Beyond the Academy: A Conference June 10-11, 2008

Beyond the Academy: Engaging Public LIfe

BEYOND THE ACADEMY: ENGAGING PUBLIC LIFE

Conference Program

Original Building
Arlington Campus of George Mason University
3401 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA
June 10-11, 2008

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

12:30-1:00     Registration

1:00         Welcome, Noëlle McAfee (rm. 251)

1:30-2:45     Engaged Universities (rm. 251)

Moderator: Scott Peters, Cornell University

“The Classroom as Public Space: Civic Mission and the Community College,” Emily Tai, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York

“The Academy as Public Agitator,” Chris Keegan, State University of New York, Oneonta

3:00-4:15     Public Humanities (rm. 251)

Moderator: Deborah Witte, Kettering Foundation

“Doing Theory in the ‘Hood: Civic Engagement and Anti-Urban Attitudes,” Sharon Meagher, University of Scranton

“Making History Something Someone Would Want to Know,” Chris Mackowski, St. Bonaventure University, and Kristopher White, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

4:30-5:15     Deliberation (rm. 251)

Moderator: Ramona Ilea, Pacific University

“Literary Studies and the Challenges and Opportunities in Text-Based Public Dialogue: The Project on Civic Reflection,” Martin Buinicki, Valparaiso University

“Laying Siege to the Pool of Reasons: Habermas and Antipolitics,” Joshua Miller, Penn State University

Discussant: Katy Harriger, Wake Forest University

5:15-6:45     Reception and Book Exhibit (rm. 245)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

8:30-9:00     Continental Breakfast (rm. 251)

9:00-10:30     Public Scholars & Public Policies (rm. 251)

Moderator: Sara Cobb, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

“The Economic Mobility Project: A Case Study of Collaboration between the Academy and Public Policy Groups,” Michael Boylan, Marymont University, and John Halpin, Center for American Progress

“Who Needs Philosophy: Applied Ethics Beyond the Academy,” Ellen Feder, American University

“Humanities and Public Policy,” Lawrence Rothfield, University of Chicago

Discussant: John Recchiuti, Mount Union College

10:45-Noon     Break-Out Groups

On Learning Civic Engagement, Annalisa Raymer, University of Alaska (rm. 245)

On Public Knowledge, Public Scholars and the International Literary Festival of Parati, Brazil, Mary B. Stanley, Independent Scholar (rm. 251)

12:30-1:45     Lunch with keynote by Dan Kemmis,
Center for the Rocky Mountain West (rm. 329)

2:00-3:15     Following Freire and Engaging Communities (rm. 251)

Moderator: R. Claire Snyder, George Mason University

“Informed Citizens and Citizens as Informants: Engaging Citizens in Creating Briefing Materials for Deliberative Events,” Tim Dawson, Carnegie-Mellon University

“Evaluating the Contribution of Transdisciplinary Action-Research to Theory and Practice: The Green Community Development in Indian Country Initiative and the “Survivor Community” Heuristic,” Susan Thering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Missing the Politics in the Economics; Why Economic Development Assistance Hasn’t Worked,” Ramon Daubon, Inter American Foundation

3:30-4:00     “Public Scholarship from the Public’s Point of View,”
David Mathews, Kettering Foundation (rm. 251)

4:00         Closing Thoughts

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