Ethics - Widener University

Reading | Salon 817
Larry Rubin: A Poetry Reading
For over 40 years, Larry Rubin’s published poetry has impressed readers with
its immediacy and power of emotion. The mix of psychology and mythology is
highly engaging. His work has deep compassion particularly in the treatment of
family and friends. A sense of empathy pervades his work.
African Caribbean Literature 6 | Salon 821
Nationalism and Diaspora
Moderator:
Presenters:
Self 3 | Salon 824
Vindra Dass, University of Central Florida
Matthew Mullins, North Carolina State University, “Textual Structure and
the African Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound”
Vindra Dass, University of Central Florida, “Derek Walcott and Caribbean
Culture”
Keja Valens, Salem State University, “Sexual Alternatives in Patricia Powell’s
Me Dying Trial”
Empathy and Ethics of Inclusion
Moderator:
Presenters:
Beth Capo, Illinois College
Gloria Shafaee-Moghadam, United States Naval Station, Newport,
“Empathy and Ethics: Diversity in the Non-Diverse Classroom”
Nicole Schneider, Southeast Missouri State University, “Secrets They Can’t
Hide: Homosexual (ELL) Students and Their Reality”
Sara Day, Texas A & M University, College Station, “‘Please Don’t Make Me
Tell It All: Cisneros’s ‘Red Clowns’ and the Vulnerability of the Reader”
20th Century British Literature 5 | Salon 828
Performance and Practice
Moderator: Annie Adams, Morehead State University
Presenters:
Peace 3 | Rhythms 3
Literacy and Peace
Moderator:
Presenters:
Kathryn Kleypas, American University of Kuwait, “They ‘Mistook the
Superficial for the Essence’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and
Englishness Between Essentialism and Performance”
Jonathan Goldman, Tulane University, “Jean Rhys, Anonymous Celebrity”
Timothy Wientzen, Duke University, “Their ‘Differences were Similar’: The
Practice of Ethics in James Joyce’s ‘Ithaca’”
Karen Lentz Madison, Loyola College of Maryland
Melanie Lee, Ohio University, “Agonistic Literacy: Has the Pen Become the
Sword?”
Kimberly Braddock, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “An Idea for the
First-Year Composition Course Defined: Encouraging Empathy for Family
Literacy and Diplomatic Response”
Stanley Yake, Masschusetts College of Liberal Arts, “Empathy, Self-Esteem,
and the Moral Foundation of Peace”
Judith Stanton, Bridgewater State University, “Revenge, Empathy, and Moral
Voice in The Odyssey”
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