JOHN DEWEY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING 2017 SAN ANTONIO, TX

The John Dewey Society Annual Meeting: 2017 

Thursday, April 27 2017 Henry B. Gonzalez Center 

Room 5

Conference Theme:

Creative Democracy - The Task Before Us in the Era of Clinton v. Trump

Founded in 1935, when American education was under attack from the right, the Society aimes to keep alive John Dewey's commitment to critical and reflective intelligence in approaching pressing problems in education and culture. It is fitting, then, at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump, that we come together to reflect on its implications for democratic life.

What are the challenges to a vibrant and healthy democratic life? In an essay late in life, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us” John Dewey argued that democracy was more than a political institution; it was a way of life - as dependent upon family, friendship, the school, the economy, and other strands in the fabric of civil society as on the government.

Today, in many countries including our own, democracy is under attack. Anti-democratic leaders at home and abroad stir the pot of mistrust and hate. The Secretary of Education promises to undo our commitment to the common school. It is appropriate, therefore, to return to Dewey and consider anew how democratic life and democratic education can be reclaimed.


Pre-Conference Workshop | 8am-12pm

Session 1: Theorizing Democratic Education (Roudy Hildreth, Chair) | 8am-9:45am

This panel discussion explores how Deweyan theories of democracy and education can help us make sense of and respond to the current political and educational situation. Recent events have renewed our focus on the relationship between democracy and education. Indeed, it appears that positive connections between democracy and education are under strain. We have witnessed how social media preys on Americans’ low levels of political knowledge, creating narrow channels for the flow information, and increasingly, disinformation. We have witnessed increasingly polarized political discourse and the rise of anti-democratic sentiments. We have witnessed attacks on public education. This panels gathers three outstanding scholars who will offer Deweyan interpretations of the current situation, and in his spirit, are also able speak to concerns of democratic education in practice.

Panelists:

Walter Parker, University of Washington

Paula McAvoy, University of Wisconsin Madison Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University, Ohio (Other panelists to be announced)

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Session 2: Teaching About Democratic Education (Amy Shuffleton, Organizer) | 10am-11:45 am

The panel discusses approaches to teaching about “democracy and education” and works towards some common insights. While each panelist engages with John Dewey’s ideas, the workshop focuses upon democracy and education, not Dewey’s book by that title. This workshop engages with what it means pedagogically to treat creative democracy as the task before us in higher education. While developed against the background of Trump v. Clinton, and addressing current events, workshop concerns extend beyond the recent election cycle.

Panelists:

Sue Ellen Henry, Bucknell University

Kathy Hytten, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Amy Shuffelton, Loyola University

Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati

Kurt Stemhagen, Virginia Commonwealth University, Chair and Discussant

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Regular Annual JDS Meeting

JDS Symposium: Creative Democracy: Democratic Education in the Era of Clinton v. Trump | 12noon - 145pm

The panelists, all leading educational thinkers, consider the lessons to be drawn from the recent election and Trump presidency for the reconstruction of democratic education.

Panelists:

Peter Levine, Tufts University

Walter Parker, University of Washington

Winston Thompson, University of New Hampshire

Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin

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School and Society Forum | 2pm-3:45pm

Communities in Schools San Antonio (CISSA) and the John Dewey Society are proud to host the seventh annual School & Society Forum. The forum is a public space embracing dialogue, interaction, and deliberation concerning school and society issues across multiple stakeholders—P-16 teachers, policymakers, administrators, scholars, parents, students, community educators, & interest groups—drawing upon John Dewey’s commitments to democratic schooling. Students, parents, and CISSA organizers will lead a panel discussion about issues facing the San Antonio community.

Kyle Greenwalt, John Vasquez, Lauren Geraghty, & Jessica Landgraf, Organizers

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JDS Dewey Lecture: Harry Boyte | 4pm-5:45pm

Citizen Politics and Democratic Change in the Age of Trump: Beyond the Manichean Model

Harry Boyte is one of today’s most prominent democratic theorists and activists. He has worked with many foundations, and non-profit educational, and citizen organizations in the United

States and abroad concerned with community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal. In the 1960s, he worked for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the Civil Rights Movement.

Boyte is the author of nine books on citizenship, democracy, and community organizing, and his writings have appeared in more than 100 publications including the New York Times, Perspectives on Politics, Kettering Review, and the Wall Street Journal.

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JDS Reception | 6pm - 7:30pm

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Friday, April 28 2017 Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center | Room 5 Meetings and Working Sessions l 8am-12 noon

Emerging Scholar Working Session (Melissa Bradleyi) | 8am-9am

Education and Action Working Group (Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Harry Boyte) | 9am-10:30am

JDS Executive Board and Directors Meeting (Leonard Wak and Peter Nelsen) | 10:30am–11:45 am

Regular Conference Sessions Dewey and Philosophy Panel I | 12noon -1:45pm

Creative Integration and Pragmatist Optimism: Dispositions for the Task Before Us,

Barbara S. Stengel, Vanderbilt University

Creative Democracy, Equality, and Religion: Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Pragmatic Reconstruction of Buddhism, Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin

Mindfulness and Creative Democracy, Kyle Greenwalt and Cuong Nguyen, Michigan State University

The (Im)Possibilities of Realizing Dewey’s Vision in the Age of Trump: Towards More Creative Democracy, Roudy Hildreth, University of Colorado Boulder

Chair: A.G. Rud, Washington State University

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Dewey through the Generations Panel (Jessica Heybach, Chair) | 2pm -3:30pm Challenges for Democracy: New Developments and Tendencies

The Secularism that Divides Us: Reframing Dewey’s Conception of Moral Education

Alexander T. K. Elnabli, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fordham University

Democratic Faith, Chanhee Lee, Vincennes University

Preserving Dialogue and Democratic Ideals: John Dewey and Philosophy for Children,

Charles Royal Carlson, Sam Houston State University Respondant: Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University BREAK

Dewey and Philosophy Panel II | 3:45pm - 5:15pm

Dewey’s Pragmatism and Contemporary Challenges of Media and Democracy

Lance E. Mason, Indiana University Kokomo

Dear Democracy, The 2016 Presidential Election, Love Philosophy, Daniel A. Lilly, Florida State University

Creating the Conditions for a Creative , Democracy: John Dewey and D.W. Winnicott on Democratic Living, Jane Blanken-Webb, University of Eastern Finland

Chair: A.G. Rud, Washington State University

JDS Business Meeting | 5:20pm- 6:30pm

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JOHN DEWEY SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING

THURSDAY, APRIL 27- FRIDAY, APRIL, 28

HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER | ROOM 5

SAN ANTONIO TEXAS

CREATIVE DEMOCRACY - THE TASK BEFORE US IN THE ERA OF CLINTON V. TRUMP

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
Theorizing Democratic Education | 8am-9:45am
Walter Parker, University of Washington
Paula McAvoy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University, Ohio
Roudy Hildreth, University of Colorado-Boulder, Chair

Teaching About Democratic Education | 10am-11:45 am
Sue Ellen Henry, Bucknell University
Kathy Hytten, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Amy Shuffelton, Loyola University
Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati
Kurt Stemhagen, Virginia Commonwealth University, Discussant

JDS SYMPOSIUM
Creative Democracy: Democratic Education in the Era of Clinton v. Trump | 12pm-1:45pm
Peter Levine, Tufts University
Walter Parker, University of Washington
Winston Thompson, University of New Hampshire
Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Leonard Waks, Temple University, Chair

School and Society Forum with Communities in Schools San Antonio| 2pm-3:45pm
John Vasquez
Lauren Geraghty
Jessica Landgraf
Kyle Greenwalt, Michigan State University, Chair

DEWEY LECTURE
Harry Boyte | 4:15pm-5:45pm
Citizen Politics and Schools as Civic Centers: “Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?”

DEWEY RECEPTION 6:15 - 7:30 pm
Everyone Welcome

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017

Emerging Scholar Working Session | 8am-9am
Education and Action Working Group | 9am-10:30am 
JDS Executive Board and Directors Meeting |10:30am–11:45am

REGULAR CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Dewey and Philosophy Panel I | 12pm-1:45pm
Creative Integration and Pragmatist Optimism: Dispositions for the Task Before Us
Barbara S. Stengel, Vanderbilt University
Creative Democracy, Equality, and Religion: Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Pragmatic Reconstruction of Buddhism
Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin
Mindfulness and Creative Democracy
Kyle Greenwalt and Cuong Nguyen, Michigan State University
The (Im)Possibilities of Realizing Dewey’s Vision in the Age of Trump: Towards More Creative Democracy
Roudy Hildreth, University of Colorado Boulder
A.G. Rud, Washington State University, Chair

Dewey through the Generations Panel | 2pm -3:30pm
Challenges for Democracy: New Developments and Tendencies
The Secularism that Divides Us: Reframing Dewey’s Conception of Moral Education
Alexander T. K. Elnabli, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fordham University
In the Surge of Authoritarianism: Democratic Faith
Chanhee Lee, Vincennes University
Preserving Dialogue and Democratic Ideals: John Dewey and Philosophy for Children
Charles Carlson, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sam Houston State University
Respondent: Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University
Jessica Heybach, Aurora University, Chair

Dewey and Philosophy Panel II | 33:45pm - 5:15pm
Dewey’s Pragmatism and Contemporary Challenges of Media and Democracy
Lance E. Mason, Indiana University-Kokomo
Dear Democracy, The 2016 Presidential Election, Love Philosophy
Daniel A. Lilly, Florida State University
Creating the Conditions for a Creative, Democracy: John Dewey and D.W. Winnicott on Democratic Living
Jane Blanken-Webb, University of Eastern Finland
A.G. Rud, Washington State University, Chair

 JDS Business Meeting | 5:20pm- 6:30pm

JDS Emerging Scholars Working Group Session Announcement

ESWG Session Announcement

The John Dewey Society invites emerging scholars (whether inside or outside of the academy) to attend a special session at the JDS annual meeting, held in conjunction with AERA (Friday April 28, 2017, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 5). At the session, emerging scholars will discuss their interests in the society and learn about opportunities available for them within JDS, and its affiliate organizations. For those interested, they may join the emerging scholars working group. The session will be led by ESWG member Melissa Bradford, whose biography is included at the end of announcement.

The Emerging Scholars Working was established at the John Dewey Society in Philadelphia on April 3, 2014, which was held in conjunction with the Annual Meetings of the John Dewey Society and American Education and Research Association.

Over the last 3 years, the ESWG has:

•      Recruited new student members

•      Significantly expanded the network of emerging scholars, through events, online communication, and academic opportunities.

•      Helped coordinate a panel on Dewey, Higher Education, and Anti-Colonialism at the Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy and Education.

•      Helped develop the new format for the Journal of School & Society. Many members are now on the editorial board of S&S.

•      Helped develop the new journal Dewey Studies, the only journal solely devoted to Dewey’s philosophy.

•      Jared Kemling, the ESWG Publications Officer, has continued his work helping emerging scholars find publishing opportunities and editorial experience. He is also currently an associate editor of the Dewey Society Journals S&S and Dewey Studies.

•      Initiated and organized the Dewey Through Generations panel at the annual meeting for 3 years.

•      Helped prepare and coordinate the Centennial Celebration of D&E Conference.

•      Helped create and coordinate the Editors Roundtable Session at the annual meeting in 2016.

Melissa Bradford Biography:

Melissa Riley Bradford is a founder of Tallgrass Sudbury School in Riverside, IL and an adjunct science and math instructor at Joliet Junior College. She also conducts STEM and student-centered education workshops in Beijing, China on behalf of DePaul University. Her research interests include soka (value-creating) pedagogy, Makiguchi and Ikeda Studies, dialogue, democratic education, and alternative education models. Bradford is currently working on her doctoral dissertation in curriculum studies at DePaul University, focusing on the role of dialogue in value creating education. She is a recipient of the 2015-17 Ikeda Center Education Fellowship.

Why XY? Leveraging Positive Role Models to Empower At-Risk, Young Minority Males to Aim High

The John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture

& Communities In Schools San Antonio

Cordially invite you to join in the

7th Annual School & Society Forum

Why XY?

Leveraging Positive Role Models to Empower At-Risk, Young Minority Males to Aim High

Intent: The forum is a public space embracing dialogue, interaction, and deliberation concerning school and society issues across multiple stakeholders—P-16 teachers, policymakers, administrators, scholars, parents, community educators, & interest groups—drawing upon John Dewey’s commitments to democratic schooling. Students, parents,

and CIS-SA organizers will lead a panel discussion about issues facing the San Antonio community.

Panel Presentation: The panel discussion at the AERA Conference will focus on the Communities In Schools-San Antonio model, the XY-Zone Site Coordinators and XY-Zone students from local high schools

Panelist: 

Jessica Weaver – President and CEO, 

Tara Lazaro – Field Manager, 

Gustavo Gonzalez – XY Zone Site Coordinator, 

Christian Guerra – XY Zone Site Coordinator 

and students from local high schools and the XY Zone participants

When: Thursday, April 27, 2:00pm-3:45pm

Where: River Level, Room 5, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 900 E. Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205

Organized by:

Kyle Greenwalt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Teacher Education

Michigan State University

Lauren Geraghty

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Communities In Schools

San Antonio, TX

John Vasquez

Ph.D. Student

Educational Administration

Michigan State University

Jessica Landgraf

Ph.D. Student

Education Policy

Michigan State University

                                                 Communities In Schools of San Antonio

Communities In Schools of San Antonio (CIS-SA) is part of the nation’s largest and most effective dropout prevention organization, empowering students to succeed in school and achieve in life. Operating in 99 schools in 11 school districts, CIS-SA serves thousands of young people and their families each year. Based directly inside schools, Communities in Schools of San Antonio connects students and their families to basic and critical educational and community-based resources, tailored to each student’s specific needs. Learn more about Communities in Schools of San Antonio at www.cissa.org.

About the XY-Zone:

The XY-Zone was created in response to the troubling and persistent trend of academic disengagement and underachievement among young minority males. Serving adolescent males in grades 9-12 who are at-risk of dropping out, the XY-Zone aims to address these issues through a comprehensive program that imparts responsibility, leadership, and character, while providing critical social, academic, and behavioral support.

The 2017 John Dewey Society Annual Meeting Program Schedule

John Dewey Society Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 27 - Friday April 28 2017

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center | Room 5

Conference Theme:

Creative Democracy - The Task Before Us in the Era of Clinton v. Trump

Founded in 1935, when American education was under attack from the right, the Society aims to keep alive John Dewey's commitment to critical and reflective intelligence in approaching pressing problems in education and culture. It is fitting, then, at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump, that we come together to reflect on its implications for democratic life.    

What are the challenges to a vibrant and healthy democratic life? In an essay late in life, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us” John Dewey argued that democracy was more than a political institution; it was a way of life - as dependent upon communication and mutuality within families, friendships, schools, churches, workplaces, and other strands of civil society as on the government.

Today, in many countries including our own, democracy is under attack. Anti-democratic leaders at home and abroad stir the pot of mistrust and hate among social groups. The Secretary of Education promises to undo our commitment to the common school. It is appropriate, therefore, to return to Dewey and consider anew how democratic life and democratic education can be reclaimed.   

Thursday, April 27

Pre-Conference Workshop | 8am-12pm

Session 1: Theorizing Democratic Education (Roudy Hildreth, Chair) | 8am-9:45am

This workshop discussion explores how we might theorize democratic education in the current political and educational situation. Recent events have renewed our focus on the relationship between democracy and education. The positive connections between democracy and education are under strain. We have witnessed how social media preys on Americans’ low levels of political knowledge, creating narrow channels for the flow information, and increasingly, disinformation. We have witnessed increasingly polarized political discourse and the rise of anti-democratic sentiments, as well as attacks on public education. This workshop gathers outstanding scholars who will offer insights on the role of civic learning, broadly understood, in this current context. What should be the goals of civic learning? What qualities do we want young people, college students, and professionals to develop? What is the relationship between civic learning and broader social institutions? What are the best methods to meet these individual and social goals? And finally, underscoring these questions, what is the relationship between theory and practice in theorizing democratic education?

Panelists:

Walter Parker, University of Washington

Paula McAvoy, University of Wisconsin Madison

Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Miami University, Ohio

(Other panelists to be announced)

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Session 2: Teaching About Democratic Education (Amy Shuffelton, Organizer) | 10am-11:45 am

The panel discusses approaches to teaching about “democracy and education” and works towards some common insights. While each panelist engages with John Dewey’s ideas, the workshop focuses upon democracy and education, not Dewey’s book by that title. This workshop engages with what it means pedagogically to treat creative democracy as the task before us in higher education. While developed against the background of Trump v. Clinton, and addressing current events, workshop concerns extend beyond the recent election cycle. 

Panelists:

Sue Ellen Henry, Bucknell University

Kathy Hytten, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Amy Shuffelton, Loyola University

Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati

Kurt Stemhagen, Virginia Commonwealth University, Chair and Discussant

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Regular Annual JDS Meeting Sessions

JDS Symposium:

Creative Democracy: Democratic Education in the Era of Clinton v. Trump | 12noon - 145pm

The panelists, all leading educational thinkers, consider the lessons to be drawn from the recent election and Trump presidency and the tasks before us in reconstructing democratic education.

Panelists:

Peter Levine, Tufts University

Walter Parker, University of Washington

Winston Thompson, University of New Hampshire

Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin

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School and Society Forum (Kyle Greenwalt, Chair) | 2pm-3:45pm

Communities in Schools San Antonio (CISSA) and the John Dewey Society are proud to host the seventh annual School & Society Forum. The forum is a public space embracing dialogue, interaction, and deliberation concerning school and society issues across multiple stakeholders—P-16 teachers, policymakers, administrators, scholars, parents, students, community educators, & interest groups—drawing upon John Dewey’s commitments to democratic schooling. Students, parents, and CISSA organizers will lead a panel discussion about issues facing the San Antonio community.

Kyle Greenwalt, John Vasquez, Lauren Geraghty, & Jessica Landgraf, Organizers

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JDS Dewey Lecture: Harry Boyte | 4pm-5:45pm

Harry Boyte is one of today’s most prominent democratic theorists and activists.  He has worked with many foundations, and non-profit educational, and citizen organizations in the United States and abroad concerned with community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal. In the 1960s, he worked for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the Civil Rights Movement.

Boyte is the author of nine books on citizenship, democracy, and community organizing, and his writings have appeared in more than 100 publications including the New York Times, Perspectives on Politics, Kettering Review, and the Wall Street Journal.

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JDS Reception | 6pm - 7:30pm

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Friday, April 28 2017

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center | Room 5

Meetings and Working Sessions | 8am-12 noon

Emerging Scholar Working Session (Melissa Bradleyi) | 8am-9am

Education and Action Working Group (Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Harry Boyte) | 9am-10:30am

JDS Executive Board and Directors Meeting (Leonard Waks and Peter Nelsen) | 10:30am–11:45 am

Regular Conference Sessions

Dewey and Philosophy Panel I (A.G. Rud, Chair)| 12noon -1:45pm

Creative Integration and Pragmatist Optimism: Dispositions for the Task Before Us

Barbara S. Stengel, Vanderbilt University

Creative Democracy, Equality, and Religion: Bhimrao Ambedkar’s Pragmatic Reconstruction of Buddhism

Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin

Mindfulness and Creative Democracy

Kyle Greenwalt and Cuong Nguyen, Michigan State University

The (Im)Possibilities of Realizing Dewey’s Vision in the Age of Trump: Towards More Creative Democracy

Roudy Hildreth, University of Colorado Boulder

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Dewey through the Generations Panel (Jessica Heybach, Chair) | 2pm -3:30pm

Challenges for Democracy: New Developments and Tendencies

The Secularism that Divides Us: Reframing Dewey’s Conception of Moral Education

Alexander T. K. Elnabli, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fordham University

In the Surge of Authoritarianism: Democratic Faith

Chanhee Lee, Vincennes University

Respondent: Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University

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Dewey and Philosophy Panel II (A.G. Rud, Chair)| 3:45pm - 5:15pm

Dewey’s Pragmatism and Contemporary Challenges of Media and Democracy

Lance E. Mason, Indiana University Kokomo

Dear Democracy, The 2016 Presidential Election, Love Philosophy

Daniel A. Lilly, Florida State University

Creating the Conditions for a Creative, Democracy: John Dewey and D.W. Winnicott on Democratic Living

Jane Blanken-Webb, University of Eastern Finland

JDS Business Meeting | 5:20pm- 6:30pm

Summer Seminar on the Future of Philosophical Practice

CALL FOR PAPERS

Summer Seminar on the Future of Philosophical Practice:

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Friday July 14, 2017—Sunday July 16, 2017

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS is Sunday April 9, 2017

We invite abstract submissions (600 words) to read a 30-minute paper on the Main Program. The local hosts are Brian E. Butler and Grace Campbell. They are collecting the 600-word abstracts for committee consideration. Please submit your proposals to his address (bbutler@unca.edu). He can also answer questions about local accommodations. 

“Come on down a day or two early – Asheville is beautiful in early June!”

Theme:

This summer seminar brings together a “continental congress” of philosophers, and other related stakeholders, to discuss the future of philosophical practice (within and beyond the academy).

We are interested in any paper proposal that engages with our theme, broadly construed. 

For example:

• Genealogies of the problems facing professional philosophy

• Philosophy beyond the traditional philosophy department

• The economics of practicing philosophy (e.g. philosophical coaching, and other models)

• The role of public philosophy in an uncertain age

• Intersectional, decolonized, and other alternatives to mainstream philosophy

• Reading, Teaching, Practice: Philosophical Curriculum in the Twenty First Century

In addition to our regular conference schedule, other activities are planned such as:

a Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) panel. SOPHIA will host a panel intended to introduce people to what we do. SOPHIA’s mission is to build communities of philosophical conversation, locally, nationally, and online. We will invite key local community members to come talk about “Ethics at the End of Life.” We will begin our discussion with a short reading: “It’s Over Debbie,” on the basis of which we will all be on the same page. For more information about SOPHIA and our panel, visit PhilosophersInAmerica.com, or

email Executive Director Eric Thomas Weber at etweber@gmail.com.

a Graduate Philosophy Pilot Program Working Group: a working group, meeting throughout the weekend, to plan the foundations for a new pilot graduate philosophy program. The goal is to create a program that can address the structural, fiscal, and economic problems facing the current professional model of doing philosophy. The working group will create a steering committee to continue after the meeting. The Graduate

Philosophy Pilot Program Workshop will start with an evening introductory meeting on Thursday July 13, 2017. If you are interested in participating in the working group contact Eli Kramer at: Eliornerkramer@gmail.com;

and The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought (AIPCT) (www.americanphilosophy.net) will host an informational and discussion panel about the future of cultural thought, as a whole, led by Randall Auxier of Southern Illinois University Carbondale.