Academic Conference Day Schedule

COHORT PH.D.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE DAY SCHEDULE (draft 5)
January 10, 2008

9:00a-10:25p

PANEL 1: Transformational Leadership Models for Service, Education and Advocacy
Kentucky Room

Chair: Dick Couto, Ph.D. Core Faculty, Antioch University

“Home Visitors: Transformational Leaders?”
Sandra Smith, Cohort 1
“Teachers Leaders: An Instructional Support Team Case Study”
Divonna Stebick, Cohort 1
“Leadership Through the Soul: Saying No to Fear and Yes to Values”
Dana Millen, Cohort 1

Discussant: Ed O’Neil, M.D. Founder/President of OmniMed

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Butler’s Fledgling
Kroger Room

Chair & Discussant: Gloria Custodio, Cohort 3

Participants: Jeannie Carlyle, Cohort 3
Daniel Hindes, Cohort 3
Roxanne Forquer, Cohort 3

PANEL 2: Excluded Voices
Buckeye Room

Chair & Discussant: Ginger Rodriguez, Cohort 2

“Midwestern Latino Voices”
John Fraire, Cohort 2
“Cross-cultural Voices”
Pravina Gondaila, Cohort 2
“Transgender Voices”
Dawn Langley, Cohort 2
“The Voices of Minority and Immigrant Children”
Kezia Carpentar, Cohort 2
Glenn Kendall, Cohort 2

10:30a-11:55a

PANEL 1: Perspectives on Leadership: Interpretations from the Dramatic Arts
Kentucky Room

Chair & Discussant: Jim Caraway, Professor, Lynn University

“Leading By Example”
Elden Golden, Faculty, UI&U
“The Courage to Lead”
Bernice Ledbetter, Faculty, UI&U
“Power and Values: A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Sarah Cole, Cohort 1

PANEL 2: Storytelling, Myth, and Morality
Kroger Room

Chair & Discussant: Chris Voparil, Faculty, UI&U

“Telling Stories as a Way of Knowing: Hannah Arendt and the Value of Storytelling in Political Theory”
Gloria Custodio, Cohort 3
“Moral Development and the Biblical Myth in Kant, Mill, and Alcott”
Robert Dunaway, Cohort 3
“Freedom and Morality in the Philosophy of Rudolph Steiner”
Daniel Hindes, Cohort 3

PANEL 3: Importance of Conflict for Effective Public Policy Development
Buckeye Room

Chair: John McGarrah, Cohort 1
“Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)”

Panelist: Marcel Kitissou, Faculty, UI&U

Discussant: Dana Millen, Cohort 1
“An Advocacy Prospective”

12:00p-1:30p

Lunch and Featured Speaker (Narrative, Community Building, and Policy Change): David Hunt
The Pheonix, Grand Ballroom

1:35p-3:30p

PANEL 1: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Possibilities of Choice
Kentucky Room

Chair & Discussant: Michael Templeton, Faculty, UI&U

“’You Come from the Future’: Postmodern Coutnernarratives in Don DeLillo’s Mao II”
Karsten Piep, Faculty, UI&U
“Political Leadership: Hard Choices, Ethics, and Poetry’s ‘Other Voice’”
Larry Preston, Associate Dean, UI&U

PANEL 2: Policy, Theory, and the Politics of Identity
Kroger Room

Chair: Sandra Smith, Cohort 1

“Globalization, Transnational Spaces, and the Politics of Home”
Kezia Carpenter, Cohort 2
“Communitarianism and Neo-Confucianism in the Grass Root Delivery of Youth Services”
Glenn Kendall, Cohort 2
“Race, Recognition, and Identity Crisis: Colorism in Maud Martha”
Sha-Shonda Porter, Cohort 3

Discussant: Chris Voparil, Faculty, UI&U

PANEL 3: Integrating Theology and Leadership
Buckeye Room

Chair: Charles Montgomery, Cohort 1

“A Feminist Theological Understanding of Shared Leadership”
Bernice Ledbetter, Faculty, UI&U
“Bi-Polar Ecclesiology: Theological Insights on Organizational Dynamics”
Rupert Loyd, Cohort 1
Discussant: Jim Caraway, Professor, Lynn University