North American Faculty Forum Conference
Free Speech: Academic Freedom and Religious Expression
Saturday, October 11, 2003
University of California at Berkeley
Dwinelle Hall
Faculty Forum Speakers will include:
Robert
N. Bellah, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UC Berkeley; recipient of National Humanities
Medal (2000); author of Habits of the Heart; Beyond Belief: Essays
on Religion in a Post-Traditional World; The Broken Covenant: American
Civil Religion in Time of Trial.
J.
Budziszewski, Ph.D.
Professor of Government & Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin; author
of What We Can't Not Know: A Guide; The Revenge of Conscience:
Politics and the Fall of Man; Written on the Heart: The Case for
Natural Law; True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment.
John
C. Eastman, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Law, Chapman University and Director, The Claremont Institute
Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence; filed amicus briefs on behalf of
the Institute in the School Vouchers case, the Boy Scouts case, and the Pledge
of Allegiance case before the Ninth Circuit; relevant publications include
“Stare Decisis: Conservatism’s One-Way Ratchet Problem,”
in Bradley Watson, ed.; The Courts and the Culture Wars (Lexington
Books, 2002); “‘We are a Religious People Whose Institutions Presuppose
A Supreme Being,’” Nexus (Spring 2000).
G.
Dennis O’Brien, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester (1984-95)
and Bucknell University (1976-84); author of All the Essential Half-Truths
about Higher Education; The Idea of a Catholic University; Hegel
on Reason and History; God and the New Haven Railway; and What to
Expect from College.
Katherine
Clay Bassard, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University; former
member of UC Berkeley faculty; author of Spiritual Interrogations: Culture,
Gender, and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing;
published in African American Review and Callaloo.
Patricia
N. Benner, R.N., Ph.D.
Professor of Physiological Nursing, UC San Francisco; author of nine
books; internationally noted researcher and lecturer on health, stress and
coping, skill acquisition and ethics; Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Nursing;
member of UC Academic Senate.
Philip Selznick, Ph.D.
Professor of Law and Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley; organized Berkeley's
Center for the Study of Law and Society; publications include TVA and
the Grass Roots;The Organizational Weapon; Leadership in
Administration; Law and Society in Transition: Toward Responsive
Law; The Moral Commonwealth; and his latest The Communitarian
Persuasion.
Dick
Staub, Panel Moderator
Seattle-based radio talk show host, a leading observer of belief in popular
culture, award-winning interviewer, popular campus speaker, board member of
Martin Marty’s Public Religion Project, author of numerous articles
and the book, Too Christian, Too Pagan.
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