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Mark T. Mitchell
Mark T. Mitchell
August 29, 2014

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Making a Home Fit for Humans: Localism Beyond Food

A Front Porch Republic Conference

Chao Library, University of Louisville

September 27, 2014

Welcome: 9:00-9:15

 Panel 1: Going Home 9:15-10:30

  • Jeff Polet, Hope College
  • Jason Peters, Augustana College
  • Katherine Dalton, Louisville, KY

Panel 2: Educating for Place 10:45-12:00

  • Jeffrey Bilbro, Spring Arbor University
  • Jack Ray Baker, Spring Arbor University
  • John E. Kleber, University of Louisville

Lunch 12:15-12:45

 Keynote Address: Wendell Berry12:45-1:45

 Panel 3: Politics for Place 2:00-3:00

  • Susannah Black, New York, NY
  • Justin Litke, Belmont Abbey College

 Panel 4: New From FPR Books  3:15-4:30

  • David Bosworth, University of Washington
  • Bill Kauffman, Batavia, NY

 

 

 

 

 

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Mark T. Mitchell

Mark T. Mitchell

Mark T. Mitchell is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic. He is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism, Power and Purity, The Limits of Liberalism, The Politics of Gratitude, and Localism in Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-editor).

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