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Knowledge and Belief

25th Anniversary Conference and Reunion
October 14 - 15, 2005

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Conference Panels and Speakers

The panel topics and speakers are as follows:

Opening Panel
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
Wanda Corn, Stanford University
Tak Fujitani, University of California, San Diego
Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame

Philosophical Evidence
Eckart Forster, Johns Hopkins University, Chair
Richard Rorty, Stanford University
Wolfgang Welsch, University of Jena

Our Knowledge, Their Belief
Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz, Chair
Arturo Arias, University of Redlands
Joel Beinen, Stanford University
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University

Belief Outside Religion
Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair
Mary Louise Gill, Brown University
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University

Knowledge and Classification
Ellen Pader, University of Massachusetts, Chair
Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
Tom Lutz, University of Iowa

The Arts and Belief
Alexander Nemerov, Yale University, Chair
Kristin Schwain, University of Missouri, Columbia
Jason Weems, University of Michigan

Knowledge in Language
Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University, Chair
Seth Lerer, Stanford University
Thomas Wasow, Stanford University

Aesthetics as a Form of Belief
Robert Polhemus, Stanford University, Chair
Dawn Coleman, University of Tennessee
Steven Meyer, Washington University

Genealogy of Knowledge and Belief
Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan, Chair
Robert Harrison, Stanford University
Tyrus Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Gender, Power, and Belief
Hilary Schor, University of Southern California, Chair
Madeleine Kahn, Mills College
Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto
Heather Webb, Ohio State University

The Philosophy of Belief
Joseph Sartorelli, Arkansas State University, Chair
Peter Gilgen, Cornell University
Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
Gonzalo Munevar, Lawrence Technological University

Knowledge within Religion
Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Chair
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin
Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University

Cross-cultural Variants of Religion and Belief
James Robson, University of Michigan, Chair
Lisa Claypool, Lewis and Clark College
Gordana Crnkovic, University of Washington

The Practice of Belief
Mia Bruch, Stanford University, Chair
Dorian Llywelyn, Loyola Marymount University
Martha Newman, University of Texas, Austin