Please note that this is a preliminary schedule; it is incomplete and subject to change.
Sponsored by the Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.
9:00-10:15 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: A Catholic Modernity
"John Henry Newman and Modernity"
Duane Bruce, Saint Anselm College
"The Holiness of the Church and Modernity"
Matthew Levering, Ave Maria University and Myser Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture
Chair: Sheryl Overmyer, Duke University
Session 2: Modernity and the Market
"The Blight of Modernity (and some possible cures) in Wendell Berry's Vision"
Michael Stevens, Cornerstone University
"Flattening the World"
J. Matthew Bonzo, Cornerstone University
"Making Sense of Modern Business Ethics"
Robert Prevost, Wingate University
Chair: Dan Jesse, Institute for Christian StudiesSession 3: Modernity and the State
"The Common Good and the Modern State"
V. Bradley Lewis, The Catholic University of America
"From Freedom of Indifference to Freedom for Excellence: Towards a Perfectionist Conception of Political Autonomy"
David Thunder, Bucknell University
"A Plague of Perverse Opinions: Modernism, Thomism and the Problem of Democracy"
Robert Ventresca, King's University College at The University of Western Ontario
Chair: Robert Kennedy, University of St. ThomasSession 4: Education and Modernity
"Embodiment and Mastery: How Far is Distance Learning from Education and Authentic Cultural Formation?"
Dominic A. Aquila, University of St. Francis
"Public Education: Institutionalized Secularism or School for the Virtues?"
Edwin Bagley, Wingate University
"The Role of Philosophy Departments in Contemporary Catholic Higher Education"
James J. Delaney, Niagara University
Rev. Bruce Taggart, Niagara University
Chair: Gloria Wasserman, University of Notre DameSession 5: 20th Century Ethics
"On Keeping Things Complicated: Ethics after Modernity"
Darin Davis, Baylor University
"Objective Ethics and the Dynamics of Desire"
Benjamin Huff, Randolph-Macon College
"'Is' and 'Ought' Revisited: Moral Realism and the Fact-Value Distinction"
Robert J. Matava, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
Chair: Richard Poirier, Universal Music GroupSession 6: Modernity's Yearning for Freedom
"Everyone Else Is Wrong, and So Am I: Socratic Irony against the Lonely Philosopher"
Kyle Bertoli, University of Notre Dame
"Augustine, Nietzsche, and the Modern Quest for Freedom"
Richard T. Whittington, Baylor University
"Modernity and the Myth of the Fall"
Nathan Schlueter, Hillsdale College
Chair: Scott Moore, Baylor UniversitySession 7: Modernity and Government: Some Case Studies
"The Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the Crisis of Modernity's Model of Law"
Pedro de Jesús Pallares Yabur, Universidad Panamericana
"Criminal Punishment in America : Modernity's Role in Vindicating and Undermining Human Dignity"
John Stinneford, University of St. Thomas School of Law
"A New Problem for Modern Weapons"
Jeff Green, University of Notre Dame
Chair: David DiQuattro, University of Notre DameSession 8:Early Modern Philosophy and Natural Law Ethics
"Is the Distinction between 'Modern' and 'Pre-modern' Unfounded?: A Response to Brian Tierney"
Tedmund Chan, Boston College
"Knowing and Making: Moral Truth in Modern Philosophy"
Matthew Lu, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Chair: Jeremy Neill, Saint Louis UniversitySession 9: Papal Views on Modernity
"Secularity, a Christian Truth"
Rev. Robert A. Connor, Chaplain of Opus Dei Center, New York, NY
"The Tale of Two Popes: John Paul, Benedict, and the Modern State"
Ryan Connors, Boston College
"The Papacy of Benedict XVI and the End of Modernity"
Ellen Rice, freelance author and publishing professional
Chair: Thomas Stapleford, University of Notre DameSession 10: Interpretations of Modernity
"Robert Spaemann's Interpretation of Modernity"
Rev. Arthur Madigan, SJ, Boston College
"From Voluntarist Nominalism to Rationalism to Chaos: Alasdair MacIntyre's Critique of Modern Ethics"
Christopher S. Lutz, Saint Meinrad School of Theology
"Authority in International Affairs: from Salamanca to Königsburg.and Back?"
Christopher Toner, Air University
Chair: Peter McMylor, University of Manchester
10:15-10:45 a.m. Break, Refreshments
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: "Modernity, Autonomy, and the Problem of Legal Authority"
Steven Smith, University of San Diego School of Law
Chair: Rick Garnett, University of Notre Dame Law School
Session 2: "Preserving National Identity in the Global Marketplace"
Jude Dougherty, The Catholic University of America
Chair: Ralph McInerny, University of Notre DameSession 3: "Enhancing Humanity (at Harvard): A Current Debate"
Jorge L.A. Garcia, Boston College
Chair: Rev. Kevin Flannery, SJ, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: "Catholic Politicians & the Modern World: Some American Case Studies"
Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, University of Notre Dame
Chair: John O'Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
Session 2: "From Scholasticism to Modernity: Why Gianni Vattimo is Right"
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Rice University
Chair: David Fagerberg, University of Notre DameSession 3: "Modernism, the First Round: Syllabus of Errors to Aeterni Patris"
Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa
Chair: David Solomon, University of Notre Dame
2:45-3:15 p.m. Break, Refreshments
3:15-4:45 p.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Catholicism and Modern Literature
"Walker Percy's Meaningful Meaninglessness : Images from Dante in Percy's Novels"
Benjamin B. Alexander, Franciscan University of Steubenville
"Is There a Place for the Catholic Novel in Modernity?"
Marian Crowe, University of Notre Dame
"Bless Those Who Curse You: Dealing with Modernity in Popular Culture"
Jason King, Saint Vincent College
Chair: Kathleen Barlow, Indiana Institute of TechnologySession 2: Challenges of Modernity
"Work, Leisure, and Despair: Levi and Pieper on Purpose-Driven Activity"
Margaret Tate, Baylor University
"Modernity, Post-modernity, and the Hunger for Consensus in the Face of Irresolvable Moral Pluralism"
Mark Cherry, St. Edward's University
"Modern Science and the 'Re-enchantment' of the World"
Michael Henry, St. John's University
Chair: Kevin McDonnell, Saint Mary's CollegeSession 3: Challenges of the Post-Modern
"Liquid Sociology: Zygmunt Bauman on Postmodern Morality"
Paul Santilli, Siena College
"The Unnatural Natural Woman: Three Post-modernist Models from 20 th Century Life and Literature"
Ruth Lasseter, independent scholar, author and editor
"Learning as First Principle: The 'Between' of Dialogue and Communication Ethics"
Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University
Janie M. Harden Fritz, Duquesne University
Leeanne M. Bell, Duquesne University
Chair: Angela Elrod-Sadler, Indiana University NorthwestSession 4: The Crisis of Modern Law and Legal Theory
"The Will to Ignorance: Modern Legal Theory and the Flight from History"
Bruce Frohnen, Ave Maria School of Law
"The Extremes of Faith and Reason in Modern Legal Theory"
Kevin Lee, Ave Maria School of Law
"Futility as a Challenge to Modernity: Personhood and the Texas Advanced Directives Act "
Nora O'Callaghan, Ave Maria School of Law
"Reclaiming the Relational Dimension of Conscience"
Robert Vischer, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Chair: Michael Scaperlanda, The University of Oklahoma College of LawSession 5: Reclaiming Tradition
"Agency in Practice in The Book of Margery Kempe"
Sheryl Overmyer, Duke University
"Marc Chagall: Modernity and Memory"
Thomas Feeney, University of Notre Dame
"Hölderlin's Project of a 'Higher Enlightenment'"
Nathan Ross, DePaul University
Chair: Jennifer Sladek, University of Notre DameSession 6: The Family and Modernity
"Why Families? Familiaris Consortio and Plato's Republic"
Catherine Deavel, University of St. Thomas
"Authentic Femininity: Essential for this Critical Moment"
Genevieve S. Kineke, author, television host and former editor of Canticle Magazine
"Love and the Moment: How to Keep Sex and Marriage from Being Romantic or Idolatrous"
Randall Colton, Eastern University
Chair: Samara Cahill, University of Notre DameSession 7: Modernity and Political Order
"Modernism, the European Union, and the Crisis of European Culture"
Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine
"Liberty, Order, and the Common Good in America's Founding Documents"
Eric Johnston, The Catholic University of America
Chair: Garey Spradley, Grove City CollegeSession 8: Modernity and Loss
"Mercy and Modern Moral Philosophy"
Shawn Floyd, Malone College
"You Have Forgotten What You Are: Boethian and Percian Interventions"
Douglas Henry, Baylor University
"Philosophy, Religion, and Asceticism: Modernity and the Ruins of Christendom"
Iulian Anitei, Pastor, Holy Protection Romanian Orthodox Church
Chair: Geoff Bowden, Malone CollegeSession 9: Theological Challenges of Modernity I
"Re-Imagining the Trinity: The Modernist Roots of Post-Modernity"
Hilary Chala, Chaplain Intern, Ben Taub Hospital
"Halving the Mystery and Yearning for the Infinite"
Tom Harmon, Ave Maria University
"The Loss of God in Modernity: Did De Lubac Go Far Enough?"
Christopher Malloy, University of Dallas
Chair: Matthew Levering, Ave Maria University and Myser Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
5:00 p.m.
Novus Ordo Mass for
the Feast of St. Edmund Campion (Alumni Hall Chapel)
Rev. Brian Daley, SJ, Presiding
6:00-7:15 p.m. Dinner
9:00 p.m. Reception
9:00-10:15 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Modernity and the Arts
"Now or Never, Now and Ever"
Jacqueline Belfort-Chalat, Le Moyne College
"The Modern Assumptions Underlying American Evangelical Aesthetics"
Daniel McGregor, enFusion Ministries
Chair: William Schmitt, University of Notre DameSession 2: Transcendence and Contingency in the Modern World (Kirk Center Panel)
"Nature and Religion in the Cultural Criticism of T.S. Eliot"
Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr., Grand Valley State University
"Faith, Identity, and the Problem of the Nation-State"
Bruce Frohnen, Ave Maria School of Law
"Christopher Dawson, Russell Kirk, and the Augustinian Vision of History"
Bradley J. Birzer, Hillsdale College
Chair: Annette Y. Kirk, President, Russell Kirk Center for Cultural RenewalSession 3: Modernity and the Church
"John Paul II on Autonomy, Freedom, and Truth about the Good"
Adrian Reimers, University of Notre Dame
"Modernism and the Death of Christendom: A 21 st Century Perspective on the Church and Its Institutions"
David Cashin, Columbia International University
"Diagnosing Modernity - Two Papal Views"
Stephen Laumakis, University of St. Thomas
Chair: Jeffrey Langan, University of Notre DameSession 4: Eastern Orthodox Views of Modernity
"Living Liturgically in the (Modern) World"
John Jones, Marquette University
"Medieval Scholasticism and the Origins of Modernity"
David Bradshaw, University of Kentucky
"Metaphysics and Askesis: Pavel Florenskii between Modernity and Postmodernity"
Joseph Steineger, University of Chicago
Chair: Mark Cherry, St. Edward's UniversitySession 5: Philosophical Responses to Modernity
"Wittgenstein on Modernism"
Ronald E. Hustwit, Sr., College of Wooster
"Veritatis Splendor and Thomistic Naturalism: The Object as Proximate End of the Acting Person as a Test Case"
William Murphy, Jr., Pontifical College Josephinum
"Empiricism and Rationalism in Modernity: The Solution of Phenomenology"
Mark Roberts, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Chair: Peter Wicks, University of Notre DameSession 6: Catholicism Confronts Modernity
"The Idea of Modernity in Gaudium et Spes"
Michael Anthony Novak, Marquette University
"Between the Pascendi and Fides et Ratio: Blondelian Tradition as Critique of and Alternative to Modernism"
Gregory B. Sadler, Ball State University
Chair: Adam Skoczylas, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and CultureSession 7: Modernity and the Professions
"Servant or Master: Perception of Self in the Age of Modernity"
Peter M. Carney, M.D., Diplomate American Board of Neurological Surgery
"Manning the Breach: Rethinking the Role of Catholic Professional Organizations in Modernity"
Paul Foster, The Catholic University of America
"The Impact of Modernity on Catholic Healthcare and Institutional Strategies in Response"
Rev. William P. Grogan, Archdiocese of Chicago and Provena Health
Chair: Donald K. Wilson, retired from Bell Telephone LaboratoriesSession 8: Thomistic Challenges to Modernity
"The Crisis of Modernity and the Need for a Contemporary Thomism"
Paul St. Amour, Saint Joseph's University
"Rationality in the Development of Modern Ethics"
Jeremy Neill, St. Louis University
"Hume, the Naturalistic Fallacy, and Natural Law"
Matthew P. Lomanno, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
Chair: Karen Chan, University of Notre DameSession 9: Kantian Themes in Modernity
"Taking Responsibility"
Kyla Ebels Duggan, Northwestern University
"Kant and the Limits of Autonomy"
Patrick P. Kain, Purdue University
"A Thoroughly 'Modern' Critique of Consumerism"
Bradford S. Hadaway, Georgetown College
Chair: Darin Davis, Baylor UniversitySession 10: Imagination and Modernity
"Multiple Senses and the Imagination after Modernity"
Rollin Lasseter, editor of the Catholic Schools Textbook Project and University of Dallas (retired)
"Modernity and Imagination"
Aaron Potter, attorney
"The Role of the Imagination and Post-Modern Children's Literature"
Sr. Thomas More Stepnowski, OP, Aquinas College
Chair: Rose Tondra, Columbus Academy Homeschooling Association
10:15-10:45 a.m. Break, Refreshments
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: "Reason and the Fear of the Incarnation"
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, Communion and Liberation
Chair: Paolo Carozza, University of Notre Dame Law SchoolSession 2: "Godless? Liberalism and Religion: A Reply to Leo Strauss, Jacques Maritain and Ann Coulter"
Paul Sigmund, Princeton University
Chair: Michael Zuckert, University of Notre DameSession 3: "Transcendence in Tears"
Kevin Hart, University of Notre Dame
Chair: James Matthew Wilson, Sorin Fellow, University of Notre DameSession 4: "A Montage of Catholic Modernists"
Rev. Marvin O'Connell, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: "The Catholic Cultural Revival: Modernity & Beyond"
Joseph Pearce, Ave Maria University
Chair: Philip Bess, University of Notre DameSession 2: "A Catholic Priest in the Present Age"
The Most Rev. John M. D'Arcy, Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend
Chair: Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, University of Notre DameSession 3: "Philip Rieff and the Nature of Modernity"
James Hitchcock, Saint Louis University
Chair: Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame
2:45-3:15 p.m. Break, Refreshments
3:15-4:45 p.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: The Modern Christian University
"The Recovery of Moral and Religious Truth in the Modern University"
Michael Beaty, Baylor University
Donald Schmeltekopf, Baylor University
"Faith, Reason, and the Christian University: What Evangelicals Can Learn From John Paul II"
Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University
Chair: George Marsden, University of Notre DameSession 2: The Ambitions of the Modern University (American Council of Trustees and Alumni Panel)
Gerard Bradley, University of Notre Dame Law School
David A. French, Alliance Defense Fund
Elizabeth C. Kaming, Esq., Kaming & Kaming and past president of The Association of Council Members and College Trustees of The State University of New York
Chair: Anne Neal, President, American Council of Trustees and AlumniSession 3: Theological Challenges of Modernity II
"The Impact of Modernity on the Notion of Divine Revelation"
Balázs Mezei, Pázmany Péter Catholic University, Hungary
"Interpretation of the Bible: History and Truth"
John W. Martens, University of St. Thomas
"The Infinite Without God: The Fall, Modernity, and Traditional Christianity"
Aaron Hinkley, Rice University
Chair: David Bertch, The College at SouthwesternSession 4: Eating After Anthropocentrism: The Moral and Spiritual Prospects of Vegetarianism
"Vegetarianism with Conditions and Without: How Deontologists Should Think about Vegetarianism"
Terence Cuneo, Calvin College
"Yearning for the Infinite through Compassionate Living: Veganism as a Christian Spiritual Exercise"
Matthew Halteman, Calvin College
"Theology from the Pet Side Up: A Christian Agenda for NOT Saving the World"
Stephen Webb, Wabash College
Chair: Sean Walsh, University of Notre DameSession 5: Modernity and the Law
"Realists, Madmen and the Death of Law"
Richard Stith, Valparaiso University School of Law
"The Enlightenment, American Legal Thought, and the Unfulfilled Quest"
Lee J. Strang, Ave Maria School of Law
"Biotechnology, Spirituality, Modern Science and Law: Shaping or Testing the New Modernity? (or, The 'Curse' of Itching Ears)"
George Smith, The Catholic University of America Law School
Chair: Carter Snead, University of Notre Dame Law SchoolSession 6: Literature and Modernity
"Late Romantics, First Modernists, and Closet Catholics: W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens"
David O'Connor, University of Notre Dame
"James Joyce, Gerald O'Donovan and the Lancet of Thomism"
James Matthew Wilson, University of Notre Dame
"Wallace Stevens' Deathbed Conversion to Catholicism and Its Meaning in the Reading of His Work"
Janet McCann, Texas A&M University
Chair: Michael Krom, Emory UniversitySession 7: Modernity and the Limits of Freedom
"The Limits of Freedom"
Kevin McDonnell, St. Mary's College
"Does It Matter How We Live and Die?"
Peter W. Riola, Creighton University Ethics Roundtable
"The Oedipus Complex and Atonality"
E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars
Chair: Margaret Tate, Baylor UniversitySession 8: Development and the Modern Self
"Triune Ethics Theory: How Findings from Psychological and Brain Sciences Critique Modernity and Modify Ethical Prescriptions"
Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame
"Autonomy in Developmental Perspective"
Richard T. McClelland, Gonzaga University
"Dignity, The Self, and The Civilizing Process"
Alan Petigny, Rutgers University
Chair: Claire Brown, University of Notre DameSession 9: Early Modern Philosophy
"Purification and the Limits of Freedom: the Moral Psychology of Ralph Cudworth"
Paul Carron, Baylor University
"The Reception of the Aristotelian Definition of Life in the Early Modern Period"
Sarah Byers, PIMS, Toronto and Ave Maria University
"Murdoch, Kant and the Existentialist Conception of Self"
Jessy Jordan, Baylor University
Chair: Alicia Finch, Saint Louis University and Fellow, University of Notre Dame
5:00 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
(Bishop John M. D'Arcy presiding)
7:00 p.m. Banquet
