Is There Still A Secular Virtue of Chastity?
A Christopher Newport University Virtue Ethics Conference
March 29-30, 2019
Registration: Friday March 29: 2:00-6:00 David Student Union 2nd Floor (Coffee Available)
2:00-3:00 Marriott Hotel to CNU Shuttle Available
All Sessions in David Student Union 2nd Floor
Concurrent Session 1: 3:00-4:40
Room A
Chair: Christine Fletcher
Speaker 1: Gal Katz: Without Shame: Hegel on the Goodness of Marital Sex
Speaker 2: Dustin Crummett: Objectification, Indication, and Chastity
Room B
Chair: TBA
Speaker 1: John Portmann: Chastity in the Locker Room and The Rest Room
Speaker 2: Richa Shukla: When Chastity met Indian Philosophy
Room C
Chair: Joseph Prud’homme
Speaker 1: Raja Halwani: Objectification and Sexual Temperance
Speaker 2: Alan Goldman: Is Chastity a Virtue?
Keynote: 5:00-6:00 DSU Ballroom
Jennifer Herdt (Yale University), Chastity and the Well Lived Life
6:00 Shuttle to Marriott Available
Dinner Banquet Off Site TBA 7:30-??? (Shuttle Available from Marriott)
Saturday March 30:
8:00-9:00: Shuttle to CNU from Marriott Available
8:30-11:00 Registration David Student Union Second Floor (Coffee Available)
Concurrent Session 2: 9:00-10:40
Room A
Chair: Gal Katz
Speaker 1: Alexander Pruss: Chastity as Secular Sacredness
Speaker 2: Chris Tweedt: Chastity in The Workplace
Room B
Chair: Jordan Steffaniak
Speaker 1: Eric Silverman: Contemporary Chastity Still Consists In Temperance, Justice, and Prudence
Speaker 2: Christopher Gross: Just Chastity: The #MeToo Movement and the Relationship Between Justice and Chastity
Room C
Chair: Nancy Snow
Speaker 1: Michael Bors: The Psychological Grounds for Chastity
Speaker 2: Kevin Kambo: Cephalus: A Quotidian Case for Chastity in Republic I
10:45-1:00 Marriott-CNU Shuttle Available
Lunch 10:40-1:00 (On Your Own)
Concurrent Session 3: 1:00-2:40
Room A
Chair: John Portmann
Speaker 1: Nancy Snow: Finding Chastity in a Secular Age
Speaker 2: Steve Sherman: Saving Chastity? Hermeneutical and Worldview Factors in Determining Chastity’s Virtue
Room B
Chair: Alexander Pruss
Speaker 1: Joseph Prud’homme: Secular Objections to Our Sexualized Culture: Soft Core Porn, Increasing Female Pornography Usage, and the Harm to Women and Families
Speaker 2: Shaun Miller: Sex Education and The Virtue of Chastity
Room C
Chair: Christopher Gross
Speaker 1: Michael Beaty: Chastity, Lust, and Prudence
Speaker 2: Troy Seagraves: Chastity as an Intellectual Virtue
Room D
Chair: Dustin Crummett
Speaker 1: Erik Anderson: Communicative Sexuality, Virtue Ethics, and the Ethic of Consent
Speaker 2: Kevin Scott: “Form of Life” as a Foundation for Sexual Normativity
Concurrent Session 4: 3:00-4:40
Room A
Chair: Kevin Scott
Speaker 1: Aleksander Sztramski, Is Secular Chastity Sufficient? Implications of Two Modern Attempts at Defending Chastity
Speaker 2: Christine M. Fletcher: Chastity in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Detective Fiction: the virtue of autonomy and agency
Room B
Chair: Raja Halwani
Speaker 1: Laurence Thomas, The Majesty of Trust
Speaker 2: Ron Belgau, The Differences Between Secular and Christian Chastity.
Room C (Undergraduate Session)
Chair: Michael Beaty
Speaker 1: Alex Cavender: Common Ground and the Roots of Disagreement Within the Church’s Homosexuality Debate
Speaker 2: River Ray: Alternative Permissible Cases of Kantian Sexuality
Room D
Chair: Erik Anderson
Speaker Jordan Steffaniak: Reformed Hylomorphism and Eudaimonia: The Role of the Body in Human Flourishing
5:00 Shuttle to Marriott Available
Saturday Evening / Sunday Morning – Airport Shuttle Available
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