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Internationalization, corporatization, the impoverishment/diminishment of government funding, and legacies of religious involvement are among the challenges that are having an impact on Liberal Arts education. Such realities challenge the autonomy, accountability and perhaps even the integrity of Liberal Arts education. The focus of this conference is multidisciplinary; it will be of particular interest to faculty, students, and universities with a strong Liberal Arts component.
Three outstanding keynote speakers:
• Ronald Wright (Friday evening banquet and conference keynote)
• Dorothy Smith
• Phil McShane
Groups rates are available - please contact the conference organizers at the co-ordinates below.
A Google Map of St. Thomas University can be found at http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=ST.+Thomas+University
After noon Wednesday, if you are interested in registring for all or part of the conference should contact Dr. John Coates at jcoates@stu.ca
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| bold - Highlight activity | | Thursday, September 30, 2010 | | 6:30 PM-10:00 PM | Opening Registration |
| | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Keynote - Phil McShane - "Liberal Arts: the Heart of Future Science"
The title points us to the most up-to-date findings of neuroscience. Genuine science, which is a source of creativity and innovations in global humanity's life-style, is grounded in the neuromolecular transformations that are most familiar in the domain of aesthetic experience, of fantasy in the best sense. The present economic crisis, at root, is a failure of operative fantasy. Such moves as financial bailouts are unimaginative moves based on the stale and nominalist sciences that surround present failed economics: they have no lasting benefit. The long-term need is for the deep bailout that is to come from the salvific presence of liberal arts education. |
| | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Reception and Fine Arts Presentation |
| | | | Friday, October 01, 2010 | | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Presentations/Workshops |
| | Workshop 1 |
| | 1:30 PM-3:30 PM | Presentations/Workshops |
| | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM | Presentations/Workshops |
| | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Banquet and Keynote - Ronald Wright - "The Future of the Past: Escaping the Parochialism of the Present"
Ronald Wright is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. He gave the 2004 Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, looks at the modern human predicament in light of the 10,000-year experiment with civilization. His latest work - What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order - examines what Wright calls "the Columbian Age" and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium. |
| | | | Saturday, October 02, 2010 | | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM | Keynote - Dorothy Smith - Thinking it Through"
At a time when many universities in Canada are yielding to pressures to orient their educational practice toward serving the economy, St Thomas University persists in its commitment to social conscience, to critical thinking and to educational practices that orient to these. On an occasion that honours St Thomas’s centenary of these commitments, I want to draw on a couple of deeply transformative experiences of the power of critical thinking in my own life. These are: my experiences in the women’s movement particularly in the 1960s and 70s, and my reading of Edward Said’s Orientalism which transformed my understanding of racism.
It’s hard now to recover the depth of women’s exclusion from the intellectual, cultural and political life of western societies that survived until the period of the women’s movement. It was not men’s misogyny that brought this about, but the historical development of gender divergences in domesticity versus the newly developing public life in which men of a certain class participated (v. Habermas). Subjects and agents in the public realms were men and being a woman automatically excluded and silenced. Breaking with this in practices with other women and in my very self as an internalized mode of thought and belief was a major transformation in my life.
The second introduced me to myself as racist in a way I could never have anticipated. I probably thought I was clean until I read Edward Said’s Orientalism and learned of how just by partici |
| | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Presentations/Workshops |
| | 1:30 PM-3:00 PM | Presentations/Workshops |
| | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM | Closing Plenary: The Economics of the University |
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For more information on this event, please contact:
Dr. John Coates (Chair, Conference Planning Committee)
Phone: (506) 452-0502
Email: jcoates@stu.ca
Heather Mann (Conference Hospitality Manager)
Phone: (506) 452-9672
Fax: (506) 452-0611
Email: laconfhosting@stu.ca
Ms. Jeananne Knox (Department of Social Work)
Phone: (506) 452-0540
Fax: (506) 452-0611
Email: jknox@stu.ca
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