Ethics - Widener University

Self 5 | Salon 828
Reading Others, Writing the Self
Moderator: Richard Westphal, Aurora University
Presenters:
Film 8 | Salon 829
Michael Sanders, Cazenovia College, “Continuity, Corporeity, and the
Ground of Ethics”
Tracy Schrems, St. Bonaventure University, “Holding Out for a Hero: A
Special Needs Mom’s Perspective”
Joseph Cirincione, Rockhurst University, “Ignatian Pedagogy, Literature, and
Ethics: From Empathy to Action”
The Gender and Racial Politics of Westerns
Moderator:
Presenters:
Roland Finger, Concordia College
Matthew Benson, Concordia College, “Red Hot Race Issues and the Last of
the Mohicans”
Jennifer Gunnerson, Concordia College, “From Lethal Western Men to
Tarantino and Sopranos”
Cayle Halberg, Concordia College, “Kevin Costner and Brad Pitt Playing
Indians for White America”
David Lund, Concordia College, “African Americans, Western Outlaws, and
Jamaica”
20th Century British Literature 6 | Salon 821
Interrogating Ethical Intimacies
Moderator: Carolyn Elliott, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters:
Carolyn Elliott, University of Pittsburgh, “Beckett’s Murphy: ‘A Critique of
Pure Love’”
Elaine Childs, University of Tennessee, “The Ethical Response to Dangerous
Beauty in W. B. Yeats and Olivia Shakespear: Why The Devotees Should Be
Reprinted and Included on Syllabi”
Matt Fullerty, George Washington University, “The Invisible Line: Ethical
Responsibility Between Professor and Student in the Academic Play:
Butley (1971), Educating Rita (1980) and Oleanna (1992)”
Composition and Rhetoric 21 | Salon 820
Making News By Telling Stories
Moderator:
Presenters:
Mark Longaker, University of Texas, Austin
Sean McCarthy, University of Texas, Austin, “Rebuilding the Future: New
Urbanism and Katrina in the English Classroom”
William Rodney Herring, University of Texas, Austin, “Making News by
Telling Stories: Narrative Analysis and the Limits of Liberalism”
Mark Longaker, University of Texas, Austin, “What Separates Us? Parting the
Floodwaters of Race and Class”
38 Saturday, April 14 2.45-4 p.m.