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The Great Conversation1942 - 2017

A Symposium onCollegiate Seminar at 75

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Soda Center

Program

The Great Conversation1942 - 2017

A Symposium onCollegiate Seminar at 75

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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Soda Center

The Great Conversation1942 - 2017

A Symposium on Collegiate Seminar at 75

Saturday, September 23

8:30 – 9:00 am Check-in & Continental BreakfastLobby & Moraga

9:00 – 9:20 am Welcome AddressMoragaJames Donahue, President

Introduction by Megan Mustain, Dean of the Core

9:20 – 9:30 am Break

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9:30 – 10:40 amRound Table Seminar Discussions Claeys, Orinda, & Lafayette

Join a Seminar leader at any round table for a discussion of Immanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment” and a selection from Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant.

Seminar leaders: Saundra Alassio, David Arndt, Noah Friedman-Biglin, Brother Kenneth Cardwell, Steve Cortright, Charlie Hamaker, Lisa Manter, Father John Morris, OP, Colin Chan Redemer, Ellen Rigsby, Grete Stenersen, TBD

10:40 – 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 12:05 pm Plenary AddressesMoraga

Felicia Flor de Luna Martinez, Integral Liberal Arts

Raina Juanita León, ’16, Kalmanovitz School of Education

Ted Tsukahara, ’62, Integral Liberal Arts

Introductions by Julie Park, Collegiate Seminar

12:05 – 1:00 pmBenediction & LunchMoraga

Brother Kenneth Cardwell, ’71, Integral Liberal Arts

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1:00 – 2:00 pm First Panel Session

Join any of the following sessions for 30-40 minutes of panel talks followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion.

A. Reflections on Seminar (Orinda)

Shawny Anderson, Justice, Community and Leadership; Communication; Women’s and Gender Studies; Ethnic Studies: “Seminar’s Transcendent Moments”

Jerry Brunetti, Emeritus, Kalmanovitz School of Education: “‘My, how things have changed!’ A Retrospective Observation”

Sue Marston, Kalmanovitz School of Education: “Happy 75th!”

Moderator: Monica Fitzgerald, Justice, Community, and Leadership; Women’s and Gender Studies

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B. Creativity and Critical Thinking in Seminar (Founders)

Lewis Jordan, Collegiate Seminar: “Improvisation and Authority”Frank Murray, Performing Arts: Theatre: “Staging

Seminar: Strategies for Engaging Students with Plays”

Bee Pinner, Sociology ’17: “What I Learned from Water: The Power of Personal Metaphors”

Mary Volmer, ’01, ‘05, Collegiate Seminar and English Composition: “Creative Engagement: Marrying Creative and Analytic Thought in Collegiate Seminar”

Moderator: Joe Zeccardi, Collegiate Seminar and CWAC

First Panel Session (cont’d)

C. The Seminar Curriculum (Brother Gary York Seminar Room)

Brother Mel Anderson, Philosophy ‘51, Collegiate Seminar: “The Question: To Be or Not To Be?”

Ed Biglin, English: “How Do We Know What We Know? The Power of Primary Texts”

Colin Chan Redemer, Collegiate Seminar: “A Defense of Seminar as Cult of the Dead”

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Joseph Zepeda, Integral Liberal Arts: “Seminar and ‘Global Conversation’: Possibilities and Dead Ends”

Moderator: Charlie Hamaker, Mathematics

D. History, Memory, Speech, and Authority (Claeys)

Brother Kenneth Cardwell, ’71, Integral Liberal Arts: “Remembered at the Last Minute”

Anne Carpenter, Theology and Religious Studies: “Re-membering: Fragments of Memory, Text, and Personality”

Alexis Doval, ‘76, Integral Liberal Arts: “Have We Survived Our Sail Past Scylla?”

Catherine Marachi, World Languages and Cultures: “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur”

Moderator: Noah Friedman-Biglin, ’05, Integral Liberal ArtsE. On Liberal Education and Seminar

(Lafayette)

David Arndt, Collegiate Seminar and Integral Liberal Arts: “Seminar and the Search for Wisdom”

Steve Cortright, ‘75, Philosophy and Integral Liberal Arts: “Against Method”

Ed Porcella, ‘64, Emeritus, Integral Liberal Arts: “The Seminar in Light of Newman’s Idea of Liberal Education”

Moderator: TBD2:00 – 2:20 pm Break

2:20 – 3:20 pm Second Panel Session

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Join any of the following sessions for 30-40 minutes of panel talks followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion.

A. Reflections on Seminar (Orinda)

Saundra Alassio, ’99, Collegiate Seminar: “Reflections on the Seminar Program at 75”

Father John Morris, OP, Collegiate Seminar: “Then Why Do We Disagree?”

Grete Stenersen, BA in Leadership; LEAP; Collegiate Seminar: “A Developmental Model for Becoming a Seminar Leader: Twenty-Seven Years in the Making”

Frances M. Sweeney, ’86, ‘07, World Languages and Cultures: “Socratic Gaels: Collegiate Seminar as a Cornerstone for SMC Faculty”

Moderator: Frank Murray, Performing Arts: Theatre

B. Seminar, the Self, and the World (Founders)

Alex Drake, Economics ’16: “Finding One’s Voice”Natasha Munshi, Management and Entrepreneurship:

“What Makes for a Signature Program? The Business Imperative for Seminar as the Cornerstone of a Saint Mary’s Liberal Arts Education”

Gaby Rodkopf, Business Administration ’17: “Seminar Before & After: Takeaways in a Post-Collegiate Environment”

Nicolo Santilli, Collegiate Seminar: “Seminar as a Process of Phenomenological Inquiry and Locus for the Evolution of Consciousness”

Moderator: Barbara McGraw, Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism and Organizations and Responsible Business 

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Second Panel Session (cont’d)

C. On Community and Navigating Differences in Seminar (Claeys)

Monica Fitzgerald, Justice, Community, and Leadership; Women’s and Gender Studies: “Transformative Learning: Facilitating Difficult Conversations and Building Community”

Holly McAdams, Psychology ’17; Navigator Intern, Alameda County Family Justice Center; Research Assistant, Psychology: “A Safe Place for Students”

Rashaan Meneses, Collegiate Seminar and English Composition: “What is a Problem but a Reason for Living?”

Joe Zeccardi, Collegiate Seminar and CWAC: “From Disciplines to Identities: Reflections on Reflection and Intersectionality in Seminar”

Moderator: Ellen Rigsby, Director, Collegiate Seminar and Communication

D. Reading in Seminar (Brother Gary York Seminar Room)

Charlie Hamaker, Mathematics: “Judgment or Stratagem”

Liz Hamm, ’03, Integral Liberal Arts: “The Struggles and Rewards of Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War”

Lisa Manter, English: “Cross-Textual Conversations”Margaret Pagaduan, Collegiate Seminar: “On ‘Universal

Love’: From Mo Tzu to Virginia Woolf”Moderator: Joseph Zepeda, Integral Liberal Arts

E. On Liberal Education and Seminar (Lafayette)

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Patrick Downey, Philosophy: “The Shame and Glory of

Collegiate Seminar”Claude-Rhéal Malary, World Languages and Cultures:

“The Ethos of Collegiate Seminar”Mike Riley, ‘72, Integral Liberal Arts: “Returning to the Cave”Moderator: Julie Park, Collegiate Seminar

3:20 – 3:30 pm Break

3:30 – 3:50 pm Closing RemarksMoragaEllen Rigsby, Director, Collegiate Seminar and Communication

“On Valedictions”

Introduction by TBD

3:50 – 5:00 pm Wine and CheeseMoraga

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Collegiate Seminar at 75:Essays on Liberal Education

A collection of essays, Collegiate Seminar at 75: Essays on Liberal Education, by plenary and panel speakers, will be published in digital and print format following the event.

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Posters

The posters for this symposium are original artworks by Andrew Mount, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Saint Mary’s.

Two of the posters feature an archival photograph of an empty Seminar round table from 1970.

The third poster features the Hortus deliciarum (“Garden of Delights”), an image from the 12th century pictorial encyclopedia, written and illuminated by the Catholic Nun, Herrad of Landsberg. The image depicts the seven liberal arts (Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy) surrounding Socrates, Plato, and an allegorical figure of Philosophy. The Latin inscription on the banner held by Philosophy—Omnis sapientia a Domino Deo est; soli quod desiderant facere possunt sapientes—roughly means “All wisdom comes from God; only the wise can achieve what they desire.”

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Many, many thanks to Andrew for his beautiful work.

Speakers

Saundra Alassio, ’99, Collegiate Seminar, Second Panel Session A, “Reflections on the Seminar Program at 75”

Brother Mel Anderson, Philosophy ‘51, Collegiate Seminar, First Panel Session C, “The Question: To Be or Not to Be?”

Shawny Anderson, Justice, Community and Leadership; Communication; Women’s and Gender Studies; Ethnic Studies, First Panel Session A, “Seminar’s Transcendent Moments”

David Arndt, Collegiate Seminar and Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session E, “Seminar and the Search for Wisdom”

Ed Biglin, English, First Panel Session C, “How Do We Know What We Know? The Power of Primary Texts”

Jerry Brunetti, Emeritus, Kalmanovitz School of Education, First Panel Session A, “‘My, how things have changed!’ A Retrospective Observation”

Brother Kenneth Cardwell, ’71, Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session D, “Remembered at the Last Minute”

Anne Carpenter, Theology and Religious Studies, First Panel Session D, “Re-membering: Fragments of Memory, Text, and Personality”

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Steve Cortright, ’75, Philosophy and Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session E, “Against Method”

James Donahue, President, Welcome AddressAlexis Doval, ‘76, Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session D,

“Have We Survived Our Sail Past Scylla?”Patrick Downey, Philosophy, Second Panel Session E, “The

Shame and Glory of Collegiate Seminar”Alex Drake, Economics ’16, Second Panel Session B,

“Finding One’s Voice”Monica Fitzgerald, Justice, Community, and Leadership;

Women’s and Gender Studies, Second Panel Session C, “Transformative Learning: Facilitating Difficult Conversations and Building Community”

Noah Friedman-Biglin, ’05, Integral Liberal Arts, Panel Moderator, First Panel Session D

Charlie Hamaker, Mathematics, Second Panel Session D, “Judgment or Stratagem?”

Liz Hamm, ’03, Integral Liberal Arts, Second Panel Session D, “The Struggles and Rewards of Reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War”

Lewis Jordan, Collegiate Seminar, First Panel Session B, “Improvisation and Authority”

Raina Juanita León, ’16, Kalmanovitz School of Education, Plenary Address, “TITLE TBD”

Claude-Rhéal Malary, World Languages and Cultures, Second Panel Session E, “The Ethos of Collegiate Seminar”

Lisa Manter, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, Second Panel Session D, “Cross-Textual Conversations”

Catherine Marachi, World Languages and Cultures, First Panel Session D, “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur”

Sue Marston, Kalmanovitz School of Education, First Panel Session A, “Happy 75th!”

Felicia Flor de Luna Martinez, Integral Liberal Arts, Plenary Address, “‘The serried multitude of the stars:’ Community-building in Seminar with Galileo and Ptolemy”

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Holly McAdams, Psychology ’16; Navigator Intern, Alameda County Family Justice Center; Research Assistant, Psychology, Second Panel Session C, “A Safe Place for Students”

Barbara McGraw, Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism and Organizations and Responsible Business, Panel Moderator, First Panel Session B

Rashaan Meneses, Collegiate Seminar and English Composition, Second Panel Session C, “What is a Problem but a Reason for Living?”

Father John Morris, OP, Collegiate Seminar, Second Panel Session A, “Then Why Do We Disagree?”

Natasha Munshi, Management and Entrepreneurship, Second Panel Session B, “What Makes for a Signature Program? The Business Imperative for Seminar as the Cornerstone of a Saint Mary’s Liberal Arts Education”

Frank Murray, Performing Arts: Theatre, First Panel Session B, “Staging Seminar: Strategies for Engaging Students with Plays”

Megan Mustain, Dean of the Core, Introduction of the Welcome Address

Margaret Pagaduan, Collegiate Seminar, Second Panel Session D, “On ‘Universal Love’: From Mo Tzu to Virginia Woolf”

Julie Park, Collegiate Seminar, Introduction of the Plenary Addresses, Panel Moderator, Second Panel Session E

Bee Pinner, Sociology ’17, First Panel Session B, “What I Learned from Water: The Power of Personal Metaphors”

Ed Porcella, ‘64, Emeritus, Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session E, “The Seminar in Light of Newman’s Idea of Liberal Education

Colin Chan Redemer, Collegiate Seminar, First Panel Session C, “A Defense of Seminar as Cult of the Dead”

Ellen Rigsby, Director, Collegiate Seminar and Communication, Closing Address, “On Valedications”

Mike Riley, ‘72, Integral Liberal Art, Second Panel Session E, “Returning to the Cave”

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Gaby Rodkopf, Business Administration ’17, Second Panel Session B, “Seminar Before and After: Takeaways in a Post-Collegiate Environment”

Nicolo Santilli, Collegiate Seminar, Second Panel Session B, “Seminar as a Process of Phenomenological Inquiry and Locus for the Evolution of Consciousness”

Grete Stenersen, BA in Leadership; LEAP; Collegiate Seminar, Second Panel Session A, “A Developmental Model for Becoming a Seminar Leader: Twenty-Seven Years in the Making”

Frances M. Sweeney, ’86, ‘07, World Languages and Cultures, Second Panel Session A, “Socratic Gaels: Collegiate Seminar as a Cornerstone for SMC Faculty”

Ted Tsukahara, ’62, Integral Liberal Arts, Plenary Address, “TITLE TBD”

Mary Volmer, ’01, ’05, Collegiate Seminar and English Composition, First Panel Session B, “Creative Engagement: Marrying Creative and Analytic Thought in Collegiate Seminar”

Joe Zeccardi, Collegiate Seminar and CWAC, Second Panel Session C, “From Disciplines to Identities: Reflections on Reflection and Intersectionality in Seminar”

Joseph Zepeda, Integral Liberal Arts, First Panel Session C, “Seminar and ‘Global Conversation’: Possibilities and Dead Ends”

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