2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Johannes Drerup | Title TBD
Respondent: Paula McAvoy

Moderator: Randal Curren

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Champagne Reception | Dining Room

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
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Concurrent Session I
Paper Session A
Priya Ghotane | Authorless Papers and Empty Assessments: Understanding Written Assessments in an Age of Automated Writing
Clinton Castro | Sunsetting AI Tutors
Emma Prendergast & Emily FitzGerald | Embodied Agency and Education in the Age of AI
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Paper Session B
Lauren Links | Analogical Thinking as Experience: The Republic and Transformative Education
Mark Jonas | Moral Education in Plato's Seventh Letter
Yunzhe Zhu | Is Morality Teachable? A Stoic Answer and A Comparison to Plato
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Panel | Institutional Neutrality and the Mission of the University
Dennis Arjo, Harry Brighouse, Afton Greco, Jamie Herman, Eric Torres
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Panel | Between the Civic and the Political: The Responsibility of Universities and Academics in the Contemporary Democratic Crisis
Josu Ahedo, Juan Luis Fuentes, Francisco Moller
Moderator: Randall Curren

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Room

8:30 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Room

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Room

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
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South Residence Living Room

Concurrent Session II
Paper Session A
Kirsten Welch | Forming Sovereigns: Educating Magnanimity through Elevation in Classical Schools
Matthew Farrelly | Inhabiting Sustainable Worlds: Implicit Myth and Living Mythic Imaginaries as Environmental Education
Xiaochen Zhao | The Time It Takes to Agree: Augustine’s Distentio and Kant’s Universal Voice
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Paper Session B
Eldar Sarajlic | AI and Epistemology of Educational Assessment
Matthew Dygert | Social Friction: How AIs Are Uniquely Capable of Undermining the Teacher-Student Relationship
Nash Meade | Lose in the Game, Lose a Real Grade: Problematizing Serious Games and Play
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Panel | Educating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Integral Approach to the Development of the Human Person
Jacob Affolter, Drew Chambers, Warren von Eschenbach, Heather Foucault-Camm, Kevin Gary
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Panel | Foundations and Methods of Moral Analysis in Education
Philip Cook, Ka Ya Lee, Sally Moore
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Roundtable Sessions
Caroline Deck | Systemic Failure Addressed with Systematic Blame: Corporate Blame in Practice
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Morgan Kovis | The Grand (Dis)Illusioning: University Ideas, Student Ideals, & the Politics of Experience
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11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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Concurrent Session III
Paper Session A
Filiz Oskay | Struggle as Moral Signal: A Recognitive Reading of Conflict in Educational Institutions
Benjamin Hole | The Problem of Despair in [Midwest County X], and Radically Hopeful Community Engagement
Jonathan Klix | Beyond Individual Attitudes: Thought-Style-Analytical Perspectives on Collective Knowledge in Inclusion-Oriented Teacher Education
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Paper Session B
Jacob Carr | Rootedness, Education, and the Soul in Weil’s The Need for Roots
Jacob Castleberry | After Dewey: Ella Lyman Cabot, Owned Obligation, and the Anti-Deficit Child Trilemma
Haozhe Fu | Beyond the Vocal Dichotomy in Teaching Language: Rethinking the Consistency and Internal Tension of the Teacher's Voice with Stanley Cavell
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Paper Session C
Christopher Ominyi | Reframing Ethics Education Through Problem-Based Learning: Towards A Philosophical Reconstruction of Theory and Practice in Undergraduate Philosophy
Kay Malter Bischof | Using Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Teach Descartes’ Meditations
Maureen Ruby, Jenny Strandberg, & Kayla Mendonca | Addressing the Contemporary Reading Challenges in Philosophy Education: Implementing Lectio Divina as a Pedagogical Intervention for Teaching Ancient Philosophical Texts
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Panel | Love of Learning: Theory and Practice
Sophia Croll, Evan Dutmer, Chris Gollmar, Jamie Herman, Colleen Tierney
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Author-Meets-Critics | Ilya Zrudlo, Navigating the Moral Landscape of Youth Development and Community Education
Julia Novakowski, Sam Piede, Stephanie Pirroni, Kirsten Welch, Ilya Zrudlo
Moderator: Drew Chambers

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
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South Residence Living Room

Lunch | Dining Room

Concurrent Session IV
Paper Session A
Benjamin Miller | Against Flourishing as the Aim of Education
Chelsea Stolt | Can Theoretical Tensions from Aristotelian Flourishing Inform Conceptual Directions for Mutual Flourishing?
Emerald Henderson | The Possibilities and Limits of Learning from Immoral Role Models
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Paper Session B
Ariel Collins & David O'Brien | Educational Values
Sheron Fraser-Burgess | Overcoming Situationist Threats in the Classroom: Fostering Moral Agency through the Teacher Citizenry Ethic
Harry Brighouse | Some Problems with the Concept of Deficit Thinking
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Panel | Global Philosophy of Education
Devika Agrawal, Rowena Azada-Palacios, Johannes Drerup, Ka Ya Lee, Olga Mun
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Panel | Making Space for Teaching: An Applied Session for Practitioners
Jensen Okimoto, Ian Olasov, Dustin Webster
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Roundtable Sessions
Ini Periodi | Self-Knowledge and an Inquiry into the Processes of Personal Identity Construction: Directions and Implications for Educational Research
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Greg Beam | Another Name for Chaos: Towards Reclaiming the Art of Philosophy in Education
Discussant: Ilya Zrudlo

Spencer Jeice | Dialectics of the Self and Economy: A Critique of Meritocracy through Taylor and Gramsci
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3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Free Time

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Shaun Nichols | The Psychology of Why? Rational constructivism, Explanation, and Pedagogy
Respondent: Emma Prendergast

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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner | Dining Room

8:30 PM

Beer and Wine Social | Dining Room

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast | Dining Room

9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session V
Paper Session A
Ka Ya Lee & David Harrison | Disciplinary Taste as an Educational Objective of Higher Education
Jamie Herman | Knowledge Production in the College Classroom: Against Aims-Based Arguments for Higher Education Reform
Randall Curren and Sieun Park | Motivation and Identity in Moral and Civic Education: Lessons from Namtaeryeong, South Kore
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Paper Session B
Lucia Dikaczova | Addressing Polarization in Learning Environments: Toward a Dialogic Approach Grounded in Epistemic Care
Bruce Maxwell | Does Students’ Right to Free Speech Protect Unacceptable Viewpoints in the Classroom?
Fedor Korochkin and Polina Vasineva | Fear Leads to Indoctrination: Preference Falsification, Political Alienation, and Loneliness
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Panel | Apocalypse Now? Is AI the End of Education as We Know it?
Nicholas Burbules, Nicholas Smith, Nicolas Tanchuk, Darby Vickers
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Panel | C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce: Moral Imagination, The Teacher, and Soul Formation
Kevin Gary, Mark Jonas, Mason Marshall, Yoshi Nakazawa
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Free Time

Lunch & Closing Convocation | Dining Room

1:30 PM

Airport Shuttle Departs | Parking Lot