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Are the Liberal Arts Essentially Western?



Organizers:
William Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Wabash College, organized this colloquy.

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago, presented the keynote address–Diverse Views of Diversity, or, Interdisciplinary Cross-cultural Eclecticism. [Click here to download, pbk2_doniger.pdf, a 168 kb file.]
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Phi Beta Kappa was the co-sponsor of this colloquy.

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For a summary of this meeting, you may download an Adobe Acrobat file, pbk2_summary.pdf, a 186 kb file.

Participants:
John Agresto, Center of Inquiry
Anne Bost, Center of Inquiry
John Churchill, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Len Clark, Earlham College
Mac Dixon-Fyle, DePauw University
Wendy Doniger , University of Chicago
M. David Eckel, Boston University
Catherine Freis, Millsaps College
Rudolph P. Hock, Howard University
Werner Kelber, Rice University
Richard Lynch, Center of Inquiry
William Placher, Wabash College
Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Notre Dame University
Niall Slater, Emory University
William Spellman, UNC-Asheville
Raymond Williams, Wabash College
Lee Yearley, Stanford University