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Updated July 2005; Also available in PDF

THE AQUINAS FACULTY SEMINAR 1970-

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2005

"I think it was at Drew that I first heard the word 'interdisciplinary'- about seven years ago. Educational procedures seem to me to be genuinely interdisciplinary only if they involve not merely a coming together or confrontation of different departments, but also their interpenetrating one another. I have felt the impulse towards this interpenetration as something in the Drew atmosphere.”

---Owen Barfield, Aquinas Visiting Professor, 1971-72; remarks at Commencement 1972.

The Aquinas Program, of which the Aquinas Faculty Seminar was the heart, was launched in the fall of 1970. The brain child of several creative Drew faculty minds under the leadership of the late Dean of the Graduate School , Bard Thompson, its realization was made possible by a substantial grant from the Aquinas Fund, of which former University President Robert F. Oxnam (now deceased) was a trustee.

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• Charles F. Mulett. “Permanence and Change” 9/26/72.
• James O'Kane. “Ethnic Variations in Urban Civil Disorders.” 10/17/72.
• Roger Wescott. “Evolution and Revolution (an outline).” 11/14/72.
• Neal Riemer. “Creative Breakthrough in Politics.” 11/28/72.
• Robert Chapman. “Permanence and Change in Linguistics.” 12/12/72.
• Russell Richley. “The Origins of British Radicalism: The Changing Rationale for Dissent.” 1/8/73.
• Thomas C. Oden. “Personal Transactions and Religious Awareness.” 1/23/73.
• John Knox. “The Static and Dynamic Conceptions of Time.” 2/13/73.
• Fred Starner. “The Theology of Ecology for the Solution of Pollution.” 2/27/73.
• Hans Morsink. “Aristotle's Definition of Change and the Origin of His Doctrine of Potentiality.” 3/13/73.
• James Nagle. “Genetic Technology and Human Improvement.” 3/27/73.
• Don Jones. “The Just War Model and Abortion.” 4/10/73.
• Wiki MarkupSidney Greenblatt. \ [Title Unknown.\] 4/25/73.

1973-74 CHANGING PATTERNS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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• Tom Magnell. “The Predicament of Vulnerability and Global Federation.” 9/23/02.
• Caitlin Killian. “The Best of Both Worlds: Muslim Immigrant Women in France.” 10/7/02.
• Neil Levi. “Contemporary Debates about Ethics after Auschwitz.” 10/21/02.
• Wiki MarkupMerrill Skaggs. “\[The Recent Addition to the Drew Library, the Caspersen Cather Collection\].” 11/4/02.
• Tom Magnell. “Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Distruction.” 11/8/02.
• Di Bai. “www.huazhao.com: Women Writing on the Web.” 11/18/02.
• Fred Curtis. “Sustainable Development---a Doomed Project.” 12/2/02.
• Ashley Carter and Joe Patenaude. “A Perspective on Copenhagen.” 2/10/03.
• Andrew Scrimgeour. “Be Careful Whom You Cite: Mapping the Intellectual Landscape of the Humanities.” 3/31/03.
• Patrick Dolan. “Illusions of Memory.” 4/21/2003.
• Nora Colton. “Poverty and Despair: Rethinking Structuralism in Yemen.” 4/28/03.
• Jeremy Varon. “It's Not Your Father's World Bank, Or Is It?: Reflections, Development, and Protest.” 5/5/03.

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