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2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
Catherine Z. Elgin | Opening the Black Box: Epistemic Access to Expert Testimony
Respondent: Rebecca Taylor | “Learning from Experts”

Moderator: Darby Vickers

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
Kelvin Beckett | The Co-constructed Curriculum: What It Is and Why It’s Important
Maya Alkateb-Chami | From Comprehension to Interpretation: Rethinking the Nature of Literacy
Moderator: Alexandra Chang

Paper Session B
Kevin Gary | The Epiphanic Frame of Mind
Mark Jonas | Unmasking the Supposed Paradoxes Found in Epiphanic Education
Moderator: Anastasia Gavrilos

Paper Session C
Evan Dutmer | “A Leader or a Teacher”: A Latent Theory of Transformative Education in James MacGregor Burns’s Transformational-Transactional Leadership Paradigm
Zachary Barber | Why Mindfulness Should Be Taught In Schools
Moderator: Justin Hauver

Paper Session D
Afton Greco | The Communicative Costs of Oppressive Double Binds
Martha Perez-Mugg | In Search of Recognition: Liberatory Gaze in the Classroom
Moderator: Sally Moore

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
Alexandra Chang | Towards an Account of Role Moral Understanding
David O'Brien | Moral Education, Subscription to Moral Standards, and the Moral Fixed Points
Jacob Castleberry | Being the Moral Teacher: Ella Lyman Cabot's Ideal Theory of Self and Egoist Virtue Theory
Moderator: Avontay Williams

Paper Session B
Sara Hardman | Risking Imagination: Cultivating Hope in Education
Heewon Seo | The Beast and Bêtise: Bad Faith, Stupidity, and Paradoxes of Faith in the Age of AI
Justin Hauver | We Possess Fragments: Re-Membering as a Community-Centered Ideal of Freedom
Moderator: Eric Luckey

Panel | Contemporary Challenges to Academic Freedom
Nicholas C. Burbules, Sigal Ben-Porath, Dennis Arjo, Afton Greco
Moderator: Nicholas C. Burbules

Author-Meets-Critics | Benjamin Miller, Against Aristotelian Character Education (Routledge)
Benjamin Miller, Matt Ferkany, John Tillson, Randall Curren
Moderator: Randall Curren

Roundtable Session (Works-in-Progress)
Sally Moore | The Playbook for Conceptual Analysis, Engineering, and Ethics in Education
Discussant: Libby Southgate

Anastasia Gavrilos | Pleasure and Persuasion: The Erotic Undercurrent of Shame in Gorgias
Discussant: Darby Vickers

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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Concurrent Session III
Paper Session A
Ka Ya Lee | Do Distributive Values Bring Clarity?
Rebecca Taylor & Nicolas Tanchuk | The Epistemic Risks of Brilliance Cultures in Academia
Mason Marshall | Philosophy of Education and the History of Educational Thought
Moderator: Daniel Davis

Paper Session B
Grant Brown | The Pedagogical Gift of Narrative Selfhood: A Ricoeurian Analysis of Normative Responsibility in Educational Curriculum
Iason Papaioannou-Turner | Work as a School Subject
Darius Weil | Liberal Autonomy, Disciplinary Thinking, and the Integrity of Teaching
Moderator: Martha Perez-Mugg

Paper Session C
Jamie Herman | Exploitation in Higher Education: Social Ontology and Complexity as Much Needed Explanation in Education
Arham Kazi | The Realist Assumption in Developmental Psychology
Paula McAvoy & Lauren Gatti | Parables for Teacher Preparation: Memorable Cases and the Development of Strategic Knowledge
Moderator: Maya Alkateb-Chami

Panel | AI Policy Creation in Academic Settings, Part I
Darby Vickers, Nicholas Smith, Tom Colclough, Jensen Okimoto, Warren von Eschenbach, Kristopher Philips, Cassie Finley
Moderator: Nicholas Smith

Panel | New Work on Equal Educational Opportunity
David O'Brien, Tammy Harel Ben Shahar, Nethanel Lipshitz, Clinton Castro
Moderator: David O'Brien

12:30 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 Yost | A Critique of Time-outs as a Teaching Tool
Sergei Talanker | Consequences in Education: Assessment, Discipline, and Punishment
John Fantuzzo & Raymond Powell | Sincerity and Epistemic Carcerality
Moderator: Dario Vaccaro

Paper Session B
Katja Frimberger | “Lessons in Vision”: Towards the Virtue of Film
Lukas Myers | The Moral Obligation to Appreciate Art
Sam Piede | Games, Phenomenal Content, and Child Abuse: Educating the Moral Imagination with The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Moderator: Heewon Seo

Paper Session C
Bruce Maxwell | The Professional Ethics Perspective on Teacher Impartiality: Moving Beyond the Philosophical Controversy over Controversial Issues
Avontay Williams | Why Instructors Should Withhold Their Views
Nicole Minardi | Beyond the Scripted Curriculum: Embracing Improvisation in the Classroom
Moderator: Mason Marshall

Panel | AI Policy Creation in Academic Settings, Part II
Darby Vickers, Nicholas Smith, Tom Colclough, Jensen Okimoto, Warren von Eschenbach, Kristopher Philips, Cassie Finley
Moderator: Nicholas Smith

Panel | Perspectives on Autonomy in Education
Emma Prendergast, Lindsey Schwartz, Dylan Beschoner, Libby Southgate, David O'Brien
Moderator: Emma Prendergast

Roundtable Sessions (Works-in-Progress)
Daniel Davis | Simone Weil’s Need for Roots and Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: An Educational Vision of Belonging
Discussant: Matthew Farrelly

Katherine Kapp & Eric Luckey | Garden Ethics: School Gardens for Virtue Ethics in the Biology Curriculum
Discussant: Nicholas C. Burbules

3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Free Time

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room 202

Plenary Keynote Lecture
C. Thi Nguyen | Scoring Education
Respondent: Kathryn Joyce

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

9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
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Concurrent Session V
Paper Session A
Darby Vickers | AI Can’t Be Everything To Every Learner
Jensen Okimoto | Tangled Roots Beneath STEM: The Hybridization and Incoherence of STEM Education
Nicolas Tanchuk | Why Political Liberalism is Insufficient for Artificial Superintelligence Alignment: A Pedagogical Argument
Moderator: Warren von Eschenbach

Paper Session B
Lauren Links | Civics as Relational Orientation
Madison Cosby | Pedagogical Possibilities of Reality TV: Cultivating Compassion in the Technological Era
Matthew Farrelly | “Nature Study Transmuted into Literature”: John Muir’s Phenomenology of the World and Its Transformative Effects on His Readers
Moderator: Kevin Gary

Panel | The Pedagogy of High School Ethics Bowl
Evan Dutmer, Haley Dutmer, Leo Kirby, Jamie Herman, Carridee Raymundo, Chloe Raymundo
Moderator: Evan Dutmer

Roundtable Paper Session (Works-in-Progress)
Jacob Affolter | Autonomy and Transformative Education: Much Ado about the Wrong Thing
Moderator: TBD

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