Ethics - Widener University

Thursday, April 12th
8–9.15 Session 1
General 1 | Salon 801
Covering (Up?) Katrina: Discursive Ambivalence in Katrina Coverage
Moderator:
Presenters:
Ed Demerly, Henry Ford Community College
Aimee Berger, Texas Christian University, “Haunting the Periphery:
Resurrecting the Racist Imaginary in Katrina Coverage”
Kate Cochran, Northern Kentucky University, “Katrina Coverage and
Mississippi”
Christina Riley-Brown, Mercyhurst College, “First Anniversary Media
Coverage of Hurricane Katrina”
20th Century American Literature 1 | Salon 816
Cormac McCarthy’s Heroes
Moderator:
Presenters:
Nika Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Layne Neeper, Morehead State University, “‘Good Guys’ and the Limits of
Empathy in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”
Pilar Damron, Northwest Vista College, “John Grady Cole and Don Quixote:
An Unlikely Pair of Idealists on Horseback”
Mark Withrow, Columbia College, Chicago, “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road:
Empathy and Ethics in a Post-Apocalyptic World”
19th Century British Literature 1 | Salon 817
Empathy in George Eliot and John Stuart Mill
Moderator:
Presenters:
Pedagogy 1 | Salon 825
Ronald Morrison, Morehead State University
Zhanshu Liu, Nassau Community College, “Plotting Empathy: The Conflicts
between Narrative Form and the Jewish Element in George Eliot’s Daniel
Deronda”
Jim Scannell, Utica College, “Empathy and Appreciation: George Eliot and
the Affective Theory of Ethical-Aesthetic Interaction”
Heather Marcovitch, Mount Allison University, “Performance and Empathy
in the Ballad of Reading Gaol”
English and Adult Moral Education
Moderator:
Presenters:
Daniel Linnenberg, University of Rochester
Jean Harper, Indiana University East “Documentary Work: The Intersection
of Image and Text”
Andi Penner, San Juan College, “Strategic Mentoring: Promoting Student
Success Through Faculty Mentoring”
Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg, Nazareth College of Rochester, and Daniel
Linnenberg, University of Rochester, “A Surprising Revelation: English
and Adult Moral Education Overlap”
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