Why You Should Go to 2013 Front Porch Republic Conference
The estimable Front Porch Republic will host its upcoming conference, titled “City People, Country People: Being a Localist In the Megalopolis,” in Claremont, California. Event speakers include TAC contributors Bill Kauffman and Jeremy Beer. The conference will also contain a screening of recent Maxwell film Copperhead (reviewed by TAC contributor Jordan Bloom in June).
The conference will explore the ideas of place and community in a growing urban and suburban landscape, and strive to determine how people “enmeshed in a massive (sub)urban expanse” can cultivate community and live sustainably. As co-sponsors of the event and friends of FPR, we strongly encourage you to attend.
Here is the program:
Friday, September 20
7:30 p.m. Screening of Copperhead followed by Q&A with screenwriter Bill Kauffman (Rose Hills Theater)
Saturday, September 21
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Rose Hills Theater Lobby)
9:00 a.m. Introduction (Rose Hills Theater)
Susan McWilliams, Pomona College
9:15 a.m. “The Good Twenty-First-Century City” (Rose Hills Theater)
Chair: Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College
Panelists: Phillip Bess, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture; Peter Dreier, Occidental College; Ted McAllister, Pepperdine University
10:45 a.m. “The Possibilities of Work in the New World” (Rose Hills Theater)
Chair: John Seery, Pomona College
Panelists: Susan McWilliams, Pomona College; Andrew Yuengert, Pepperdine University; TBD
12:15 p.m. Lunch and Keynote Address (Rose Hills Theater and Lobby)
“I Can’t Believe You’re From L.A.: Los Angeles as a Cultural Center”
Speaker: Dana Gioia, author and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
2:00 p.m. “Food in the Megalopolis” (Rose Hills Theater)
Chair: Jeff Polet, Hope College
Panelists: Nancy Neiman Auerbach, Scripps College; William Barndt, Pitzer College; Jason Peters, Augustana College
3:30 p.m. “Philanthropy, Localism, and Hypermobility” (Rose Hills Theater)
Chair: William Schambra, Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal
Panelists: Jeremy Beer, American Philanthropic; David Bosworth, University of Washington; Alicia Manning, Bradley Foundation;
4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks (Rose Hills Theater)
Mark T. Mitchell, Patrick Henry College
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