Sunday, June 1, 2003

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session II

Dangerous Altruism: Kierkegaard and King on the Good Samaritan
Karen Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hood College, Frederick MD.

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Sunday, June 1, 2003

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session III

Paul Tillich and Pitirim A. Sorokin on Love: A Dialogue between Science and Religion
Mary Montgomery Clifford
Doctoral Student, Chicago Theological Seminary

Love and Creativity
F. David Peat
The Pari Center for New Learning

The Power of Love: Hannah Arendt and Discipleship
Lisa L. Stenmark
Lilly Scholar-in-Resident at Austin College in Texas

Thomas Berry's Earth Spirituality as Nurturing Love
Andrew J. Angyal
Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Elon University

Selflessness in Human Evolution
Warren Johnson

The Expression of Love in Bio-Consciousness
Patricia Elyse Terrell

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Sunday, June 1, 2003

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session IV

Can Mystical Texts Provide Guidance for Interpersonal Action?
Allison M. Benders
teaches at CWRU & John Carroll University in religion department, doctoral candidate at Boston College

Love as a Field: A New Framework for Thinking About and Enhancing Altruism
Dale S. Ironson, Ph.D.

Altruism and Compassionate Love: An Ancestress Hypothesis
Kathryn Coe
Director of American Indian Oncology Program, Arizona Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Arizona

The Biology of Morality
Nancy K. Morrison and Sally K. Severino
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New Mexico Health Sciences Center

The Amygdala and the Autonomic Nervous System in Religious Ecstasy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Laura E. Weed
Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of St. Rose

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Monday, June 2, 2003

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session II

Wisdom Used Compassionately to Build Character Brick by Brick
Ashok Kumar Malhotra
President, The Ninash Foundation

Gandhi as a symbol of unconditional love that crosses borders!
Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Called to Demonstrate Unconditional Love
Helen Vassar Sullivan
Freelance writer

The Evolution of Love in Teilhard de Chardin
Kathleen Duffy
Professor of Physics, Chestnut Hill College

A Scientific Hermeneutic of the Hindu Mysticism of Cosmic Love
Fr. Augustin Pamplany
Dean of Philosophy at Little Flower Seminary, Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Aluva, India

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Monday, June 2, 2003

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session III

Everyday Compassion: Mr. Rogers and Kathe Kollwitz
Kathleen Curzie Gajdos
Adjunct professor, Vermont College of Norwich University

Hillesum and Weil: Saints of Self-Sacrifice or Romantic Masochists?
Timothy Jackson
Emory University

Chiara Lubich: A Life for Unity
Amelia J. Uelmen
Director, Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work, Fordham University School of Law

Love and Lover Transformed: The Sufi Path to God
John A. Napora
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kutztown University

Bhakti-ratakara: The Hindu View of Love is a Many Splendored Thing
V. V. Raman

Salesian Images of Love in Creation
Daniel P. Wisniewski
Instructor of Mathematics at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA

From Objects to Physical Relationships
Tim Eastman
NASA

Altruism and Concupiscence
Francis H. Rohlf and Rosemary J. Bertocci
Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, IN; Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Francis University

Love as Evolution, and Evolution as Love
Eliezer Zeiger
Professor of Biology, UCLA

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Monday, June 2, 2003

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session IV

Namhala Nyumbani Shilinde: Spiritual Transformation and the Spirit of Healing
Aimee Bessire
Assistant Professor, Mine College of Art

An Unfit Altruist: The Life and Work of Rachel Carson
Lisa Sideris
Assistant Professor, McGill University

Michael Faraday and Altruism: The Rest of the Story
Allen R. Utke
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

A Metaphysics for the Love-and-Science Symbiosis
Thomas Jay Oord
Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Northwest Nazarene University

The Evolution and Revelation of Love
Patricia A. Williams
Philosopher of science and philosophical theologian

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Tuesday, June 3, 2003

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session II

Identifying Necessary Psychological Abilities for the Expression of Compassionate Love
Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro
Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Developmental Psychology, Fordham University

Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality
Jean L. Kristeller
Profressor of Psychology and Director of the Center for the Study of Health, Religion and Spirituality, Indiana State University

How Moral Imagination in Long-Term Care Workers Evokes Compassionate Love
Helen K. Black
Senior Research Scientist, Polisher Research Institute

Love Conquers Fear
John J. Cecero
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Fordham University

Altruism as a Fundamental Motivation, Interpersonal Guilt, and Psychological Problems
Lynn E. O'Conner
Associate Professor and Director of Evalution, Wright Institute, Berkeley

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Tuesday, June 3, 2003

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session III

SkyMind* is Where We Find Each Other
Susan Burggraf
Social Psychologist, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Hope, Attachment and Altruistic Love
Anthony Scioli
Associate Professor of Psychology, Keene State College

Psychology's Love-Hate Relationship with Love: Critiques and Affirmation
Alan Tjelveit
Assocate Professor of Psychology, Muhlenberg College

Nagotooh-Gahni — The Bonding of Mother and Child
Maria Glowacka and Drusilla Gould
Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University

Love Beyond the Bond: Exploring Limits of Grandparental Love and Linkages to Altruism and Volunteerism
Roma Stovall Hanks
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of South Alabama

Love Without Boundaries: Theological Reflections on Parenting a Child with Disabilities
Thomas E. Reynolds
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Norbert College

Spiritual Transformation: Love and the Fruits of the Spirit
Kevin M. Brien
Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Washington College

Agape and Spiritual Growth
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Jewish Studies Program, Rollins College

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Tuesday, June 3, 2003

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session IV

Spiritual Transformation: Love and the Fruits of the Spirit
Judith Miller
Professor of Psychology , Columbia University

Religious as Faciliatators of World Peace
Israela Silberman
Associate Research Scientist, Psychology Department, Columbia University

Altruism Across Species Boundaries: Levinas and the Meaning of Huan Uniqueness
Donald Turner
Doctoral Candidate, Denver University and Iliff School of Theology; Teaches philosophy/ethics courses at Austin Peay State University

Encoding the Biology of Compassionate Love
Douglas A. Vakoch
Clinical Psychologist

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Wednesday, June 4, 2003

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session II

The Power of Love: Fact or Fantasy
Stuart Muszynski
President, Project Love Remember the Children Foundation

The Emergence and Impact of Helping Behavior in Young People: Impressionistic Self-Reflections of Mennonite College Students Serving Frail Elders in Light of World Religions
Dwight E. Roth
Professor, Social Science Department, Hesston College

A German-American Love Affair: Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love and Peace Valley, the Settlement of Brotherly Love
Claus Bernet
E. Koch Fellow of the University of Birmingham, Department of Theology (UK)

Divine Love, Human Hospitality and Volunteerism: A Case Study
Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
Associate Professor, Director of Religious Studies Program, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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Wednesday, June 4, 2003

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Session III

Fruits of the Spirit: Correlates of Altrusism in College Students
Thomas J. Johnson
Associated Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Indiana State University

The Psychology of Love
Judith Miller
Professor of Psychology , Columbia University

Faith-based Communities and Their Activities in Relation to the Spiritual Ideal of Unlimited Love
Beverly B. Mack
Associate Professor of African Studies and a Courtesy Professor of Religious Studies, University of Kansas

A Sociological Analysis of Compassionate Love: How Recipients of Caregiving Perceive Givers
Joan Wailing
Graduate Student, Princeton University

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Wednesday, June 4, 2003

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session IV

The Place of Compassionate Love in a Comprehensive Emotional-Developmental Theory of Love: Introducing a Psychobiological Model
Norman Brown
Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Joy, Gratitude and Compassion: Common Ground in a Will-to-Openness
Brent Dean Robbins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Allegheny College

Faces of Compassion and Foregiveness: Psychological and Theological Relationality
Steven J. Sandage
Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Studies, Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, MN

A Spiritual Toolkit for Compassion and Effectiveness: A Randomized Intervention among Health Profesisonals
Doug Oman
Lecturer & Research Advisor, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

A Pilot Study of Religion, Spirituality, Physical and Psychosocial Variable and Depression
Keum Young Pang
Professor, Howard University

Cultiviating Compassionate Love and Empathy Within a Medical School Curriculum
Elaine J. Yuen
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Jefferson Medical College