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Catherine Pakaluk

Catholic University of America, USA

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an Associate Professor of Political Economic Thought at the Busch school of Business. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, family studies and demography, Catholic social thought and political economy. She is the author of Hannah's Children.

Luigino Bruni

LUMSA, Italy

Luigino Bruni is a full professor of political economy at LUMSA University, Rome. He is an an economist and a historian of economic thought, with an expertise in ethics, biblical studies and literature. He is the Vice President of the Economy of Francesco Foundation and president of the School of Civil Economy.

William Desmond

KU Leuven, Belgium

William Desmond is professor emeritus at KU Leuven and Villanova University. He has published widely on metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of religion and is renowned for his development of the notion of 'the metaxological' in his trilogy Being and The Between, Ethics and The Between, and God and The Between.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Université d'Angers, France

Guido Hülsmann is professor at the Faculté de Droit, d'Économie et de Gestion of the University of Angers. He is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Among his many works is The Ethics of Money Production and most recently Abundance, Generosity, and the State.

Bart Koet

Tilburg University, Netherlands

Bart Koet is Emeritus Professor at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, where he was Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. He has been a prison chaplain in Amsterdam and is an expert in the role of the deaconate in the early Christian Church.

Rocco Buttiglione

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican

Rocco Buttiglione is a distinguished philosopher and statesman whose work engages ethics, political philosophy, and the Christian foundations of European culture. A close interlocutor of John Paul II’s thought, he is known for his influential scholarship on human dignity, solidarity, and the moral and religious dimensions of public life.

Mark Hoipkemier

University of Notre Dame, USA

Mark Hoipkemier is an Assistant Research Professor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Navarra. He recently published The Price of the Common Good: Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy.

Michaël Bauwens

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Michaël Bauwens is a researcher at the University of Antwerp, Centre for Ethics, and the ETF Leuven department of historical theology. His research focuses on the intersection between the metaphysics of social reality, and philosophical theology. He is the founder of the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium.

Presenters

Alexander Taylor

Christendom College

“Mother, My Atmosphere”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Flannery O’Connor on the Marian Gift Behind Economic Life

Ana Machado

Catholic International University

Mary: a relational woman for a relational economy

Joseph Arias

Christendom College

Fertilitas Virginitatis: A Thomistic Account of Mary's Vocational Discernment and the Fruitfulness of an Undivided Heart

Bart Nelissen

PhD KU Leuven

Doctissima Gratitudinis : Socio-Economic (Un)Sustainability (Un)Following Mother Mary's [Exemplary Gratitude]

Xavier Meulders

Hasselt University

From Mises to Mary: towards a praxeology of eternity

Alexis Versele

KU Leuven

The City of Mary and its civic relevance in today's urban planning

Andrew Clubine

KU Leuven

Fiat moneta: musing on Mary, Money, and Bitcoin

Servaas Bosch

PU Gregoriana

From Creative Destruction to Creative Receptivity: Mary, Lonergan, and the Redemption of Economic Reason