2008 - Debate, Dissent & Dialogue
Featured Speakers
Freddie O’Connell is a radio talk show host who hosts Liberadio, a political show on Vanderbilt University’s WRVU.
Dr. Daniel Frick is Director of the Writing Center and adjunct professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and the author of Reinventing Richard Nixon: The Cultural History of an American Obsession.
Dr. Masood Raja is a Belmont alumnus who teaches in the English department at Kent State, and he specializes in Postcolonial Literature and Theory.
Michael Bérubé is the author of six books to date, his most recent being What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006) and Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). He is also the editor of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies and, with Cary Nelson, of Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities.
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| 2008 | ||
| Sunday, September 7th | ||
| 2:00 PM |
“Debate Camp” & “Game On”: A Viewing & Discussion of Two Episodes of The West Wing Bonnie Smith, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 2:00 PM |
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| Monday, September 8th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
“Please Argue With Me!”: A Summons to the Symposium Bonnie Smith, Belmont University Massey Board Room 10:00 AM |
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| 2:00 PM |
One of the Greatest Debates in Western History: the Controversy of Valladolid Natalia Pelaz, Belmont University Massey Board Room 2:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
“The Criticism of Honest Opponents” and Our Heritage of Dissent David Curtis, Belmont University Belmont University Amphitheatre 5:00 PM |
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| 6:30 PM |
Debate, Dissent, Dialogue, and Indirection: A Viewing of Amazing Grace Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University Massey Board Room 6:30 PM |
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| Tuesday, September 9th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
Sue Trout, Belmont University Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 11:00 AM |
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| 4:30 PM |
Panel on Dissent and Debate in Nashville Larry Woods Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 4:30 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Refreshments for Panel on Dissent and Debate in Nashville Belmont University Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 6:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Extra Terrestrial: The Outsized Influence of Talk Radio in America’s Political Discussion Freddie O'Connell, Vanderbilt University Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 7:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, September 10th | ||
| 4:30 PM |
Jeff Coker, Belmont University Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 4:30 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Reinventing Richard Nixon: Debating Cultural Values and National Identity Daniel Frick, Franklin and Marshall University Bunch Library, Leu Art Gallery 7:00 PM |
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| Thursday, September 11th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
Just War and the U.S. Policy of Preemption Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 11:00 AM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Telling National Stories: A Novel Way to Debate Argentina Paulo Boero, Belmont University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 2:00 PM |
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| 4:30 PM |
Jihad in Islam: The Creation of a Mujahid Identity in the Past and Present Masood Rajaa, Kent State University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 4:30 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Reception with the Symposium Speakers Belmont University Lobby 4th Floor IHSB 6:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
“Interesting Point”: Pulp Fiction, Postmodern Philosophy, and the Fine Art of Disagreement Michael Berube, The Pennsylvania State University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 7:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 12th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Debate, Dissent & Dialogue Symposium Panel Masood Rajaa, Kent State University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 10:00 AM |
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| 3:00 PM |
Dr. Mark Anderson and the Philologoi on the Value of Democracy Mark Anderson, Belmont University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 3:00 PM |
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| Sunday, September 14th | ||
| 2:00 PM |
“We Will Not Walk in Fear of One Another”: Good Night, and Good Luck and Dissent in the Media Rich Tiner, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 2:00 PM |
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| Monday, September 15th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Please Argue Some More!: A Wrap-Up of Debate, Dissent and Dialogue Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University Massey Business Center (MBC) 100 10:00 AM |
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