Ethics in Leadership

Annual Ethics Across the Disciplines Conference
Viterbo University
La Crosse, Wisconsin

COMMUNITY

Living with Difference in Art, Religion, and Politics
APRIL 18-20, 2002

Thursday, April 18 -- Fine Arts Center

7:30--9:00 p.m. Keynote Lecture  --  Jean Bethke Elshtain
"You Can’t Be Different All by Yourself: Citizens and Communities"
9:00--10:00 p.m. Reception

Friday, April 19 -- Franciscan Spirituality Center

8:00--8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30--9:30 a.m. Session I
"From Covenant to Community"
Earl Madary, Viterbo University
Tom Thibodeau, Viterbo University
9:45--10:45 a.m. Session IIa
"Preserving Community While Getting the Job Done: A Philosophy of Church-Related Higher Education"
Caroline Simon, Hope College
"Reforming MacIntyre: Reflections on a Tradition-based Ethics-oriented University Transformation"
Paul Jeffries, University of Dubuque

Session IIb
"Toward an Ethical Hermeneutics for Art and its Theories"
Gerald Cipriani, University of Central England
"Living with Beauty: Eye of the Beholder, Collective Vision"
Tim Weldon, University of St. Francis
11:00--12:00 p.m. Session IIIa
"Can a Community Be Christian If Not All of Its Members Are?"
Dan McKanan, Saint John’s University
"A Pauline Model for Living with Difference"
Peter Gathje, Christian Brothers University

Session IIIb
"Educating for Coming Out of the Cave: Using Republic VII to Teach Ethics Across the Disciplines"
Jennifer Hockenbery, Mount Mary College
"Moral Reasoning Across the Curriculum"
Susan Loughran, St. Edward’s University
12:00--1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30--2:30 p.m. Session IVa
"Building Community through Functionalism"
Keith Knutson, Viterbo University
"Genetics in Community: Understanding Difference for Growth and Development"
Mark Repenshek, Saint Louis University

Session IVb
"Receiving the Giftedness of Cultural Diversity"
Georgia Christensen, FSPA, Viterbo University
"Love: The Mortar That Bonds All Living Communities"
Donald Clark, Viterbo University
2:34--3:35 p.m. Session V
"The Catholic Church and Censorship in Literature, Books, Drama, and Film"
Aurelie Hagstrom, University of St. Francis
"Public and Private Space: The Media, Government, and Privacy in the New America"
William Jong-Ebot, Florida Memorial College 
7:30--9:30 p.m. Fine Arts Center Main Theatre 
Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible"
(Tickets required.  Purchase along with conference registration or at Viterbo University Box Office.)

Saturday, April 20 -- Franciscan Spirituality Center

8:00-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30--9:30 a.m. Session VIa
"Community Dynamics and the Ethics of Learning: Russian and American Models"
Thomas Zelman, College of St. Scholastica
"The Chinese University as a Learning Community: The Ethics of Collaboration and Competition"
Lyon Evans, Viterbo University

Session VIb
"Reformed Epistemology and the Ethics of Evangelism"
David Slakter, University of Central Oklahoma
"Community, And When It Is Not: Reflections in Literature"
Lewis Pearson, University of Memphis
9:45--10:45 a.m. Session VIIa
"What Can Be Learned: Drawing with Middle and High
School Youth at the Shuh-Mullen Recreation Center"
Lisa Schoenfielder, Viterbo University
Ed Rushton, Viterbo University

Session VIIb
"One-anothering One Another: Toward a Social Ontology"
Ray Stroik, Stevens Point
"Community with the Future: Anticipating Eschatological Ethics"
James Wakefield, Marquette University
11:00--12:00 p.m. Session VIII
"Intolerance and Religious Truth Claims"
Storm Bailey, Luther College
"Arguing with Those with Whom We Most Agree: Controversy Then and Now in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod"
Mary Todd, Concordia University
12:00--1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30--2:30 p.m. Session IX
Panel Discussion: Ethical Issues in Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible"
Aurelie Hagstrom, St. Francis University
Susan Loughran, St. Edward’s University 
William Reese, Viterbo University 
Rick Walters, Viterbo University

Funded in part by a grant from the La Crosse Community Foundation.