CACE Conference 2006

“Freedom and Community: Explorations."
Brochure now available for download (pdf)

The CACE conference this year went very well, and provoked a lot of interesting conversation. If you have any follow up questions, don't hesitate to let us know!

For mp3 files of the sessions, check out our audio resource page.

The tensions which exist between the community’s need for order and the individual’s desire for (and exercises of) freedom is a theme that reaches across time, space, tradition and scholarly discipline. Whether in Antigone or the Pauline epistles, whether in Supreme Court cases or the structures (and strictures) of the community of scholars, the theme of “community and freedom” seems a fixed part of the human condition. The current War on Terror and its continually contested contours, balancing security and civil liberty, is the most dramatic public expression of this theme in our day.

As befits a topic at once so important and of such interdisciplinary interest, we are delighted to offer a wide range of events for the 2006 CACE conference that will explore the theme of “community and freedom.” As a community we will have the opportunity to consider this theme as explored from within such disciplines as music, psychology, education, theology, law, politics, and philosophy. Our keynote speaker for the conference, Prof. Carol Swain, will call us to consider as Christians and as citizens two of the most intractable problems in contemporary American and church life, the issue of race and the issue of immigration.

We hope you will be able to take advantage of this unique gathering of voices, to come, to listen, and to learn.

All events are free and open to the public. Feel free to fill out the online registration form however to receive regular updates as the schedule is completed.

Friday, March 17
12:45 - 1:50 pm
Pre-conference Presentation
Dr. Timothy Cooley, UC Santa Barbara
Topic: "Musical Expressions of Freedom and Community in Society"
Location: Pierce 104 Classroom

Tuesday, March 21
7:30 pm
Dr. Chap Clark – Director of the Youth & Culture Program, Fuller Seminary, Denver
Topic: "Hope for a HURT Generation: Guiding Adolescents through Freedom and Community "
Location: Barrows Auditorium

8:30 pm Musical Feature
Jeremy Taylor, Political Satirist
Topic: "Music, Politics, and Satire"
Location: Phelps Room, Beamer Center

Wednesday, March 22
10:30 Wheaton College Chapel-Dr. Swain

3:30 - 5:00 pm
Josh Casteel. Veteran, US Army Interrogator & Arabic Linguist at
Abu Ghraib
Topic: "Freedom and Community in the US Military: My Time at Abu Ghraib "
Location: Blanchard 339

7:30 pm Keynote Plenary Session
Dr. Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
Topic: "Dwelling together in Harmony: Racial Reconciliation the Right & Wrong Way"
Location: Barrows Auditorium

9:15 pm Musical Feature
Raashon Daniels, rapper & Phil Jackson, Pastor, Lawndale Community
Topic: "Hip Hop in Context: Freedom, Community, or Both?"
Location: Coray Auditorium

Thursday, March 23
10:30 – 11:15 am
Dr. Ed Leman, Superintendent, Elementary & Middle School, West Chicago
Topic: Freedom and Community in Public Education
Location: Breyer 8 Classroom

12:30 – 2:30 pm Tray Lunch Q & A
Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat authors “Colossians Remixed”
Location: North Party Room

7:30 pm Keynote Plenary Session
Dr. Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
Topic: "Love Thy Neighbor: Main Issues in Contemporary Immigration Debates"
Location: Barrows Auditorium

Friday, March 23
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Dr. Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Topic: “Prophetic Spirit: Speaking Truth To Power”
Location: Barrows Auditorium

3:30 – 5:00 pm
Botrus Mansour, Human Rights Attorney, Nazareth, Israel
Topic: Israeli/Palestinian Relations
Location: Blanchard 339