2011-09-16
Marquette University
The fourth annual “Lonergan on the Edge” conference, and the third at Marquette, will be held in the Raynor Conference Center, Marquette University, on Friday September 16-17 2011. The schedule of events is:
Friday September 16
9:10 amOpening Remarks,
Jeremy Blackwood - President, LSMU;
Dr. Susan Wood - Chair, MU Theology
9:30 am “The Unfoldimng of Intellectual Conversion,” Thomas Cappelli, Loyola Marymount University
10:00 am “The Reluctant Phenomenologist: Lonergan and the Limits of Phenomenology,” Gregory Floyd, Boston College
10:50 am “Human Responsibilities amid Human Rights: Lonergan’s Complementary Reading of Aquinas for Migrants and Refugees,” Jason Renken, Loyola University Chicago
11:20 am “Truly Good Medicine: The Promise of Catholic Social Teaching and Lonergan’s Scale of Values for Catholic Healthcare Ethics,” Juliana V. Vazquez, Marquette University
1:00 pm “Psychic Conversion in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers,” Brian O. Sigmon, Marquette University
1:30 pm “Lonergan and Balthasar on Distance and Mutual Opposition in Trinitarian Relations,” Rev. Chris Hadley, S.J., Marquette University
2:20 pm “Sinfulness: A Philosophy of Human Trans-Naturality,” Jonathan Heaps, Boston University School of Theology
2:50 pm “Grace Considered from the Perspective of Lonergan’s Worldview,” Mary P. Utzerath, Marquette University
3:40 pm “Watching a Play Isn’t Taking a Look, Either: Lonergan and Sontag on the Aesthetic Pattern,” Ryan Miller, Boston College
4:10 pm “Seeking What Ought To Be: An Analysis of GEM in the Context of Adolescent Moral Decision-Making and the Exercises of St. Ignatius,” Christopher Krall, S.J., Marquette University High School
5:00 pm “Keynote: Symbolic Liberation: Radiohead, Rothko, and Liturgical Minimalism,” Dr. Joseph Mudd, Gonzaga University
Saturday, September 17
10:10 am “Insight into Forensic Science,” John Vanderkolk, Indiana State Police Crime Laboratory
10:40 am “Lonergan’s Insight into Aquinas’s Account of Self-cognition in De veritate,” Daniel D. DeHaan, Center for Thomistic Studies,
University of St. Thomas (Houston)
11:30 am “Suffering Subjectivity: Aquinas and Lonergan on Christ’s Experience of Pain,” Eric Mabry, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
12:00 noon “Lonergan’s Position on the Natural Desire to See God as Corroborated by Aquinas’s Doctrine of Creation by Participation & His Nominal Definition of God as Ipsum Esse”, Brian Himes, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
1:45 pm Panel: Lonergan as a Reader of Aquinas, Featuring: Dr. Jeremy Wilkins, University of St. Thomas (Houston); Dr. Gilles Mongeau, SJ, Regis College at University of Toronto; Dr. Mark Johnson, Marquette University; and Gregorio Montejo, doctoral candidate, Marquette University