Conference on “Place” at Pepperdine University

On March 11-12, Pepperdine University is hosting a conference entitled “A Place in the World: Geography, Identity, and Civic Engagement in Modern America.” 

Features speakers include:

Phillip Bess
Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame

Alan Ehrenhalt
Former Executive Editor of GOVERNING;
Director, Information, Pew Center on the States;
Lecturer, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Dana GioiaAward-Winning Poet;
Former Chairman,
National Endowment for the Arts

Russell Jacoby
Professor in Residence
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles

Wilfred McClay
SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Mark Mitchell
Chairman, Department of Government
Associate Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College

Ray Oldenburg
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology
University of West Florida

Christine Rosen
Senior Editor
The New Atlantis

Witold Rybczynski
Martin & Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism
University of Pennsylvania

William Schambra
Director, Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Yi-Fu Tuan
J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison

This is an incredible lineup, but where are people like Eric Miller, Patrick Deneen, Bill Kauffman, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, or Scott Russell Sanders?

I wish I could go, but I am too rooted in my own “place” to fly all the way to Malibu, one of the more “placeless” places in the world.  (The truth is that I try to avoid long flights because at 6’7″ I don’t fit in airline seats. And no one from airlines seems to care!)

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