TODAY: Edith Stein Project

Catch part (or all!) of the Edith Stein Project in McKenna Hall today and tomorrow. There's something for everyone! Here is the full schedule:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
(All presentations located in McKenna Hall)

11:00-11:30 a.m.
Registration

11:30-11:35 a.m.
Introduction and welcome to the conference

11:35 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Keynote: Professor Gerard Bradley: “Personal Vocation: Jesus Calls Upon Each One of Us for Help”

12:45-1:45 p.m.

• Fr. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C.: “Discerning One’s Call in the Contemporary University: One Priest’s Rambling Reflections on Happiness, Mission, Meaning and What Really Matters”

• John and Monica Sikorski: "The Theology of the Body within Marriage"

• Panel Discussion: “Defending Sexuality: Battling the Culture of Pornography” (Moderator: Michael Bohnert; Panelists: Dr. Eric Sims, Dr. Jill Sims, Bobby Rauch)

2:00-3:15 p.m.
Wendy Shalit: “Authentic Femininity in the 21st Century”

3:30-4:30 p.m.

• Leonard DeLorenzo: "Vocation and Transformation: Learning How and What to Love"

• Dr. Jeffery Langan: "Vocation in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"

• Dr. John Cavadini: "'Become What You Are!':  the Universal Call to Holiness"

5:15 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart

6:30 p.m. Dinner and discussion with Bishop Emeritus John D'Arcy

8:30 p.m. Showing of Eggsploitation - Introduction and Q & A with Jennifer Lahl

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011
(All presentations located in McKenna Hall)

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Submitted Papers:
Session 1

• Katherine Whalen: “Standing Beside Mary Below The Cross: How Edith Stein Calls Contemporary Women to Defend the Sanctity of Life”

• Sister Elinor Gardner, O.P.: “‘I will seek Him whom my heart loves’ (Song 3.2): On Woman and Being Called”

Session 2

• Emily Bisssonnette: “A Suffering Culture in Need of Suffering: The Witness of Suffering as Integral to the Vocation and Sacrament of Marriage”

• Rebecca Krier: “Spiritual Vocation: Edith Stein and Ignatius of Loyola in Dialogue”

Session 3

• Nathaniel Peters: “Bernard of Clairvaux for the Rest of Us: Activity, Contemplation, and Vocation”

• Donald L. Wallenfang: “Awaken, O Spirit: The Vocation of Becoming in the Work of Edith Stein”

Session 4

• Lillian Civantos: “Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, and the Art of Circumstance”

• Pauline Marie Smith: “The Geography of Vocation”

10:15-11:15  a.m.

• Dawn Eden: "The Thrill of the Chaste"

• Fr. Neil Roy, PhD, STL: “Vocation and the Sacramental Life”

• Michele Chronister, "God's Grace is Enough for Us: The Work of Grace in an Individual's Vocation"

11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

• Religious life with Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP; Sr. M. Benedicta Duna, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Sr. Constance, Little Sisters of the Poor

• Danielle Rose: “Who is the saint that is just you?”  (Talk and musical performance)

• Dr. David O’Connor: “She may be my wife: How A Real Man Looks at Women”

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch-on your own

2:00-3:00 p.m.

• Natassia Kwan: "Domestic Violence in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Hope for a Better Future” and Michael Bohnert: "Aging Planet: The Overpopulation Myth"

• Lisa Everett: “Natural Family Planning and the Pursuit of Happiness in Marriage”

• Dr. Gilbert Meilaender: "The Infinite Horizon of Vocation"

3:15-4:15

• Dr. David Fagerberg, "Our Vocation in the Face of Death: Living the Resurrection”

• Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP: “Edith Stein and the Wisdom of Experience: The Masculine and Feminine Vocations to Love”

• Dr. Catherine Pakaluk: "Being Mary in a Martha World: Edith Stein on What Women Want"

4:30-5:30 p.m.

• Alumnae panel: Caitlin Dwyer and Anamaria Scaparlanda-Ruiz, “ We R Who We R: Finding Yourself Apart from Drinking and Hookups,”

            Dorothy Cummings McLean, “Waiting for Your Marching Orders: Staying Sane while Single”

• Sr. M. Benedicta Duna, “Spiritual Childhood as a path to Spiritual Motherhood”

6:00 p.m.
Closing Banquet