Spring 2011 Graduate Roundtable
The Graduate Roundtable is a reading group for graduate students which explores readings that in some way foster a nexus of religion and academic discourse. This nexus will involve times when religious thought informs the wider scholarly conversation and vice versa. Centrally, we are interested in thinking about where there is room for religious thought (in its many forms) to be at play in the substantive areas of conversation in the academy. The common thread that connects all this will be an effort to look into the concept of the human. And while our focus will be in the humanities and social sciences, we think that the issues we will discuss will have relevance across all disciplines.
Schedule All meetings will be held at 5pm.
Monday, January 24: Wendell Berry, “The Loss of the University”
Monday, February 21:
- Alasdair MacIntyre, “The End of Education: The Fragmentation of the American University”
- Stanley Fish, “One University Under God”
- John Sommerville, “Religion and the Public University”
Monday, March 21:
- Jonathon Kahn, “Jeffrey Stout’s Secular and the Liberal Arts”
- Charles Taylor, “The Meaning of Secularism”
- Annette Aronowicz, “Nothing Human is Foreign to Me”
Monday, April 11