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Thursday September 13, 2012

The Saint Augustine Lecture
James Wetzel, Villanova University
A Tangle of Two Cities

7:30 pm
Driscoll Hall Auditorium
Main Campus

Friday and Saturday Sessions at the Villanova Conference Center Room 115/117

Friday September 14, 2012

8:45am: Registration

Morning Session :   I. Augustine’s World
Moderator:  Kevin Hughes, VU

9:00:  Robert Wilken, University of Virginia
          Augustine's World and the World of Cyril of Alexandria
9:40:  Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University
         What Augustine (May Have) Learned from the Manichaeans
BREAK

10:35:  Maureen Tilley, Fordham University
           Family and Financial Conflict in the Donatist Controversy:   Augustine’s Pastoral Problem.

11:15:  Discussion
12:15:  Lunch in the main dining room

Afternoon Session:  II. Interpreting Augustine 
Moderator: Jesse Couenhoven VU

1:45:  Michael McCarthy, S.J.,  Santa Clara University
         Interpreting Augustine: Mirrors, Models, and the Middle Voice
2:25:  John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael’s College
         God as Being: Interpreting Augustine
BREAK

3:20:  Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary
          Augustine’s Psychology of Ascent Asocial?
4:00:  Discussion

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Morning Session :   III. Augustine and Theology
Moderator: Martin Laird, OSA

9:00:  Lewis Ayres, Durham University
          “In the School of Plato”? Some comments on “Philosophical”  Readings of Augustine's De Trinitate
9:40:  John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame
          Spousal Vision: A Study of Text ad History in the Theology of St. Augustine
BREAK

10:35:  William Harmless, S.J., Creighton Univerisity
             A Love Supreme: Augustine’s “Jazz” of Theology
11:15:   Discussion
12:15:   Lunch in the main dining room

Afternoon Session:  II. Augustine’s Legacy
Moderator: Jonathan Yates VU

1:45:  Irena Backus, University of Geneva
          Leibniz and Augustine
2:25:  Willemien Otten, University of Chicago
          Between Praise and Appraisal: Guidelines for the Assessment of Augustine's Intellectual Legacy
BREAK

3:20:  Paul van Geest, Tilburg University
          Multi-layered indebtedness: St. Augustine as fons and auctoritas for Gabriel Biel
4:00:  Discussion
4:45:  Conclusion
5:30:  Reception – 1^st Floor Lobby