Program
This is the preliminary program for the Symposium, changes are possible – though not hoped for.
Thursday October 29th
19:00 Informal dinner and/or drinks | For those already in town
Friday October 30th
08:30 Registration with tea and coffee
09:00 Welcome | Michaël Bauwens
09:15 Lecture 1 | Matthew Sharpe: Pierre Hadot and the Christian Tradition: from Patristics to Philosophy as a Way of Life
10:15 Lecture 2 | Michael Chase with Mercè Prats: Pierre Hadot and Mariology: compatibility or 'creative mistake'?
11:15 Break | with tea and coffee
11:30 Lecture 3 | Dawn La Valle Norman: Maternal Philosophers: Education and Pregnancy in the Early Church
12:30 Lunch break | lunch on site for all participants
13:30 Parallel paper sessions 1
- Session 1A
Joana Serrado: Mary as a Method of Freedom: Suárez, Divine Assistance, and Women’s Philosophical Practice
Matteo Stettler: From Socratic Atopia to Marian Voice: Reading Jean Gerson’s Collectorium super Magnificat.
Theresa Marie Chau Nguyen, O.P.: Marian Elements of the Ignatian Tradition in Dialogue with Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life
- Session 1B
Christopher Collins: Do Whatever He Tells You: Marian Piety as Receptive Enchiridion on Living Well
Frank Judo: Mary as 'advocata nostra'
Leonard Taylor: Mary and the anthropological foundation of human rights
15:00 Break | with tea and coffee
15:30 Lecture 4 | Sarah Jane Boss: Mary as Teacher and Exemplar: Reading the early Transitus texts in the light of Empedocles
16:30 Lecture 5 | Marta Faustino: Philosophy as a Way of Life and Its Boundaries: Mary as a Limit Case
17:30 Break | with tea and coffee
18:00 Lecture 6 | Hans Geybels: Marian devotion as an example of the surprising link between ancient philosophy and spirituality
19:00 Free night | joint dinner in town for those interested
Saturday October 31st
08:30 Registration with tea and coffee
09:00 Lecture 7 | Brittany Polat: Love as a Way of Life: Motherhood and Mary as Philosophical Exemplar
10:00 Lecture 8 | Céline Smans: Title TBC
11:00 Break | with tea and coffee
11:30 Lecture 9 | Sr. Sanny Bruijns, O.Carm.: Living Mary, a mystical way of life
12:30 Lunch break | lunch on-site for all participants
13:30 Parallel paper sessions 2
- Session 2A
Allie Bal: “Nec Fugiebat: Ambrose of Milan and the Relational Agency of "Standing" at the Foot of the Cross”
Hugo Decker: Mary and Stoic natural law: from parallels to perfection
Mary Frances McKenna: She who Shows the Way: Marian Anthropology as the Love of Wisdom
- Session 2B
Servaas Bosch: The Sabbatical and Marian Dispostion: Philosophy as Participation
Constantí Cabestany Monge: Ancilla Domini : The Rosary, the Second-Order Fiat, and the Priority Dilemma in Philosophy as a Way of Life
Gianfranco Ferraro Ferraro: "The Rosary as a Spiritual Exercise: Towards a Historical Morphology of Spiritual Practices"
15:00 Break | with tea and coffee
15:30 Lecture 10 | Michaël Bauwens: Existence as daughter, bride and mother: Marian metaphysics as a spiritual exercise
16:30 Lecture 11 | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.: Marian Exemplarity: The Rosary as an Emblem of the Philosophical Life of the Church
18:00 Symposium Dinner | With closing words and announcement of next year's theme