** Application deadline EXTENDED to Sept. 8**

This four-day conference hosted by the McConnell Center will consider the dissolution of the Roman republic and the origins of the empire through comparative study of Shakespeare and Plutarch.

The conference will be held Nov. 10-13 at Louisville's Galt House hotel.

Kentucky social studies teachers grades 5-12 are eligible to apply; limited to 15. Preference will be given to teachers who have not participated in a McConnell Center professional development opportunity. Pre-reading required.

Conference Objective

The objective of this professional development conference is to reflect on the demise of liberty in ancient Greece and Rome, as that is the story told in Plutarch's Lives of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Demetrius and Mark Antony, as well as in William Shakespeare's plays, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.

Covered Expenses

• double room accommodations at the Galt House
• all meals during the conference
• all conference readings and other educational resources

Conference Topics

• Alexander & Julius Caesar
• Shakespeare's Caesar
• Brutus & the Assassins
• Demetrius & Antony
• Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra
• The Political & the Individual

Conference Discussion Leader

Khalil Habib, PhD, is director of the Pell Honors Program at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., and an associate professor of philosophy. He is co-editor of "Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization" and has published articles on Aristophanes, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Tyfayl, Tocqueville, Machiavelli and Montesquieu. He is currently working on a co-edited volume of Shakespeare’s political philosophy.