2012 Conference
Globalization and the Fragmenting of America:
The Problem of Disconnectedness
Annual Meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters
June 15-17, 2012
Baltimore, MD
The Doubletree by Hilton
The conference will be held at The Doubletree by Hilton, located at the Baltimore-Washington Airport, in Linthicum Maryland, 890 Elkridge Landing Rd., Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 21090. The hotel provides free limousine service from and to the airport terminal. The hotel can be reached directly by telephone at 410-859-8400. You can reserve a room at the discounted rate of $99 here. Our room block will expire on May 15 and is limited, so make the reservation sooner rather than later. For non-members, attendance is by invitation only. Any member of APL can sponsor non-members as guests. The members of the APL Board of Directors are listed below. Students may attend the conference at a greatly reduced rate (see registration page below). A limited number of registration fee waivers are available. For more information, contact Jeffrey Polet, Secretary of APL, polet@hope.edu, 616-395-7547, or any member of the Board of Directors.
This year's panels will incorporate a round table format. The panelists will offer 10 minute introductions, which will be followed by discussion among them and members of the audience.
Friday
5:00-6:00 PM. Registration
6:00-7:00 PM Reception/Cash bar
7:00-9:00 PM. Dinner
Welcome
Speaker: Russell R. Reno, Creighton University, Editor, First Things, "Irreverence and Piety in the Intellectual Life: Sources of Disintegration and Unity" (title tentative)
9:00-11:00 PM. Hospitality Suite hosted by The American Conservative
Saturday
8:00-8:30 AM. Late registration
8:30-10:30 AM. PANEL/ROUND TABLE 1. Roots of Disconnectedness
“Cooperating Strategies for Dismantling Tradition”
Chair: William F. Byrne, St. Johns University
Comments on Stephen Greenblatt, “historicist”:
Jeffrey Polet, Hope College
Robert V. Young, North Carolina State University
Comments on Allan Bloom, anti-historicist, on the 25th anniversary of The Closing of the American Mind:
Ryan Holston, Virginia Military Institute
Claes G. Ryn, The Catholic University of America
10:30-10:45 AM. Break/Refreshments
10:45-12:45 AM. PANEL/ROUND TABLE 2. The Acids of Oligarchy
Chair: Stephen Jordan, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Doug Bandow, Cato Institute, Forbes Magazine
Lowell Gustafson, Villanova University
David Jordan, University of Virginia
Brian Mitchell, Academy of Philosophy and Letters
12:45-1:00 PM. Break
1:00-2:30 PM. Luncheon
Speaker: Mike Lofgren, author of the forthcoming Penguin/Viking book, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.
2:30-3:30 PM. Break
3:30-5:30. PANEL/ROUND TABLE 3: The Disintegration of Society
Chair: Richard Gamble, Hillsdale College
Winston Elliott, III, The Imaginative Conservative
Mark Kalthoff, Hillsdale College
Steven Klugewicz, National Constitution Center
Mark Mitchell, Patrick Henry College
5:30-6:30 PM. Break
6:30-7:30 PM. Reception/Cash bar
7:30-9:00 PM. Dinner
Speaker: Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, “Stability: The Case for Going Home”
9:00-11:00 PM. Hospitality Suite hosted by The American Conservative
Sunday
9:00-10:00 AM. Breakfast meeting of the membership (members only)
10:00 AM-noon. PANEL/ROUND TABLE 4. The Problem of Disconnectedness
Chair: Michael Federici, Mercyhurst College
Brad Birzer, Hillsdale College
Mike Church, The Mike Church Show
Robert Delfino, St. John’s University
Nathan Harter, Christopher Newport College
Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative
12:30-2:00 PM. APL Board of Directors Meeting
Conference dress code: coat and tie