08/09/2020
Lonergan conferences go online!
The conference advertised below is organized by graduate students at Marquette University, USA. They have been holding this event for years, but one advantage of this age of Covid is that such events are now held online. Note the impressively contextual and current themes being treated:
Lonergan on the Edge 2020 (online) Schedule
**Draft as of 9/8/2020**
For access to the conference, please register at https://forms.gle/7b9UdDdGAMYc66ia7.
Questions? Contact [email protected].
Friday, September 18th
9:00 am – Welcome, expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
9:15 am – Graduate Student Session: Signs of the Times
9:15 am – Rerouting Theories of Sex/Gender Toward Experience: Employing Science
Studies as Examples of the Basic Approach of Lonergan’s Transcendental Method
Timothy Perron (Fordham University)
9:45 am – The Role of the First Phase of Functional Specialization in Helping White
Americans Authentically Decide to Become Anti-Racist
Liam Farrer (University of Toronto)
10:15 am – Principled Centrism in an Unprincipled Age
Ryan Miller (Catholic University of America)
10:45 am – Morning Break
11:00 am – Master Class: Dr. Patrick H. Byrne (Boston College)
Discernment and Self-Appropriation: Ignatius of Loyola and Bernard Lonergan, S.J.
12:30 pm – Lunch Break
1:15 pm – Expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
1:30 pm – Graduate Student Session: Interiority and Affect
1:30 pm – Towards a Lonerganian Notion of Mystical Consciousness
John Steichen (Boston College)
2:00 pm – Pope Francis’ Culture of Encounter as Psychic Conversion against the
Globalization of Indifference
Hannah Ferguson (University of Toronto)
2:30 pm – How Decisions Pattern Experience
Robert Elliot (Boston College)
2 of 3
(Friday, September 18th, cont’d)
3:00 pm – Afternoon Break
3:15 pm – Expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
3:30 pm – Keynote Address: Dr. Nicholas Olkovich (St. Mark’s College, Vancouver)
Lonergan and the Contemporary “Populist Moment”: A Dialogue with Mouffe
and Girard
~5:15 pm – Online Catholic Mass (optional)
~5:45pm – Virtual happy hour (optional)
Saturday, September 19th
9:15 am – Welcome, expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
9:30 am – Graduate Student Session: Lonergan in Conversation
9:30 am – Conversion and J.H. Newman
Fr. Edward Sanchez (Sacred Heart Seminary, Milwaukee)
10:00 am – Insight and Warrant: Lonergan and Plantinga on the Ground of Knowledge
Dominic LaMantia (University of Notre Dame)
10:30 am – Fr. Francis Jordan’s Spiritual Pact as an Existential and Existentiell Manifestation of Intentionality, Identification, and Interiority
Fr. Patric Nikolas, SDS (Sacred Heart Seminary, Milwaukee)
11:00 am – Morning Break
11:15 am – Expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
11:30 am – M. Shawn Copeland Presentation in Contextual Theology:
A. Taiga Guterres (Boston College) Trauma and the Dialectic of Consciousness: Considerations for our Cultural Way of Proceeding
12:30 pm – Lunch Break
1:15 pm – Expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
3 of 3
(Saturday, September 19th, cont’d)
1:30pm – Graduate Student Session: Religious Experience
1:30 pm – When Bernard Lonergan Saw Jesus on His Toast
Michael Rogers (University of Toronto)
2:00 pm – The Practical Necessity of Lonergan’s Notion of Decision for an Authentic Engagement with Scripture
Patrick Schmadeke (University of Notre Dame)
2:30 pm – Expert video reflection(s) on Lonergan’s relevance to today’s crises
2:45 pm – Closing remarks
3:00 pm – Virtual happy hour (optional)
