Notre Dame conference

Posted on | November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Just a quick headline for the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture conference next week: The Summons of Freedom. For me, it serves as a sort of pretty fair consolation prize after not being able to attend the AAR meeting this weekend in Montreal. Some of the panels and lectures look interesting enough, including:

Friday, November 13

Fictional Explorations

  • Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness (Elizabeth Amato, Baylor)
  • All Are Responsible for All: Flannery O’Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and a Vision of the Common Good (Richard Corneil, St. Peter’s Seminary)
  • The End of “The End of the Affair” by Graham Greene (Janet McCann, Texas A&M)

Augustinian Themes

  • Augustine’s Account of the ‘Passions,’ and its Relation to Stoic Virtue Ethics (Sarah Byers, Boston College)
  • Augustine on Christian Civic Virtue in Bad Regimes (Daniel Burns, Boston College)
  • Dying we live: MacIntyre, Narrative Unity and Augustine (David DiQuattro, Grove City College)

Divorce as Fracture of the Common Good: Ingmar Bergman on Guilt, Art, and Confession
— Thomas Hibbs, Baylor

Saturday, November 14

Pope Benedict on Modernity

  • The Middle Way: How Caritas in Veritate Illuminates Catholic Social Teaching (Joseph Brutto, Notre Dame)
  • A Worldview in Three Acts: Pope Benedict’s ministry to Advanced Modernity in his Encyclicals (Ashleen Kelly, Notre Dame)
  • Pope Benedict XVI’s Critique of Modernity (James Lee, Notre Dame)

Wendell Berry: A Man for All Seasons

  • Civic Lessons from Port William, Kentucky: Wendell Berry’s Imaginative World of ‘Membership’ (Michael Stevens, Cornerstone University)
  • The Place of Knowing: Wendell Berry and the Epistemology of Agrarianism (Mark Mitchell, Patrick Henry College)
  • Healing the Hidden Wound: The Theology of the Body in Wendell Berry’s Remembering (Nathan Schlueter, Hillsdale College)
  • Gratitude as a Virtue in Wendell Berry (Matt Bonzo, Cornerstone University)

Panel Discussion: Front Porch Republic: The Places of Virtue

  • James Matthew Wilson, Villanova University
  • Jason Peters, Augustana College
  • Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
    Chair: Philip Bess, University of Notre Dame

Panel Discussion: Living Well With Modernity: Foundations of Moral Thought in the Modern Period

  • Charles Taylor’s ‘Two Cheers’ for Modernity (William English, Duke)
  • Three Waves and the Longer Cycle of Decline: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan on Modernity (Thomas Harmon, Ave Maria University)
  • Freedom and Reason in Later Medieval Philosophy (Brendan Palla, Fordham University)
    Chair: Garey Spradley, Grove City College

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3 Responses to “Notre Dame conference”

  1. Nathan P. Origer
    November 8th, 2009 @ 10:46 pm

    We should grab a drink.

  2. Davey Henreckson
    November 9th, 2009 @ 9:35 am

    Believe it or not, I still haven’t made it to Legends. That must be corrected.

  3. Nathan P. Origer
    November 9th, 2009 @ 10:44 am

    Hear, hear!

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