38th Annual Workshop Schedule
Posted under: Lonergan Institute Updates
This year’s conference was entitled The Mind and Heart of Hope.
More information can be found in the Workshop PDF, or by contacting Prof. Fred Lawrence (lawrence@bc.edu).
To learn more please visit the Workshop page.
Schedule of Probabilities for the Lonergan Workshop 38
(Please click here to view and download a PDF of the 38th Annual Workshop Schedule)
Sunday, 17 June, 7 pm, Fulton 511:
Dominic Doyle [Boston College], A Lonerganian Transposition of Richard McKeon’s Philosophic Pluralism
Fathers’ Day Reception
Monday, 18 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Charles Hefling [Boston College]: Two Cheers for King James: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Authorized Version
Patrick H. Byrne [Boston College]: Personal Value, Moral Value, and History
Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)
11:15-12:15 am, McGuinn 121:
Richard Grallo[Metropolitan College of New York]: Expanding Horizons of Question and Insight
Introductions to Afternoon Workshops by Their Leaders
2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)
3:30 pm Coffee
4-5 pm, McGuinn 121:
William Mathews, SJ [Milltown Inst.]: Windows on Living, Writing and Reading the Self
Gilles Mongeau, SJ [Regis College] The State of Grace and the Law of the Cross: Further Insights into Lonergan from René Girard
7 pm: Coffee
7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
Joseph A. Komonchak [Catholic University of America]: Vatican Council II as Wendung zur Idee
Tuesday, 19 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer [Sacred Heart University]: “Our Deep Sighs: Being Christian in this Religiously Diverse World”
John Haughey, SJ [Woodstock Inst.]: On the World Transhumanist Association’s Aspirations to Get the After Out of Afterlife
Elizabeth Murray [Loyola Marymount Univ.] The Classical Question of Immortality in Light of Lonergan’s Explicit Metaphysics
Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 pm)
11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Robert Luby, MD [Groton Wellness Center] : Restorative Medicine: Defensive Schemes and Re-emergent Probability
Patrick Daly, MD [Department of Veterans Affairs, Director, Hospice and Palliative Care, VA New England]: The Possibility of Hope
2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)
3:30 pm Coffee
4-5 pm, McGuinn 121:
M. Shawn Copeland [Boston College]: Waiting in Hope
Randy Rosenberg [Fontbonne University]: Is Walker Percy’s Voice Still Viable? An Examination in Light of Lonergan
7 pm Coffee
7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
David B. Burrell, CSC [Uganda Martyrs Univ.]: Lonergan and Anawati: An Interfaith Inquiry
Wednesday, 20 June, 9-10-30 am, McGuinn 121:
Francis McLaughlin [Boston College]: Communicating with Economists
Paul St Amour [St Joseph’s Univ.] Income Distribution and the Problem of the Basic Expansion
Michael Shute [Memorial University]: Lonergan’s Economics and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition: Influence, Criticism and Possible Applications
Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)
11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
RJ Snell [Eastern University]: Performing Differently: Lonergan and the New Natural Law
Ryoko Tamura [Seisen Jogakuin College]: Interiority Analysis as a ‘Meta-study’: a Way of Self-Recovery from Poor Achievement
2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)
EXCURSION TO NEWLY OPENED WING OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ART (INCLUDING THE DALE CHIHULY EXHIBIT)
7 pm Coffee
7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
Paul Kidder [Seattle University]: Joseph Flanagan and the Philosophical Hermeneutic of Modern Art
ICE CREAM PARTY
Thursday, 21 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Thomas Kohler [Boston College]: Moving Viewpoints: Solidarity in Modern Context
Richard M. Liddy [Seton Hall University]: Lonergan and Climate Change
William E. Murnion [Philosophy/Works] Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind in the De Veritate
Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)
11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Joseph Mudd [Gonzaga University]: Church Penitent: a sacramental re-imaging of ecclesial identity in a time of crisis
Matthew Petillo [LeMoyne University]: Love and Light: A Hypothesis Regarding Lonergan’s Four-Point Hypothesis
2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)
3:30 Coffee
4:15-5:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Words of Gratitude for Mel Mason, Faith Smith, Giovanni Sala, SJ
Gordon Rixon, SJ [Regis College]: Cultivation of the Mind: Newman and Lonergan
6:00 pm Annual Lonergan Workshop Eucharist, St Mary’s Chapel
In Remembrance of Charlotte Tansey, Co-founder and Past President of the Thomas More Institute for Adult Education in Montreal, with tributes by Collaborators and Friends Moira Carley, Eileen de Neeve, Therese Mason
7-7:45 pm Chowder Supper, Fulton 511
8 pm:
Robert M. Doran, SJ [Marquette University]: The Theological Virtues and Participation in Active and Passive Spiration
Greg Lauzon [Independent Scholar]: Lamenting at the Abattoir and Elemental Meaning and Bowsticks
Friday, 22 June, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121:
Mark T. Miller [Univ. of San Francisco]: Conversion as Life, Death, and Resurrection
Jeremy Wilkins [University of St. Thomas (School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary)]: Unpacking Lonergan’s Four-Point Hypothesis
Michael Vertin [St Michael’s University]: Rahner and Lonergan
Coffee Break (10:30-11:15)
11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Chai Young Kim [Sogang University]: Bernard Lonergan and Raymond Panikkar on Faith
Luca Sinibaldi [Lonergan Archives, Rome]: The Polymorphism of Consciousness as a Higher Viewpoint on Modern Philosophy
Afternoon Workshops
On Insight: Introductory with Michael Vertin
Lonergan, Business, Economics with Ken Melchin & Team
Lonergan & Orthodox Christianity with Paul LaChance
Lonergan on Four Dimensions: Lonergan and Contemporary Psychology with Richard Grallo
Working on Self-Appropriation and Development of Ourselves as Human Persons with Armando Rugarcia