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HONORS RETREAT WEEK 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Breakfast in Cafeteria
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. BBQ at Atchison State Park
5:00 p.m. Dinner at MCI Pizza Evening with Mentors
7:30 p.m. The Color of Paradise in McAlister Auditorium, 4th Floor Ferrell
Monday, August 18, 2013, Heritage Room
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks from your Co-Chairs
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Sr. Judith Sutera on the Benedictine Way
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Morning Session: Dr. Traffas
The Search for Perfection: Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” Ovid, Metamorphoses, Gerald
Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty,” Lewis Thomas, “The Wonderful Mistake,”
Andrew M. Niccol, Gattaca, C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, Richard Selzer,
“Imelda,” Stephen Braun, The Science of Happiness
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch in Cafeteria
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Session: Dr. Schramp
Scientific Aspirations: Plutarch’s “Life of Marcellus” (Archimedes), Rene Descartes,
Discourse on Method, E.O. Wilson, Naturalist, Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re
Joking, Mr. Feynman, James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session: Honors Co-Chairs
Honors program overview
5:15 p.m. – 6:00p.m. Mass with the Monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey
Dinner in Cafeteria
Evening: FELLOWSHIP WITH HONORS MENTORS
Tuesday, August 19, 2013
8:30. – 10:00 a.m. Morning Session I: Dr. Lynne Connelly
To Heal Sometimes, To Comfort Always: Hippocratic Oath, Book of Sirach, Albert
Camus, The Plague, Richard Selzer, The Surgeon as Priest, W.H. Auden, The Art of
Healing, Walt Whitman, To One Shortly to Die, Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, George
Eliot, Middlemarch, Perri Klass, Invasions
10: 00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Morning Session II: Dr. Madden
Why Not Immortality? The Odyssey of Homer, The Book of Revelation, Lucretius, On
the Nature of Things, Francis Bacon, Of Death, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Epistles:
On Meeting Death Cheerfully, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s
Travels, Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, E.E. Cummings, Two Poems, Hans Jonas,
The Burden and Blessing of Mortality, Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain,
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Murasaki
Shikibu Sôku, and Dogen, Three Japanese Poems, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch in Cafeteria
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Session I: Dr. Anthony Crifasi
Many Stages, One Life: The Rhetoric of Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Life,
William Shakespeare, As You Like It, J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, Leo Tolstoy, War and
Peace, Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Ordered South, Willa Cather, The Professor’s House, Liam O’Flaherty, Life
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session II: Dr. Mulholland
Among the Generations : Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Galway
Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps, Geoffery Wolf, The Duke of Deception,
Sigrid Undset, The Mistress of Husaby, The Iliad of Homer
Dinner: 6:00 p.m. -- 8 00 p.m. Elizabeth’s at 121 N. 5th Street
On the Waterfront
Wednesday, August 20, 2013
Breakfast on the bus! A sack breakfast will be provided.
9:00 a.m. Leave on bus for KC
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum with Lunch at the café
Professor Christa Kagin, Art Department will give us a tour
Dinner in the cafeteria
Evening: FELLOWSHIP WITH MENTORS
Thursday, August 21, 2013
Breakfast in Cafeteria
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Morning Session II: Dr. Nicholas
Are We Our Bodies? Galway Kinnell, The Fly, Plato, The Symposium, Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni, What the Body Knows, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, St. Augustine,
Confessions, Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric, Delmore Schwartz, The Heavy
Bear, Vladimir Bukovsky, Account of Torture, Roger Angell, Late Innings, John Ciardi,
Washing Your Feet, Richard Selzer, Whither Thou Goest, Thomas Lynch, Good Grief:
An Undertaker’s Reflections
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Morning Session II: Dr. Spiering
Vulnerability and Suffering: The Book of Job, The Iliad of Homer, William
Shakespeare, King Lear, W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts, Mary Webb, Precious
Bane, Francis Bacon, On Deformity, Richard Selzer, Witness, Lorrie Moore, People Like
That Are the Only People Here, Flannery O’Connor, Introduction to a Memoir of Mary
Ann
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch in Cafeteria
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Session: Dr. Blosser
Living Immediately Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Robert Louis Stevenson, Child’s Play,
Emily Dickenson, Pain Has The Element of Blank, Walt Whitman, When I Heard the
Learned Astronomer, Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature, The Odyssey of Homer,
Malcolm Gladwell, Drugstore Athlete, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary
Walker
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon, Part 2: Prof. Salzmann
Human Dignity: The Book of Genesis, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan and Immanuel
Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Iliad of Homer, The
Histories of Herodotus, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow,
The Village Blacksmith, The Ballad of John Henry and Paul Kaplan, Henry the
Accountant, John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive, Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My
Father’s Court, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, Vladimir Bukovsky, To
Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Evening: Dinner at Monte Cassino Inn at 6:00 p.m.
Friday, August 22, 2013
Breakfast in Cafeteria
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Private Tour of Honors’ Sponsored Remnant Trust
Collection
with Dr. Chris Childers
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch in Cafeteria
1:30 p.m. Canoeing with Dr. Spencer at Atchison State Lake
6:00 p.m. Dinner at Cedar Ridge to mark the end of the retreat.