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35th ANNUAL AMERICAN MARITAIN ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“Ransoming the Time: Human Nature,
Earthly Destiny, and Christian Wisdom”
OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2011
==============THURSDAY EVENING, October 13, 2011============
All Thursday Events at The Gillespie Center
6:30 pm: Opening Mass – Notre Dame A & B:
· Rev. Msgr. James B. Anderson, University of St. Thomas, TX, Celebrant & Homilist
7:30 – 9:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions #1
[1.1] The Nature of the Human Person – Fleur de Lis C · Chairperson: John G. Trapani, Jr., Walsh University · James Capehart, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “Incarnate Spirit: Proper Thomistic Definition of the Human Being or Merely a Description of the Human Soul?” · Analisia Gutierrez, St. Mary’s University, Texas, “Between Body and Soul: Forgiveness as the Redeemer of Sinful Time” · Lian Giangan, St. Louis University/Philippine Military Academy, “‘Two-halves of Humanity’ in an Integral Humanism: Framework for a Christian Philosophy of a Human Being – Man and Woman” |
[1.2] Cognition: Sensation, Concepts and Analogy – Fleur de Lis D · Chairperson: Giuseppe Butera, Providence College · James Kintz, Loyola Marymount University, “The Necessity of Virtue in Aesthetic Experience: A Phenomenological and Metaphysical Account of the Apprehension of Beauty” · Domenic D’Ettore, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “The Thomism of Capreolus’ Doctrine of Concepts in Analogy”
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9:30 – 10:30 pm: Reception – Gillespie Lobby
===============FRIDAY MORNING, October 14, 2011=============
All Friday Events at The Gillespie Center
8 – 10 am: Concurrent Sessions #2
[2.1] Sign and Symbol – Fleur de Lis C · Chairperson: Richard Cain, Wheeling Jesuit University · Rev. John J. Conley, S.J., Loyola University Maryland, “Sign and Symbol in a Sacramental Key” · Gregory Kerr, De Sales University, “Maritain’s Magical Seduction” · Dutton Kearney, Hillsdale College, “Myth as Metaphysics: Maritain’s Importance for Literary Studies” |
[2.2] Issues in Christology – Fleur de Lis D · Chairperson: Travis Dumsday, Livingstone College · Heather M. Erb, Lock Haven University, “Aquinas and Maritain on Levels of Contemplation, Paradox, and Christ: Points of Entry into the Core/Contextualist Debate” · Roger Nutt, Ave Maria University, “Esse Secundarium: Interpreting St. Thomas on the Metaphysical Status of Christ’s Human Nature” |
[2.3] Love, Desire and Happiness – Fleur de Lis E · Chairperson: Siobhan Nash-Marshall, Manhattanville College · Herb Hartmann, Our Lady of Thornwood, “Eros and Amor” · Brandom Dahm, Baylor University, “Distinguishing Desire and Parts of Happiness: A Reply to Germain Grisez” · Denis Scrandis, St. John’s University, NY, “Maritain’s Immanent Dialectic of the First Act of Freedom” |
[2.4] Liberal Education and Virtue – Notre Dame C · Chairperson: James Hanink, Loyola Marymount University · Anne Wiles, James Madison University, “Maritain on Education” · Samantha Bertrand, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Aristotle’s Gentleman” · Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College, “Redeeming Liberal Education” |
10:15 am – 12:15 pm: Plenary Session #1 – Notre Dame A & B
- Chair: John Hittinger, Ph.D. – University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
- Randall Smith, Ph.D. – 2011-12 Myser Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture; and Associate Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
“Hope and Human History”
- Bernard E. Doering, Ph.D. – Emeritus Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, IN
“Jacques Maritain and Charles Journet on Humanae Vitae"
12:15 – 1:45 pm: Lunch
(On your own – Recommended: Bistro 933, Hilton Garden Inn; special menu for the AMA)
=============FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 14, 2011=============
1:45 – 3:45 pm: Plenary Session #2 – Notre Dame A & B
- Chair: Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D. – University of San Francisco, San Francisco
- John F. X. Knasas, Ph.D. – Professor of Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
“Being and the Twenty-first Century Thomist.”
- W. David Solomon, Ph.D. – W.P. & H.B. White Director, Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture, University of Notre Dame, IN
“Maritain's ‘Human Equality’ and the Dignity Wars in Contemporary Bioethics”
4 – 6 pm: Concurrent Sessions #3
[3.1] Topics in Metaphysics: Ontology – Fleur de Lis C · Chairperson: Heather M. Erb, Lock Haven University · Siobhan Nash-Marshall, Manhattanville College, “Boethius on Essences” · Travis Dumsday, Livingstone College, “How is a Substantial Form Related to its Propria? · Steven Long, Ave Maria University, “Odd Bedfellows and the Negation of Negation: Frege and Maritain” |
[3.2] Virtues: Moral and Theological – Fleur de Lis D · Chairperson: Herb Hartmann, Our Lady of Thornwood · Christopher Klofft, Assumption College, “Being Truthful with My Neighbor: Maritain and Dominus Iesus” · Richard Cain, Wheeling Jesuit University, “Ransoming Rhetoric: Character, Passion and Human Destiny” |
[3.3] Questions on Equality I -- Fleur de Lis E · Chairperson: Giuseppe Butera, Providence College · James Hanink, Loyola Marymount University: “Equality, Rights and Deep Humanism” · James Jacobs, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, LA: “American Thought and the Problem of Equality” · Thomas Rourke, Clarion University, “Moral Problems in Economic Organization in the Work of Yves R. Simon: Unequal Exchange and Man as the Principle of Integration” |
[3.4] Maritain on Politics – Notre Dame C · Chairperson: Nikolaj Zunic, St. Jerome’s University, Canada · Mario Ramos Reyes, Kansas City College, “Revolution vs. Reform: Would Maritain Qualify as a ‘Chavista’?” · Jesse Russell, Louisiana State University, “Redeeming Time: An Examination of Jacques Maritain’s Political Sea-Change and Its Consequences for Thomism” |
6 – 7:30 pm: Dinner
(On your own – suggestions provided)
==============FRIDAY EVENING, October 14, 2011===============
7:30 – 9:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions #4
[4.1] Book Discussion: Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace, By Steven Long – Fleur de Lis C · Moderator: Peter Pagan, Aquinas College, TN · Panelists: o John Hittinger, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “Rights and the secular stalking horse” o Br. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., Dominican House of Studies, “Natura Pura, Obediential Potency, and Sacra Doctrina" o Paul Gondreau, Providence College, “Nature as Vacuole for Grace: Marriage in the Evangelical Mission of the Church” o James Madden, Benedictine College, “Nature without Substance? On the Possibility of an Analytic Handmaiden for Theology” · Respondent: Steven Long, Ave Maria University |
[4.2] Anti-Semitism, The Mystery of Israel and Redeeming American Culture – Fleur de Lis D · Chairperson: Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College · Jose Yulo, Academy of Art University, “Anti-Semitism and Christophobia: A Material and Immaterial Study” · Cornelia Tsakiridou, LaSalle University, “Jacques Maritain and the Mystery of Israel”
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[4.3] Questions on Equality II – Fleur de Lis E · Chairperson: Nikolaj Zunic, St. Jerome’s University · Mario D’Souza, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto Canada, “Philosophy of Education and Human Equality: The Contribution of Jacques Maritain” · Raymond Dennehy, University of San Francisco, “Maritain’s Ontology of Human Equality and His Mis-ontology of the Fetus: Reflections on Human Equality in Ransoming the Time.”
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[4.4] Issues in Moral Philosophy and Theology – Notre Dame C · Chairperson: John G. Trapani, Jr., Walsh University · Steven Jensen, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “Double Effect, Proportionality and Allowing Harm” · Dominic Colucy, Walsh University, “Maritain and the Problem of Universal Salvation”
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9:30 – 10:30 pm: Reception – Gillespie Lobby
=================SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011================
Saturday AM and PM Sessions at The Gillespie Center
8 – 10 am: Concurrent Sessions #5
[5.1] Issues in Cognition – Fleur de Lis C · Chairperson: Heather M. Erb, Lock Haven University. · Rev. Msgr. James B. Anderson, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “Maritain's Schema of Knowings by Connaturality as Proposed in Ransoming the Time” · Stephen Chamberlain, Rockhurst University, “A Thomist Ontology of Signs: Concepts, Words, and Things,” · John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston, “Uninstantiability” |
[5.2] Maritain and Literature – Fleur de Lis D · Chairperson: Herb Hartmann, Our Lady of Thornwood · John Dunaway, Mercer University, “Maritain’s Influence on American Literature” · Joshua Hren, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “The Sound and the Fury, Symbolizing Something: Maritain and Percy on the Paradoxical Miracle at the Limits of Language”
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[5.3] Book Discussion: Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology by Thomas Joseph White, O.P. – Fleur de Lis E · Moderator: Roger W. Nutt, Ave Maria University · Panelists o John O'Callaghan, University of Notre Dame, IN o Steven Long, Ave Maria University o Fred Freddoso, University of Notre Dame, IN · Respondent: Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC |
[5.4] Christian Wisdom and the Search for Peace – LeMans Room, Inn at St. Mary’s · Chairperson: James Hanink, Loyola Marymount University · Giuseppe Butera, Providence College, “Word and Deed: Living the Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher” · James Keating, Providence College, “The Credibility of Christian Wisdom in a Secular Time” · Nikolaj Zunic, St. Jerome’s University, Canada, “Philosophy and the Search for Peace” |
10:15 am – 12:15 pm: Presidential Address & Plenary Session #3 – Notre Dame
- Chair: John G. Trapani, Jr. – Walsh University
- John G. Trapani, Jr., Ph.D. – Professor of Philosophy, Walsh University; and President of the American Maritain Association
“‘The Mysterious Nest of the Soul:’ Maritain’s Epistemological Epiphanies
- Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D. – Honors College Dean; Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture, Baylor University; 2010 AMA Scholarly Excellence Award Recipient
“Maritain, Modernity, and Aesthetics”
12:15 – 1:45 pm: Luncheon & Business Meeting – Notre Dame Room
2 – 3 pm: Plenary Session #4 – Notre Dame Room
· Chair: Gavin Colvert, Assumption College, Worchester, MA
· Michael Novak, Ph.D. – Simon Distinguished Professor, Ave Maria University, FL
"Self-Knowledge and the Void"
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