Schedule of Probabilities
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THURSDAY, JUNE 20
ALL THURSDAY SESSIONS ARE IN MCGUINN AUDITORIUM EXCEPT DINNER.
8:30 AM: Registration, coffee and breakfast
8:45 AM: Welcome - Jeremy Wilkins
9:00 AM: Session 1: Cosmopolis
Timothy Muldoon, “Cosmopolis and Conversion.”
Humphrey Ani, “Integrative Epistemology for the Ideals of Cosmopolis in Bernard Lonergan.”
Andrew Barrette, “Thinking about the Cosmos: Bernard Lonergan’s Transposition of the Ordo Universi.”
11:00 AM: Session 2: Econ/Historical Consciousness/Development
Donna Perry, “Historical Consciousness and Realms of Human-Wildlife Interaction.”
Charles Tackney, “U.S. “Employment at Will” and Roman Catholic Social Justice: A Criterion-Predictor Study of Employment Praxis.”
David Ndegwah, “The Nexus between Religion and Development in Kenya: A Case of Nzoia Sugar Company.”
12:30 PM: Lunch break (lunch provided)
2:00 PM: Session 3: Interreligious Dialogue
Christian Krokus, “Christian de Chergé, the Monks of Tibhirine, and Catholic-Muslim Dialogue.”
Albert Frolov, “Exploring Interreligious Perspectives on Environmental Anthropology: Bernard Lonergan and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi in Dialogue.”
Murray Johnston, “Divine Initiative and Dialogical Encounter: Bernard Lonergan's and Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Contribution to a Theology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue.”
4:00 PM: Session 4: Grace and Salvation
Giadio De Biasio, “Salvation of Man, Salvation of Cosmos: Soteriological Comparison between B. Lonergan and E. Johnson.”
Patout Burns, “Lonergan's Differentiation of Stages of Meaning as a Resource for Sacramental Theology: Augustine on the Eucharist and the Totus Christus."
5:00 PM: MCELROY FACULTY DINING ROOM - Traditional Workshop Chowder Dinner
6:30 PM: MCELROY FACULTY DINING ROOM - Evening Lecture and Book Launch
Michael Stebbins, “The Concreteness of Grace: Reflections on Providence, Cooperative Grace, Hope, and the Glory of God.”
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
ALL FRIDAY SESSIONS ARE IN 245 BEACON.
8:00 AM: Coffee and light breakfast provided
8:30 AM: Session 5: Artificial Intelligence
Paul O’Hara, “Why Artificial Intelligence Can Never Be Human - A Lonerganian Analysis.”
Michael Sharkey, “Lonergan and AI.”
Mark Doorley, “Artificial Intelligence in Cosmopolis: Can’t We Use All the Help We Can Get?”
10:30 AM: Session 6: Artificial Intelligence, cont.
Taylor Nutter, "AI Atemporality and Liturgical Temporality."
Evaristus Ekwueme, “Lonerganian View of Transformational Philosophy: Is Artificial Intelligence Capable of Moral Self-Conversion?”
11:30 AM: Open discussion on AI, moderated by Timothy Muldoon
12:00 PM: Lunch break (lunch provided)
1:30 PM: Session 7: Self Transcendence
Pat Daly, “The Structure of Decision: The Evolution of a Diagram.”
Richard Grallo, “Am I a Competent Judge of Facts? A Meditation.”
Jamie Price, “Foundations for Cosmopolis: Modeling the Spiritual Realism of Luke 15:25-32.”
3:30 PM: Session 8: Theological Method
Anne Carpenter, “One and Many: On Speculative Plurality and Doctrinal Development.”
Jonathan Heaps, “Servus Servorum: A Theory of Theology in the University and the University in Society.”
Jeremy Blackwood, “‘Vigilant Critique and Constructive Effort’: Lonergan and Preconciliar Debates about Theological Method.”
*No group dining: Attendees responsible for their own dinner*
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
ALL SATURDAY SESSIONS ARE IN 245 BEACON, EXCEPT MASS AND BANQUET.
8:00 AM: Coffee and light breakfast provided
8:30 AM: Session 9: Anthropology
Amy Maxey, “Mystical Consciousness and Mystical Eros in a Feminist Key.”
Roberto De La Noval, “Is ‘Human Dignity’ Philosophically Verifiable?”
10:00 AM: Session 11: Global Citizenship and Democracy
Joseph Kinyuru, “The Nature of Evil in African Culture and in Lonergan.”
Rodrigo Gonzalez, “Towards a proposal of Global Citizenship for International Higher Education form the perspective of Bernard Lonergan.”
Andres Perez-Carrasco, “Is Terrorism Ever Justified?”
11:30 AM: Lunch break (lunch provided)
1:00 PM: Session 10: Science and Religion
Ligita Ryliskyte, “Theology and (or/from/of) Science.”
Robert Elliot, “Insights in Theoretical Biology: A Dialectical Investigation of Michael Levin’s ‘A Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere.’”
2:30 PM: Session 12: Foundations
Paul LaChance, “From Censor to Schemas: How Personally Constitutive Meanings Mediate a World in One’s Psychological Present.”
Francesca Zaccaron, “The Priority of the Interior Life: Berdjaev and Lonergan in Dialogue on Democracy.”
Jennifer Sanders, “The Subjective Application of ‘Mediator’ to the Historical Causality of Christ: Shifting Probabilities through Ignatian Prayer.”
5:00 PM: St. Mary’s Chapel, Saturday Vigil Mass
5:45 PM: Gasson 100, Cocktails and concluding banquet
