The 30th annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education will take place in the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa in Dana Point, California, from November 10 through 14, 2004. The conference is sponsored by the School of Education and the Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Chapman University, and chaired by Tom Wilson.

Dana Point, directly on the Pacific shore, is approximately one half the way between Los Angeles and San Diego. The conference site is approximately 20 miles south (30 minutes by taxi, shuttle or one way car rental depending on the time of the day) from the John Wayne / Santa Ana Airport.

Professor Judy Baca will deliver the Lawrence Kohlberg Memorial lecture. Since 1976, Judy has served as the founder/artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California. She has taught studio art within the University of California since 1980. Judy currently holds two academic appointments at UCLA: Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies within the Cesar Chavez Center and Professor of Art for World Arts and Cultures. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work appears in the collections of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford Connecticut. The core of both her public and personal work is based on the belief that art has the ability to foster civic dialogue in the most uncivil places and thus becomes a tool for both self-transformation and social change.

Carrying on the tradition of recent years, a number of distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to the theme of the conference will give invited lectures:

• Alma Flor Ada, Professor of Education and Director, Center for Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults, University of San Francisco.
• Benjamin R. Barber, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, principal of the Democracy Collaborative, will deliver a lecture on Moral Education in a World of Terrorism and Interdependence.
• Garret Duncan.
• Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, activist and lecturer on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions since the Vietnam War. Whistle blower of conscience, made public secret documents eventually called the Pentagon Papers which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
• Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics and author of The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy.
• Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, and author of Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lila Bartolome).
• Rueben Martinez, 2004 MacArthur Fellow recipient.
• Peter McLaren, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, whose latest book is Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution.

Conference Chair: Tom Wilson
Telephone: 714.744.7039 or 949.497.4359, Fax: 714.744.7035
E-mail: ame2004@amenetwork.org

Program Chair: Suzanne Soohoo
E-mail: soohoo@chapman.edu