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2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Jessica Moss | Aristotle on Knowledge, Understanding, and the Goal of Learning
Response: Randall Curren

Moderator: Mark Jonas

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Champagne Reception | Dining Hall

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
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Concurrent Session I
Author-Meets-Critics | David Hansen, Reimagining the Call to Teach in Our Time (Teachers College Press)
Mark Jonas, Julia Novakowski, Gonzalo Obelleiro
Moderator: Alexander Loney

Author-Meets-Critics | Douglas Yacek, The Transformative Classroom: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Applications (Routledge)
Organized by Theory and Research in Education
Ryan Kemp, Mark Schroeder-Strong, Hannah Morgan, John Fantuzzo, Dini Metro-Roland
Moderator: Seamus Mulryan

Author-Meets-Critics | Rene Arcilla, Wim Wenders Road Movie Philosophy: Education without Learning (Bloomsbury)
Kevin Gary, Alexander (Sasha) Sidorkin, Matt Bridges
Moderator: Warren von Eschenbach

Paper Session A
Zachary Barber | Why Meditation Should Be Taught In Schools
Mark Herman | Improving Moral Decision-Making: A Course
Haley Dutmer | Moral Friendship Theory: Which Friendships Promote Moral Development?
Moderator: Emma Prendergast

Paper Session B
Matthew Farrelly | John Muir’s Philosophies of Education and Childhood: An Historical-Literary and Philosophical Examination of The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913)
Zeyi Zhang | Compulsion and the Education of the Soul in Plato’s Cave Allegory
Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi | Ambedkar, Dewey, and Differing Origins of the ‘Social’
Moderator: Brett Bertucio

Paper Session C
Josué Piñeiro | Colorblindness, Hermeneutical Marginalization and Hermeneutical Injustice
William Merrifield | Contextualizing Principles: Lebanon and Social Justice Perspectives on Disability Reform
Matt Ferkany & Lauren Bialystok | Can Open-Mindedness be Reconciled with Social Justice?
Moderator: Yoshiaki Nakazawa

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Hall

8:30 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Hall

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Hall

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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Concurrent Session II
Symposium | Religion, Race, and Representation in K-12 and Higher Education: Exploring Tensions Through Normative Case Studies
Lauren Bialystok, Nicholas Tanchuk, Caroline Tucker, Meira Levinson
Moderator: Matthew Farrelly

Authors-Meet-Critics | Paul Farber and Dini Metro-Roland, Why Teaching Matters: A Philosophical Guide to the Elements of Practice (Bloomsbury)
Kevin Gary, Seamus Mulryan, Megan Laverty
Moderator: Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi

Author-Meets-Critics | Mark Jonas & Yoshiaki Nakazawa, A Platonic Theory of Moral Education (Routledge)
Matt Berk, Avi Mintz, Julian Rome, Mason Marshall
Moderator: Ryan Kemp

Paper Session A
Drew Chambers | The False Promise of an Open Future: Examining the Relationship Between Cognitive Goods and Educational Aims
Darren Corpe | Supporting Multidimensional Autonomy as an Educational Aim
Lindsey Schwartz | The Influence of Parenting on College Student Success & What Universities Should Do in Light of It
Moderator: Shannon Brick

Paper Session B
Alina Ahmed | Voluntourism and Epistemic Injustice: How Educational Institutions Benefit Credibility Excess
Dennis Arjo | Academic Freedom for Students
Christopher Martin | Educational Institutions and Indoctrination
Moderator: Gonzalo Obelleiro

Paper Session C
Emily Wenneborg | In Search of an Adequate Response to Pluralism: A Critical Analysis of Liberalism in Philosophy of Education
John Fantuzzo | Recognizing Human Dignity Behind Bars: A Moral Justification for College-in-Prison Programs
Emma Prendergast | Is Concerted Cultivation Good Parenting? An Educational Perspective
Moderator: Calvin Woodring

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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Concurrent Session III
Symposium | Beyond Tenure-Track: Philosophical and Practical Reflections on Alternate Possibilities for Life in the Academy
Gregory Morrison, Warren von Eschenbach, Jordan Rodgers, Jacob Affolter, Madeline Urban
Moderator: Mark Jonas

Editors-Meet-Critics | Megan Laverty & David Hansen (eds.), A History of Western Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury)
Adam Wood, Robbie McClintock, Stefano Oliverio, Nicholas Burbules
Moderator: Christopher Martin

Panel | Classical Education Against its Critics and Supporters
Kirsten Welch, Emily Wenneborg, Brett Bertucio, Eileen Reuter
Moderator: Lauren Bialystok

Panel | Ethical Teaching at the University: A Case Study Discussion on Pedagogy and Inclusivity
Rosette Cirillo, Harry Brighouse, Matthew Farrelly, Anna Katherine Nelson, Ria Dhingra
Moderator: Julian Rome

Paper Session A
Olga Lenczewska | Rawls’s Kantian Account of Moral Development in A Theory of Justice
Sara Hardman | Sexism in Justifications for Teacher Strikes
Gonzalo Obelleiro | Cosmopolitan Education, Impermanence, and Interconnectedness from a Buddhist Perspective
Moderator: Mason Marshall

Paper Session B
Julia Novakowski | Analyzing Teacher-Student Relationships in the Works of John Dewey
Calvin Woodring | Managing Expectations: The Project Method and Ends in Aesthetic Experience
Tom Martin | A Case for Craft as Liberal Learning
Moderator: Matt Ferkany

Paper Session C
Randall Curren | Children of the Broken Heartlands: Rural Isolation and the Geography of Opportunity
Rena Goldstein & Darby Vickers | Narrowing the Philosophy Gender Gap by Building Skills and Community
Tony Laden | The Social Costs of a College Education
Moderator: Yoshiaki Nakazawa

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch | Dining Hall

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

South Residence Living Room

Free Time

Roundtable Sessions (Works-in-Progress)
Leigh Duffy | Using Yoga to Teach Philosophy
Discussant: Gonzalo Obelleiro

Alexander (Sasha) Sidorkin | Sin and the Authoritative Discourse in Education
Discussant: Rene Arcilla

Matthew Dominguez | J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Imagination, and Spiritual Formation in On Fairy Stories
Discussant: Matthew Farrelly

Alexander Wolfram | Educational Goals in the Socratic Great Books Method
Discussant: Brett Bertucio

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Plenary Keynote Lecture
Meghan Sullivan | Love and Attention in Pedagogy: Three Models of the "Instructional Gaze" and their Moral Questions
Respondent: David Bakhurst

Moderator: Sheron Fraser-Burgess

6:45 PM - 8:15 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Hall

8:15 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Hall

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Hall

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture

Getting in and Getting Through: Equity in Higher Education
Meira Levinson | Merit, Wealth, and the Ethics of Highly Selective College Admissions in an Era of Hyper-Inequality
Harry Brighouse | Instructional Quality Is the Most Important and Most Neglected Equity Issue on Campus

Moderator: Kevin Gary

10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
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Concurrent Session IV
Author-Meets-Critics | Mason Marshall, Reading Plato's Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry: Exploring Socrates' Use of Protreptic for Student Engagement (Routledge)
Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Drew Chambers, Mark Jonas, Alexander Loney
Moderator: Mark Jonas

Editors-Meets-Critics | Maughn Gregory and Megan Laverty (eds.), Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher (Routledge)
Sheron Fraser-Burgess, David Bakhurst, Harry Brighouse
Moderator: Meira Levinson

Paper Session A
Shannon Brick | Show, Don't Tell: A Gricean Account
Kaley White-Ciluffo | “Even as We Grieved, We Grew:” Toward Posttraumatic Growth via Trauma-Informed Mentorship
Grant Brown | Philosophical Roleplaying: A Study of High School Debate Pedagogy with Deleuze’s Spinoza
Moderator: Matthew Farrelly

Paper Session B
Evan Dutmer | A Model for a Living, Global Virtue Ethics Curriculum
Kirsten Welch | Educating Gratitude "For": Understanding Gratitude in Terms of Fittingness
Avi Mintz | What We Talk About When We Talk About Punishments and Consequences
Moderator: Mark Herman

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch | Conference Center

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Closing Convocation | Room 202