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The Lilly Fellows Program National Network holds its annual conference each fall on one of the Network campuses. Official representatives of all the Network colleges and universities meet to consider a significant issue of faith and learning, exchange ideas and practices regarding their mission, and foster the whole range of Network programs and activities. Some of the events may be open to the public; contact the host school of the upcoming conference.
September 30 - October 2
College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, Massachusetts
"Keeping the Faith: Four Religious Perspectives on the Creation of Tradition."
For more information on the Conference, please visit the College of Holy Cross's site:
LFP 2005 National Conference
In conjunction with the National Conference, the LFP sponsors a workshop for senior administrators of Network institutions. These Workshops are arranged within the National Network. The sixth annual Lilly Fellows Program Administrators Workshop will immediately precede this year's conference at Holy Cross on September 29-30. This year's theme, Marketing for Mission, will feature Dr. Robert A. Sevier, Senior Vice President at Stamats. With nearly 50 years of experience in the higher education marketplace, Stamats is one of America's most experienced higher education research, marketing communication, and consulting companies.
The theme continues the thread of past workshops: "Developing Leadership for Mission: The Role of Department Chairs" hosted by St. Olaf College; "Developing Leadership for Mission," Pepperdine University; "Developing Boards for Mission," Valparaiso University; "Developing Faculty for Mission," Rivier College; and "Hiring for Mission," at Loyola Marymount University
2006 Xavier University - October 13-15
Cincinnati, Ohio
2007 Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
2008 Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington
2009 Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan
2010 Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana
2011 Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama
2004 - St. Olaf College
"fling yourself farther": Metaphor, Faith, and Learning was the theme of the fourteenth annual National Conference of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts held on October 15-17, 2004 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. LFP representative and former National Network Board member L. DeAne Lagerquist coordinated the conference. Gregg Muilenburg of Concordia College-Moorhead, Julia Kasdorf of Pennsylvania State University, and John Ferguson of St. Olaf College delivered the main addresses at the conference. Small group discussion followed each presentation.
2003 - Pepperdine University
Christianity and Liberal Learning: Revisiting the Connection
Jeanne Heffernan – Liberal Learning and the Light of Faith: An
Initiation into Wholeness
Roger Lundin – ‘What We Have Loved’: Memory and the
Heart of Learning
Christopher Parkening and Jubilant Sykes –Performative presentation
2002 - Valparaiso University
Vocation, Liberal Learning, and the Church-Related Academy
Father James Heft – The “Gentleman” and the Christian
Peter Mercer Taylor – JS Bach: Influences on His Music
Stephanie Paulsell – Life Work
2001 - Rivier College
“What, Then, Must We Do?” Social Justice, Service,
and Religious Mission in Higher Education
Stephen Webb - Beyond Politics: Possibilities for Transformation in
the Post-Secular University
Rebekah Miles - That’s All a Mule Can Do: Rethinking Work and
Vocation in American Culture
Regina Shearer – Performative presentation
2000 - Loyola Marymount University
Moving Images: Film, the Sacred, and Higher Education
Richard Blake - Uncovering the Sacred: Substance and Style in the American
Film
Fredrick Barton - Cultural Revelation and Historical Obfuscation: The
Potentials and Dangers in Cinema as a Tool of Education
Tony Bui - Conversations with the director of Three Seasons
1999 - Valparaiso University
From Hellenistic to Pluralistic: Christianity
and the Religions of the World
Paul J. Griffiths - Seeking Egyptian Gold: A Fundamental Metaphor for
the Christian Intellectual Life in a Religiously Diverse Age
Antonie Wessels - The Role of Storytelling in Interreligious Dialogue
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder - Sharing the Gold: The Dialogues of Life and
Action
1998 - Saint Mary’s College / University of
Notre Dame
Athens and Jerusalem: Sacred Learning and Secular Culture
Nicholas Wolterstorff – Tertullian’s Enduring Question:
What Does Athens Have to Do with Jerusalem?
Michael Buckley - Science and Religion: Antinomy, Dependence or Coordination?
Libby Larsen - The Canticle of Mary: A Setting for the Magnificat
1997 - Baylor University
The City of God Revisited: Church and State in the Twenty-First
Century
Kent Greenawalt - Religious and Secular Arguments in Liberal Democratic
Discourse
Eileen Barker - Religious Pluralism and America’s Public Philosophy
James M. Dunn - Christian Citizenship and Political Advocacy
1996 - Valparaiso University
Nurturing Souls: Scholarship and the Christian World View
Jeanne Knoerle - Love of Learning and the Desire for God
Richard Mouw - Christian Scholarship: The Difference a World View Makes
Robert VerEecke - Dance and Religion: Reforming the Sacred Circle
1995 - Valparaiso University
Nurturing Souls: Learning and the Sciences of Human Development
Sharon Daloz Parks - Led Where We Did Not Plan To Go
Mary C. Boys - The Grace of Teaching
David Morgan - The Role of Images in Religious Education
1994 - Valparaiso University
Nurturing Souls: Teaching and the Arts of Formation
Arthur F. Holmes - Teaching as Formation
Mary K. Oyer - The Nurturing Spirit
Shirley H. Showalter - Teachers Teaching Teachers: What We’ve
Learned
1993 - Valparaiso University
Communities of Learning
Parker J. Palmer – “Only Connect”: On Living and Learning
in Community
Barbara Doherty - The Diversity of Spiritualities in the Community of
Learners
Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. – “Saxifrage” - A Story of,
from and for One Christian Community
1992 - Valparaiso University
Spirituality and Higher Learning
Bernard McGinn - The Letter and the Spirit: Can Spirituality Be an Academic
Discipline?
John Steven Paul - Lord, Hear and See Our Prayer: Artistic Performance
as Expression of Personal Spirituality
Roberta C. Bondi - Re-Envisioning the Rational: Loving, Praying and
Thinking
1991 The Inaugural Conference - Valparaiso University
Christianity and the Academic Vocation
Lawrence Cunningham - Gladly wold he Lerne and gladly teche: The Catholic
Scholar in the New Millennium
Frank Burch Brown - Teachers, Mediums and Magi: Christian Educators
in Humanities and the Arts