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THE SECOND ANNUAL BRANIFF CONFERENCE IN THE LIBERAL ARTS ON PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY JANUARY 29TH–30TH, 2016 THE BRANIFF GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS IRVING, TEXAS PRESENTED BY THE BRANIFF GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS, AND THE DEAN OF THE BRANIFF GRADUATE SCHOOL The Braniff Graduate Student Association is proud to present the second annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts. The Braniff Graduate Student Association was established to further the interests of the student body of the Braniff School of Liberal Arts. The Braniff School includes M.A. programs in Art, American Studies, Classics, English, Humanities, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, and Theology, and, through the Institute of Philosophic Studies, Ph.D. programs in Literature, Politics, and Philosophy. These programs are united by their dedication to renewing the Western heritage of liberal education and the Christian intellectual tradition. The Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts is made possible by the support of Braniff graduate students. The BGSA would like to recognize Gregory Roper, chair of the Department of English; Richard Dougherty, chair of the Department of Politics; and Joshua Parens, Dean of the Braniff Graduate School, for their generous support. The 2015–2016 BGSA is: John Rhett Forman (President); Angela Lill (Secretary); Amy Freeman (Treasurer) Anna Dean (Treasurer); James DeMasi, Melissa Dow, Tyrel Garrett, Dolan Kay, Natalie Smith, and Rick Tucker (Senators). FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH LOCATION: LYNCH AUDITORIUM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 6:00–6:45 P.M. RHETT FORMAN Institute of Philosophic Studies: Literature, University of Dallas GREGORY ROPER Department of English, University of Dallas JONATHAN CULP Department of Politics, University of Dallas POETRY READING 7:00–7:45 P.M. Master of Ceremonies: NATALIE SMITH Institute of Philosophic Studies: Politics, University of Dallas IMAGINE DALLAS is a nonprofit corporation publishing literary writing and providing free educational poetry programs to students and the general public in Dallas County. It distributes literary publications in centers of living local culture and partners with libraries and schools to deliver educational programs. Imagine Dallas also supports a distributed network of poets inviting communities to engage the living lyric tradition. You can support Imagine Dallas by buying a copy of their magazine, Grub Street Grackle, or by attending one of the public poetry readings they sponsor. SATURDAY, JANUARY 30TH LOCATION: UPSTAIRS HAGGAR REGISTRATION 8:30–9:00 A.M. Continental breakfast will be available. PANEL 1: THE PREMODERN APPROACH 9:00–10:35 A.M. Moderator: FRED ERDMAN, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Philosophy, University of Dallas Hephaestus’s Net: Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium DEREK DUPLESSIE, Department of Philosophy, Tulane University Response: JOSHUA PARENS, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas The Myth of Er as Complement to Dialectic PETER MOORE, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky Response: PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Politics, University of Dallas On Poetic Knowledge as Underlying Philosophy MICHAEL J. BOLIN, Department of Philosophy, Wyoming Catholic College Response: PHILIP SOLÓRZANO, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Philosophy, University of Dallas PANEL 2: EARLY MODERNISM 10:45–11:55 P.M. Moderator: ANGELA LILL, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Politics, University of Dallas Desire, Perception, and Self-Knowledge in the Chastity Legend of Spenser’s Faerie Queene BRANDON MURI, Department of English, Grand Valley State University Response: AMY FREEMAN, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Literature, University of Dallas First to Himself He Inward Silence Broke: Adam’s Dialectical Contemplation in Paradise Lost APARNA RAVILOCHAN, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago Response: LETA SUNDET, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Literature, University of Dallas LUNCH 12:00–1:15 P.M. PANEL 3: ROMANTICISM 1:20–2:20 P.M. Moderator: RACHEL BYRD, Braniff Graduate School: English, University of Dallas Novalis and Hymns to the Night JINGJING ZHAO, Department of English, University of Auckland The Poetics of American Common Law JAKE CRABBS, John Marshall Law School Response: COLE SIMMONS, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Politics, University of Dallas PANEL 4: PLATO AND THE POETS 2:30–3:30 P.M. Moderator: JAMES DEMASI, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Literature, University of Dallas Plundering the Cave: The Influence of Plato’s Republic on Coleridge’s Biographia STEPHEN BARNES, Department of English, University of Mary Hardin–Baylor Between germs and soap bubbles: Ezra Pound’s phantastikón in “Psychology and Troubadours” ELOISSA BRESSAN, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Aix-Marseille Response: FR. STEPHEN GREGG, Institute of Philosophic Studies: Literature, University of Dallas KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4:00–5:15 P.M. RON SMITH Poet Laureate of Virginia PARTICIPANTS MICHAEL BOLIN studied liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College in California, and pursued graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Dallas. Since 2009, he has taught undergraduate philosophy and various interdisciplinary courses in mathematics, natural science, and theology at Wyoming Catholic College, where he is currently assistant professor of philosophy. STEPHEN BARNES is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor (UMHB) in Belton, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Dallas’s Institute of Philosophic Studies (Literature 2006). During the 2008-09 academic year, Barnes was a Fulbright Scholar at Daugavpils University in the Republic of Latvia. His research interests and publications include articles on the works of Frost, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Wendell Berry, among others. ELOISA BRESSAN graduated with a BA in Classical Literature and an MA in Modern Philology from the University of Padua, Italy. She has been a doctoral student and instructor in Comparative Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, with a research focus on Provence in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Eloisa is a contributor to Make It New, the magazine of the Ezra Pound Society. Her publications include “Reading A Walking Tour in Southern France: A geographical approach” (Make It New, 2.1, June 2015) and “Le vortex gréco-provençal dans Les Cantos d’Ezra Pound” (Loxias, 46, August 2014). JAKE CRABBS is a third year law student at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. He has been a participant in the John Marshall Restorative Justice Clinic and is currently an extern for Judge Sanjay Tailor of the Circuit Court of Cook County. After he received his Bachelors Degree in the Liberal Arts from St. John's College, in Annapolis, Maryland, he taught English for two years at the Jeongsang Language School in Seoul, Korea. JONATHAN CULP received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from St John’s College, Annapolis and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College. He is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas and also the director of the undergraduate International Studies minor. His research focuses on the relationship between the virtue of justice and the human good in Plato’s Republic, a subject on which he is currently writing a book, and he has also published an article on David Hume's treatment of the same question. DEREK DUPLESSIE received his B.A. from St. John’s College (Santa Fe) in 2011, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Tulane University. He is the 2015-2016 graduate fellow at the Murphy Institute and teaches courses in the history of philosophy at Tulane as a graduate instructor. His interests include Greek philosophy and poetry, political philosophy, and history of modern philosophy. RHETT FORMAN is a PhD Literature student in the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. He earned his BA at St. John’s College and has also studied at the University of Costa Rica and at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Dorf Tirol, Italy. He is Series Editor for Make It New, the magazine of the Ezra Pound Society. His research interests include Modernist poetry and liberty in the epic. AMY FREEMAN is a third year doctoral student in Literature at the Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas. She holds a B.A. in University Scholars from Baylor University. Her research gravitates toward medieval Western literature and spirituality, including the Rule of St. Benedict, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, and the works of Walter Hilton. FR. STEPHEN ANDREW GREGG, O.CIST., is a doctoral student in Literature in the Institute of Philosophic Studies. He earned a B.A. from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, majoring in Latin and in Mediaeval Studies. After entering the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas, he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Dallas, completing the S.T.B. at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome and a License in Patristic Theology and Sciences at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, also in Rome. He teaches in the English Department of the University of Dallas, and teaches English and other subjects at the Cistercian Preparatory School. JOHN DOUGLAS MACREADY is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. His work focuses on critical issues in social and political philosophy with specific attention paid to human dignity as it relates to larger human rights issues