Speakers
Preliminary list of speakers
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Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Rector of the Angelicum, Rome
Marian Exemplarity: The Rosary as an Emblem of the Philosophical Life of the Church
Dawn La Valle Norman
Baylor University
Maternal Philosophers: Education and Pregnancy in the Early Church
Michael Chase (with Mercè Prats)
CNRS Centre Jean Pépin-UMR 8230-ENS-PSL, Paris
Pierre Hadot and Mariology: compatibility or 'creative mistake'?
– PWL and Mariology: can one practice Philosophy as a way of life as a Christian?
Mercè Prats (with Michael Chase)
Laboratoire d'Études sur les Monothéismes
Pierre Hadot and Mariology: compatibility or 'creative mistake'?
– The Virgin Mary, a powerful symbol of Catholicism, in Pierre Hadot’s journey of conversion
Sarah Jane Boss
St. Mary's College, Oscott
Mary as Teacher and Exemplar: Reading the early Transitus texts in the light of Empedocles
Matthew Sharpe
Australian Catholic University
Pierre Hadot and the Christian Tradition: from Patristics to Philosophy as a Way of Life
Servaas Bosch
PU Gregoriana
The Sabbatical and Marian Dispostion: Philosophy as Participation
Presenters
Frank Judo
Dean of the Brussels Bar
Mary as 'advocata nostra'
Allie Bal
University of Mary
Nec Fugiebat: Ambrose of Milan and the Relational Agency of "Standing" at the Foot of the Cross
Hugo Decker
University of Maastricht
Mary and Stoic natural law: from parallels to perfection
Mary Frances McKenna
Centre for Marian Studies
She who Shows the Way: Marian Anthropology as the Love of Wisdom
Constantí Cabestany Monge
University of Barcelona
Ancilla Domini : The Rosary, the Second-Order Fiat, and the Priority Dilemma in Philosophy as a Way of Life
Matteo Stetler
NOVA University of Lisbon
From Socratic Atopia to Marian Voice: Reading Jean Gerson’s Collectorium super Magnificat
Gianfranco Ferraro
Universidade da Beira Interior
The Rosary as a Spiritual Exercise: Towards a Historical Morphology of Spiritual Practices
Leonard Taylor
Atlantic Technological University
Mary and the anthropological foundation of human rights
Christopher Collins
University of Mary
Do Whatever He Tells You: Marian Piety as Receptive Enchiridion on Living Well
Theresa Marie Chau Nguyen, O.P.
University of Saint Thomas
Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life
Joana Serrado
TU Chemnitz
Brittany Polat
Co-Founder of Stoicare
Love as a Way of Life: Motherhood and Mary as Philosophical Exemplar
Michaël Bauwens
Universiteit Antwerpen
Existence as daughter, bride and mother: Marian metaphysics as a spiritual exercise
Hans Geybels
Chair of Popular Religiosity of the Research Unit Pastoral and Empirical Theology of KU Leuven
Marian devotion as an example of the surprising link between ancient philosophy and spirituality
Marta Faustino
Catholic University of Portugal
Philosophy as a Way of Life and Its Boundaries: Mary as a Limit Case
Céline Smans
Studio Filo
Title TBC
Sr. Sanny Bruijns, O.Carm.
Nijmegen Carmel
Living Mary, a mystical way of life