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"The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry"
ISI Regional Leadership Conference
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Location
The Seelbach Hotel
500 Fourth Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Directions
Program Overview
Wendell Berry, through his poetry, social and literary criticism, and novels defends an authentically American civil and social order that is best exemplified in our nation's small communities and rural attachments. While recognizing that progress must be reconciled against our shared experience and knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors, Berry provides an indispensable literary compass for those looking to restore the remnants of shattered culture.
ISI, along with the Philadelphia Society and the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, will convene a one-day conference at the historic Seelbach Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Participants will be led to consider Berry's vision of the human in light of current political, economic, and cultural realities. Join ISI's best and brightest students and faculty in this daylong conference.
| Schedule | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Program Overview |
| 9:15 | Sex and the Family
"Marriage and the Membership"
Anne Husted Burleigh
"Not Safe, Nor Private, Nor Free Will: Wendell Berry on Sexual Love and Procreation"
Allan Carlson |
| 10:35 | Break |
| 10:45 | Poetry and Religion
"Earth and Flesh Sing Together: The Place of Berry's Poetry in His Vision of the Human"
Luke Schlueter
"Wendell Berry's Unlikely Case for Conservative Christianity"
D.G. Hart |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with Wendell Berry |
| 2:00 | Distributism and Localism
"The Restoration of Propriety: Wendell Berry and the British Distributists Compared"
William Fahey
"Wendell Berry on War and Peace: Or, Port William Versus the Empire"
Bill Kaufman |
| 3:20 | Break |
| 3:40 | "Wendell Berry's Politics and Prospects for Reform"
Rod Dreher |
| 4:40 | Closing Remarks |
The conference schedule is available here (PDF).
For more information, contact conferences@isi.org or (800) 526-7022.
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