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Conference Schedule OverviewThursday, March 5, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel 3:00-5:00 PM: CONCURRENT SESSIONS I5:15 PM: OPENING MASS5:45 PM: Dinner7:30-9:30 PM: CONCURRENT SESSIONS IIFriday, March 6, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel 8:30 AM: MASS 9:30-11:30 AM: CONCURRENT SESSIONS III11:30-1:00: Lunch1:00-3:00: PLENARY I 3:15-5:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV5:15-7:15 PM: Dinner (Please see Hotel list for dining recommendations)7:15-9:15: CONCURRENT SESSIONS VSaturday, March 7, 2020Cathedral Center of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia8:30: Vans Leave hotel9:00-11:00: PLENARY SESSION II11:00-12:30: LUNCHEON AND BUSINESS MEETING12:30-2:30 PM: PLENARY SESSION III2:45-4:45 PM: CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI5:00 PM: CLOSING LITURGY6:30 PM: Reception7:00 PM: AMA ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUETThursday Afternoon, March 5, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel 3-7:30 PM: REGISTRATION AND BOOK EXHIBITLocation: Lobby outside of the Vault Room3:00-5:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS I1.1 Thomism as a Development of TraditionLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: Travis Dumsday, Concordia University of EdmontonNathan Friend, Independent Scholar: “A Divine and Supernatural Light: Edwards and Palamas, a MacIntyrian Conversation”James M Murdoch, Villanova University: “Philosophia Perennis and Tradition Constituted Enquiry” 1.2 The Uniqueness of Human Nature Location: 1st Floor Meeting Room Chairperson: Mark K. Spencer, University of St. ThomasJohn G. Trapani, Jr., Emeritus Professor, Walsh University: “Taking Maritain Seriously: Flashes of Light About the Self and the Interior Life”Sr. Mary Veronica Sabelli, R.S.M., St. Vincent Seminary: “Aquinas and von Hildebrand on Affectivity and the Search for Complementarity between Metaphysical and Phenomenological Approaches to the Human Person”Sr. Damien Marie Savino and Daniel C. Wagner, Aquinas College: “Disputatio on the Uniqueness of the Human Person as Gardener: A Case Study in ‘Living Thomism’”1.3 INLS: Natural Law Location: Coin Vault Chairperson: Walter Raubicheck, Pace UniversityJames Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans: “The Realism of the Natural Law and the Movement of Reason”Christopher Ragusa, Catholic University of America: “The Right Rights: Whose Aquinas? Which Natural Law?”Grady Stuckman, Franciscan University of Steubenville: “The Integralist State Versus the Constitutional State: Which Is the Thomist View?”1.4 Christian PhilosophyLocation: Bond Room Chairperson: James Hanink, Independent Scholar James D. Capehart, Independent Scholar: “The Christian Philosophy of Gilson, Maritain, and St. John Paul II as Principle of Unity for a 21st Century Thomism”Hannah Woldum Ragusa, The Catholic University of America: “An Exercise in Christian Philosophy: Norris Clarke on Receptivity as a Positive Perfection of Being”William R. Hamant, DeSales University: “Joseph Pieper on the Unity of Philosophy and Theology”Thursday Evening, March 5, 20205:15 PM: OPENING MASSLocation: Main Vault Celebrant: Rev. Christopher M. Cullen, SJ, Fordham University5:45-7:30 PM: Dinner (Please see Hotel list for dining recommendations)7:30-9:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSION II2.1 Wojtyla’s PersonalismLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: Michael Durham Torre, University of San Francisco (IF NO ONE ELSE)John Hittinger, University of St. Thomas: “Karol Wojty?a and the Forging of Thomistic Personalism”R. Mary Hayden Lemmons, University of St. Thomas (MN): "Personalist Thomism: The Proper Fusion of Aquinas and John Paul II."Nicholas M. Sparks, Saint Louis University: "Human Persons and Human Nature: An Explication of Chapter Two of Person and Act."2.2 Maritain and the Thomist TraditionLocation: 1st Floor Meeting Room Chairperson: James Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New OrleansSr. Anne Frances Ai Le, OP, University of St. Thomas (Houston): “A Thomist Is a Thomist – A Must? A Must!: A Quest for ‘Mere Thomism’”Gary Culpepper, Providence College: “The Thomist Tradition and the Contemporary Debate Concerning the Relation between ‘Religion and Science’”Denis A. Scrandis, Independent Scholar: “Is Maritain’s Metaphysics Authentically Thomistic?”2.3 Tradition, Media, and CultureLocation Coin Vault Chairperson: Grady Stuckman, Franciscan University of SteubenvilleDavid Zboray, Independent Scholar: "The Medium and the Method: A Thomistic Analysis of Marshall McLuhan's Media Theory and Its Bearing on Tradition"Brian Kemple, Continuum Philosophical Insight: “The Tradition of Questioning” Robert Delaney, University of Holy Cross: “iGen’s Therapeutic Culture”2.4 Knowledge of the Transcendent GodLocation Bond Room Chairperson: J. Raymond Zimmer, Independent ScholarJoel Johnson, Borromeo Seminary at John Carroll University: “The God of Practical Reason: The Cases of MacIntyre and Kant”William R. Luton, University of Holy Cross, New Orleans: “Transcending Dataism: Sapiens’ Religion as Techne”Friday Morning, March 6, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel All Day: PM: REGISTRATION AND BOOK EXHIBITLocation: Lobby outside of the Vault Room8:30 AM: MASS Location: Main VaultCelebrant: Rev. Christopher M. Cullen, SJ, Fordham University9:30-11:30 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS III3.1 Hell and the Problem of EvilLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: Michael Durham Torre, University of San FranciscoMichael Grasinski, Franciscan U. of Steubenville: “Boethius, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and the Problem of Evil: A Critique of the Privation Theory in the Tradition”Daniel A. Drain, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family: “Inferno Profundior: Approaching the Traditional Doctrine of Hell with Augustine and von Balthasar”Travis Dumsday, Concordia University of Edmonton: “Alexander of Hales on the Irremediable Demons”3.2 Politics, Economics, and the Common GoodLocation: 1st Floor Meeting Room Chairperson: James Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans John Macias, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University: “The Common Good of Political Society: A Possible Way Forward between Traditional and New Natural Law”Len Ferry, Niagara College: “Rhonheimer’s Devilishly Good Citizens?”Thomas R. Rourke, Clarion University: “Alasdair MacIntyre and Yves Simon on Moral Problems With Contemporary Market Exchange: A Thomist View”3.3 Perennial Aristotelian Principles Location: Coin VaultChairperson: J. Raymond Zimmer, Independent ScholarJ. Raymond Zimmer, Independent Scholar: “Primary and Secondary Causation, Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Category-Based Nested Form”Shaughnessy Cudmore-Keating, St. Francis Xavier: “Prime Matter: Potential, Actual, or Something in Between?”Marco Stango, DeSales University: “St Thomas on the Individuation of the Intellectual Soul”3.4 Music Location: Bond RoomChairperson: John G. Trapani, Jr., Emeritus Professor, Walsh UniversityGreg Kerr, DeSales University: “What If Maritain Made a Music Theory?”Chris Grey, Open University, UK: “ ‘The Line Means Exactly What It Says’: Realist Solutions to the Problematic of Music and the Ineffable”Mark Moes, Grand Valley State University: “God and the Good in Plato and Some Successors: MacIntyre and Madigan on a Developing Philosophical Tradition of Theism”11:30-1:00: Lunch (Please see Hotel list for dining recommendations)Friday Afternoon, March 6, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel 1:00-3:00: PLENARY I: Thomism and the Great BooksLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: James Hanink, Independent ScholarHeather M. Erb, Lock Haven University, Angelicum Academy: “Proficiens sapientia et gratia: Aquinas, The Great Books, and the Order of Providence”Pat Carmack, Angelicum Academy: “The History of the Great Books Movement”Steve Bertucci, Angelicum Academy: “Great Books: Is the Difference in the Dialectic?”3:15-5:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV4.1 Thomism in Catholic EducationLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: Chris Grey, Open University, UKJohn J. Conley, SJ, Loyola Maryland: “Catechetical Thomism”Timothy Rothhaar, Marquette University: “Jacques Maritain and the Question of Theology in the University”Michael Durham Torre, University of San Francisco: "Modest Reflections on Being a Thomist Today”4.2 Community and Human Good Location: 1st Floor Meeting Room Chairperson: Herbert E. Hartmann, Catholic University of AmericaFrancis Feingold, St. Patrick's Seminary: “Personalism and the Common Good”Joshua Schulz, DeSales University: “’No Route Back from Reflectiveness’: A MacIntyrian Evaluation of Bernard William’s ‘Disenchantment’ Argument for Political Liberalism”Mario Ramos-Reyes, Institute for the Study of Culture, Ethics and Development: “What is Going on in Latin America? A Maritainista Reading”4.3 Neo-Thomists and the TraditionLocation: Coin Vault Chairperson: John Macias, St. Patrick’s Seminary & UniversityJames Keating, Providence College: “What Young Catholic Intellectuals Have to Learn from Reading Avery Dulles”Jon Kirwan, University of St. Thomas: “Neothomism and the Missions in the Nouvelle Théologie Affair”Jeremy Wilkins, Boston College: “Why Read Bernard Lonergan?”4.4 The TrinityLocation: Bond RoomChairperson: Sr. Anne Frances Ai Le, OP, University of St. Thomas (Houston):Robert Siscoe, University of Arizona: “The Linguistic Problem of the Trinity”Chase J. Cloutier, The Catholic University of America: “Trinity and Tradition: Aquinas's Trinitarian Missions in Congar's 'Ontology of Sacred History'”Kevin M. Scott, University of Notre Dame: “There and Back Again: Narrative Teleology and the Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God”5:15-7:15 PM: Dinner (Please see Hotel list for dining recommendations)Friday Evening, March 6, 2020Drury Plaza Hotel7:15-9:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS V5.1 Tradition and AestheticsLocation: Main Vault Chairperson: Timothy Rothhaar, Marquette UniversityJoseph W.D. Nicolello, Fordham University: “’The Virginity of Observation’: On the Question of Theological Poetics”Daniel McInerny, Christendom College: “Does Tradition-Constituted Inquiry Apply to the Arts?”Anna Svendsen, Franciscan University of Steubenville: “Jacques Maritain and the Thomism of David Jones’s (1895-1974) Theology of Art”5.2 Objects of Inquiry and the Need for Adequate Methodologies Location: 1st Floor Meeting RoomChairperson: James M Murdoch, Villanova UniversityThomas Wheeler, Franciscan University of Steubenville: “Socrates, Plato, and St. Edith Stein: How We Should Understand the Goodness or Evil of the Body in Relation to the Soul”Kelsey Tuning, Franciscan University of Steubenville: “MacIntyre and Meno: After Virtue versus a Socratic Objection”Stephen Chamberlain, Rockhurst University: “How Far Can It Bend without Breaking? Reflections upon a Living Thomism”5.3 The Act of PhilosophizingLocation: Coin VaultChairperson: James Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New OrleansScott J. Roniger, Loyola Marymount University: “What is Philosophy? Thomistic and Phenomenological Reflections”Christopher M. Cullen, SJ, Fordham University: “The Quest for Philosophical Unity: Neo-Scholasticism's Philosophia Perennis, Gerson's Ur-Platonism, and MacIntyre's Tradition”Justin Matchulat, Mount St. Mary’s University: "Individual Responsibility and Inherited Tradition within the Philosophical Act: Making Sense of the Tension with Marcel, Gadamer, and MacIntyre"5.4 Problems in EthicsLocation: Bond RoomChairperson: Nicholas M. Sparks, Saint Louis UniversityHerbert E. Hartmann, Catholic University of America: “Love, Pleasure and Function in Aristotle's Ethics"Rev. Witold Kania, University of Silesia (Poland): “The Need for Virtue Formation in Medical Practice: Maritain’s and Pellegrino’s Contribution to Contemporary Debate”Caleb Estep: Franciscan University of Steubenville: “Inherent value, Subject-of-a-Life, and Animal Rights: A Critique of Tom Regan”9:30: Reception Location: Prefunction FoyerSaturday Morning, March 7, 2020Cathedral Center of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia8:30: Vans depart hotel9:00-11:00: PLENARY SESSION IILocation: Main Hall Side 1Chairperson: John G. Trapani, Jr., Emeritus Professor, Walsh UniversityPresidential Address: James Hanink, Independent Scholar: “Anscombe, Causality, and the Play of Creation”Steven Baldner, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada: “Creation and Occasionalism: Thomas and Early Modern Philosophy”11:00-12:30: LUNCHEON AND BUSINESS MEETINGSaturday Afternoon, March 7, 2020Cathedral Center of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia12:30-2:30 PM: PLENARY SESSION IIILocation: Main Hall Side 1 Chairperson: Matthew Minerd, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and MethodiusMatthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary: "Integrating (Neo-)Thomism and Ressourcement Against Modernism: Garrigou-Lagrange's Christ the Savior as a Test-Case"Christopher Lutz, St. Meinrad Seminary: is “Thomistic-Aristotelianism vs. Moral Alienation: A Response to Bernard Williams.”2:45-4:45 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI6.1 Byzantine ThomismLocation: Main Hall Side 1 Chairperson: Giuseppe Butera, Providence College Mark K. Spencer, University of St. Thomas: “The Future of Byzantine and Personalist Thomism: Lessons from Jacques Maritain”Matthew Minerd, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius: "The Ontology of the Divine Indwelling: A Hard-Headed Thomist Meets with Palamas"Christiaan Kappes, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius: "Reflections on the Reception of Thomist Thought: Views from Late-Medieval Byzantium"6.2 Metaphysical Issues Location: Main Hall Side 2 Chairperson: Greg Kerr, DeSales UniversityFernando A. Riofrio, Universidad de Piura: “Is the Ipsum Esse Subsistens a Platonic Universal Incompatible with the Aristotelian Framework of Aquinas’s Metaphysics?”Dr. Patricia Pintado-Murphy, University of St. Mary of the Lake: “Thomism’s Challenge to Modernity in Cornelio Fabro’s Thought”Christopher Albrecht, Providence College: “Distinguishing and Relating Substance and Supposit in Thomist Metaphysics”6.3 Tradition and Historical ContextualizationLocation: Small Break Out Room Chairperson: William R. Luton, University of Holy Cross, New OrleansStephen Evensen, University of Notre Dame: “Situating Tradition-Constituted Rationality Within Contemporary Epistemology”Jordan Matteoli, University of Dallas: “Jacques Maritain and Charles De Koninck on Progress in History”Alice M. Ramos, St. John’s University: “Truth and Contexts of Intelligibility in Alasdair MacIntyre’s Work”Saturday Evening, March 7, 2020Cathedral Center of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia5:00 PM: DIVINE LITURGY (Ruthenian Catholic)Metropolitan Cathedral, Ruthenian Catholic ChurchCelebrant: Father Andrew Deskevich, Rector of the Ruthenian Catholic Cathedral and Protosyncellus for the Archeparchy6:30 PM: ReceptionReception Gallery (TBD) 7:00 PM: AMA ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUETRuthenian Cathedral Center ................
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