CFI

A Brief Chronology of Activities

Academic Year 2004-2005

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2005: "Benjamin Franklin : American Sage."

*Symposium Series continues: November 2004: "The Promise and Perils of Genetically Altered Food ," March 2005: "American Security, American Liberty and the Patriot Act."

*Faculty Colloquium Series continues: January 2005: "William Shakespeare's Richard III."

Inquiries continues to be published 3 times per year.

Academic Year 2003-2004

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2004: "Abraham Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages."

*Symposium Series continues: November 2003: "The Nature of American Nationalism: The Federalist Papers Today," March 2004: "Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity."

*Faculty Colloquium Series continues: January 2004: "Darwin's Origin of Species."

*Dan Murphy named Director. Jeff Brautigam named Director Emeritus and Interim Director of the Rivers Institute at Hanover, January 2004. Marsha Ahrens named Administrative Director, January 2004. Janet Degler named Publication Coordinator, March 2004. Savanah Gossom named Administrative Assistant, June 2004.

Academic Year 2002-2003
*Sympsoium Series continues: November 2002: "Religion and Conflict in a Global Society," March 2003: "Identity, Autonomy and Assimilation: Cuba, the United States and the Future."

*Faculty Colloquium Series continues: January 2003: "Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America"

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2003: "Life on the River."

Academic Year 2001-2002.

*Critical Inquiry Theme House Colloquium initiated. "The Odyssey by Homer." Two-day discussion led by Don Carrell from the Philosophy Department, September 2001.

*Conversations in the Liberal Arts Series continues: September 2001: "A Conversation on Making Democracy Work."

*John Ahrens named Associate Director, Matt Vosmeier named Associate Director and Program Director for Crowe Academy, August 2001. Janet Degler appointed Administrative Assistant, October 2001.

*Symposium Series continues: November 2001: "Expert, Advocate, or Critic? The Scientist as Citizen in the 21st Century;" March 2002: "Have We Killed Homer? The Liberal Arts in American Society."

*Faculty Colloquium Series continues: January 2002: "Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents."

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2002: "The Native American in History and Myth."

Academic Year 2000-2001.
*New web site unveiled, August 2000.

*Conversations in the Liberal Arts Series initiated: September 2000: "Learning the Truth: Job and Twain on the School of Hard Knocks."

*Symposium Series continues: November 2000: "One World, Many Markets: Justice, Progress, and Globalization"; March 2001: "Job, Career or Vocation: Defining Work for the 21st Century".

*Faculty Colloquium Series continues: January 2001: "Milton's Paradise Lost."

*Dan Murphy named Program Director for Crowe Academy, August 2000. Marsha Ahrens named Assistant Director, June 2001.

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2001: "Crowe Academy Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition."

*Perspectives on the Liberal Arts continues, July 2001.

Academic Year 1999-2000.
*Civic Education Initiative launched September 1999.

*Public Conversations Series launched, September 1999: "Art and Society: Opening Conversation", held at the Speed Museum of Art (September 22,1999).

*Symposium Series continues: November 1999: "Art, Society, and the Millennium: The Future of Public Art"; March 2000: "Commerce, Culture, and Collegiate Athletics: The Fate of the Student Athlete."

*Faculty Colloquium Series initiated: January 2000: "War, Democracy, and Morality: The History of the Peloponnesian War."

*Inquiries, quarterly bulletin from CFI, launched July 2000.

*Crowe Academy continues, June 2000: "America in WWII."

*Perspectives on the Liberal Arts series launched, July 2000.

*Jeffrey Brautigam, named Director; Daniel Murphy named Associate Director; John Ahrens, named Senior Editor of Publications, Marsha Ahrens appointed as Administrative Assistant, August 1999.

Academic Year 1998-99.
*Symposium Series continues: November 1998: "Growing Up, Growing Old: Generational Issues in the New America"; March 1999: "Forbidden Knowledge: The Moral and Ethical Boundaries of Human Inquiry."

*Crowe Academy launched June 1999: "The Civil War in Kentuckiana."

Academic Year 1997-98.
*CFI is created by Russell Nichols, President of Hanover College.

*Daniel Murphy named Founding Director.

*Symposium Series initiated: March 1998: "Medicine, Morality, and Modernity: The Place of Virtue in an Age of Science."

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