PLEASE NOTE: This schedule is for early information purposes & will be updated and/or changed.

Time TBD

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Exordium: Andrew Kern

10:30 am–11:30 am

Pillar I:

What is Classical Education?

Dr. Anthony Esolen

Time

CAI

Idea

Governance

Practice A

Practice B

Colloquy A

Colloquy B

11:40 am –

12:30 pm

Quotes

Questions

The Moral Imagination: Elliot, Burke & Kirk      

Dr. Ben Lockerd

The Seriousness of Humor

Dr. James Taylor

Classical Schools, School Choice & the Economics of Education

Dr. Vicki Murray

Becoming Stewards of Classroom Culture

Debbie Harris

Much Ado About Writing: The Lost Tools of Writing program and its use in writing and literature for grades 5 and up

Leah Lutz

TBA

John Hodges

Does our sense of humor show that we are created in the image of God?

Dr. Peter Van de Brake

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30pm –

2:30 pm

America’s Fascination with Ancient Greece

Dr. Gleaves Whitney

How to Watch a Comedy

Andrew Kern

Developing a Vibrant Team Culture

Maurice Valasquez

Jane Austen and the Cultivation of Virtue through Humor

Laura Berquist

The Education of the American Founders

Dr. Vicki Murray

“To condemn… leisure…is to prefer civilization to savagery.” – Russell Kirk

James Daniels 

Does it help to work at being funny?

Martin Cothran

2:45pm – 4:00pm

Poetic Knowledge Panel (Esolen, Berquist, Veith) - Robert Browning's "Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church"

4:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Break for dinner, etc.

7:30 pm

 A Night on the Town... in the Gym: "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" (Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Time TBD

Shuttles leave Sheraton for Our Savior Lutheran

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Exordium: "The Fragmenting of American Society"

 Barbara Elliott

10:30 am–11:30 am

Pillar II:

Principle of Virtue: Humor and Character

Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

Time

CAI

Idea

Governance

Practice A

Practice B

Colloquy A

Colloquy B

11:40 am –

12:30 pm

Quotes

Questions

A Sacramental View of the World as a Basis for the Arts     

John Hodges

Developing a Vibrant Mission

Maurice Valasquez

How To Understand an Idea and Why We Should

Andrew Kern

Humor in Service of Truth & Error           

Bryan Smith

TBA

Dr. James Taylor

Can the classical vision & pedagogy be enacted in the modern institution?

James Daniels

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

Humor and Pride

Dr. Ben Lockerd

America’s Ongoing Connection to Ancient Rome

Dr. Gleaves Whitney

Practical Applications of Humor for the Administrator

Bryan Smith

Dramatic Reading

 John Hodges

Why Good Schools Fail

Dr. Vicki Murray

“The goal of education is to save people from boredom” – Russell Kirk

Andrew Kern 

Why are some people funny & others decidedly not?

Dr. James Taylor

3:00 pm –

4:00 pm

Roundtable Discussions

6:00 pm –

9:00 pm

Paideia Prize Banquet

 Russell Kirk Paideia Prize awarded to Dr. Peter V. Sampo

Time TBD

Shuttles leave Sheraton for Our Savior Lutheran

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Exordium: "Clouds and Tempests: Classical & Christian Comedy Compared"

 Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

Time

CAI

Idea

Governance

Practice A

Practice B

Colloquy A

Colloquy B

10:30 am –

11:30 am

Quotes

Questions

Dawson & Eliot on Church & State

Dr. Ben Lockerd

Reading for Distraction: Would Fr. Sertillanges approve of P.G. Wodehouse?

Dr. Tom Behr

God’s Sense of Humor & How It Is Manifested in Our Schools

Dr. Peter Van de Brake

How To Teach Logic in the Grammar School

James Daniels

Teaching Great Literature

Andrew and Karen Kern

Erasmus: Cyclops  or Gospel-bearer quote

Bryan Smith

“Can we teach the liberal arts in our culture?”

Laura Berquist

11:45 am –

12:45 pm

Closing Session: Bringing it Home

Andrew Kern

12:45 pm

Lunch