In the following C-SPAN Booknotes interview, Mark Edmundson of the University of Virginia discusses books, readings, the liberal arts, and more.
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Why Read? An Interview With Mark Edmundson
In Academia, American Literature, Arts & Letters, Books, British Literature, Creativity, Fiction, Historicism, History, Humanities, liberal arts, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literature, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Scholarship, Teaching, The Academy, The Novel, Western Civilization, Western Philosophy on October 5, 2016 at 6:45 amCiceronian Society Annual Conference, March 29-31, 2012: Call for Papers
In Arts & Letters, Conservatism, Humanities, News and Current Events, News Release, Western Civilization on November 30, 2011 at 8:27 am
The Ciceronian Society will be holding its annual meeting at the University of Virginia, March 29-31, 2012. This will be an academic conference in which panelists can present on a variety of topics related to the themes of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine.’ A more elaborate description of these core-themes and their relation to the humanities is provided on the Ciceronian Society website.
Possible panel themes include the following:
- The Relationship of Modern Thought to Tradition and the Divine.
- Greek and Roman Thought.
- Place, ‘Things Divine,’ and Tradition in Medieval Thought
- Human Scale, Decentralism, and Federalism
- American Thought/Experience and Tradition and Place
- Literature, Localism, History, and the Divine.
- Agrarianism, Localism, and Economics
- Social-Political Theology
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