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War and Peace as Liberal Arts

The twelfth annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts

February 21 - 23, 2013

 

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Speakers

Michael Walzer
Duncan Morrow
Helen Frowe

Sherman Jackson

Chris Eberle
Gerald Mast

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Concurrent Session Schedule

 

Friday, Feb 22 2:15

 

Adams 217


Ashley Padgett
The Christian Influence on the Adjusted Perceptions of Chemical Weapons

 

Stephen Contakes and Taylor Jashinsky
Chemistry, Social Responsibility and Modern Warfare

 

Adams 219


Matthew Beard
Virtuous Soldiers: A Role for the Liberal Arts? (Abstract)

 

Shannon French
Reducing Atrocities in Modern Combat Through Military Discipline and the Warrior’s Code of Honor

 

Winter 210


David Hoekema
Following War in Uganda: Lessons from Kony 2012

 

Paula Cronovich
The "NO" Campaign in Chile: Paving a Peaceful Transition to Democracy

 

Psychology Seminar Room


Joe Cole
Human Sacrifice in Walzer's Just War Theory (Abstract)

 

Cheryl Abbate
Assuming the Risk: A Critical Analysis of a Soldier's Duty to Prevent Collateral Damage (Abstract)

 

Math Seminar Room


Gary Tandy
Contemplation, Preparation, and Action: Peace Pilgrim's Prophetic Witness for our Time (Abstract)

 

Alden Stout
Pedagogy and Principled Thinking about War


Friday, Feb 22 3:30

 

Winter 106


Jeffry Davis
Albert Camus’ Response to a War-Torn World: the Embodiment of his Ethic in the Liberating Art of Drama

 

Marilyn McEntyre
Speaking Peace: Finding Words that Breach Walls

 

Winter 206


Hadassa Noorda
Travel Bans and Other Targeted Non-Physical Preventions of Terrorist Acts at the Interface of War and Peace (Abstract)

 

Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun
State of the Union: A Decade of Armed Drones (Abstract)

 

Winter 210


Nathanael Smith
Bringing the Women Home: Rape, Civil Society, and Spirituality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Abstract)

 

Cian O'Driscoll

Stoned Immaculate: Western Conceptions of Victory in War (Abstract)

 

Amit Ron
Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

 

Winter 212


Clay Cooke
Investing in Justice: How a Liberal Arts Education Indirectly Promotes Peace (Abstract)

 

Stephen Paul Kennedy
What Has Become of Humanity?

 

Winter 216


David Western
A Humanistic Approach to Peace: the Liberal Art and Peacemaking; a Critique and a Proposition (Abstract)

 

Kevin Walker
Education in the "Strenuous Life" (Abstract)

 

Math Seminar Room


Brian Jones
YHWH is a Warrior

 

Brant Himes
The Common Good and Just Peacemaking: Abraham Kuyper's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship for a Better Worldliness (Abstract)

 

Saturday, Feb 23 10:00

 

Winter 106


Robert Williams
Arts and Letters, War and Peace: What Poets and Painters Can Teach Us about International Politics (Abstract)

 

Ron Hirschbein
International Crises: a Hermeneutic Approach (Abstract)

 

Winter 206


Nolen Gertz
A New Approach to Military Professionalism: On the Need for 'Soldier-Artists'

 

Michaeleen Kelly
Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion

 

Winter 212


Bryanna Beauchamp , Julianna Carlson, Emily Keach, Kathryn Hopper, Zoe Newcomb
Jus Ad Bellum as a Deciding Factor in the 1983 U.S. Invasion of Grenada

 

Chris Costenbader, Curtis Donahoe, David Dry, Joshua Miller, Steve Harvey
Just War, National Interests, and the Iraq War

 

Winter 216


Judith Rood
A Shattered Order: The Apocalyptic Sublime and the Liberal Arts; an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

 

Khalil Dokhanchi and Karl Bahm
Teaching War and Peace in Bosnia (Abstract)

 

Math Seminar Room


Ed Higgins
George Fox and Narratives of Peace and Activism in the Quaker Tapestry (Images) (Abstract)

 

Kathy Heininge
Virginia Woolf, Quaker Pacifist?