**Updated 2 February, 2022
Friday March, 11th
8:00am – 9:30am (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Church in “Place” and the Place of the Church
- “Political Hylomorphism and Sobornost”
- Joseph Steineger (Lindenwood University)
- “Orthodox Alaska – Yupik, Alutiiq, and Evangelical Conversion to the Orthodox Faith”
- Jovan Tripkovic (Univ. of Wyoming)
- “The Church: Always a Little Out of Place”
- Brent Waters (Stead Center for Ethics and Values)
9:45am – 11:15am (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Human Flourishing, Community, and Subsidiarity
- “Subsidiarity and Family Policy”
- Andy Smarick (Manhattan Institute)
- “The Contested Common Good: Varieties of Constitutional Monism”
- Luke C. Sheahan (Duquesne University)
- “The Womb of Black America is the Black Church”
- Rachel Ferguson (Concordia Univ. – Chicago)
11:15am – 12:30pm
Lunch – Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room
12:45-2:00pm (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
The Christian Tradition and the Human Condition
- “Evagrius of Pontus on the Sin of Acedia and Its Cure”
- Matthew Bianco (CiRCE Institute)
- “The Theological Anthropology of James Orr”
- Dennis Durst (Kentucky Christian University)
- “St. Francis de Sales and the Pursuit of Christian Friendship”
- Caleb Barber (Grove City College)
12:45-2:00pm (Rathburn Hall / Grace Room)
American Political Thought and Development
- “The American System: Henry Clay’s Abolitionist Political Economy”
- Samuel Postell (Center for Liberty and Learning)
- “Aristocracy and Democracy in America’s Administrative State”
- Joseph Postell (Hillsdale College)
- “A Broader and Deeper Foundation: James Wilson on Happiness”
- David Ferkaluk (SUNY – Albany)
2:15pm – 3:30pm (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Christian Political Thought
- “Charles Norris Cochrane’s Christian Realism”
- David Beer (Malone University)
- “The Walgreen Lectures in the History of Postwar Christian Political Thought”
- Ben Peterson (Abilene Christian University)
- “The Religious Political Language of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr”
- Adam E. Peterson (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
2:15pm – 3:30pm (Rathburn Hall / Grace Room)
Romanticism Revisited
- “Romanticism and the Politics of Theodore Roosevelt”
- Travis Hearne (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
- “Mary Shelley’s Realism: the Monstrous Marriage of Romanticism & Science”
- Ryan R. Holston (Virginia Military Institute)
- “Nature and Nationalism: Romantic Conceptions of Wilderness and American Identity in the Nineteenth Century”
- John D. Wilsey (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
3:45pm – 5:00pm (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Ancient Political Thought
- “The Struggle of the Orders and Political History in Cicero’s De Republica”
- John Boersma (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- “The Contest of Household Management in Plutarch’s Lives of Aristedes & Marcus Cato”
- Rudy Hernandez (Univ. of Missouri / Kinder Institute)
- “Statesmanship in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus”
- Reed Foley (St. John’s College)
3:45pm – 5:00pm (Rathburn Hall / Grace Room)
Music, Film, and ‘Things Divine’
- “Am I Mr. Lebowski or the Dude?: Finding Things Divine While Abidin’”
- Chris Butynskyi (Classical Conversations)
- “The Cold Dead Hand of Hank: Ghosts in Country Music”
- Coyle Neal (Southwest Baptist Univ.)
- “Boethius and Lady Philosophy: Personification and Polarization”
- William Timmermeyer (Charleston Catholic High School)
Saturday, March 12th
9:00am – 10:15am (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Readings from the Renaissance
- “Ben Jonson and Conditional Fatherhood”
- James DeMasi (Beatrice Institute)
- “Impatience as the Root of Skeptical Doubt in Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale”
- Daniel Spiotta (University of Dallas)
- “Civic Friendship and Tyranny in Thomas More’s Utopia”
- Francis Fast (Newman Theological College)
9:00am – 10:15am (Rathburn Hall / Grace Room)
The Art of the Sacred and the Moral Imagination
- “The Sound of Shalom: Sound Art, Nature and the Theater of Divine Glory”
- Grace Trumbo (Museum of the Bible)
- “Thinking Horticulturally: The Garden as Metaphorical Medicine for our Modern Moment”
- Andrew Mitchell (Grove City)
- “From Vienna to Lexington: Victor Hammer’s Moral Imagination”
- Alan Cornett (Cultural Debris Podcast)
10:30am – 11:45am (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Literature and Imagination in Time and Place
- “Wendell Berry’s Remembered Self”
- Jeff Bilbro (Grove City College / Front Porch Republic)
- “Reckoning with Our Contemporaries: Stuart Sherman & the Art of Readingl”
- Sean Hadley (Trinitas Christian School)
10:30am – 11:45am (Rathburn Hall / Grace Room)
On Aristotle and his Legacy
- “Authority of Character in Aristotle’s Rhetoric”
- Allison Postell (Hillsdale College)
- “Would Aristotle Break Up Facebook? Grant and Kirk on American Technology”
- Jeremy Geddert (Assumption College)
- “Aristotle’s Intention and the Defense of Philosophy in the Nicomachean Ethics“
- Michael Harding (Montgomery College)
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Lunch – Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room
1:30pm – 2:45pm (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Faith and Economics
- “Christian Humanism in the Faith, Work, and Economics Conversation”
- Chris Armstrong (Kern Family Foundation)
- “Classical and Christian Notions of Love & the Relevance of Economics as Prudence”
- Sarah M. Estelle (Hope College)
- “On the Evolution of Catholic Economic Thought since the Industrial Revolution”
- John A. Moore (Walsh College)
3:00pm – 5:00pm (Rathburn Hall / Morledge Room)
Controlling the Means of Reproduction: How Sex is the Revolution
Carl R. Trueman (Grove City College)