2nd Annual Braniff Undergraduate 会议 in the Liberal Arts | 的 Good Life | 10月. 11-12, 2019
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约书亚·帕伦斯博士.D.
Dr. Parens is the Braniff Graduate Dean and a Professor of Philosophy at the University 达拉斯. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. 他的 re搜索 interests include Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, metaphysics, Spinoza, and political philosophy.
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多尔蒂博士.D.
Dr. Dougherty is the Graduate Director of the Politics Program and an Associate Professor of Politics at the 正规博彩平台. He received his doctorate from the University 达拉斯. 他的 re搜索 interests include medieval political philosophy, Constitutionalism and American politics, the Presidency, and the American founding.
吉尔伯特·加尔扎博士.D.
Dr. Garza is the Graduate Director of the Psychology Program and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the 正规博彩平台. He received his doctorate from 杜肯大学. 他的 dissertation was entitled, Bodily Disappearance and Dys-appearance: An Empirical Phenomenological Investigation of Bodily Taking up a Task. This work sought to examine how the psychological literature of the body in action reveals a dualistic bias that prevents a faithful description of human embodied experience.
凯瑟琳·戴维斯博士.D.
Dr. Davis is an Assistant Professor of English at the 正规博彩平台. 她收到了 her doctorate from the 正规博彩平台. Her re搜索 interests include Jane Austen, Dante, and Shakespeare.
Fr. 托马斯·埃斯波西托，O. 石棺.
Fr. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of 的ology at the 正规博彩平台. He completed his doctorate in Biblical 的ology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute 在罗马. 他的 re搜索 interests include both the Old and New Testaments, Biblical Greek, and World Religions.
About the 会议
的 Braniff Graduate Student Association of the 正规博彩平台 is pleased to announce the second annual Braniff Undergraduate 会议 in the Liberal Arts. This conference aims to recover and renew the Western heritage of liberal arts and the Christian intellectual tradition in pursuit of 也就是幸福美好的生活. This year, the conference and the keynote panel ask, "What role does the distinctiveness of the disciplines play in the quest for truth?" If human flourishing requires the pursuit of truth, to which discipline should man turn? 或者，它通过了吗 the dialogue between multiple disciplines that truth is best approached? 什么 the answer to this tension--one particular discipline versus the dialogue between many--indicate about the nature of the human person?
的 conference will take place at the 正规博彩平台, located in Irving, TX.
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We invite juniors, seniors, and recent college graduates working in the liberal arts to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words. Preference will be given to papers and presentations conversant with the great texts of the Western tradition. We welcome presentations in liberal arts disciplines including—but not limited to—philosophy, literature, politics, theology, classics, fine art, history, education, psychology, and economics, and drawing from the classical, medieval, modern, or contemporary period.
提交摘要至 UDundergradconference@gmail.com. Please include a separate cover letter with your name, presentation title, email address, and institutional affiliation. If you would like to present a work of fine art, please contact the conference organizers for specific guidelines.
Abstracts are due no later than Thursday, August 1, 2019. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, August 16, and will be asked to submit their full papers or presentations, suitable for a 15 minute presentation (no more than 2500 words), by Monday, September 30, 2019.
会议计划
Previous 会议s
- 1st Annual BUCLA, 正规博彩平台 | Keynote Speaker: Susan Hanssen, Ph.D.