Background
DeConcini, Barbara was born on February 15, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Narrative Remembering
(This work is a philosophical treatment of the human activ...)
This work is a philosophical treatment of the human activity of remembering as it occurs both in fiction and in life, and as a hermeneutical act. The author begins her treatment by tracing the way numerous authors within the mainstream history of philosophy have basically denigrated the role of memory in the constitution of reality in favor of a more easily measurable physical construct. She then turns to a treatment of more contemporary thinkers about the subject, finding the work within the phenomenological tradition. Includes a discussion on how narrative functions in relation to memory in terms of the nature of human identity and history, and how we remember what makes sense to us in terms of the ongoing story of our lives, or in the case of history, according to one of the various models of historical interpretation. Contents: Philosophical Theories of Memory: Some Paradigms; Eucharistic Anamnesis: Remembering as a Form of Life; Remembering and Narrative; Remembering Temporality; Remembering and Identity; Remembering and Imagining; Atwood's Surfacing: Remembering in the Reconstruction of Identity; and Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: Narrative as Anamnesis.
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religious studies educator association executive
Barbara DeConcini, association executive, religious studies educator. Alliance of Indiana Colleges of Art grantee.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in English, Rosemont College, 1968. Master of Arts in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities, Emory University, 1980.
Career
Associate dean, Rosemont (Pennsylvania) College, 1971-1974;
from lecturer to professor, Atlanta College of Art, 1975-1991;
interim president, Atlanta College of Art, 1985;
academic dean, Atlanta College of Art, 1986-1991;
professor religion and culture, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1991;
executive director, treasurer, American Academy Religion, Atlanta, since 1991. Coordinator long-range institutional and educational planning Society of the Holy Child, 1973-1975. Treasurer Southeastern Common for Study of Religion, 1989-1991.
Chair various academic sessions in field.
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Narrative Remembering
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Narrative Remembering
Membership
Board of directors Art Papers, Atlanta, 1988-1991, Rosemont College, since 1992, chairman academic committee. Trustee Scholars Press, Atlanta, since 1991, chairman of the board of trustees, 1994-1997. Board directors Georgia Artists International Exhibit Fund, 1988-1992.
Member American Council Learned Socs. (chairman of the executive committee county administrative officers 1995-1997, board directors 1996-1998), American Academy Religion (board directors since 1989, consultant for reorganization arts, literature and religion section 1990, member program committee 1986-1989, president S.E. section 1984-1985, program chair 1983-1984, 84-85, Executive Committee 1980-1983), Southern Association Colleges Schools (accreditation evaluator), Middle States Association Colleges Schools (accreditation evaluator), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Connections
Daughter of Edwin Francis and Anne Marie (Farrell) december. Married Walter James Lowe, June 30, 1979.
