Plenary:
“Is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Good for Faculty Professional Development?” Peter Felten and Keith Trigwell (University of Sydney)

Concurrent Single-Papers:
“Digital Office Hours?” – Phillip Motley, presenter; Sang Nam, co-author

“Transforming Faculty Development Through SoTL in a First-Year Writing Program” – Jessie L. Moore

“Project-based Service-learning” — Phillip Motley, presenter; Sang Nam, co-author

Round Tables:
“’Curve Balls’ and Other Disruptive Interventions” – Phillip Motley

“Exploring Radical Research”— Maggie Castor, Jessie L. Moore and Stephen Bloch-Schulman

Workshops:
“Lessons in ‘productive disruption’: what student-faculty partnerships in pedagogical planning can teach us” – Peter Felten, Catherine Bovill (University of Glasgow), and Alison Cook-Sather (Bryn Mawr College)

“Where is Feminism in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” — Stephen Bloch-Schulman, David Concepcion (Ball State University), Juli Eflin (Ball State University) and Donna Engelmann (Alverno College)

Pre-Conference Workshop:

“A Chorus of Student Voices in SoTL: Researching With (not preaching to) the Choir” —
Peter Felten, Stephen Bloch Schulman, Maggie Castor, Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University), Karen Hornsby (North Carolina A&T State University), Carmen Werder (Western Washington University), Tyler Baxter (Western Washington University, ’13), Kara Yanagida (Western Washington University, ’12), Catherine Bovill (University of Glasgow) & Alison Cook-Sather (Bryn Mawr College)
 

For more on the journal, see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/87567555.asp

The article, “Who’s Afraid of Politics? On the Need to Teach Political Engagement,” stems from their collaborative work together in Greensboro, including the teaching of the Reclaiming Democracy course. 

The course brings together faculty and students from colleges and universities in Greensboro, with activists and community members, to study democracy in Greensboro and to act to make Greensboro a more democratic community.

Bloch-Schulman also co-wrote the introduction and authored a chapter on Hannah Arendt’s understanding of public forgiveness: “The Necessity of Forgiveness for the Public Realm: On Hannah Arendt’s Public Conception of Forgiveness.”

This conference, which deals with the commission’s work and related topics, has been co-organized by Stephen Schulman, assistant professor of philosophy, his political philosophy class, and faculty and students from other Greensboro area colleges and universities, including UNC-G and Guilford.

There will be presenters from this area and from as far away as Michigan. There will be papers, art, spoken word and dance (including the work of Lauren Kearns, assistant professor of Performing Arts here at 黑料不打烊). The conference is free and open to the public.

Schulman spoke about the final project for the Honors class. For the project, the students worked together to produce a full-length play, not only writing the play, but also writing the comic book playbill, making the sets, selling tickets and producing a documentary of the whole project. The students performed the final vignette, a piece about Auschwitz inspired by the work of Primo Levi.