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