6th Annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue
John Dewey, Daisaku Ikeda, and the Quest for a New Humanism

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of John Dewey’s birth

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

PROGRAM

9:00AM — Continental Breakfast

9:30 — Opening Remarks
Richard Yoshimachi, Executive Director and President, Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue

10:00 — SETTING THE STAGE
Steven Rockefeller, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Middlebury College

Discussion

10:40 — INNER POTENTIAL AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION
Larry Hickman, Director, Center for Dewey Studies, and Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Gonzalo Obelleiro, Doctoral Student, Program of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Comments: Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

Discussion

12:00PM — Lunch

1:00 — SOCIAL SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Jim Garrison, Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech
Virginia Benson, Senior Research Fellow, Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue

Comments: Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor Emerita of Education, Stanford University

Discussion

3:00 — CONCLUDING CONVERSATION
David Hansen, Professor and Director, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, will offer comments on the day

Discussion

4:00 — Closing comments from Richard Yoshimachi

Refreshments

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Background readings by and about Dewey and Ikeda are posted here!

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Fee includes breakfast and lunch

General Registration $15.00

Student/Senior Registration $10.00

The Ikeda Center
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