Press release
Trinity Valley Community College Honors English students will present a conference Wednesday titled “Perfecting Our Republic: In Search of the Just City.” Dr. Brandon Barnes’s students will present topics on a wide range of subjects including education, stress, journalism and media and gender identity politics.
“This program is the final exam for the fall 2016 English 1301 Honors course,” said Barnes. “Students this semester chose topics that interested them related to the subject of justice. In conjunction, we focused heavily on what contemporary philosopher Daniel C. Dennett calls ‘intuition pumps,’ which are…thought exercises that help us to get our thinking going again when we get stuck. We spent time with one of the biggest intuition pumps, Plato’s Republic, one of the greatest, most thought-provoking statements on justice and education. In this program, audience members will see how some of the students used Plato as well as contemporary research to think through their proposals about building a more just society.”
Students presenting are Gracie Williams and Yesenia Canales (10:50-11:25 a.m.), Hannah Hummell and Ideal Ademaj (11:26 a.m.-12:01 p.m.), Michael Baldwin and Hunter Defoore (12:02-12:40 p.m.), and Kelly Berry, Breonna Jackson and Hannah Morton (12:40-1:30 p.m.). The conference will be held in the Cafeteria Conference Room on the Athens campus. The public is invited.
This event will be held in the Athens campus conference room adjoining the cafeteria.