About the February 16 - 18, 2005 Conference

The 2005 conference theme occupies a prominent place in current critical discussions in a wide variety of disciplines. Memory, Place, Identity challenges us to

(re)construct and tell our stories;
identify and reflect on where we’ve been or long to be;
examine our evolving sense of who we are and what defines us, individually, collectively, culturally, regionally, nationally, globally.

As CCU embarks on its second fifty years, and in the wake of a century that brought both unprecedented progress and darkness, triumph and despair, what lies behind us, before us, … within us has taken on a new urgency and represents a rich, timely agenda for communal discussion as we look to the future.



"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)