{"id":283,"date":"2019-06-20T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accinsweb8366.wpenginepowered.com\/thegreatquestions\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:29:51","slug":"faculty-feasts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/thegreatquestions\/faculty-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"FACULTY INTELLECTUAL FEASTS"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

A unique opportunity<\/strong> for colleagues to join together, twice each semester, to discuss core texts and ideas.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"People<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Questions Faculty Feasts are a unique opportunity for faculty <\/span>and<\/span> staff to join together to discuss core texts and ideas. Our goal is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and discussion while engaging ACC colleagues with challenging texts meant to open intellectual horizons, reinvigorate teaching and encourage collaboration across the college in the shared pursuit of truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please consider joining us<\/strong> for the next installment of the Great Questions Faculty Intellectual Feasts, a core text focused Faculty Learning Community!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\n

Please contact Prof. Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr.<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<\/span><\/h4>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

The Great Questions Faculty Intellectual Feasts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Dostoevsky<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"Person<\/p>\n","column_2":"

The concept is simple: gather faculty from a variety of disciplines, have them read exceptional transformative texts, share a meal and great discussion. Doing this, we break down academic silos, explore questions that are important to us human beings and take a refreshed spirit of inquiry back with us to our classrooms.<\/p>\n

Join us this year for the Ninth Annual Great Questions Faculty Feasts, focused on two novels of Dostoevsky,\u00a0The Brothers Karamazov<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Demons<\/i><\/strong>. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

ACC Faculty and Staff: see the meeting schedule and sign up for the 2023\/2024 Faculty Feasts HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

A look back at\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Past Intellectual Feasts<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2022\/2023 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Shakespeare<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"Student<\/p>\n","column_2":"

Antony and Cleopatra<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Measure for Measure<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Troilus and Cressida<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/strong><\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

We read and discussed these four plays by William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2022-2023 Participants","column_1":"

Michelle Atkinson<\/strong>
\nTLED<\/em><\/p>\n

Jack Austin<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Heather Barfield<\/strong>
\nDrama<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry Blum<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, Religion & Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Chan<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Linda Cox<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Samantha Creek<\/strong>
\nEl Centro<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephanie Crugnola<\/strong>
\nLAHC<\/em><\/p>\n

Kristine Elderkin<\/strong>
\nCampus Police<\/em><\/p>\n

Maddison Fleetwood<\/strong>
\nDrama<\/em><\/p>\n

Ysella Fulton Slavin<\/strong>
\nComposition & Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Furneisen<\/strong>
\nDrama<\/em><\/p>\n

Victoria Garza<\/strong>
\nOCRM<\/em><\/p>\n

Zachary Goldberg<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, Religion & Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Carl Gregory<\/strong>
\nComputer Science<\/em><\/p>\n","column_2":"

Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr,<\/strong>
\nGovernment \/ Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa (Lisa) Holton<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies (English)<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Hydak<\/strong>
\nFoLa (Foreign Languages)<\/em><\/p>\n

Michelle Iskra<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Frank Kavanaugh<\/strong>
\nStudent Services<\/em><\/p>\n

Nabeel Khan<\/strong>
\nCIT<\/em><\/p>\n

Lindsey Lane<\/strong>
\nAEG<\/em><\/p>\n

Estela Lara<\/strong>
\nChemistry<\/em><\/p>\n

Aaron Lawhon<\/strong>
\nComposition & Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Lehman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amber Luttig-Buonodono<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Linda Mackey<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, Religion & Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Markham<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, Religion & Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Susan Meigs<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Kate Meyers<\/strong>
\nHistory<\/em><\/p>\n","column_3":"

Cassandra Olivo<\/strong>
\nHuman Resources<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Palmer<\/strong>
\nComposition & Literary Studies\/Integrated Reading & Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

Enrique Parada<\/strong>
\nComputer Science and Information Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Katie Poe<\/strong>
\nCollege & High School Relations<\/em><\/p>\n

Alejandra Polcik<\/strong>
\nStudent Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n

Kathleen Reeves<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Liliana Saldivar<\/strong>
\nAdult Education<\/em><\/p>\n

Ben Santana<\/strong>
\nAllied Health Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosalba Schramm<\/strong>
\nContinuing Education\/Engineering technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Sara Schulz<\/strong>
\nAcademic Technology\/TLED<\/em><\/p>\n

Tami Shetron<\/strong>
\nTLED<\/em><\/p>\n

Alina Waguespack<\/strong>
\nForeign Language<\/em><\/p>\n

Victoria Wren<\/strong>
\nBusiness and Community Testing<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2021\/2022 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Totalitarianism<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"People<\/p>\n","column_2":"

The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

by Hannah Arendt<\/p>\n

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/strong><\/h2>\n

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n

\n

We studied these two texts which explore the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements and the experience of living within them.<\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2021-2022 Participants","column_1":"

Grant Potts<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Jon Luckstead<\/strong>
\nLibrary Services<\/em><\/p>\n

Lillian Huerta<\/strong>
\nHumanities and Student Development<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Markman<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Jesser<\/strong>
\nHonors Program and ESOL<\/em><\/p>\n

Aimee Finney<\/strong>
\nCommunications<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Palmer<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n","column_2":"

Carl Gregory<\/strong>
\nComputer Science<\/em><\/p>\n

Dwayne Bandy<\/strong>
\nJewelry<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Lehman<\/strong>
\nArchaeology<\/em><\/p>\n

James Daniels<\/strong>
\nEmergency Management<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosalba Schramm<\/strong>
\nEngineering Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry Blum<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Tamara Shetron<\/strong>
\nTeaching and Learning Excellence Division<\/em><\/p>\n","column_3":"

Arun John<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Deb Hoag<\/strong>
\nGovernment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Franz Schubert<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Laura Brown<\/strong>
\nComposition and Literary Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Thayer<\/strong>
\nComputer Information Technology\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ted Hadzi-Antich<\/strong>
\nGovernment\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2020\/2021 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Epic World Epics<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"Man<\/p>\n","column_2":"

The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Epic of Sundiata and Ramayana<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n

This year we read three epics ranging from ancient Mesopotamia, the medieval Mali Empire and ancient India. Colleagues met over zoom in two cohorts twice each semester to discuss these works. We embraced our mortality with Gilgamesh, accepted our fate with Sundiata and tested ourselves in the fire with Sita.<\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2020-2021 Participants","column_1":"

Kerri Pope<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Arun John <\/strong>
\nEnglish<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean Lauer<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Bullock<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Bowman<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Grant Potts<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Nabeel Khan<\/strong>
\nComputer Information Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosalba Schramm<\/strong>
\nEngineering Technology & Continuing Education<\/em><\/p>\n","column_2":"

Carl Gregory<\/strong>
\nComputer Science<\/em><\/p>\n

Shyamal Mitra<\/strong>
\nPhysics\/Astronomy<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry Blum<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy\/Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Kasina Entzi<\/strong>
\nForeign Languages<\/em><\/p>\n

Katherine Meyers<\/strong>
\nHistory<\/em><\/p>\n

Christina McCourt<\/strong>
\nLibrary Services<\/em><\/p>\n

Kristina Elizondo<\/strong>
\nArt<\/em><\/p>\n

Dana Gutierrez<\/strong>
\nBuilding Construction Technology<\/em><\/p>\n","column_3":"

Michael Finney<\/strong>
\nBusiness, Government, and Technical Communications<\/em><\/p>\n

Zach Goldberg<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Shellee O’Brien<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Lehman<\/strong>
\nAEG<\/em><\/p>\n

Anaka Rivera<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Chan<\/strong>
\nEnglish<\/em><\/p>\n

Ted Hadzi-Antich<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2019\/2020 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Decameron<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"Book\"<\/p>\n","column_2":"

The Decameron<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This year we read Giovanni Boccaccio\u2019s classic, The Decameron, which is a collection of novellas by this 14th-century Italian author. Towards the end of our year-long study of these 100 stories told by a group of young people\u00a0fleeing a plague, we were confronted with the pandemic of our time and moved our sessions online.<\/p>\n

We hosted two simultaneous feasts this year. One at ACC South Austin Campus (Dinner) and the other at a Central Austin location (Lunch).<\/strong><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2019-2020 Participants","column_1":"

Samantha Ackers<\/strong>
\nLiberal Arts<\/em><\/p>\n

Arun John<\/strong>
\nEnglish<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry Blum<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy\/Liberal Arts<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Bowman<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Chan<\/strong>
\nEnglish\/Communication<\/em><\/p>\n

Wayne Coffey<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Patrick Collins<\/strong>
\nEnglish<\/em><\/p>\n

Azzurra Crispino<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Jessamine Dana<\/strong>
\nCultural Anthropology<\/em><\/p>\n

Aimee Finney<\/strong>
\nCommunication Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Foote<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n","column_2":"

Carl Gregory<\/strong>
\nComputer Science<\/em><\/p>\n

Dana Gutierrez<\/strong>
\nBuilding Construction\/DMCAT<\/em><\/p>\n

Ted Hadzi-Antich<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n

David Haney<\/strong>
\nHistory<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Hoppe<\/strong>
\nEnglish\/Creative Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

David Humphreys<\/strong>
\nCommunication Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Hydak<\/strong>
\nForeign Languages (French and Spanish)<\/em><\/p>\n

Lei Ji<\/strong>
\nEconomics<\/em><\/p>\n

Nabeel Khan<\/strong>
\nComputer Information Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbara Lane<\/strong>
\nHistory<\/em><\/p>\n

Debbie Lee<\/strong>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/p>\n","column_3":"

Linda Mackey<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, Religion, Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexander Misthos<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Shyamal Mitra<\/strong>
\nPhysics\/Astronomy<\/em><\/p>\n

Shellee O’Brien<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Pintar<\/strong>
\nAnthropology<\/em><\/p>\n

Grant Potts<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Anaka Rivera<\/strong>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosalba Schramm<\/strong>
\nEngineering Technology and Workforce Programs, Co-ordinator<\/em><\/p>\n

Howard Sharp<\/strong>
\nStudent Affairs-Counseling<\/em><\/p>\n

Julie Wauchope<\/strong>
\nReading & Writing<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2018\/2019 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Eastern and Islamic Classics<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"Faculty<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","column_2":"

FALL SEMESTER 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\n

A Journey to The West (Monkey)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Journey to the West is a classic Chinese mythological novel. It was written during the Ming Dynasty based on traditional folktales. Consisting of 100 chapters, this fantasy relates the adventures of a Tang Dynasty (618-907) priest Sanzang and his three disciples, Monkey, Pig and Friar Sand, as they travel west in search of Buddhist Sutra. <\/span>We will read the (much) abridged translation of Arthur Waley<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

SPRING SEMESTER 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\n

Ibn Tufayl\u2019s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided\u2014but also unimpeded\u2014by society, language, or tradition. Hayy\u2019s discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the values of the culture in which the tale was written as well as those of every contemporary society.<\/span><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2018-2019 Participants","column_1":"

\n
\n
\n
\n

Amy Finney<\/strong><\/span>
\nCommunications<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Russel Gardner<\/strong><\/span>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Carl Gregory<\/strong><\/span>
\nComputer Science<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr.<\/strong><\/span>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Barbara Lane<\/strong><\/span>
\nHistory<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","column_2":"

\n
\n
\n
\n

Linda Mackey<\/strong><\/span>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Shyamal Mitra<\/strong><\/span>
\nPhysics<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Courtney Mlinar<\/strong><\/span>
\nLibrary Science<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Kerri Pope<\/strong><\/span>
\nHumanities<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Grant Potts<\/strong><\/span>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","column_3":"

\n
\n
\n
\n

Bryan Register<\/strong><\/span>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Celeste Rios<\/strong><\/span>
\nGovernment<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Rosalba Schramm<\/strong><\/span>
\nElectronics & Advanced Technologies<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Suzane Stambaugh<\/strong><\/span>
\nPsychology<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n

Julie Wauchope<\/strong><\/span>
\nINRW<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2017\/2018 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"feast\"<\/p>\n","column_2":"

2017\/2018 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n

Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This year, faculty read Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein, a book that captures the incredible process of human beings\u2019 engagement with and discoveries of the natural world. Exploring the amazing discoveries of Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and Einstein, this book claims to tell \u201cthe most remarkable story in all secular history.\u201d Far from being just a simple recounting of the scientific details, this book explains why the culmination of these men\u2019s work is\u201dthe greatest single intellectual success which mankind has achieved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We explored how \u201ctheir discoveries changed the character of man\u2019s habitual mental operations even in the conduct of the non-material sciences while transforming the whole diagram of the physical universe and the very texture of human life itself.\u201d Through the reading and discussion of this work, faculty fostered cross-disciplinary connections and gained a renewed excitement for the incredible development of thought and scholarship, of which we are all a part.<\/span><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2017-2018 Participants","column_1":"

Angele Smith
\n<\/span><\/strong>History<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Amy Finneyr
\n<\/span><\/strong>Communications Studies<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Orsinger
\n<\/span><\/strong>Philosophy\/Government<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Laurie Dillon
\n<\/span><\/strong>Nursing<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","column_2":"

Shelley Mitchel<\/strong>
\nNursing<\/em><\/p>\n

Samantha Ackers<\/strong>
\nEducation English<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt Watkins<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Linda Macky<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n","column_3":"

Wolfgang Frey<\/strong>
\nPhysics<\/em><\/p>\n

Danielle Whites<\/strong>
\nCommunications<\/em><\/p>\n

Bryan Register<\/strong>
\nPhilosophy<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#faf8f6","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"","column_1":"

2016\/2017 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne:<\/h3>\n

Human Experience, Understanding and Cannibals<\/h3>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

\"feast<\/p>\n","column_2":"

2016\/2017 Feast<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n

Thursday, October 20:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 1, Essays 1-45<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 8:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 1, Essays 46-57 and Book 2, Essays 1-12<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 9:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 2, Essays 13-37<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 4:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 3, Essays 1-13<\/span><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"three_columns","heading":"2016-2017 Participants","column_1":"

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Edward Blanchard<\/strong>
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2015\/2016 Feast<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Because Arthur Schopenhauer Told Me So:<\/h2>\n

The 4 greatest novels ever written, according to Arthur Schopenhauer<\/h2>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"

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SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Tuesday, October 20:<\/strong> Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship by Goethe<\/p>\n

Tuesday, December 1:<\/strong> The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 8:<\/strong> Julie, or The New Heloise by Rousseau<\/p>\n

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Juan Molina<\/strong>
\nMathematics<\/em><\/p>\n

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