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2023 Program and Schedule

**Titles are tentative and the schedule is subject to change. North Carolina is in the Eastern Time Zone
       Updated 19 January 2023

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Thursday, March 9

2pm – 2:15pm Opening Remarks

2:15pm – 3:45pm American Catholic Political Thought Roundtable

  • Joseph Wysocki (Belmont Abbey College)
  • Mary Imparato (Belmont Abbey College)
  • Thomas Varacalli (Belmont Abbey College)
  • Jerome Foss (St. Vincent College)

3:45pm – 4pm Break

4pm – 5pm Prosperity, Place, and Philanthropy

  • “A ‘Human’ Economy: Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments in the Age of the Great Enrichment.”
    • John A. Moore (Walsh College)
  • “Cheerful Giver: Why Christian Traditions of Philanthropy Still Matter”
    • Rebecca Richards (American Council of Trustees and Alumni)
  • “Place-Base Neighborhood Stabilization”
    • Rachel Ferguson (Concordia Univ. – Chicago)

DISCUSSANT: John Grove (Liberty Fund)

5:30pm – 5:45pm Break

5:45pm – 7:15pm Dinner

Remarks by Abbot Placid (Belmont Abbey Monastery)

Friday, March 10

Morning Prayer (Location & Time, TBD)

9am – 10:30am We Built Reality: Social Science and Christian Thought

  • Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University)
  • Joseph Capizzi (The Catholic University of America / Institute for Human Ecology)
  • Enoch Hill (Wheaton College)
  • Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina)
  • Ben Peterson (Abilene Christian University)

Author-Meets-Critics Panel Sponsored by

Institute for Human Ecology

Lumen Christi Institute

Nova Forum for Catholic Thought

10:30am – 10:45am Break

10:45am – 12:15pm Religious Liberty in the States

  • Jordan J. Ballor (Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy), moderator
  • Patrick M. Garry (University of South Dakota)
  • Mark David Hall (George Fox University)
  • Adam MacLeod (Faulkner University)
  • Sarah M. Estelle (Hope College), respondent

Panel Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy

12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch

1:30pm – 3pm Breakout Sessions

PANEL 1 (Room TBD) The Pulpit and the Public

  • “Phoebe Palmer and Expressive Individualism”
    • Jared Causey (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
  • “‘Jonathan Mayhew and Issac Backus on the Foundations of Natural Rights”
    • Christopher Parr (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
  • “George Tyrell, Pius X, and the Problem of Defining Modernism”
    • Dennis L. Durst (Kentucky Christian University)

DISCUSSANT: Casey Spinks (Baylor University)

PANEL 2 (Room TBD) The Rise of Classical Education

  • Derec Shuler (Ascent Classical Academies)
  • Leigh Bortins (Classical Conversations)

PANEL 3 (Room TBD) George Grant in Our Time and His

  • “Losing One’s Land and People: George Grant and Lament for a Nation”
    • Brent Waters
  • “Conserving Modern Technology? George Grant and Russell Kirk on America”
    • Jeremy Geddert (Assumption College)

DISCUSSANT: Travis Cook (Belmont Abbey College)

3pm – 3:15pm Break

3:15pm – 4:45pm Breakout Sessions

PANEL 1 (Room TBD) The Limits of Secular Society

  • “That Time the Devil beat Daniel Webster”
    • Rudy Hernandez (Kinder Institute / Univ. of Missouri)
  • “Is Philosophy Permitted in the Public Square?”
    • Harley Price (Univ. of Toronto)
  • “Religion’s Place and the Relationship between Faith and Reason”
    • Stephen Thomas (Baylor Univ)
  • “Science, Theology, and the Improvement and Perfection of Law in the Founding Era”
    • Carli N. Conklin (Kinder Institute / Univ. of Missouri)

DISCUSSANT: Matthew Siebert (Belmont Abbey College)

PANEL 2 (Room TBD) Roundtable on Socratic Teaching

  • Andrew Kern (CiRCE Institute)
  • Matt Bianco (CiRCE Institute)
  • Katerina Kern (CiRCE Institute)

PANEL 3 (Room TBD) Tolkien in Paradise

  • “The Three Elven Rings and the Benedict Option”
    • Jason Jewell (Faulkner University)
  • “Preservation and Perversion: Josef Pieper’s Theory of Festivity in The Lord of the Rings”
    • Chris Butynskyi (Classical Conversations)
  • “The Magic of Middle-Earth: Tolkien as Training Ground for Paradisal Reality
    • Andrew Jacobs (Faulkner University)

DISCUSSANT: Josh Herring (Thales Academy)

4:45pm – 5pm Break

5pm – 6:30pm Dinner

Saturday, March 11

Morning Prayer (Location & Time, TBD)

9am – 10:30am Breakout Sessions

PANEL 1 (Room TBD) Farming and Faith

  • “Ancient Metaphysics, Medieval Logic, and Modern Farming”
    • Quinn Patrick Gerney (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.)
  • “Reclaiming Ithaca: Marriage and the Land”
    • Stephen McGinley (Mount St Mary’s Univ / Good Soil Farm LLC)
    • Casey-Mae McGinley (Good Soil Farm LLC)
  • “Monasticism as Spiritual Permaculture”
    • Fr. David Galloway (St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary)

DISCUSSANT: Clark Summers (Belmont Abbey College)

PANEL 2 (Room TBD) Literature, Philosophy, and Faith

  • “Austen as an Aristotelian: Happiness and Virtue in Pride and Prejudice”
    • Ardith Amon (Ashland Univ.)
  • “The Mind of a Reader: Toward a Trinitarian Framework for Literary Theory”
    • Annie Crawford (Wilson Hill Academy / Society for Women Letters)
  • “Flannery O’Connor and the Violence of Humanitarianism”
    • Ryan R. Holston (Virginia Military Institute)

DISCUSSANT: Sean Hadley (Faulkner Univ.)

PANEL 3 (Room TBD) Christianity and the Classics

  • “Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale”
    • John Boersma (Univ. of Wisconsin)
  • “A Christian Reflection on The Republic’s Cephalus”
    • Casey Spinks (Baylor Univ.)
  • “The wartime Christian humanism in Lewis’s Abolition of Man”
    • Chris Armstrong (Kern Family Foundation)

DISCUSSANT: Jason Jewell (Faulkner University)

10:30am – 10:45am Break

10:45am – 12:15pm Breakout Sessions

PANEL 1 (Room TBD) Common Grace in Place: the Work of Abraham Kuyper

  • “No Secular State: Common Grace, Globalism, and God’s Redemptive Purposes for Nations”
    • Michael Carlino (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
  • “Kuyper, COVID, and Common Grace”
    • Coyle Neal (Southwest Baptist Univ.)
  • “Kuyper, Stories, and the Moral Imagination”
    • Sean Hadley (Faulkner Univ.)

DISCUSSANT: Bob Kaminski (Drew Univ)

PANEL 2 (Room TBD) Place, Friendship, and the Human Condition

  • “Communities of Blood, Place, and Spirit in Ferdinand Tönnies’ Theory of Human Will”
    • Eric Malczewski (Virginia Tech)
  • “The Τόπος of the Human Heart: Hesychasm and the Rediscovery of ‘Place’
    • Fr. Alexander Earl (St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary)
  • “Love and Friendship in a Democratic Age”
    • Sarah Gustafson (Harvard Univ.)

DISCUSSANT: Svetlana Corwin (Belmont Abbey College)

PANEL 3 (Room TBD) Communicating the Virtues

  • “Virtuous Discourse: Some Lessons from the Christian Tradition”
    • Stephen O. Presley (Center for Religion Culture and Democracy)
  • “Augustine, Intentionality, and the Policy Process”
    • H. Lee Cheek Jr. (East Georgia State College)
    • Timothy P. O’Brien (Liberty Univ.)
  • “History, Philosophy, and the Problem of Cicero’s Rome Made ‘Young and Beautiful’
    • Moryam VanOpstal (Cambridge School of Dallas)
  • “Dialectic as Festivity”
    • Marc Hays

DISCUSSANT: Emily McCarty (Hope College)

12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch
1:30pm – 3pm Breakout Sessions

PANEL 1 (Room TBD) Farmers, Eaters, and Reality

  • Stephen McGinley (Mount St Mary’s Univ / Good Soil Farm LLC)
  • Chris Anadale (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.)
  • Brian Fink (Fink Family Farm)

PANEL 2 (Room TBD) The Evolution of Individualism in Thought and Practice

  • “Oscar Wilde: Jesus as Expressive Individualist”
    • Jacob Wolf (Regent University)
  • “Descartes: Individualism or Community?”
    • Dallas Terry (Boston College)
  • “Shulamith Firestone: Individualism and Feminist Anti-Natalism”
    • Joel Iliff (Regent University)

DISCUSSANT: William Batchelder IV (Waynesburg University)

PANEL 3 (Room TBD) Liturgy Revisited

  • “More Catholic than the Pope? American Traditionalists and the Liturgy Wars, 1965-1984”
    • Bob Kaminski (Drew Univ.)
  • “Fasting, Ferial, and Feasting Days: Liturgical Calendar as a Social Framework”
    • Theodore Madrid (Hillsdale College)
  • Between Afropessimism and Afrofuturism: Liturgy and the Mean of Melancholic Hope”
    • Warren Lattimore (Duke University)

DISCUSSANT: Elisa Torres (Belmont Abbey College)

3pm – 3:15pm Break

3:15pm – 4:45pm Concluding Session

Presentation of the William G. Batchelder III Memorial Award for the Study of Place

Community, Place, and the Post-Liberal Right

  • “State vs. Community: Nisbet and the Post-Liberal Right”
    • Luke Sheahan (Duquesne Univ. / University Bookman)
  • “National Conservatism’s Place Problem”
    • John G. Grove (Liberty Fund)
  • “W.H. Riehl’s Cure for Modernity: A Defense of National, Regional, and Social Differentiation”
    • Ethan Alexander-Davey (Campbell University)

Discussant: James M. Patterson (The Ciceronian Society)

4:45pm – 5pm Break

5pm – 6:30pm Dinner

  • “Edmund Burke and Tully’s Head” Ian Crowe (Belmont Abbey College)

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