CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS:

JIS SYMPOSIUM 2023:

CULTURE & ITS DISCONTENTS:

FROM SELFIES TO COMMUNITY

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA

14 OCTOBER 2023 (Online: Zoom)

Hosted by:  Omega Graduate School

Keynote: “Identity Politics, Natural Law and Human Dignity“
Nalani E. Hilderman, San Diego Christian College

Suggested Themes:

At the center of postmodern culture is a paradox: What Christopher Lasch analyzed as The Culture of Narcissism (1979) that celebrates an individual’s unbounded subjectivity, found an unlikely ally in what Mark Milke calls The Victim Cult (2021) that focuses on past grievances while forsaking the future.  Both Hitler and Stalin thought of themselves as “victims.”  Their paranoia stoked fascist and communist totalitarian dictatorships punctuated by Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulag chronicled by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.  In post-World War II U.S., racial, ethnic and gender preferences had unintended consequences.  Beneficiaries who succeeded due to talent and effort would have done so without preferences, while those less-prepared often faced higher education’s revolving door.  As contributors to A Dubious Expediency (2021) conclude, such preferences damage higher education, lowering standards, resulting in demands for further leveling, and silencing of independent voices via political correctness.  But the major deleterious consequence of preferences is the retribalization of American society and resulting identity politics which now divide the Republic along ancient tribal, non-negotiable, lines.  John McWhorter claims in Woke Racism (2021) that the “Elect”–self-styled gurus who demand uncompromising racial consciousness of victimhood from blacks and whites alike–propagate a new “religion” that has betrayed black America.  The question arises: Can individuals and groups in 21st-century America find common ground, renewing the culture and civil society as the precondition for community and a more perfect Union?

CULTURE  &  ITS  DISCONTENTS  2023  SYMPOSIUM  GUIDELINES:

CULTURE & ITS DISCONTENTS 2023 endeavors to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and denominations for an exciting international conference that takes both scholarship and faith seriously.  Congress Venue: JIS Symposium 2023 is co-sponsored by IIR-ICSA-JIS in the City of the Roses–the world-famous Tournament of Roses–in sunny Southern California, with many cultural/sightseeing opportunities (via Zoom).  Send Abstracts (250 words) to: Dr. O. Gruenwald, JIS Editor, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107, USA, per e-mail (no attachments) by: August 15, 2023 to: JIS Symposium 2023 (click for e-mail). Include: Paper Title, First & Last Name, faculty or student, mailing address, phone & e-mail.  Publication: Fully-developed papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXVI 2024.  Conference Web:  https://www.jis3.org/symposium2023.  Registration: Donation (tax-deductible).  Online option via PayPal: Use PayPal Donate button.  For those wishing to visit Pasadena, contact: www.visitpasadena.com.

CULTURE  &  ITS  DISCONTENTS  2023  SYMPOSIUM  STRUCTURE:

Main Conference Program via Zoom:  Saturday, 14 October 2023.
Format:  Multidisciplinary panels and papers.
Keynote:  “Identity Politics, Natural Law and Human Dignity” Nalani E. Hilderman, San Diego Christian College
Leitmotif:  In search of truth without prejudice (tao).
Sponsors:  Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, International Christian Studies Association.
Hosted By:  Omega Graduate School.  Dr. David Ward, Zoom Coordinator.
Registration:  Donation (tax-deductible).  Online Option via PayPal: Use PayPal Donate Button on JIS Symposium 2023 web: https://www.jis3.org/symposium2023.

CULTURE  &  ITS  DISCONTENTS  2023  REGISTRATION  FORM:

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