |
| | | | Molly McGrath | Assumption University | The Function of Education in Husserl’s Crisis |
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| | 5g | Situated Love | Clemente Cox (ch) | Universidad de los Andes | A Place for Love: Spatial Configurations in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet |
| | | | Matthew Wilde | Donnelly College | “Opposites Attract?” “Birds of a Feather?” Aquinas on Likeness as a Cause of Love |
| | | | Minh Thant | Michigan State | The Use and Abuse of Love Potion in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| | | | Blythe Creelan | University of South Florida | The “Secret Lover:” The Importance of Self-Knowledge and Definitions in Plato’s Phaedrus |
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| Session 6 | Saturday 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | | | | |
| | 6a | Non-utopic Places that Transform (P163) | Shih Yu Wu (ch) | Dharma Realm Buddhist University | Forest as a Buddhist Refuge for Liberating Disorientation |
| | | | Camelia Raghinaru | Concordia University Irvine | A Sense of Place in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
| | | | Le Dung Rohmer | Independent Scholar | The Novelist’s Sympathetic Rendering of Place: Nhat Linh’s Xom Cau Moi (The New Bridge Hamlet) |
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| | 6b | Real and Unreal Cities: Political Poetry after T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (P189) | Alex Taylor (ch) | University of Dallas | Do not “Fear Death By Water”: T. S> Eliot and Evelyn Waugh on the Symbolic Place of Water |
| | | | Martin Lockerd | University of St. Thomas, Houston | Mourning the Polis in The Wasteland |
| | | | Peter Tardiff | University of Dallas | The Neoclassical City: Ovid, Eliot, and the Transformation of Place |
| | | | Nicolas McAfee | University of Dallas | The Timelessness of Cities in the Summa Theologiae |
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| | 6c | Exile, Faith, Reason, and Return | Joseph Knippenberg (ch) | Oglethorpe University | Religious Toleration in Locke and Mendelssohn |
| | | | Peter Brown | Mercer University | Diaspora as Exile and Promise: Jacob and His Children |
| | | | Robert Manzer | American Academy for Liberal Education | The Place of Zionism in George Eliot’s Moral Imagination |
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| | 6d | Human Nature, Science, and Technology | Nan Darbous Marthaller (ch) | Faulkner University | (Re-) Introducing Henri Bergson |
| | | | Meghan Sweet | Dharma Realm Buddhist University | Ancient Cyborgs |
| | | | Roberta Brown | Western New Mexico University | Tuberculosis as Influence on Orwell and his Novel 1984 |
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| | 6f | Communal Spaces and Human Connection | John Doody (ch) | Arizona State University | Why Place Matters and then Again Why Place Doesn’t Matter |
| | | | Martin Tracey | Benedictine University | Place Does NOT Matter: Peter Singer on Our Moral Obligations to Distant Strangers |
| | | | Joanne Janssen | Baker University | Seeing at Home: Place in Jose Saramago’s “Blindness” |
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| | 6g | Alternative Places | Martha Bayles (ch) | Boston College | Why Ursula K. Le Guin’s Masterpiece, “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Is Not a Utopia |
| | | | Simon Frazier | Independent Scholar | Why Modern Japan? An Exploration of Nietzschean Philosophy from an Unexpected Genre and Place, and Inquiry into the Reasons for its Origin |
| | | | Elizabeth Reyes | St. Thomas Aquinas College | Whales and Aliens: The Place of Place in the worlds of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury. |
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| Session 7 | Saturday, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm | | | | |
| | 7a | Speaking Publicly: Topoi as Places We Go To Think (P102) | J. Scott Lee (ch) | ACTC, retired | Teaching Rhetoric in Core Text Courses: Seeking Thought in Public Topoi |
| | | | Matthew Post | University of Tulsa | Aristotle’s Topics: Powerful Thinking or Dangerous Sophistry |
| | | | Randall Fowler | Fresno Pacific University | Creating New Worlds: Polysyndeton, Genesis 1, and Online Argument |
| | | | Greg Camp | Fresno Pacific University | Situating the Rhetoric of Jesus’ Arguments |
| | | | Richard Rawls | Georgia Gwinnet College | Epictetus’ “Power of Speaking” and the Faculty of Moral Purpose in the Discourses |
| | | | Eric Bontempo | Abilene Christian College | Public Rhetoric in Newman’s The Idea of the University |
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| | 7b | Liberal Education Without Borders II (P133) | Neco Donohue (ch) | University of Texas at Austin | Montaigne’s Education of Citizen and Self |
| | | | Luca Frumento | Independent Scholar | Aristotelian Friendship and Liveral Education |
| | | | Christine Basil | Belmont Abbey College | Where Can the Good Life Flourish? Aristotle’s Ethics Across America’s State, Secular, and Religious Institutions of Higher Education |
| | | | Isabelle Thelen | Baylor University | Saint Augustine’s Curiositas: The Dangers of Pursuing Knowledge to Avoid Self-Knowledge |
| | | | Dominic Cassella | Catholic University of American | What Makes Education Liberal: Core Texts and Running the Race |
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| | 7c | Ex-Patriots,Immigrants, Citizens, and Friends | | | |
| | | | Emma Cohen de Lara (ch) | Amsterdam University College | Civic friendship and reconciliation |
| | | | Ellen Rigsby | St. Mary’s College of CA | Place as a third term between Individual and Community in Sophocles’ Antigone and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass |
| | | | J. Walter Sterling | St. John’s College | “Just sun and dust”: The aesthetic of Sicily in Lampedusa’s The Leopard |
| | | | Kerri Tom | Concordia University Irvine | “To live in a new house would kill me”: Dracula’s Encounter with the True England |
| | | | Joshua Kinlaw | University of Dallas | Seneca’s “Consolation” in Exile |
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| | 7d | Horrific Places and Human Action | Elizabeth Eastman (ch) | Independent Scholar | The Place of Plato’s Crito in American Political Discourse |
| | | | Sean Bortz | Concordia University Irvine | Death and Survival during the Holocaust: Teaching Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz as a Core Text |
| | | | Page Laws | Norfolk State | Place of Horror or Space for Hope? : Sterling A. Brown’s 1936 Poem “Remembering Nat Turner” |
| | | | John Ruff | Valparaiso University | Swords into Ploughshares/Bayonets into Badminton Rackets: Iconic Images of The American Dream and the Dream Deferred in Willa Cather’s My Antonia and in The Art Diary of Takuichi Fujii |
| | | | Richard Buckwalter | Kennessaw State, retired | Juvenal, On the Depravity, Decline, and Fall of an Empire, Satire 6. |
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| | 7e | Conventions and Expectations in Shakespeare | Jason Wallace (ch) | Samford University | Virtue and Violation: Deception, Truth, and Nature in King Lear |
| | | | Kay Malte Bischof | University of Notre Dame | Shakespeare on Tragedy as failed Comedy |
| | | | Janelle Aijian | Biola University | Miracles and Testimony in Early Modern England |
| | | | Neil Robertson | University of King’s College | Hamlet and the End of the Renaissance |
| | | | John Norton | Concordia University Irvine | Tragic Simplification & The Merchant of Venice |
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| | 7f | The Places of Higher Education | Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill (ch) | Bipartisan Policy Center | Reflections on Michael Oakeshott’s A Place of Learning |
| | | | Shannon Watkins | The Martin Center for Academic Renewal | The Spider and the Bee: Universities Must Put Modern Tools in the Service of Ancient Wisdom |
| | | | Chris Snyder | Mississippi State University | Augustine and Boethius on the Liberal Arts |
| | | | Eric Bontempo | Abilene Christian University | Public Rhetoric in Newman’s The Idea of a University |
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| | 7g | Art as/and Text | Susan Matassa (ch) | University of Dallas | Child-like Love in Crashaw’s “Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa” |
| | | | Clinton Armstrong | Concordia University Irvine | Here We Go Round: Reception of Ovid in Art and Core Text |
| | | | Anne Ruszkiewicz | Sullivan County Community College | The Bayeux Tapestry: the Mystery and Motives of Place |
| | | | Dolan Kay | University of Dallas | The Philosophy of Music in O’Connor’s “Revelation” |
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| Session 8 | Saturday, 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm | | | | |
| | 8a | Bodies, Minds, and and Norms | Jarret Carty | Concordia University | The Heart and William Harvey in Descartes’s Discourse on Method |
| | | | Daniel Murphy | St.Peter’s University | Hegel, Mind and Norms |
| | | | Peter Wake | St. Edward’s University | Kant, Hegel, and the Ethics of Place |
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| | 8b | Literary Invention and Form | Michael Riggins | Baylor University | Something Understood’: Metaphor and the Riddle Tradition in George Herbert’s ‘Prayer (I)’ |
| | | | Annemarie Krall | University of Dallas | The Place of Jane Austen in Understanding Xenophon |
| | | | Mark Walter | Aurora University | “The Play’s the Thing”: representing theatricality in two early films by Jacques Rivette |
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| | 8c | Sentiment, Value, and Commerce | Daniel Nuckols | Austin College | Challenges to Reason and Sentiment in Current Economic Life |
| | | | Simon Frazier | Independent Scholar | Nietzschean Economics: A Reevaluation of Modern Economic Values |
| | | | Michael Dink | St. John’s College | Pascal on Amour-Propre and Smtih on the Desire for Approbation |
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| | 8d | Freedom, Place, and Politics | David Dolence | Dominican University | Outside Place and Time: Tocqueville’s Democratic Odyssey |
| | | | Enjie Lin | Baylor University | Freedom in Rousseau’s Pure State of Nature |
| | | | Gabe Whitbread | Duke University | Punishment and Political Community in Locke’s Second Treatise |
| | | | Michael Ditmore | Pepperdine University | Sourcing Ultimate Authority for Revolution: Jephthah in Locke’s Second Treatise |