| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Ethics Bowl Team | | |
| News: | A team of students from the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department participated in the regional tournament of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on Saturday, November 15. The team came in third place, ahead of teams from such schools as the University of Washington, Washington State University, and Seattle University. The third place finish may qualify them to compete in the national tournament in March 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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| Name: | Justin Sanders | | |
| News: | Justin Sanders recieved the 2008 Raymond A. Smith Award for Achievement in Scholarship for his essay entitled "Can Ethics be Regarded as Knowledge?" at the College of Arts and Humanities Banquet. |
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| Name: | Majors in Philosophy and Religous Studies | | |
| News: | The following Philosophy & Religious Studies Majors have had their research papers accepted for presentation at the 12th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 18-19, 2008, Forrest Grove, Oregon. They are:
Phillip Downes, "Refuting Moral Luck"
Casie Dunleavy, "What the World Needs Is a Moral Marx"
Travis Petersen, "Influences of Phenomenology and Logical Positivism on the Natural Sciences"
Ashley Goo, "Anarchy, State, and Utopia or a Life 'After Virtue': MacIntyre's Stand against Nozick's Position and Lack of Moral Desert"
Christian Mecham, "Cast Off Body and Mind: The Teachings of Buddhism as Applied to a Phenomenological Model"
They will present their papers at the conference.
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| Name: | Tyler Killam | | |
| News: | Tyler Killam, a History Ed major and Religious Studies minor was awarded a scholarship from the Scottish Rite of Washington for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
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| Name: | Danielle Martinez | | |
| News: | Danielle Martinez, a major in Public Relations and minor in Religious Studies was accepted to the Colorado State University's Master of Science in Higher Education and Student Affairs. In addition she will be working as an Assistant Hall Director for first-year experience students. |
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| Name: | Justin Sanders | | |
| News: | Justin Sanders will be presenting a paper entitled "Forgetful Metaphysics," on Levinas and Heidegger, at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in Portland, Oregon, in April. |
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| Name: | KathyMae Dickinson | | |
| News: | KathyMae Dickinson, a double major in Philosophy and Physics, will present a paper on mind-body dualism at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in April 2007 in Portland, Oregon. |
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| Name: | Chris Moore | | |
| News: | Chris Moore has been accepted into the Masters of Social Work Program at Eastern Wasington University for fall 2006. Chris will be graduating this spring with a BA in Philosophy/Religious Studies Specialization. This past year he has served as President of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Club, Vice President of Central's chapter of Phi Sigma Tau (International Honor Society in Philosophy) and on the CAH Dean's Council of Students. |
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| Name: | Corey Hough | | |
| News: | Mr. Hough presented a paper at this past weekend's 1st Annual Columbia Valley Undergraduate Asian Studies Research Symposium, held at Washington State University. His paper, "The Role of Evil in Early Daoism," examined the complementary nature of good and evil in China's indigeneous high religion. Drawing parallels between the Daoist conception of harmonizing seeming opposites, and the relationship between Batman and the Joker, Mr. Hough's paper presented a unique and highly innovative perspective on ethics. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Nuno Fernandes | | |
| News: | Mr. Fernandes delivered a paper entitled “God as an Institutional Fact: A New Approach to the Question of God’s Existence” at the 57th Northwest Conference on Philosophy, October 21 at Seattle University. He is pursuing an Individualized Masters Degree in Buddhist philosophy. |
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek recently presented a paper entitled, "Liminality: The Threshold to Exclusion or Inclusion in and beyond the Hebrew Bible" at the Regional Conference of the Pacific Northwest Society of Biblical Literature, held at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (May 5-7, 2006). |
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| Name: | Jeffrey Dippmann | | |
| News: | Dippmann recently attended the Asian Studies Development Program's 12th Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tn. In addition to his work on the Association of Regional Center's Board, he presented a paper entitled "Putting Old Boys Into New Gourds: Can Laozi Fit?" The paper evaluated a new version of the Daoist classic Daodejing, "A Creative Transcreation of the Tao Te Ching" by Ashok Kumar Malhotra. At this meeting Central Washington University was also chosen to host the 2007 ASDP Annual Meeting. |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Heidi Szpek has been awarded a Summer Research Appointment through the office of Graduate Studies, Research, and Continuing Education. The award recognizes her ongoing research on Post Holocaust Responsibility in Eastern Poland which will culminate with this summer's concluding research in Eastern Poland and the completion of a manuscript entitled "And the Children Played at Sobibor: Essays on Post Holocaust Responsibility." |
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| Name: | Jeffrey Dippmann | | |
| News: | Jeffrey Dippmann presented two papers at the recent National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Philadelphia. “Transmitters or Innovators: Re-presenting Authentic Religion in Chinese Religions Sourcebooks” examined the current state of undergraduate textbooks in providing well-rounded, authoritative selections on Chinese religion. “Sages, Transcendents and Shamans: Daoist Imagery in the Liezi" argued that the Daoist classic Liezi presents a favorable portrayal of immortality in its reworking of passages from the Zhuangzhi. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | | |
| News: | Chenyang Li has been awarded a Seed Grant from the Faculty Development & Research Committee. The grant supports his ongoing research into harmony and its relevance to the modern world. The book project, entitled "The Confucian Ideal of Harmony (He) for a Peaceful World," examines the classical tradition of harmony within Confucianism and argues that harmony can be justified on the basis of value pluralism and is applicable for contemporary world philosophy and cultural politics. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | | |
| News: | Chenyang Li was granted sabbatical leave for 2005-2006 in order to work on his book length manuscript on Harmony and Value Pluralism. Professor Li is spending his sabbatical in Hong Kong, where he has been appointed Visiting Senior Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong. While in China, he has participated in several conferences, including the Beijing Forum on Harmony and Joint Prosperity of Civilizations.
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| Name: | Cynthia Coe | | |
| News: | Cynthia Coe has been awarded a Summer Research Appointment through the office of Graduate Studies, Research, and Continuing Education. The award recognizes the work she is doing on Freud and Nineteenth Century German Philosophy. The research will culminate in a co-authored collection of essays that examine Freud's contributions to central philosophical questions. |
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| Name: | Chenyang Li | | |
| News: | Chenyang Li's paper on "Li (Rituals of Propriety) as Cultural Grammar" has been accepted for publication in the journal Philosophy East & West. His other paper "Confucian Ideal of Harmony" will appear in the same journal in the October 2006 issue. His paper on "Analytic and Comparative Study of Chinese Philosophy" (in Chinese) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nanking University. He attended the "Beijing Forum: Harmony and Prosperity of Civilizations" in November 2005; his paper on "Tu Wei-ming's Concept of Heaven" will appear in the Conference Proceedings (Philosophy Section). |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Professor Szpek's services have been accepted for assignment as Translator of Hebrew Tombstones for the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry, a program unit devoted to preserving Jewish heritage and affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. Her first assigment is translating Hebrew tombstone inscriptions (c. 1800s-1910) from Khust, Ukraine (near contemporary Slovak Republic). |
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| Name: | Cynthia Coe | | |
| News: | Professor Coe delivered a paper entitled “Contesting the Human: Levinas, the Body, and Racism” at the 57th Northwest Conference on Philosophy, October 22 at Seattle University. She also chaired a session at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 20, Utah Valley State College. |
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| Name: | Matthew Altman | | |
| News: | Dr. Altman, an adjunct faculty member in the Philosophy Department, delivered a paper entitled “A Kantian Defense of Gay Marriage” at the 57th Northwest Conference on Philosophy, October 21 at Seattle University. He has also published "Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment: A Rejoinder to Kantian Retributivism," in Public Affairs Quarterly 19, no. 4 (Oct. 2005): 247-64.
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| Name: | Jeffrey Dippmann | | |
| News: | Professor Dippmann served as Guest Editor for Volume 5 (2005) of the peer reviewed journal “East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies," slated for publication in April 2006. He will also act as Guest Editor for Volume 6 of the same journal. |
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| Name: | Jeffrey Dippmann | | |
| News: | Dr. Dippmann has begun serving his term as Vice President/President Elect of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature. He is also serving his first term as an At-Large Board Member of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Pacific Regional Body of the Association of Asian Studies.
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Dr. Szpek has published a journal article entitled "Religion under Oppression: The Men of Slaughterhouse 5" in the International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 2 (2005). |
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| Name: | Heidi Szpek | | |
| News: | Dr. Szpek's book chapter, "On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature," has been published in the Festschrift In Honor of Michael V. Fox. Eisenbrauns (Nov 2005).
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| ALUMNI |
| Name: | Sarah Woolley | | |
| News: | Sarah Woolley (2001) has been admitted to MA in Education at the University of Washington. She will start fall 2009. |
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| Name: | Becky Rogers | | |
| News: | Becky Rogers, a Religious Studies major, is currently employed as a Social Worker at a skilled nursing facility. You can contact Becky at blueberrybecky85@hotmail.com |
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| Name: | Zac Hymes | | |
| News: | Mr. Zac Hymes received his M.A. in Philosophy from Washington State University in May 2007, and has recently received an appointment as an adjunct instructor with Green River Community College. |
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| Name: | Paul Charlton | | |
| News: | Paul Charlton, an emergency medical technician and recent graduate from the philosophy program, has been working in South Asia on a health education project funded by the American Alpine Club since January 2005. Beginning in October he has been volunteering as a relief worker in Pakistan in the areas devastated by the earthquake. He was recently featured in the Ellensburg Daily Record: http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/news01.txt. |
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| Name: | Mark Green | | |
| News: | Mr. Green has begun doctoral studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. He was accepted by the philosophy doctoral programs at the University of Oregon and SUNY, and chose to go to Stony Brook, one of the most prestigious programs for Continental thought in the U.S. |
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