Dr. Brian Campbell, assistant professor of anthropology, published an article entitled “Closest to Everlastin” : Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions. The article was published September 20, 2010, in Southern Spaces, an online peer-reviewed journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections. Campbell’s article may be viewed at http://southernspaces.org/2010/closest-everlastin-ozark-agricultural-biodiversity-and-subsistence-traditions.
Dr. Jim Deitrick , director of Humanities and World Cultures Institute and associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Religious Studies majors Jeffrey Lambert and Tony H. “T.J.” McDonald presented their research, “Find and Go Seek: The Integration of Asian Wisdom into Dominant U.S. Discourse through the Production and Consumption of Popular Interactive ‘Glocalized’ Children’s Media,” at the 16th Annual National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program in Honolulu, Hawaii in July. Internationally renowned Sinologist Roger Ames said of the presentation “I was most impressed with the presentation. . . . [It was] really an imaginative project that has clearly inspired your students.” Travel to the conference was supported by generous grants from the College of Liberal Arts’ EDGE Committee, UCA’s Humanities and World Cultures Institute, the Department of Philosophy and Religion Foundation Fund, and UCA’s Confucius Institute. McDonald’s article “Ameriyana: The Western Vehicle of the Buddha Dharma” is also published in the current issue of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/imwjournal/vol2/iss1/3).
Dr. Clayton Crockett, associate professor and director of religious studies, has an essay, “The Plasticity of Continental Philosophy of Religion,” published in After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion, edited by Anthony Paul Smith and Daniel Whistler (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). This essay focuses on the work of the contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou and her concept of plasticity in connection with Continental philosophy of religion.
Dr. Charles Harvey, chair and professor of philosophy, has had an essay published in Educational Theory (V. 60, No. 2, 2010) entitled “Making Hollow Men.” The essay is on the pervasive perverseness of assessment in the contemporary university and world.
Dr. Jim Shelton, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Dr. Charles Harvey, chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, presented papers this summer at the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World at Oregon State University. Shelton’s paper was titled “The Subversive Nature of Liberal Education”; Harvey’s was “The Conservative Limits of Liberal Education.”