In his remarks in Tucson after the terrible tragedy there,
President Obama said, “In the fleeting time we have on this earth,
what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame – but
rather, how well we have loved.”
Please join us (and encourage your students to join us) on
Valentine’s Day for an interdisciplinary symposium on love
presented by seven distinguished St. John’s College
scholars.
Symposium Participants:
Dr. Raymond DiGiuseppe
Psychology
“The Evolution of Love”
Rev. Robert Lauder
Philosophy
“Love: The Godly in Existence”
Dr. Kathleen Lubey
English
“Bad Romance: Love, Sex and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century
Britain”
Dr. Sharon Marshall
Institute for Core Studies/English Composition
“Don’t You Just Love It? Teaching and Learning as a Practice of
Love”
Dr. Heidi Upton
Institute for Core Studies/Discover New York
“Love and the Musical Imagination: The Home Note”
Dr. Lara Vapnek
History
“Mother’s Love and Mother’s Care: Wet-Nurses and Their
Infants”
Dr. Christopher Vogt
Theology and Religious Studies
“More than ‘Saying Yes to the Dress’: A Catholic Perspective on
Married Love”
Monday, February 14, 2011
4 - 5:30 p.m.
D’Angelo Center, Room 416 A/B
A reception will follow.
I hope you (and your students) will join us for this exciting
event, the third in an annual interdisciplinary symposium series by
our faculty (the first was on Charles Darwin on his 200th birthday;
the second was on death and dying on All Souls’ Day).