A Critical History of Empathy

• Page duBois
  The Empathy of the Master: Slaves in Ancient Greece and Ante-Bellum America
• Douglas Trevor
  Empathy and the Early Modern Thermometer
• David Klemm
  Empathy: the Heart of Human Studies
• Daniel M. Gross (commentator)
  

Means and Ends: Empathy in Education and the Helping Professions

• Heriberto Godina
  Who Really Benefits From Educational Research with Minority Populations?
  Understanding One's Own Subjectivity, Co-optation, and Resentment
• Katy Tangenberg
  Ethics, empathy, and the uses of anger: Social work in the era of "Compassionate Conservatism"
• John Lyne (moderator)
  Empathy and Narrativity in Health Care

International Writing Program Presentation:
Gregory Norminton
Nabokov: ‘Sympathy Is the Watchword’

Empathy, Media, and Technology

• John Durham Peters
  Pity, Terror, and the Enigma of the Virtuous Killer
• Gregg C. Oden
  How would a machine that felt like it felt feel?
• Louis-Georges Schwartz
  Affects and Institutions
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  Mechanical Witnesses in a Tele-pathic Age
• Allen Michie (moderator)

Cognition, Emotion and the Science of Empathy

• Antoine Bechara
• Steven Anderson
  Impairments of Empathy Resulting from Damage to the Frontal Lobes
• Stephanie D. Preston (moderator)
  Biological Bases of Empathy

Exploring the Meanings of Love and Empathy in Parenting and Teaching

• Chelsea Bailey
  Love and Loss in the Landscape of Pedagogical Desire: Provocations from Early Childhood
• Paula Salvio
  The Teacher of Private (but Published) Hungers: Anne Sexton's Pedagogy of Greed and Love
• Peter Taubman
  'Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places': The Ethics of Empathetic Presence and the Question of Love in Education
• Gail Boldt (moderator)
  Parenting, Race, and Desire

Bob Shacochis
Whose Shoes and How Far: A Writer's Understanding of Empathy

• Cherríe Moraga
• Bob Shacochis
• Temple Grandin
  
• Ben Kieffer (Host)

Temple Grandin
The Importance of Touch in Empathy

Frans B. M. de Waal
On the Possibility of Animal Empathy

Laila Farah
Living in the Hyphen-Nation

The Bounds of Empathy: Race, Culture, Class

• John-Paul Chaisson Cardenas
  Practical and Pedagogical Reasoning for Teaching Empathy to Service Providers and Educators in the Absence of a Better Construct
• Vershawn Ashanti Young
  Why Black Power Is White Guilt: The Impossibility of Racial Empathy
• Aimee Carrillo Rowe (moderator)
  Feeling in the Dark: Empathy and Inextricable Whiteness

Empathy and Methodology: History, Anthropology, and Beyond

• David Depew
  The Strange Career of Empathy as a Necessary Ingredient of Historical Understanding
• Laura R. Graham
  Challenges to Empathy: Anthropologists' perspectives from "The Field"
• Russell Scott Valentino (moderator)
  The Oxymoron of Empathic Criticism

Tragedy: Empathy and Modernity

• Agata Bielik-Robson
  Empathy and its Vicissitudes
• Matthias Göritz
  Optimistically Tragic
• Agnes Wilcox
  "Denmark's a prison," And You Are There
• David Depew (moderator)

Cameron McCarthy
After 9/11Thinking About the Global, Thinking About Empathy, Thinking About the Post Colonial

International Writing Program Reading:
Marcin Sendecki

Witnessing, Testifying, Peacemaking

• Mel Schlachter
  Empathy's Discipline in Relationships Near and Far
• Jean Lloyd Jones
  Advocating for Women at the Soviet Peace Conference
• Chivy Sok
  Surviving the Killing Fields and Internal Peacemaking
• Rob Latham (moderator)
  The UI Peace Camp and the National Antiwar Movement

International Writing Program Presentation:
Yevgeniya Myagka (pen name, Kononenko)
Sonnets by Shakespeare in the Stalinist Camp as a Metaphor of Empathy

The Arts as Space for Empathic Experience

• Christopher Merrill
  Empathy in the Age of Terror: A reading of Bel Canto
• Tom Lutz
  Literary Empathy
• Art Borreca
  'The Distance from Here': Traversing Theatrical Empathy
• Elizabeth Aubrey
  What Does Music Want?
• Thomas Swiss (moderator)

• Cameron McCarthy
• Page duBois
• Frans B.M. de Waal
  
• Ben Kieffer (Host)