ISCSC 2010 International Conference at Brigham Young University
June 15-17, 2010, Provo, Utah
General Information
Dear Participants in the 2010 conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations:
Thank you for participating in our conference at Brigham Young University in Provo Utah this June 14-17! Here is some practical information, to go with the preliminary program:
“Express Shuttle” from the airport can be called at 1-800-397-0773. It costs $29 per person to BYU from the airport.
Hotel information is at: http://ce.byu.edu/cw/iscsc/travel.cfm
The main registration homepage is: http://ce.byu.edu/cw/iscsc/
Our Publisher Stephen Blaha sends these formatting requirements for those who want papers in the Proceedings:
· A research paper – 12 pages, a position paper – 6 pages, an abstract of research in progress 1 page.
· Please put your papers in Times Roman in the format they want to see in the Proceedings. 1.5 inch Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins would be appreciated for text and especially for Figures & Tables.
· A title, an author name and e-mail
· An abstract – a few sentences, squeezed
· A few key words in bold
· Your manuscript please send to Dr Thomas Rienzo for editing Thomas.rienzo@wmich.edu
· Due date for manuscript submission for the Proceedings—June 30, 2010, you will have time to update your manuscript after presenting it in Provo, UT.
Thanks again for your participation in our program! Have a safe journey long or short, and Best Wishes Always,
Michael Andregg
ISCSC International Conference Chair
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
mmandregg@stthomas.edu
651-962- 5907
Late Breaking News: This 40th Meeting of the ISCSC is dedicated to one of our founding members Matthew Melko, who has had a health emergency and cannot attend this year.
ISCSC-2010
BYU International Conference, June 15-17, 2010, Provo Utah
Detailed-Program
Dedicated to founding member Matthew Melko who is sick, but whom we all hope to see next year at Tulane U, New Orleans
Monday, June 14:
7 – 9:00 pm, Reception at the BYU conference Center.
Tuesday, June 15:
8:30 – 8:50 am, Welcome to Provo, to BYU and to the ISCSC. Professor Sandra
Rogers, International Vice President, Brigham Young University.
9:00 – 10:30 am, S1, first Concurrent Paper Session (striving for two threads max)
A: Civilizations Under Stress
Chair: Andrew Targowski, Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo.
Rachel Lewis, Brigham Young University, “Autonomy in Action and Inaction: Reconfiguring
Autonomy in Gandhi’s Autobiography.”
Hisanori Kato, Osaka Ohtani University, “Is a Local Civilization an Alternative? Comparative
Analysis of Western, Islamic, and Javanese Civilizations.”
Marek Celinski, Toronto Canada, “Will People Ever Lose the Will to Survive?”
B: Clashes of Civilizations
Chair: Michael Andregg, University of Minnesota
Jaime Gonzalez-Ocana, Brunswick School, “Herodotus and Today’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’.”
Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University, “Reading the Past for the Future: When Ideologies
Precipitate Crises They Were Intended to Avert.”
Michael Andregg, University of Minnesota, “The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857:
A Civilizational Encounter with Lessons for us All.”
10:30 – 11 am, break #1
11:00 – 12:30 am, S2, first Book Review Session * (see note at end, 3 threads to these)
Book Reviews-A: Long-term Evolution
Chair: Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn University, NY
Leslie A. White, “The Evolution of Culture.”
Reviewer: Sisay Asefa, Western Michigan University
Sing C. Chew, “The Recurring Dark Ages.”
Reviewer: Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn University
Book Reviews-B: Ancient and Modern
Chair: Norman C. Rothman, University of Maryland
K. Anne Pyburn, ed. “Ungendering Civilization.”
Reviewer: Roman Zawadski, Warsaw University, Poland
Thomas Madden, “Empires of Trust: How Rome Built – and America is Building – a New World.”
Reviewer: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos, CA
Laurie Maguire, “Helen of Troy.”
Reviewer: Norman C. Rothman, University of Maryland
Book Reviews-C: Roundtable on Corrine Gilb & Roger Wescott Comparing Civilizations
Chair: David Wilkinson, UCLA
Reviewers: Lee Stauffer, University of New Mexico Las Vegas (reviewing Wescott’s
“Comparing Civilizations”)
Matt Melko* Wright State University, Ohio, (reviewing both books). * see front
12:30 – 2 pm, lunch, at the cafeteria [A Board Meeting]
2:00 – 3:30 pm, S3, second Book Review Session
Book Reviews-4 Modernity
Chair: Midori Yamanouchi Rynn, Scranton University, Lake Ariel PA.
S.N. Eisenstadt, “Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities.”
Reviewer: Norman C. Rothman, University of Maryland
Heinz Schilling, “Early Modern European Civilization.”
Reviewer: Norman C. Rothman, University of Maryland
Michael McCormick, “Origins of the European Economy.”
Reviewer: Midori Yamanouchi Rynn, Scranton University, Lake Ariel PA
Book Reviews-5 Islam and the West
Chair: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos, CA
Norman C. Rothman, “Three Faces of Islam.”
Reviewer: Michael Andregg, University of Minnesota
Aaron Tyler, “Islam, the West, and Tolerance: Conceiving Coexistence”
Reviewer: Tseggai Issac, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Meir Litvak, ed., “Middle Eastern Societies and the West.”
Reviewer: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos, CA
Gene W. Heck, “When Worlds Collide.”
Reviewer: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos, CA
Book Reviews-6 Natural Law and Civilizations
Chair: Matt Melko*, Wright State University, Ohio
Brian Fagan, “The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.”
Reviewer: George Von der Muhll, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nicholas Hagger, “The Rise and Fall of Civilizations: The Law of History.”
Reviewer: Reed Smith, New Orleans, LA
Francis Wood, “Silk Road.”
Reviewer: Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov, Washington D.C.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, “Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature.”
Reviewer: Matt Melko*, Wright State University, Ohio
3:30 – 4:00 pm, break #2
4:00 – 5:30 pm, S4, first Roundtable Session, on: Impact of War on Civilizations
Chair: Steven Blaha, The Civilizational Press of ISCSC, New Hampshire
Other Participants: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos, CA, and
Michael Andregg, University of Minnesota
S4, second Concurrent Paper Session:
A: Civilizations as Evolving Projects
Chair: Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov, Washington, D.C.
Karol Edward Soltan, University of Maryland, “Universal Civilization as a Project.”
W. Reed Smith, New Orleans, LA, “The Influence of Spengler and Toynbee on Joseph Campbell
(and Vice Versa?).”
Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov, Washington, D.C., “Civilization Science: The Evolution of a New Field
B: Central Asia and Africa
Chair, Issac Tseggai, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Baktybek Abdrisaev and Rusty Butler, Utah Valley U, Orem Utah, “Sustainable Mountain Development as part of Globalization: Case Study of the cooperation
between Rocky Mountains and Central Asian Mountain Nations.”
Khash-Erdine Sambalkhundev, chair of the Mongolian Knowledge Society, “Contributions of
Mongolian Nomadic Empire to the World Civilization.”
Issac Tseggai, Missouri University of Science and Technology, “Clerical Courage, Crown, and
Citizenship in Medieval Ethiopia.”
5:30 – 7:00 pm, dinner, at the cafeteria
7:30 – 9:00 pm Plenary Session #1: Anthony Stevens-Arroyo with a discussant
Donald Q. Cannon, Professor Emeritus of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University.
Topic = “Civilization and Religion: The Dance of Shape Shifters”
Wednesday, June 16:
9:00 – 10:30 am, S5, third Concurrent Paper Session.
A: Values and Logical Systems
Chair: Lee Stauffer, University of New Mexico Las Vegas
Roman Zawadski, University of Warsaw, Poland, “Values as Determinants of National and Historical Identity in Individual and Community Life.”
Richard Zinser, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, “Education for a Global Civilization.”
Nadezhda V. Chekaleva, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russia, “Anticipating Education in Civilizational Futures.”
Lee Stauffer, University of New Mexico, Las Vegas, “The Effect of Land Tenure Systems on the Development of Civilizations.”
B: Minorities and Unusual Religions
Chair: Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos California
Hattie Williams, Monmouth University, “The Future of Whiteness in American Civilization.”
Elina Karanastasi, Technical University of Crete, “A Proposal for Exploitation of Urban Voids as Intensively Productive Land and as a method of Urbanization of Minorities.”
Laina Farhat-Holzman, Aptos Calilfornia, “Piracy: The World’s Third Oldest Profession with a Strange Religious Component.”
10:30 – 11 am, break #1
11:00 – 12:30 am, S5, 2nd Roundtable Session, Altruism and Solving Global Problems
Chairs: Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov, Ashok Malhotra, Connie Lamb and Baktybek Abdrisayev.
Other Participants: Matthew Lee, University of Akron, Ohio, “The Possibilities and Limitations
of Religious-based Altruism for Solving Endemic Social Problems:
Findings From a Multi-year Research Project.
S6, fourth Concurrent Paper Session – Theory 1
Chair: Huei-Ying Kuo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Moritaka Saigusa, Rikkyo Univ., Japan, “Civilizational Futures in Light of Toynebee’s Theory.’
Seth Abrutyn, University of California, Riverside, “Toward a Theory of the Axial Age:
Explaining the Emergence of Religious-Culteral Entrepreneurs.”
JaNae Haas, Utah Valley University, “The Athenian Democracy: An Analysis of Contemporary
Sources.”
12:30 – 2 pm, lunch, at the cafeteria [the board will meet here and then also]
2:00 – 3:30 pm, S7, third Roundtable Session: Altruism in Global Education
Chairs: Valentin Andreyev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Kazan State
University, Russia, Lyubov Mikhaltsova, Kuzbass State Pedagogical Academy, Russia, and Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov, Washington D.C.
Other Participants: Julia Andreyeva, and Sergey Alekseev, Russian Federation.
S7, fifth Concurrent Paper Session: Theory 2
Chair: Matt Melko*, Wright State University, Ohio. *Ross Maxwell standing in for Matt
Barry Kosmin, Trinity College, CT, “Is There a 21st Century Global Scientific Culture?”
Huei-Ying Kuo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, “Imagined Chinas in Asia’s
Civilizational Discourses.”
Ross R. Maxwell, Institute for Historical Study, San Francisco CA, “Civilization and Interdependent Specialists: The Grade Change Hypothesis.”
Matt Melko*, Wright State University, Ohio, “Past and Future of Civilizations.”
3:30 – 4:00 pm, break #2
4:00 – 5:30 pm, Plenary Session #2: Ashok Malhotra, SUNY Oneonta, on “Religion and Civilizations in South Asia” discussant TBD.
5:30 – 6:30 pm, break for rest and freshening up before the banquet
6:30 – 9:00 pm, Banquet, with Presidential Address. Andrew Targowski on
“A Manifesto for Civilization.”
Presentation of the ‘Young Rising Civilizational Star’ award
and other awards.
ISCSC 2011 conference in New Orleans, W. Reed Smith.
Thursday, June 17:
9:00 – 10:30 am, S8, sixth Concurrent Papers Session
A: Korea and China
Chair, Dong-Hyeon Jung, Pusan National U, South Korea
Cheol-hun Park, Pusan National U, South Korea, and Ae-sol Kim, Gyeong-sang University, S.
Korea, ‘“Korean Wave’ Hitting Young Generation in Asia: Ideosyncrasy and Universality of an Asian New Cultural Tide.”
Soojin Jung, Yonsei U, “Private Sector Overpowers Regular School Education in South Korea”
Cheol-hun Park, Pusan National U, South Korea, “Future of Korean Social Enterprise: To Rely
On Government Support or to be Independent?”
Dong-Hyeon Jung, Pusan National U, South Korea, “Emerging East Asia Challenges the West –
Will Asia Surpass the U.S. and West Soon?”
B: More Religious Inputs to Civilizations, Latin America
Chair: Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn University
Adan Stevens-Diaz, Temple University, “Religion and the Enlightenment in Baroque Latin
America: A Chapter in the Transformation of Civilization in Popular Culture.”
Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens, Union Theological Seminary, New York, “Sor Juana Ines of Baroque
Mexico and the Civilized Woman.”
Pedro Geiger, Brazil, “Current Social and Political Role of Religions: The Particular Case of
Judaism and of Condoruble.”
Norman Rothman, University of Maryland, “Modernity and Islam in Malaysia.”
10:30 – 11 am, break #1
11:00 – 12:30 am, Plenary Session #3: David Wilkinson, UCLA, on “Civilizations: What are they?” with a secretary to help with practical aspects of drawing up the ephemeral list of certifiable “civilizations” according to someone’s criteria. This year, the criteria are David Wilkinson’s.
12:30 – 1 pm, Annual Business Meeting (election of officers mainly)
1:00 pm – 2 pm lunch in the cafeteria followed by open time for tours, etc.
[a New Board Meeting]
2:00 pm -- ??? Tour to Salt Lake City, Temple Square, etc.
Dinner on your own there or in BYU/Provo area.
The conference center will have lists of things to do around there.
* Once again, one of our two surviving founding members had a health emergency days ago which will prevent Matthew Melko, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Wright State University in Ohio, from attending this year. We hope he will recover soon so that we can see him again next year in New Orleans. This 40th gathering of the ISCSC is dedicated to Matt and his family.
No comments:
Post a Comment