7:30 p.m. "Cooperation in Intentionally Inflicting Death"
John Noonan
9:00 p.m. Reception Concourse, CCE
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Refreshments
9:00-10:15 "A Culture of Choices and Compartmentilization"
Alasdair MacIntyre
10:15-10:30 Break - Refreshments, Concourse CCE
10:30-12:00 Concurrent Sessions
Catholic Feminism and the Culture of Death
Margaret Monahan Hogan
Helen Alvaré
Maura RyanCaring for the Disabled in a Liberal Polity
Hans Reinders "The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society: Further Thoughts"
Commentators: Paul Weithman, Russ Hittinger
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:30-2:45 "After Christendom: The Moralization of Religion and the Culture of Death"
H. Tristram Engelhardt
2:45-3:15 Break-Refreshments
3:15-5:00 Concurrent Sessions
The Concept of Culture
Jane Doering "Simone Weil and the Death of Cultures"
Jack Carlson "The Paradox of a 'Culture of Death': An Elucidation in Light of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II's Philosophy of Culture"
Daryl Charles "Obfuscating Orwell: The Collapse of Communication as a Prelude to Political Tyranny"Capital Punishment
Phil Devine "Capital Punishment: The Paradoxes of Abolitionism"
Rick Garnett "Volunteering for Capital Punishment"
Steve Long "Evangelium Vitae, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Death Penalty"Virtue and the Culture of Death
Rebecca DeYoung "Aquinas's Paradigm of Courage: Power Made Perfect in Weakness"
Robert C. Miner "Atavistic Subversions of Human Dignity: The 'Culture of Death' as a Return to Barbarism"
Moira Walsh "Vulnerability and Freedom"Social Aspects of the Culture of Death
Scott Moore "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Culture of Convenience as a Culture of Death"
Vince Rougeau "The Role of Catholic Social Teaching in Containing Individualism"
Christian Illies "Death in the Time of Cinema"
5:00-6:00 Free Time
6:00-7:15 Dinner
7:30 "Dead Man Walking-The Journey"
Helen Prejean
9:00 Reception-Concourse-CCE
9:00-10:15 Concurrent Sessions
Sidney Callahan "Isolation and Indifference: The Icy Path to A Culture of Death"
Paul Sigmund "Jubilee 2000, Debt Forgiveness, and Third World Poverty"
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Concurrent Sessions
Legislative and Judicial Issues at the Beginning of Life
Helen Alvaré
Gerard BradleyBioethical Dilemmas
Gilbert Meilaender "Stem Cell Research: Probing the Limits of Compassion"
1:30-2:45 The Culture of Death and the Arts
Ralph McInerny "20th Century Literature and the Culture of Death"Thomas Hibbs "Nihilism in Popular Culture"
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 Concurrent Group Sessions
Capital Punishment
Joseph Capizzi "The Authority to Punish?"
Christian Brugger "Capital Punishment and the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Teaching of the Magisterium Interpreted"
Political Theory and the Culture of Death
Donald Uitvlugt "The Culture of Death and the City of Man: A Comparison Between Evangelium Vitae and De Civitate Dei "
James McNiff "Natural Law vs. the 'Culture of Death'"
Travis White "John Paul II and MacIntyre on Human Rights"Particular Dilemmas
Karen Stohr "Human Dignity and Bargaining with Terrorists"
Terrence Pell "Racial Preferences and the Culture of Death"
R K. O'Bannon "Postmodernism and the Politics of Partial Birth Abortion"Political and Biological Aspects of the Culture of Death
Jeff Langan "The Place of Evangelium Vitae in Democratic Theory"
Ben Lipscomb "'Get Big or Get Out': The Culture of Death as a Problem of Scale"
Christopher Mirus "The Human Person as Organism"
5:15 Mass Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:15 Reception CCE Concourse
7:00 Banquet CCE
