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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


Céline Smans

Studio Filo

Title TBC

Michael Chase

CNRS Centre Jean Pépin-UMR 8230-ENS-PSL, Paris
Title TBC

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

Sr. Sanny Bruijns, O.Carm.

Nijmegen Carmel

Living Mary, a mystical way of life

Mercè Prats

Laboratoire d'Études sur les Monothéismes

Title TBC

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

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

"Do unto others ...'': philosophy and Christianity as ways of life, and the golden rule."


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

Università di Bologna

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

Marian Elements of the Ignatian Tradition in Dialogue with

Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life 


Joana Serrado

TU Chemnitz

Title TBC