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2017 Fall Conference Schedule: Through Every Human Heart

Thursday, November 9

  
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration Check-In
Conference Center Front Desk (Note: Check-in will be available at the main desk throughout the weekend.)
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Rising Scholars Colloquium Session 1
Conference Center and Morris Inn Meeting Rooms
2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Rising Scholars Colloquium Session 2
Conference Center and Morris Inn Meeting Rooms
5:15 p.m. Opening Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Registration Check-In
Conference Center Front Desk. (Note: Check-in wil be available at the main desk throughout the weekend.)
8:00 p.m. Josef Pieper Keynote Lecture: "Is the God of the Old Testament Evil?"
Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: O. Carter Snead (Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture)
Conference Center Auditorium
Watch video of the keynote.
9:30 p.m. Opening Reception
Conference Center Atrium

Friday, November 10

  
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Conference Center Atrium
9:00-10:15 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Conference Center Meeting Rooms
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Social Scientists and Values: Scholarly Objectivity or Passionate Advocacy?
Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University)
Guns and Violence: The Enduring Impact of The Rise of Crack Markets on Young Black Males
William Evans (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame)

From the Heart Come Forth Words and Deeds that Defile
John Finnis (Notre Dame Law School)
Moderator: Rev. Justin Brophy, O.P. (University of Notre Dame)
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch
Morris Inn Ballroom
1:30-2:45 p.m. "From Grammar to Metaphysics, From Adjectives to Evils"
Alasdair MacIntyre (Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture)
Moderator: David Solomon (University of Notre Dame)
Conference Center Auditorium
Watch video of the keynote.
3:15-4:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Jesus Wept: Misericordia in Augustine, Aquinas, and Malick
John O'Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: Jennifer Martin (University of Notre Dame)

When is Poverty a Virtue and Wealth a Vice? The Struggle between Good and Evil in the Consciousness of Contemporary Nigerian Christians
Bishop Godfrey Onah (Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria)
Moderator: Rev. Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp. (University of Notre Dame)
5:15 p.m. Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:15-7:45 p.m. Dinner
Morris Inn Ballroom
8:00 p.m. Keynote: "The Tyranny of the Moderns"
James Hankins (Harvard University)
Moderator: Gladden J. Pappin (University of Dallas)
Conference Center Auditorium
Watch video of the keynote.
9:30 p.m. Friday Night Reception
Conference Center Atrium
10:00 p.m. Young Adult Reception
Rohr's, Morris Inn
Note: Please bring conference nametag for entry.

Saturday, November 11

  
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Conference Center Atrium
9:00-10:15 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Conference Center Meeting Rooms
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Virtuous Evildoers
Gilbert Meilaender (Paul Ramsey Fellow, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture)
Moderator: Susan Collins (University of Notre Dame)

Cut to the Heart: Compunction in Henry James' Altar of the Dead
Sr. Ann Astell (University of Notre Dame)
Lying as a Sign of Individual Evil in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Vera Profit (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: David O'Connor (University of Notre Dame)
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch
Morris Inn Ballroom
1:30-2:45 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Good and Evil in Art: Chiaroscuro from Caravaggio to Mel Gibson
Elizabeth Lev (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas) & Thomas Williams (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)
What's Evil? Is It Really a Clown?
Randy Boyagoda (University of Toronto)
Moderator: Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School)

Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
Moderator: Sean Leadem (Duquesne University)
3:15-4:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

Art and Depravity
John Haldane (University of St Andrews)
Baudelaire: The Aesthetic Experience of Disgust
Abe Schoener (The Scholium Project)
Moderator: Rev. William R. Dailey, C.S.C. (Notre Dame—Newman Centre for Faith and Reason)

When Evil Becomes Virtual: Cyberspace, Failing Media, and the Hoax of the "Holocaust of Tuam"
John Waters (Author)
Moderator: Patrick Deneen (University of Notre Dame)
5:00 p.m. Closing Mass​
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:30-7:45 p.m. Dinner
Morris Inn Ballroom
8:00 p.m.

de Nicola Family Lecture: "Machiavelli on Necessary Evil"
Harvey Mansfield (Harvard University)
Moderator: O. Carter Snead (Center for Ethics and Culture)
Conference Center Auditorium
Watch video of the keynote.
9:30 p.m. Closing Reception
Conference Center Atrium