The Davis & Elkins College Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness is hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference today and Saturday at Halliehurst. The conference topic is "Spirituality, Art and Social Justice."

The public may attend the many conference sessions. A free concert by cellist Jonathan Kramer will highlight today's activities, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Halliehurst.

Discussions will include:

Today from 10 a.m. to noon, Critical Reflection on a 25-Year Meditation Practice," "Modern Yoga: Roots, Rituals, Creativity and Sacrifice," "Shedding Colonized Identities: A Comparison and Contrast of Gandhi and Fanon" and "The Funeral of Hank Tjon and Enactment of the Perennial Philosophy"; from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., "The Goddess and the Bull: A Survey of the Archetype," "Mystical Experience and Its Interpretation: Contextualism Revisited," "Secularizing the Sacred: Art and Ethics in Contemporary Approaches to Health," "Lorenzo Monaco Influence on the Camaldolese and Beyond," "Breath of Wisdom Toward a Philosophy of Respiration and Circulation," "The Confucian Ethos in Korean Church Growth" and "Paradox Lost and Gained: The Coherence of Maximal God"; from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., "An Unworthy Achievement: Problems with Johnston's Account of God," "To Err in Their Ways: The Attention of Biases of the New Atheist," "Hegels' Sociology of Religion: An Exposition of Peter L. Berger and Terry Pinker" and "Post Religious Ethics and the Spirit of Globalization."

Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., "The Legacy of Martin Luther: Democratic of German Political Thought," "Leap of Faith: Pluralistic Democracy & Equality," "The Role of Religion in the War in Chechnya," "War and Conflict as Reflected in Afghan-Dari Stories," "Letting Go of Peace: Re-opening the Process of Forgiveness," "Religion's Place in Political Decision Making" and "Do Private Military Companies Operate in a Legal Vacuum?"; round table discussion from 11 a.m. to noon on "Spirituality: East and West" with Jonathan Kramar, Mark D. Wood, Linda B. Elder, Nancy Snow, Kalyan Banerjee, Bob McCutcheon and Helen Benigni; from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., "Social Justice, Kinship and the Ethical Treatment of Animals," "Beyond Diversity and Pluralism: A Lesson from the Bhagavad Gita," "What Frustrates Free Speech and Free Press in East Asia? A Pattern of Culture and Media Control," "A Practical Approach to Eradicating Evil," "Bridging the Gap Between Reason and Revelation: An Examination of the Role of Reason in the Sources of Islamic Belief," "Griffin's Process Theodicy: Does It Meet Its Own Test?," "The Bible and the Baroque in the Structure of El Condenado por Desconfiado de Tirso de Molina"; from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., "The Injustice of War Rape and Finding the Path to Peace," "Natural Law and the Problem of Epistemology," "Non-Violence and Speech Codes," "Law as a Necessary Means of Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in a Culturally Diverse Society," "The Correlation Between Western Religiosity and Belief in Fate Among College Students," "Public Reasonableness and Mozart vs. Hawkins County Board of Education," "Walking Toward Greek Gods: A Spiritual Reading of Modernist Poetry," "Multiculturalism and Its Effects in Religion and Law, "Gandhi and Nonviolence," "Shekinah: 20th Century Understanding" and "Religion and Multiculturalism's Effect on the Law."