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2022 Program and Schedule

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**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)

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