These sessions are planned as opportunities to expand the base of information about this complex situation so that students, faculty, staff, and the wider community will be better equipped to make and humane decisions about the war.
“We are organizing this series of events because we hear from our students requests for information and guidance, and we feel obligated as educators and as citizens to respond to this crisis as intelligently and responsibly as we can,” said Associate Professor of History Stephen Morillo. “What better demonstration of the relevance of the liberal arts to democracy?”
“Such exploration and discussion is essential both to the liberal arts and to informed citizenship; that's why we're doing it,” adds Professor of Classics Joseph Day.
All of the discussions are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Public Affairs Office at Wabash College (765) 361-6364.
The schedule of events follows:
Monday, March 24
12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch: “The Role of the United Nations”
Karl Leib, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
International Hall, Detchon Center
4:15 p.m. “A Short History of the United States at War”
Stephen Morillo, Associate Professor of History
Room 114, Baxter Hall
8:00 p.m. “The Costs and Benefits of This War”
Andy Schlewitz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
David Timmerman, Associate Professor of Speech
Room 209, Detchon Center
Tuesday, March 25
8:00 a.m. Theological Ethics: “Just War Theory”
Bill Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Room 304, Center Hall
11:10 a.m. “What Is the Rest of the World Saying?”
Presented by students who studied abroad during Spring Break
College Chapel
12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch: “The Perspectives of Germany and France”
John Byrnes, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature
Corinne LaMarle, Visiting Instructor of French
International Hall, Detchon Center
4:15 p.m. “Wabash and the Vietnam War in 1970 and Other Public Protests Against American Wars”
Bill Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Peter Frederick, Professor of History
International Hall, Detchon Center
7:30 p.m. “Artists Respond to War”
Michael Abbott, Associate Professor of Theater
International Hall, Detchon Center
Wednesday, March 26
12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch: "From Duck and Cover to Duct Tape: Mobilizing Citizens for War"
Andy Schlewitz, Assistant Professor of Political Science
International Hall, Detchon Center
4:15 p.m. “Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Weapons”
Shivi Selvaratnam, Assistant Professor of Biology
Dennis Rich, Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of Physics
Ann Taylor, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
International Hall, Detchon Center
8:00 p.m. “Extraordinary Events, Ordinary Coverage: When Photographs from the Past Shape Journalism”
Barbie Zelizer, Brigance Forum Lecturer
Thursday, March 27
8:00 a.m. Theological Ethics: “Just War Theory”
Bill Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Room 304, Center Hall
11:10 a.m. “War and the United States Constitution”
David Hadley, Professor of Political Science
College Chapel
12:00 p.m. “Thinking with the Greeks and Romans”
Joseph Day, Professor of Classics
International Hall, Detchon Center
“The War and American Culture”
Warren Rosenberg, Professor of English
International Hall, Detchon Center
4:15 p.m. “Reading the Media”
Todd McDorman, Assistant Professor of Speech
Jennifer Young, Instructor of Speech
International Hall, Detchon Center
7:30 p.m. “The Things We’re Carrying: Personal Reflections on War and the Struggle for Peace”
Tobey Herzog, Professor of English
C. Peter Bankart, Professor of Psychology
International Hall, Detchon Center
Friday, March 28
12:00 p.m. “Past and Future Parallels with Past Wars, and Post-Saddam Iraq”
Melissa Butler, Professor of Political Science
International Hall, Detchon Center