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Conference Schedule

 

Friday, October 3, 2008

Afternoon

Arrival, Registration, Housing, Campus Tours

Airport shuttles O'Hare (ORD) and Midway (MDW) airports

4:00pm

5:00pm

Conference Registration - Concordia University
Christopher Center (CC) 200 Lobby

Shuttles operate from hotel to campus

6:00pm Dinner - Koehneke Community Center (KCC) Oak Park - River Forest Room
7:30pm

Keynote Address:

Neuroscience, Music, and Theology: Singing a New Song
Dr. Douglas Anderson, MD., Loyola University, Chicago

8:30pm Reception - Carleton Hotel
   
Saturday, October 4, 2008
8:00am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast - Christopher Center (CC) 200 Lobby
8:30am

Introduction to the Day - Christopher Center (CC) 200

9:00am - 9:45am

Sectional Session A

  • Emerging Worldviews/Future of Lutheran Higher Education - Brandon
  • Know Thyself…But How? - Duey
  • You're Kidding, Right? The Self in Earlier Ethnic Humor - Isaacson
  • Being Latino and Catholic at a Lutheran University- Reflections… - Ortiz
  • Literary Voices, the Church and its Colleges Lutheran Writers -Schultz
10:00am - 10:45am

Sectional Session B

  • Female, Male and Other: Teaching Historical Idea about Gender - Elston
  • Fostering Cognitive Complexity: Study Abroad/Liberal Arts - Hansvick
  • Me, Myself and Middle School Identity: Connectedness…- Knick
  • Personal Identity in Contemp Russian Theatre/Film - Robinson
  • Life in the Biosphere: An Interdisciplinary Travel Course - Truemann
11:00am - 11:45am

Sectional Session C

  • Faithful in the Foxholes: Paradoxes of Christian Citizenship - Kalmes
  • Assessing Mind-Body Philosophies: Tillich Criteria - Mirtz
  • Social Intelligence and Brain Science - Przeklasa
  • You Might Become We: Ethnic Pluralism and the Complexity of Identity - Trovall
12:00 noon

Lunch Session - Oak Park/River Forest Room, Koehneke Community Center (KCC)

ALCF Annual Business Meeting

1:15pm

Let’s Review: Revisiting Values-Based Learning, ALCF 2007 at Newberry  College

Joe McDonald, Christian Hipp and Brian Armstrong, Newberry College

2:00pm - 2:45pm

Sectional Session D

  • You're on the Air - But Who ARE You? - Ohrt
  • Mind, Body, Morality and Race: Aversive Racism in Multicultural Congregations - Rehwaldt-Alexander
  • Conceptual Schema Inventory: Measuring Conceptual Knowledge - Skov
  • Modernity's Failure: Questions-Individual Identity, Social Harmony and Meaning - Weber
3:00pm - 3:45pm

Panel Discussion I - Christopher Center (CC) 200

Me, Myself and We: Students’ Self-Fashioning and the Liberal Arts Robert Campbell, Mark Looker and Neal Migan, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI

4:00pm - 4:45pm

Panel Discussion II - Christopher Center (CC) 200

Reaction and reflection – An Open Forum on Identity

5:00pm Evening Logistics/Organization and Information, Closing
5:30pm Shuttles return to hotel
6:00pm

“It’s…Saturday Night!!"

Enjoy dinner and entertainment opportunities in Oak Park, other suburbs or downtown Chicago! 

Shuttle vans will operate from various pickup points (TBA).

   
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Departures Shuttles from hotels to O’Hare / Midway per flight schedules

  Worship Opportunities
8:30am Grace, River Forest (Independent) - Adjacent to Campus
9:00am

St. Paul, Melrose Park (LCMS) - 11th Ave at Lake St., Melrose Park (15 minutes from campus) Click here for Mapquest link

10:00am

Resurrection, River Forest (LCMS) - On campus – Chapel of Our Lord

11:00am Grace, River Forest (Independent) - Adjacent to Campus
   

Concordia University 7400 Augusta St., River Forest, IL 60305 708-771-8300