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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.