The conference will be held Friday April 24^th and Saturday April 25^th, and will feature an opening night dinner, a plenary speaker, a student luncheon address, a closing reception, and panels on a variety of topics at which Saint Anselm students will present their work.

We welcome investigation of aspects of the conference theme from across disciplines. Panel topics might include Empire and the American Dream, Frontier and the American Dream, The Human Person and the American Dream, Poverty and the American Dream, Entrepreneurship and the American Dream, Visualizing the American Dream, the Literature of the American Dream . . . the possibilities are almost endless. We also encourage presentations related to the American dream whose themes are derived from a service learning experience.

There are several ways we’d like to encourage you to participate:

1) Coordinate course assignments with the conference theme, or build the conference into your syllabus. Constructing a panel of student work for presentation at the conference could be a class project. We are flexible with respect to the design of panels.

2) Consider including one paper assignment related to the conference theme into one or more of your courses. You might nominate – or have your class nominate – a particular student paper for inclusion (the Oxford Companions will construct panels from such nominations).

3) Encourage (or require) attendance at one or more of the conference panels.

4) Please give some thought, too, to offering the outstanding work of your students from previous semesters.

We will send a formal Call for Papers very soon. To help prepare for this event we’ll need to estimate the level of participation. If you choose to incorporate the conference into one or more of your spring courses, please let us know by February 1^st. The deadline for panel and paper proposals is Friday March 20^th.

With Best Wishes for the New Year (and the new semester),

Peter Josephson, Co-Facilitator, Education in Liberty and the Liberal Arts
Max Latona, Co-Facilitator, Education in Liberty and the Liberal Arts
Meg Cronin, Advisor, Oxford Companions