"Exploring Jane Addams"

The 29^th Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium

University of Dayton

November 8-9, 2002

All sessions held in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center.
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, History, and Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work, The American Studies Program, and the School of Education

Friday November 8, 2002 -- Jesse Philips Humanities Center

8:00-8:50 AM - Continental Breakfast - HM 470/472

9:00-9:15 AM - Greetings to all - HM 470/472

Session I: 9:15-10:45 AM

HM 470/472 -- Addams, Care Ethics, and Emotions

· "Embracing the Other: Remembering Emotions in a Precarious World" -- Rebecca Rozelle, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University

"Jane Addams's Legacy for American Citizenship and for the Contemporary Feminist Ethic of Care Debate" -- Carol Nackenoff, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Session Chair: Peggy DesAutels, University of Dayton

HM 351/353 -- Addams and Contemporary Professional Practices

"Social Work Practice of Jane Addams: A Pioneer in Advanced Generalist Practice" -- Joan Borst, School of Social Work, Grand Valley State University
"Jane Addams and the Need for a Third Space: School Reform and the Deprofessionalization of Care" -- Martin O'Brien, Center for Collaborative Education, Boston
Session Chair: Angela Hurley, Transylvania University

10:45-1l:00 AM Coffee Break - 4th Floor Lobby

Session II: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

HM 470/472 -- Memory, Love, and Peace

"Memory, Housekeeping and Love: Jane Addams' Long Road of Woman's Memory" -- Ann Clark, Department of Philosophy, St. Mary's College
"The Conceptual Scaffolding of Newer Ideals of Peace" -- Marilyn Fischer, Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton
Session Chair, John Quinn, University of Dayton

HM 351/353 -- Addams and Emerging Professions

· "A Civic Machinery for Democratic Expression: Jane Addams on Public Administration" -- Camilla Stivers, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

"Speaking Truth to Power: Jane Addams, Quakerism and Social Work Values" -- Eleanor Klosterman, School of Social Work, University of Akron Dorothy Stratton, Department of Social Work, Ashland University
Session Chair: Michael Grunenwald, University of Dayton

12:30-2:00 PM - Lunch Break

Session III: 2:00-3:30 PM

HM 470/472 -- Artistry in Activity at Hull House

"Deliberate Space, Rhetorical Place: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility" -- Van Hillard, Director, University Writing Program, Duke University
"Jane Addams: Art, Hull House and Democracy" -- Kirsten Swinth, Department of History, Fordham University
Session Chair: Dan Fouke, University of Dayton

HM 351/353 -- Addams and World Citizenship

"A Global Common Table: Jane Addams's Theory of Democratic Cosmopolitanism and World Social Citizenship" -- Wendy Sarvasy, Political Science Department, California State University, Hayward
"Citizens of the World" -- Judy Whipps, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University
Session Chair: Messay Kebede, University of Dayton

3:30-3:45 PM - Coffee Break - 4th Floor Lobby

Session IV: 3:45-5:45 PM

Sears Recital Hall -- Hull House

"Unexplored Aspects of Hull-House: Resources at the University of Illinois at Chicago" -- Julia Hendry, Special Collections Librarian, University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Twenty Years at Hull House as a Literary Autobiography" -- Brooke Hopkins, Department of English, University of Utah
"A Biographer's Look at Twenty Years at Hull House" -- Lucy Knight, Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Session Chair: Una Cadegan, University of Dayton

6:00-8:00 PM - Dinner Break

Text Box: 8:00-9:30 PM – Plenary – Sears Recital Hall

“The Courage of One’s Convictions or the Conviction of One’s Courage? Jane Addams’s Principled Compromises”
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University

Session Chair: Paul Benson, University of Dayton

Reception to follow - HM 470/472

Saturday November 9, 2002 -- Jesse Philips Humanities Center

8:00-8:50 AM - Continental Breakfast - HM 470/472

Session V: 9:00-10:30 AM

HM 470/472 -- Addams and Social Justice

"Jane Addams and Dorothy Day: A Study in Contrasts with a Singular Philosophy of Engagement" -- Maurice Hamington, Department of Philosophy, Lane Community College (Eugene, OR)
"Social Justice for Jane Addams" -- Deborah Atkins, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington
Session Chair: Judith deVries, Independent Scholar

HM 351/353 -- Peacemakers

"Peacemakers and Friends: Gandhi and Jane Addams" -- Tom Gilsenan, University of Iowa
"Are Jane Addams's Ideas about Peace Still Relevant?" -- Harriet Alonso, Department of History, City College of New York
Session Chair: Joe Kunkel, University of Dayton

10:30-10:45 AM - Coffee Break - 4th Floor Lobby

Session VI: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

HM 470/472 -- Charity, Labor, and Democracy

"Jane Addams and Mary Richmond on the Perplexities of Charity in a Democracy" -- Elizabeth Agnew, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Ball State University
"Transfiguring a Few: Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and Immigrant Workers in Chicago" -- Karen Pastorello, Department of History, Tompkins Cortland Community College (NY)
Session Chair: Danielle Poe, University of Dayton

HM 351/353 -- "Settling" Unsettled

" Queer Politics and Domestic Democracy: Jane Addams Unsettled" -- Shannon Jackson, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair: Andrew Slade, University of Dayton

12:15-1:30 PM - Lunch Break

Text Box: 1:30-3:00 PM – Plenary – Sears Recital Hall

“The Sermon of the Deed:
Jane Addams’s Religious Consciousness”
Victoria Bissell Brown, Department of History, Grinnell College

Session Chair: Betty Youngkin, University of Dayton

3:00-3:30 PM - Reception to follow - HM 470/472

Session VII: 3:30-5:30 PM

Sears Recital Hall -- The Arts at Hull House: Still Vibrant

"Bringing Art to Life: Women and the Arts at Hull-House" -- Peggy Glowacki, Assistant Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
"Rocking Chicago in Service to Women: Suzanne Lacy's 'Full Circle' Project" -- Sharon Irish, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana
Session Chair, Judith Huacuja, University of Dayton

6:00-8:00 PM - Dinner Break

Text Box: 8:00 PM – Plenary – Sears Recital Hall

“Art and Life: A Full Circle in the Work of Jane Addams”
World Premier of Full Circle
Suzanne Lacy, feminist performance artist and videographer

Session Chair: Pat Johnson, University of Dayton