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RECONSIDERATIONS CONFERENCE VI
Politics After Augustine

July 24, 25, 26, 2024
 

The INN at Villanova University
601 County Line Rd, Wayne, PA 19087

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JULY 24, 2024

Reception - Ballroom
5:00 PM

The Saint Augustine Lecture
7:30 PM

Augustine’s Late Style

Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs

Live Stream

July 25, 2024

SESSION 1 

Room 115 10:00 AM - 11:25 AM

Opening Remarks

James Wetzel, Villanova University

Charles Mathewes,University of Virginia

Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame

Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, Villanova University

SESSION 2

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Panel 1 - Room 115

SOVEREIGNTY

Burcht Pranger, University of Amsterdam

Sovereignty and the utilitas calamitatis

Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University

The Politics of Stewardship

Fannie Bialek, Washington University of St. Louis

Non-Sovereign Love: Vulnerability and Agape

Thomas Harmon, University of St. Thomas, Houston - Moderator

Panel 2 - Room 114

ECONOMY

Mark Aloysius S.J., Loyola Marymount University

'Economy and Desire in Augustine's Praeceptum'

Joshua Nunziato, University of Colorado Boulder

The Business of Words: Transactional Language in the Sacrificial Economy

Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, Princeton Theological Seminary

What has Hippo to do with Seneca Falls? Feminist Economies of Desire

Jonathan Teubner, Harvard University Moderator

SESSION 3

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel 3- Room 115

SLAVERY

Toni Alimi, Cornell University

No Longer Slaves? Augustine’s Evolving Interpretation of John 15:15

Matt Elia, Saint Luis University

The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery

Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University

Augustine, Job, and Harm

Boleslaw Kabala, Tarleton State University Moderator

 

Panel 4 - Room 114

SECULARITY

Eric Gregory, Princeton University Do Nations Have Souls?

Veronica Ogle, Villanova University

Saeculum et Sacramentum: Contemporary Augustinian Reflections on the “Autonomy of Earthly Affairs"

John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame

The Church as the Sacrament of the Saeculum

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Texas State University Moderator

 

July 26, 2024

SESSION 4

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel 5- Room 115

MISOGYNY

Kate Cooper, University of London

Dangerous women: Augustine, Ambrose, and the Problem of Female Agency

Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College

Heartbreak and Wholeness: Avoid All Wives and Mothers

Colleen Mitchell, Villanova University

Augustine and Gendered Communities

Margaret Miles, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Emerita Moderator

 

Panel 6 Room 114

FORGIVENESS

Ian Clausen, Villanova University

Who Will Show Us Some Good?

Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame

Forgiveness and Politics in The City of God

Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University

Augustine on Eschatological Forgiveness

John Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary Moderator

 

SESSION 5

1:30 PM - 3:05 PM

Panel 7- Room 115

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

Kristen Deede Johnson, Western Theological Seminary

Cultivating Caritas in an Age of Religious Pluralism and Cultural Conflict

Anna Moreland, Villanova University - Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto

Comparative theology in a foundationless age: Insight(s) from

Bernard Lonergan

Susannah Ticciati, King’s College, London

Fallible Commitment: Truth-Seeking with Augustine

Stephanie Wong, Villanova University Moderator

 

Panel 8 Room 114

COMMON GOOD

Paul Camacho, Villanova University - Terence Sweeney, Villanova University

Sharing Ends: Dependence and the Common Good in Augustine’s Rule

Erika Kidd, University of St. Thomas

Attention and the Common Good

Mel Webb, University of Texas at San Antonio

'the bird that is not in your hands': In Circle with Augustine and Toni Morrison

Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, Villanova University Moderator

 

SESSION 6

4:00 PM - Room 115

PARTING THOUGHTS

Colleen Mitchell, Villanova University

Ian Clausen, Villanova University

Paul Camacho, Villanova  University