Third Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice:
Nuclear Weapons, Dangers and Solutions
March 5-7, 2008
Utah Valley Sate College
Wednesday, March 5
Student Center 206
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Student papers and panels on the conference theme
12:00-1:00 p.m.
³Nuclear Weapons: Security or Liability?² presentation by The Utah Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
2:00-3:00 p.m.
A History of Utah Activism Against Nuclear Weapons: a Roundtable Discussion
among Utahn¹s in the Struggle
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Faculty and student book discussion of Jonathan Schell¹s The Seventh Decade
Thursday, March 6
Student Center 206
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Student workshop with professors Schwartz, and Grotto
10:00-11:15 a.m.
Peter Kuznick: The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman and the Atomic
Bomb
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Stephen Schwartz: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons since
1940
1:00-2:15 p.m.
Andrew Grotto: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy: Does it Matter for
Nonproliferation Policy?
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion with Kuznick, Schwartz, and Grotto
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Performance of Mary Dickson¹s award-winning docudrama, Exposed
Friday, March 7
Centre Stage, Student Center
9:00-9:50 a.m.
Lou Borgenicht: The Last Laugh: Nuclear ³Humor²
10:00-10:50 a.m.
Mary Dickson: The Human Toll of Nuclear Testing
11:00-11:50 a.m.
Jonathan Schell: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Q & A: A Conversation with Jonathan Schell
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Student Debate on the question: ³Should Nuclear Weapons be Abolished? And
if so, How?²
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Peace Poems: How Much for the Earth?
The poetry of, and read by Emma Lou Thayne with Clifton Sanders (saxophones)
Emma Lou Thayne, a beloved Utah humanitarian, will read poetry from her
book, "How Much for the Earth?" This book was inspired in part by Jonathan
Schell, author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger, and
by the war experiences of Emma Lou's students who served in Vietnam. Her
poems will accompanied by the premier improvisational jazz of saxophonist
Dr. Clifton Sanders, a fine musician who is also Dean of Math and Science at
Salt Lake Community College. You can hear his work at:
http://www.guitbowl.com/samples.htm
Ms. Thayne is the author of thirteen books of poetry, essays, fiction, and
the hymn, ³Where Can I Turn for Peace?² Her books include Spaces in the
Sage, On Slim Unaccountable Bones, Things Happen, Poems of Survival, Hope
and Recovery, The Place of Knowing, and How Much for the Earth? She will
sign books after the performance. There will also be food and free parking
validations.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dr. Michael Minch
Director, Peace and Justice Studies
minchmi@???
801.863.7482
www.uvsc.edu/idst/peace/
Organized by the Peace and Justice Studies Program Executive Committee
Supported by the Center for the Study of Ethics
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David Richard Keller, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
Utah Valley State College
801.863.6363
http://davidkeller.us/
