Interdisciplinary Studies at GC&SU
A conference exploring the connections between the Liberal Arts, civic reform, and the development of character. February 24-26, 2000
Sponsored by
the Interdisciplinary Studies Program
at
Georgia College & State University
with funding from
The Georgia Humanities Council
Conference Program
Quick Index
Thursday, February 24, 2000: 8:00 P.M. Opening Session: Pepetone Lecture/Recital
Friday: Plenary (Harrry Boyte), luncheon plenary (Rosemary DePaolo) , Concurrent Sessions I and II, breakout groups
Saturday: Plenary (Kathy Ashe), concurrent sessions
7:00 P.M. Registration and Reception A&S 2-56
8:00 P.M. Plenary: "A Chicken in Every Pot or a Piano in Every Parlor: A Fresh Look at the Authentic American Dream" ( Max Noah Recital Hall )
Gregory Pepetone is the artist-in-residence and associate professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies at GC&SU.
He performed with Leonard Bernstein in Carnegie Hall at the age of twelve, went on to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1963, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, from which he graduated with honors in 1969.
Upon completing his undergraduate studies at Oberlin, he received an Airlie Foundation Grant to study and concertize in England. He returned to the United States in 1979 to undertake graduate studies at the University of Iowa under John Simms.
Since earning his D.M.A. degree at Iowa, Pepetone has pursued an active career as a performer and scholar. In 1996 he won the American Music Teacher Article of the Year Award for a piece (on which his presentation is based) entitled "A Fresh Look at the Authentic American Dream." Pepetone received the American Music Teacher's Article of the Year Award again in 1999 for his "Gothic Perspectives on Beethoven" in the February/March issue of AMT.
In 1998 he received the Excellence in Artistic Endeavor and Outstanding Teaching Awards from GC&SU. As the interim coordinator of GC&SU's Interdisciplinary Studies faculty working group in 1996-1997, Pepetone was instrumental in helping to establish the IDST program at GC&SU.
8:00 A.M. Registration/Continental Breakfast A&S 2-56
Harry Boyte is senior fellow and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. He also was national coordinator for the New Citizenship, a bipartisan effort to bridge the citizen-government gap. He presented New Citizenship findings to President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and other administration leaders at a 1995 Camp David seminar on the future of democracy.
Most recently, Boyte was a senior adviser to the National Commission for Civic Renewal, headed by former Senator Sam Nunn and former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett.
In the 1960s, Boyte worked for Martin Luther King Jr. as a field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He has written seven books on community organizing, citizen action, and citizenship, including Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work and Commonwealth: A Return to Citizen Politics. His writings have appeared in over seventy publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.
His commentaries on democracy have appeared on National Public Radio and the CBS Evening News. Boyte holds a doctorate in political and social thought from the Union Institute.
10:15-10:30 Break A&S 2-56
10:30-12:00 Concurrent Sessions
I.Civic Virtue and Traditional Assumptions (A&S auditorium)
Chair: Deborah Vess, GC&SUJoseph Knippenberg, Oglethorpe University, "Liberal Education and Democratic Education: A Meditation"
Hank Edmondson, GC&SU, "Flannery O'Connor and Prudential Leadership: The Teachings of "The Lame Shall Enter First"
Gonzalo Sanchez, Boston University, "Cultivating Pity, Educating Pity"
II. Cultivating Humanity within the Democratic Community: Teaching Difference and Change (Atkinson 207)
Chair: Jane Rose, GC&SUViki Soady, Valdosta State University, "Whose Knowledge? A Postmodern, Feminist Re-vision of Plato's Republic"
Helen Wishart, Valdosta State University, "Feminist Classroom Strategies for Teaching Values and Diversity"
Catherine Badura, Valdosta State University, "Learning U.S. History in the Classroom and the Community"
III. Narrative Dialogs and Virtue (A&S 2-70)
Chair: John Sallstrom, GC&SUWilliam Monroe, University of Houston, "Stories and Character: Reading as the Performance of Virtue"
Steven Payne, GC&SU, "Applying Dialogic Ethics for Affirming Character"
Tina Yarborough, GC&SU, "Native American Kitsch: Ethical Aesthetics and Mass Culture"
12:00 Luncheon and Plenary session
Old Governor's Mansion, GC&SU campus
Speaker: GC&SU President Rosemary DePaolo
I.The Role of Performance and Theatre in Presenting Social Issues: A Round Table Discussion (A&S auditorium)
Chair: Beth Rushing, GC&SUScott Dillard, Fort Valley State University
Sydney Chalfa, Macon State College
Amy Burt, GC&SU
Jaehn Clare, Commercial Producer, WMAZ, Macon
II.The Role of Religion and Character Education (A&S 2-70)
Chair/respondent: William Morgan, GC&SU, former pastor of the First Presbyterian ChurchRev. Jeffrey Cave, Fort Valley State University, "The Ten Commandments in Moral Perspective,"
Carl Griffin, Georgia Perimeter College, "Shambala as Agent of Spiritual Transformation"
Deborah Vess, GC & SU, "Habitus and the Cultivation of Virtue: Musings on Aristotle, the Western Monastic Tradition and their Critics"
II. Literature, Humanity, and Learning (A&S 2-72)
Chair: Judith Kissell, GC&SU
Steven Engel, Georgia Southern University, "Teaching Literature in the Criminal Justice Curriculum: An Experiment"
Sam Stack, West Virginia University, "Humanity, Democracy and the Imagination"
Dee Russell, GC&SU, "How Proust Can Change Your Curriculum: The Transforming Power of Facts and Ideas"
3:15-3:30 Break A&S 2-56
3:30-5:00 Breakout Discussions on Martha Nussbaum's Cultivating Humanity
8:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast/Registration Kilpatrick Atrium
9:00 Plenary: Peabody Auditorium
The Honorable Kathy Ashe is a member of the Georgia State Legislature representing Fulton County District 46. Once a middle school teacher, she was first elected to the house in 1991, and reelected in 1992, 1994 and 1996.
She is the ranking Republican member of the House Education Committee, and also serves on the Banks & Banking, Education, MARTOC, and Natural Resources Committees.
She is an active member of the Women's Caucus and the Republican Caucus. Kathy Ashe has served in leadership roles in numerous community organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the Junior League of Atlanta, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the United Way of Atlanta, Vote Choice, the City of Atlanta Charter Review Commission, the City of Atlanta Child Care Task Force, the Children's School, the Central Health Center, the Fulton County Republican Executive Committee, and the Rhodes Hall Board.
She is also a member of Leadership Atlanta (1988), Regional Leadership Institute (1994), the Atlanta Women's Network, the Atlanta Civilian Review Board, the Komen Foundation, the Midtown Alliance, the Buckhead Business Association, the Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Planned Parenthood of Atlanta, and Georgia Citizens for the Arts. Kathy Ashe is a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Investigative (discipline) Panel and serves on the Governor's Privatization Commission.
Her legislative agenda has included revision of the Charter School law, revisions to the City of Atlanta's Charter, higher standards for teacher certification testing, and she was one of the supporters of the bill which authorized the creation of a Character Education Center in Georgia.
10:00-10:15 Break Kilpatrick atrium
10:15-11:45 Concurrent Sessions
I.Caring, Community, and Responsibility (Kilpatrick 226)
Chair: Martha Colvin, GC&SURoseanne Hoefel, Alma College, "Toward a Pedagogy of Engagement and Response-ability"
Mark Seals, Alma College, "Caring: A Cyclical Model"
Lucienne Bond Simon, "POW*WOW -- The Power of Wit, Wonder, and Wisdom in the Proactive Classroom"
II.Service Learning and Character (Kilpatrick 227)
Chair: Kendall Stiles, GC&SURespondents: members of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, Milledgeville
James Griffin, Drury University, "A Program for Service Learning"
Denise Overfield, State University of West Georgia, "Community-Based Learning in Georgia: A Conceptual Framework"
III. Transformative Learning (Kilpatrick 223)
Chair: Pete Carriere, GC&SUKarynne Kleine, GC&SU, "Using Emancipatory Learning as a Backdrop in Science Education"
Joy Farmer, Reinhardt College, "Perfect Lore Casts Out Fear: Katherine Anne Porter's "The Fig Tree""
Susan Lester, Reinhardt College, "Discovering a Voice: Freshman Composition and the Memoir"
11:45 informal gathering in the Kilpatrick atrium
Conference Committee:
- Dr. Deborah Vess, Chair; Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Associate Professor of History.
- Dr. Hank Edmondson, Professor of Political Science
- Dr. Steven Payne, Associate Professor of Management
- Dr. Beth Rushing, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Sociology
- Dr. Dee Russell, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
This conference is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and though appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.
