Thursday, November 30 | McKenna Conference Center
Friday, December 1 | Oak Room, South Dining Hall
9-10:30 Medieval
1. David C. Albertson: “Against the Sudden: from Augustine to Nicholas of Cusa”
2. Travis Lacy: “Office and Archetype: The Unity of Nuptial and Hierarchical Ecclesiology in Bernard of Clairvaux's de Consideratione”
3. Julieanne Mitchell: “‘My heart lies prostrate to love's mystery’: Encounter with God in Petitionary Prayer in Thomas Aquinas”
11-12:30 Mysticism
1. Bernard McGinn: “Annihilation and Apostolicity in Two Female Mystics: Marguerite Porete and Jeanne Guyon”
2. Amy McLean: “‘I want to die living’: The Entanglement of Desire and Death in Mechthild of Magdeburg”
3. Chelsea King: “A Turn Toward the Crucified One: Edith Stein's Christocentric Phenomenology”
1:30-3 Ethics
1. Peter Casarella: “The Symbol-Laden Book of Experience: Juan Carlos Scannone, SJ and Emmanuel Levinas”
2. Michael Altenburger: “Unfriending Derrida: Mysticism, Politics, and Messianism”
3. Heather DuBois: “Preparing for Virtue: John of the Cross and Political Theology”
3:30-5 Phenomenology
1. John Betz: “Catholic Metaphysics and Modern Phenomenology: Erich Przywara on Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger”
2. Christopher Rios: “Nancian Gestures Towards a Theology of Art”
3. Dylan Belton: “Merleau-Ponty's Turn to Schelling”