2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Plenary Keynote Lecture | Room 202
Johannes Drerup | How Indoctrination Works (and Why It Doesn’t Always Work)
Respondent: Paula McAvoy

Moderator: Randall Curren

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Champagne Reception | Dining Room

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM

Concurrent Session I
Paper Session A | Room 101
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
Moderator: Warren von Eschenbach

Paper Session B | Room 102
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’s Meno
Moderator: Matthew Farrelly

Panel | Institutional Neutrality and the Mission of the University | Room 105
Dennis Arjo, Harry Brighouse, Afton Greco, Jamie Herman, Eric Torres
Moderator: Afton Greco

Panel | Between the Civic and the Political: The Responsibility of Universities and Academics in the Contemporary Democratic Crisis | Room 106
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

Concurrent Session II
Paper Session A | Room 101
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
Moderator: Jacob Carr

Paper Session B | Room 103
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
Moderator: Ini Periodi

Panel | Educating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Integral Approach to the Development of the Human Person | Room 105
Jacob Affolter, Drew Chambers, Warren von Eschenbach, Heather Foucault-Camm, Kevin Gary
Moderator: Kevin Gary

Panel | Foundations and Methods of Moral Analysis in Education | Room 106
Harry Brighouse, Ka Ya Lee, Sally Moore
Moderator: David O’Brien

Roundtable Sessions | South Residence Living Room
Caroline Deck | Systemic Failure Addressed with Systematic Blame: Corporate Blame in Practice
Discussant: Nicholas Smith

Morgan Kovis | The Grand (Dis)Illusioning: University Ideas, Student Ideals, & the Politics of Experience
Discussant: Nicolas Tanchuk

11:00 AM - 12:45 PM

Concurrent Session III
Paper Session A | Room 101
Filiz Oskay | Struggle as Moral Signal: A Recognitive Reading of Conflict in Educational Institutions
Benjamin Hole | The Problem of Despair in Lake County, Illinois, and Radically Hopeful Community Engagement
Maureen Ruby & Jenny Strandberg | Addressing the Contemporary Reading Challenges in Philosophy Education: Implementing Lectio Divina as a Pedagogical Intervention for Teaching Ancient Philosophical Texts
Moderator: Sally Moore

Paper Session B | Room 103
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
Moderator: Nash Meade

Panel | Love of Learning: Theory and Practice | Room 105
Sophia Croll, Evan Dutmer, Chris Gollmar, Jamie Herman, Colleen Tierney
Moderator: Evan Dutmer

Author-Meets-Critics | Ilya Zrudlo, Navigating the Moral Landscape of Youth Development and Community Education | Room 106
Julia Novakowski, Sam Piede, Stephanie Pirroni, Kirsten Welch, Ilya Zrudlo
Moderator: Drew Chambers

Roundtable Sessions | South Residence Living Rom
Ini Periodi | Self-Knowledge and an Inquiry into the Processes of Personal Identity Construction: Directions and Implications for Educational Research
Discussant: Randall Curren

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch | Dining Room

1:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Concurrent Session IV
Paper Session A | Room 101
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
Moderator: Dario Vaccaro

Paper Session B | Room 103
Ariel Collins & David O'Brien | Educational Values
Sheron Fraser-Burgess | Overcoming Situationist Threats in the Classroom: Fostering Moral Agency through the Teacher Citizenry Ethic - CPDU Paper
Harry Brighouse | Some Problems with the Concept of Deficit Thinking
Moderator: Haozhe Fu

Panel | Global Philosophy of Education | Room 105
Devika Agrawal, Rowena Azada-Palacios, Johannes Drerup, Ka Ya Lee, Olga Mun
Moderator: Randall Curren

Panel | Making Space for Teaching: An Applied Session for Practitioners | Room 106
Jensen Okimoto, Ian Olasov, Dustin Webster
Moderator: Matthew Dygert

Roundtable Sessions | South Residence Living Room
Greg Beam | Another Name for Chaos: Towards Reclaiming the Art of Philosophy in Education
Discussant: Ilya Zrudlo

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Free Time

5:15 PM - 6:45 PM

Plenary Keynote Lecture | Room 202
Shaun Nichols | The Normative Drive: On the Emergence of Norms through Learning Biases
Respondent: Emma Prendergast

Moderator: Darby Vickers

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

Concurrent Session V
Paper Session A | Room 101
Ka Ya Lee | On AI and Academic Taste: Can AI Learn on Your Behalf?
Jamie Herman | Knowledge Production in the College Classroom: Against Aims-Based Arguments for Higher Education Reform
Randall Curren | Motivation and Identity in Moral and Civic Education: Lessons from Namtaeryeong, South Korea
Moderator: Chelsea Stolt

Paper Session B | Room 103
Bruce Maxwell | Does Students’ Right to Free Speech Protect Unacceptable Viewpoints in the Classroom? - CPDU Paper
Fedor Korochkin | Fear Leads to Indoctrination: Preference Falsification, Political Alienation, and Loneliness - CPDU Paper
Moderator: Devika Agrawal

Panel | Apocalypse Now? Is AI the End of Education as We Know it? | Room 105
Nicholas Burbules, Nicholas Smith, Nicolas Tanchuk, Darby Vickers
Moderator: Nicholas Burbules

Panel | C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce: Moral Imagination, The Teacher, and Soul Formation | Room 106
Kevin Gary, Mark Jonas, Mason Marshall, Yoshi Nakazawa, Jensen Okimoto
Moderator: Jensen Okimoto

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Free Time

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch & Closing Convocation | Dining Room

1:30 PM

Airport Shuttle Departs | Parking Lot (Limited space; only for guests who registered in advance)