Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

5.1 Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy
in Historical Perspective
010 East Pyne
Chair: Ira Katznelson
Ewa Atanassow (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
Democracy, Liberal Education and Education
for Freedom in Tocqueville
Alan S. Kahan (Université de Versailles/St. Quentin)
Tocqueville and Liberal Education
Adam Davis (Center for Civic Reflection)
“A Nation of Supple Readers”? Whitman, Liberal
Education, and What Democracy is For
Thomas Bartscherer (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
With Friends Like Nietzsche:
The Vexations of Liberal Education
DAY THREE: FRIDAY, JUNE 7
9:00 – 11:00
SESSION 5
5.2 Liberal Education in East Asia
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: James A.T. Lancaster
Wen Yu (Harvard)
The Demise of “Discoursing on Learning”: Debates on
Learning (xue) between Moral Philosophers, Literary Men,
and Statecraft Scholars in Seventeenth Century China
Youngmin Kim (Seoul National University)
Neo-­‐Confucian liberation education and “public sphere”
in early modern East Asia
Michael Paton (University of Sydney)
Business Education or the Business of Education:
Can Historical Research into Fengshui tell us
anything about Business in China?
Andrew Hui (Yale-­‐NUS College)
Designing a Literature Humanities Sequence
at the New Yale-­‐NUS College
5.3 Education and the Enlightenment
111 East Pyne
Chair: Mogens Laerke
Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania)
Anti-­‐Skeptical Pedagogy in the Early Enlightenment
Varad Mehta (Independent Scholar)
Sparta and the Education of the Eighteenth Century
Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
The Double Problem of Liberal Education in
Kant, Rousseau, and Montessori
6.1 Education in Early Modern England
111 East Pyne
Chair: Daniel Garber
Hilary Stroh (University of Kansas)
Not the Scholar but the Gentleman:
The Breadth of Liberal Education in early-­‐modern England
Richard A. Strier (University of Chicago)
Punishment versus Prudence:
The Tempest and the Humanist Tradition
11:00 – 11:30
Upper Hyphen
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 1:00
SESSION 6
6.2 Liberal Education and Values
010 East Pyne
Chair: Anton Matytsin
Esther Pedersen (Roskilde University)
From Research and Teaching as Vehicles for Cultivation of
Personhood and Society to Research and
Teaching as Production of Knowledge
Thomas Norgaard & Peter Hajnal (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
Value Studies as a Form of Liberal Education
6.3 Science, Technology and Liberal Pedagogy as
Practice: Three Episodes of Confrontation and Conflation
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: Thomas Bartscherer
Eric Brandom (Duke University)
Children in the Workshop of Revolution:
Georges Sorel’s Syndicalist Theory of Education
Eric Hounshell (UCLA/University of Konstanz)
Producing Subjects of Reliable Knowledge in Mid-­‐Century
America: The Pedagogical Vision of Paul F. Lazarsfeld