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Call for Papers Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts Curriculum Sponsored by the Bluffton College Pathways to Mission and Vocation Program
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Proposals are solicited for either individual papers or constituted panels to be presented at a conference on the relationship between nonviolence and the liberal arts curriculum, to be held May 26, 27, and 28, 2004 at Bluffton College in Ohio. The conference is sponsored by the Bluffton College Pathways to Mission and Vocation program which is funded by the Lilly Endowment. Proposals are desired from the entire range of liberal arts and professional education, including the sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, biblical and theological studies, and professional studies. Speakers include Susan Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary; Robert Franklin, Emory University; Anne Dalke, Bryn Mawr College; James Juhnke, Bethel College; Stephen Reid, Bethany Theological Seminary; Henry Rempel, University of Manitoba; Bob Regier, Bethel College; and John Stahl-Wert, Geneva College. The goal of the conference is to start a movement that reshapes the beginning assumptions and orienting questions of ever discipline in the academy through a prior commitment to peace as a way of knowing. The vision of the conference planners is to build educational institutions, departments, and classrooms where students and faculty discover the call to peacemaking at the center of their study and scholarship and hence at the center of their vocational identities. the conference is expected to begin a conversation that extends, complicates, and challenges the methodological proposals found in the book Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), which suggests particular applications of a nonviolent world view to issues and problems of the academic disciplines. Presentations at the conference should suggest ways in which a commitment to nonviolence reshapes a methodological and/or pedagogical issue within the presenter's discipline or subdiscipline. For example, a presentation by an economist might ask how a commitment to nonviolence shapes the way economic data is either gathered, generated, or interpreted. A presentation by a theologian might inquire into the relationship between theological method and nonviolence. Those considering participation may want to consult the book Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts for additional examples of fruitful inquiries along these lines
J. Denny Weaver Department of Religion Bluffton College 280 W. College Ave. Bluffton, OH 45817 e-mail: weaverjd@bluffton.edu phone: (419) 358-3281
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