Tradition and Renewal, Continuity and Change in Core Text, Liberal Arts Programs

That's the theme of this year's conference of the The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), details here.

"The world needs slow patient reading. It needs a public informed by the best that has been thought and said in the world. In this world and in the future, how do we not only ‘preserve a space’ for thoughtfulness and reflection, but increasingly help to make it something appreciated and sought after by a strangely starved yet surfeited citizenry?"