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Thursday, March 19
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3:00Board of Directors Meeting (by invitation)
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4:00Registration Opens
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6:00Opening Reception Sponsored by the Teagle Foundation
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7:00Dinner and Presidential Plenary, Prof. Molly McGrath, Assumption University
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Friday March 20
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7:30Breakfast
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SessionPanel TitleNameInstitutional AffiliationPaper Title
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8:15 - 9:45 Session One1aConfronting the Other, Ancient, Modern, and Right this MomentTuan HoangPepperdine UniversityTraumatized Passion and Political Violence: What Can Euripides' Medea Teach Us about American Polarized Political Culture Today?
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John RuffValparaiso University"Miss Sasagwara" by Hisaye Yamamoto: Required Reading for new I.C.E. Age
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Fabiola SaulCentros Culturales De Mexico (Universidad Panamericana)Strangers in Homer's Odyssey: A Way to Receive Migrants?
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1bPersistent Problems in Freedom’s Scope: Approaches to Protecting Liberty Across MilleniaRichard Rawls (chair)Georgia Gwinnett CollegeCicero’s Res Publica and Questions About Liberty’s Guarantees
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Greg CampFresno Pacific UniversityLessons for Democracy from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia`
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David MasonGeorgia Gwinnett College“What does it mean to have a President?”
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1c"Is Liberal Education itself an Ideology? Reflections Prompted by Molly McGrath's 2025 ACTC Plenary."Victor Udwin (chair)The University of TulsaHow reading Simonides’ "Epitaph to the Spartan Dead" might contribute to an anti-ideological education
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Molly McgrathAssumption UniversityRespondant
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Matthew OberriederRogers State University"Is Reading Plato’s Republic Liberal Education?"
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David TingeyThe University of Tulsa"The careful reading of a Grimms’ tale as an exercise of liberty: A defense of liberal education"
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1dAgainst Equality: The Freedom of Flourishing Humans and the AlternativesColin Redemer (chair)Saint Mary's College of CaliforniaAmerican Vitalism
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Louie BettyUniversity of Wisconsin-WhitewaterUnequal in Dignity: Pascal and the Cultivation of Intellect as the Source of Human Worthiness
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Eric EnlowLiberty UniversityEmpty Equality: Classical Legal Thinkers Against Equality as a Political Goal
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1eEssaying MontaigneJohn Colman (chair)Ave Maria UniversityMontaigne on Ancient Esotericism
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Margaret MatthewsAssumption UniversityMontaigne on the Happiness of the Philosophical Life
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Rene PaddagsAshland UniversityMontaigne's New God: A Reading of the Essais "Au Lecteur"
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1fDance Lessons: Between Heaven and Earth in Philosophy, Literature, and AstronomyElizabeth Reyes (chair) Thomas Aquinas College"Won't you dance?": The Falling and Rising of Being in Melville's Moby-Dick
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Melissa AustinIndependent ScholarBeauty as a Teacher In Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Erica JohnsonGraduate StudentEarth's Dance with the Heavens
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10:00 -12:30 Session Two2aFederalism, Law, and . . .David FerkalukClemson UniversityAn Approach to Properly Interpreting James Wilson's Lectures on Law
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Trent BunkerUniversity of DallasDiscourse or Data: Comparing Publius's Progressivism to Charles E. Merriam
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Nicholas HigginsNorth Greenville UniversityReviving Madison's Theory of Interposition as a state response to unconstitutional federal action
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Samuel ThompsonUniversity of Texas - AustinA Marathon, not a Sprint: Cicero on Running the Race of Life
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Michael CantrellUnited States Military AcademyFederalist 1: Reasoned Government, Fake News, and Free Speech
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2bOn Ancient Philosophic ScienceJames Guest (chair)Michigan State University"On Parva Naturalia and the Perspective of Aristotle's Philosophic Science."
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Thomas ClevelandJack Miller CenterImmediate Knowledge through Intellect and Prophecy in Aristotle
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Paul DiduchUniversity of Colorado, BoulderPlato's Protagoras' Myth of Prometheus and his Doctrine of Homomensura
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Gregory McBrayerAshland UniversityThe Harried Hellenic’s Handbook for Habituating Hounds to Hunt Hares
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Matthew WellsClemson UniversityAristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Timaeus
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2cPolitical Education (Sponsored by the Hertog Foundation)Cate Gangemi (chair)University of Texas at Austin, Political Theory PhD StudentHobbes on the Freedom from Politics
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Chloe BaldaufAmerican University The Mastiff and the Greyhound: Adam Smith on Educational Freedom and Equality
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Maura CowanUT Austin School of Civic LeadershipPublic Liberal Education and the Polis
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Amanda DorneyNew Saint Andrews CollegeSeeking Truth at Home and Abroad: On Travel in Rousseau's Emile
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Jordan DorneyNew Saint Andrews CollegePer plura unum: Liberty and Equality and the Permanent Task of Education
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2dInterpretation and CommunityBryan Whitfield (chair)Mercer UniversityHoward Thurman, Freedom, and the Search for Common Ground
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Jan HreskoPavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, SlovakiaEmmanuel Levinas’ understanding of freedom and great literary works
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Antony LyonUC San DiegoSelf-Evident Truths in the Poetry of Ada Limón
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Kathleen MarksSt. John's University“Be/ware the Furrow”: Agatha, Catherine, and Civic Interpretation in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
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Paul ShieldsAssumption UniversityNoah Allusions in Williams' "The Two-Character Play"
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2eExploring the Relationship Between Liberal Education and Civic EducationMaxim Botstein (chair)Bard CollgeRevisiting the Republic
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Stephanie Almeida NevinYale UniversityIs Socrates a Civic Educator?
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Paul CarreseArizona State UniversityTocqueville's Reflective Patriotism as a Pillar of an American Civics
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Thomas MerrillAmerican UniversityTBA
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James HooksThe Ohio State UniversityThe Bayle Problem: Two Approaches to Liberal and Civic Education in Pierre Bayle
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2fDemocracy in Tocqueville's AmericaJoseph Knippenberg (chair)Oglethorpe UniversityFranklin and Tocqueville on Education for Democracy
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David DolenceDominican UniversityTocqueville’s Tension Between Liberty and Equality: The New Political Science is Anchored to the Old
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Michelle KundmuellerOld Dominion UniversityModerating the Democracy: Atticus Finch, American Legal Rhetoric, and the Prospects for Moderating the Tyranny of the Majority
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2gPedagogical Possibilities
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Phillip AijianBiola UniversityMyself Am Hell: Poetic Simulations of Sin in Paradise Lost
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Patrick DownySt. Mary's College of CaliforniaOedipal Knowledge as Mastery
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Bretton RodriguezUniversity of California, San DiegoTeaching One Hundred Years of Solitude in the General Education Classroom
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Paul UlrichCarthage CollegeHuman Nature and the First Amendment
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