Amarillo College Presents:
The Two Cultures An Interdisciplinary Experience
A Meeting of The Minds Across the Arts & Sciences
Join us in addressing the questions that challenge the future of how we learn and what we learn.
Funding provided by the
AC Foundation
Venue Location: Washington Street Campus, CUB - Oak Room
Panel One: Cultivating Future Scholars
Thursday, August 29 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Join us to get the conversation started at the crucial juncture of K-12 and college. This panel knows students and will be sharing real-life ways to cultivate our future scholars in this ever-changing academic and social landscape. Here we begin the journey of the Two Cultures (Arts & Sciences) conversations by providing solutions and suggestions from experience in the classroom and beyond.
Holly Hofmann
STEM HSI Grant Director
Lesley Ingham
Honors Program Coordinator,
Speech Instructor
J. Eric Dennis
Teacher of Language Arts,
Amarillo ISD
Deon Hope
Moderated by Deon Hope, Faculty, English, Amarillo College
Panel Two: Music and Mathematics as Universal Languages?
Thursday, September 26 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
We continue our Two Cultures (Arts & Sciences) conversation with Music and Mathematics, perhaps an unlikely pair to some, but for many, this is the most logical duo of disciplines possible. We will explore the concepts that unite these two fascinating worlds by creating a dialogue in a language that transcends traditional barriers. At times mystical and other times even magical, music and math speak to our souls.
Shannon Cornell
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Amarillo College
Camille Day Nies
Professor & Chair,
Music & Theatre
Dr. Bruce Lin
Director of Piano & Faculty Performances. AC Music dept.
Dr. Robert Fulton
Moderated by Dr. Robert Fulton, Humanities, Amarillo College
Panel Three: Physics and Meta-Physics in the Academy
Thursday, October 24 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Delving deeper into the world of the mind, this panel explores the connections of Physics and Meta-Physics in our lives. Getting to the heart of the Two Cultures (Arts & Sciences), we will ask if the theoretical and practical can live in harmony? How do we speak across the ever-widening gap between the Arts and Sciences? Join a few of AC’s brain trust to ask some challenging questions about the nature of reality and reality of nature.
Dr. Michael Hannen
Philosophy Instructor, Humanities & Philosophy, Southwestern Philosophical Society
Dr. Asanga Ranasinghe
Professor, Physical & Biological Sciences, Amarillo College
Dr. Van Herd
Assistant Professor of Physics/Engineering,
Amarillo College
Dr. E. Christopher Hudson
Moderated by Dr. E. Christopher Hudson, English faculty,
Amarillo College
Keynote Address:
Numbering Words, Talking Numbers: Poetry, Page Layout, and the Structures of Thought
Thursday, November 21 | 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Does Poetry matter? Our final speakers believe it does and, moreover, that it is crucial to the conversation of the Two Cultures (Arts & Sciences). Building on previous panels, we ask the biggest questions of all, namely, what is learning, and how can we cultivate that here at AC? Can we reconcile the division of the Two Cultures with Poetry? Come join us and find out!
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Frank Sobey
Dr. Frank Sobey, VP of Strategic Initiatives/Poet, Amarillo College
Keynote Address
Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown
Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown, Associate Professor of History/Poet, UChicago
Closing Remarks
Dr. Robert Fulton
Moderated by Dr. Robert Fulton, Humanities, Amarillo College