TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE FROM THE RADNOR HOTEL, THE DEVON COURTYARD HOTEL AND VILLANOVA TRAIN STATION TO VILLANOVA CONFERENCE CENTER
Shuttle schedule on accommodations link.

Friday, October 16, 2009

9AM: REGISTRATION

SESSION I :10:00AM-12:00 PM

2. ORA ET LABORA: The Question of Work and Prayer in Christian Thought and Practice
Room 115
Chair:  J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University

‘A True Workman Can Begin Again Every Day’: Towards an Ascetical Theology in the Rule of Benedict and the Sayings of Abba Silvanus
Jorge Sánchez, University of Chicago

The Concept of Labor in Peter the Chanter and Alan of Lille
Damian Zurro, University of Notre Dame

Ora without Labora? Aquinas and Bonaventure on the Value of Manual Labor in the Anti-Mendicant Controversies at the University of Paris
Shawn M. Colberg, University of Notre Dame

In the Vineyards of the Lord: Towards a Theology of Work in the Lay Apostolate
Shannon Berry, Catholic University of America

3. Image, Text, and Context in Late Medieval Penance
Roon120
Chair:  R. Emmet McLaughlin, Villanova University
Organizer: Paul J. Patterson, Saint Joseph University

Approved Penance, Approved Women: Penitential Practice in the Speculum Devotorum
Paul J. Patterson, Saint Joseph University

Pricking the Conscience with Image and Word
Shannon Gayk, Indiana University

Embodying the Book of Christ: Models of Penance in Book to a Mother
Mary Raschko, Mercer College

4. Poetic and Literary Models of Gender
Room 101
Chair: John-Paul Spiro, Villanova  University

Gender Roles in Shota Rustaveli’s The Man in the Panther Skin
Gijsbertus Beynen, The Free Library of Philadelphia

Gender, Chivalry, and Spectacle in Courtly Literature
Elizabeth Ives, Villanova University

‘Hero’ Worship: Veneration and Sacrifice in Much Ado About Nothing
Katie Norman Grubbs, University of Georgia

5. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Reading and Receiving Classical and Late Antique Philosophical Writings
Room 119
Chair: James Wetzel, Villanova University

Moralis in Seneca’s Epistulae
Christopher Haas, Villanova University

Defending Boethius: Two Case Studies in Charitable Interpretation
Katherin A. Rogers, University of Delaware

Philosophy as Therapy in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
Antonio Donato, Queens College, CUNY

6. Theories of Knowledge
Room 103
Chair:  Lee Cole, Villanova University

Virtue and Self-Awareness in Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge
Brian Keady, University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology

Augustine the Nominalist
Michael Collender, Gonzaga University

Thinking and Intelligizing: Avicenna on the Acquisition of Knowledge
Nadja Germann, Loyola University, Baltimore

Understanding Bonaventure’s Exemplary Ideas: A Speculative Solution
John R. White, Franciscan University
 

LUNCH, 12:00- 1:45 Conference Center Dining Room, Transportation to Villanova Campus available

SESSION II: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM

10. Eucharistic Theology in the High Middle Ages
Room 115
Chair: Boyd Taylor Coolman, Boston College
Sponsored by the Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology

Ecclesia de Eucharistia: The Ecclesial Content of Aquinas’ Eucharist Theology
Andrew Salzmann, Boston College

The Eucharist as Sacrament of Charity in the Christology of Thomas Aquinas
James DeFrancis, University of Notre Dame

Thomas Netter’s Eucharistic Theology: A Response to the Wycliffites
Ian Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary

11. Arabic Philosophy
Room 114
Chair: Travis Zadeh, Haverford College

Abu Bakr al-Razi on Prophecy
Peter Adamson, King’s College, London

What is a Cause according to al-Farabi?
Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America

Heavily Inclined: Avicenna’s Concept of Mayl, a Precursor to Inertia?
Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri, St. Louis

SESSION III: PLENARY ADDRESS 4:00 PM -6:00 PM Room 115 John Van Engen University of Notre Dame "Delight or Duty? Work and Prayer in Medieval Practice and Teaching"

Wine and Cheese Hour 6:00 PM
Please feel free to consult the literature at the registration table for dining suggestions.
 

Saturday October 17, 2009

SESSION IV: 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM

12. Spiritual and Ergonomic Harmonies: Beauty as the Unity of Prayer and Work
Room 115
Chair: Samuel W. Collins, George Mason University
Organizer: Daniel W McClain, Catholic University of America

From Palamas to Bulgakov: The Controversy over Divine Names in the 20th Century
Aron Dunlap, Temple University

Where Soul Meets Body: The Liturgical Itinerarium of Dionysian and Bonaventurian Hierarchies
Daniel W. McClain, Catholic University of America

Between Prayer and Work: The Contribution of Dionysian Beauty to a Catholic Work Ethic
Brendan Thomas Sammon, Catholic University of America

Response: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Loyola University, Baltimore

13. New Approaches to Media in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Europe
Room 114
Chair: Jeffrey Mayer, Villanova University
Organizers: Daniel Hobbins, Ohio State University

The Evidence for Tablets as Media Devices in the Later Middle Ages
Daniel Hobbins, Ohio State University

The Legend of Thomas Becket in Early Sixteenth-Century Stained Glass
Rachel Koopmans, York University

Sixtus IV and the Printing Press
Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame

Responent: David Mengel, Xavier University

14. Literature, Poetry and the Spiritual Life
Room 120
Chair: Frances Biscoglio, Mercy College

Reading Dickens with Augustine
Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University

Teaching with Lectio Divina: Ora et Labora in the Medieval Literature Classroom
Cathryn McCarthy Donahue, College of Mount Saint Vincent

The “Lives of Saints Feodor and Basil”: An Illuminated Hagiographical Manuscript.
Larisa Urnysheva, Independent Scholar

Prayer and Work in The Temple: George Herbert’s Testing of Vocation
Katherine Haynes, Aquinas College

15. Medieval Political Thought
Room 119
Chair: Laura M. Grimes, University of Dayton

Melchizedek as an Exemplar for Kingship in Twelfth-Century Political Thought
Evan Kuehn, University of Chicago

Isolation as Divine Punishment, and its Role in Medieval Political Philosophy
Kerri Kupec, Fordham University

Dante’s Rejection of Augustine’s Politics
Peter Busch, Villanova University

Avignon Critics: Dante to Catherine of Siena
Thomas Renna, Saginaw Valley State University

16 Early Modern England: Politics and Piety
Room 101
Chair:

Defending the Book of Common Prayer: The Political Work of the People
John McDonnell Hintermaier, Mercer University

Rhetoric and Poetic in Milton’s Political Tracts: The Evidence of 1659-1660
James Egan, University of Akron
 

SESSION V: 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

17. Finding Sacred Space, Finding Space Sacred
Room 103
Chair: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College

Hildemar’s Cloister: Architectural Imagination in Ninth-Century Monastic Life
Samuel W. Collins, George Mason University
 

Street Corner Icons and the Sacred Space of Italian Cities
F. Thomas Luongo, Tulane University

John Dominici’s Firefly in the Context of Observant Cultural Reform.
James D. Mixson, University of Alabama

18. Roundtable: The Church Fathers in Early Modern England (2)
Room 101
Chair: Steven Matthews, University of Minnesota - Duluth
Organizer: Mitchell M. Harris, Augustana College

‘The Judgment of the Ancient Fathers’: Negotiating Female Authorship in Early Modern England
Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University

Body Ethics and Early Modern Masculinity: Spenser, Augustine, and the Problem of Impotency
Mitchell M. Harris, Augustana College

John Milton’s Heterodoxy: The Patristic Roots Reconsidered
Joan Curbet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

19. God and Creation in Scholastic Thought
Room 120
Chair: Michael Vendsel, Villanova University

Augustine’s Ambivalent Panentheism, Or, the Extent to Which We Can Call Bonaventure’s View ‘Augustinian’
Holly Krause Mohr, Duquesne University

Aquinas’ Model of Creation & the Neoplatonic Cosmology
Andrew M. Haines, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Henry of Ghent and Thomas Aquinas on the Possibility of an Eternally Created World
Mark D. Gossiaux, Loyola University New Orleans

20. Grace and Loving-Kindness: The Spiritual Theology of the Convent of Helfta
Room 115
Chair: Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University

‘From a Grammarian She Became a Theologian’: Gertrud of Helfta’s Contemplative Scholarship
Laura M. Grimes, University of Dayton

Mary as Model in the Visions of Mechtilde of Hackeborn
Andrea Janelle Dickens, United Theological Seminary

A Spiritual Community of Letters: The Influence of Mechtild von Hackeborn
Courtney E. Rydel, University of Pennsylvania

21. ORA ET LABORA: Augustine on Work and Prayer
Room 119
Chair: Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, Villanova University

Christianae vitae otium in Augustine’s Contra Academicos
Naoki Kamimura, Tokyo Gakugei University

Conceiving the Soul: Labor, Prayer, and Inventio in de Genesi ad litteram
J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University

Ora vel Labora: Augustine and Cassian on the Boredom of the Heart
David Vincent Meconi, SJ, Saint Louis University

22. The Soul in the School of St. Victor
Room 114
Chair: Paul J Patterson, Saint Joseph's University

‘And on the Seventh Day God Rested’: Beatum esse as the Soul’s Rest in God in Hugh of St. Victor’s de Sacramentis
Veronica Tierney, Boston College

Quam Pulchra Es: The Beauty of the Soul According to Thomas Gallus
James Arinello, Boston College

LUNCH, 12:15- 1:45 Conference Center Dining Room, Transportation to Villanova Campus available

SESSION VI: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

23. Religion, Culture, and Letters in the 4th and 5th Centuries: Late Antiquity becomes the Middle Ages
Room 114
Chair: David Vincent Meconi, SJ, St. Louis University

The Nicene Victory Under Theodosius: A Reappraisal
Thomas Brauch, Central Michigan University

The Community and the Individual in the Sermons of Caesarius of Arles
Bonnie M. Brunelle, Catholic University of America

A Compostional Taxonomy for Gregory the Great’s Forty Gospel Homilies
Derek Olsen, Emory University

24. The Sixteenth Century
Room 115
Chair: Katherine Haynes, Aquinas College

The Last Words of David: Martin Luther’s Understanding of the Eternal Covenant with the House of David
John Slotemaker, Boston College

St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises and the Cloud of Unknowing
Christopher Adams, Fordham University

‘Lord, Teach Me to be Generous”: Pathways of Prayer and Work in the Spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola
Catherine Looker SSJ, Chestnut Hill College

25. Body & Soul: Grace and Embodiment in Medieval Spiritual Theology
Room 120
Chair: Shawn M. Colberg, University of Notre Dame

The Creative Labor of the Soul: Exploring the Relationship between Rhetoric and Prayer in the Bonaventuran Corpus
John Jasso, University of Pittsburgh

Lay Franciscan Women and the Tradition of Somatic Theology
Darleen Pryds, Franciscan School of Theology

Plausibility of Influence: Did Julian of Norwich Know of Maximus the Confessor’s Concept of Human Will?
Elena Vishnevskaya, Central College

26. Patristic Theology
Room 101
Chair: Katherine Rogers, University of Delaware

The Prayer of Irenaeus and the Work of God: Irenaeus on Resurrection in 1 Corinthians
Scott D. Moringiello, Villanova University

Partakers of the Divine: Cyril’s Doctrine of Deification in Dialogue VII of the Trinitarian Dialogues
Matthew J. Pereira, Columbia University

The Lure of Dispossession: Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo on Desire
Greg Voiles, Catholic University of America

27 The Stranger: Pagan, Exile, or Convert in Anglo-Saxon Writing
Room 119
Chair: Rebecca Winer, Villanova University

Escape through a Cloistered Window: 8th Century Anglo-Saxon Female Missionaries to Germany
Sandra Kay Goehring, Union Theological Seminary-PSCE

The Significance of Binding in The Wanderer
Nancy M. Furey, Catholic University of America

Prayer and Predation: Beowulf’s Anatomy of Paganism
David Grubbs, University of Georgia

28. Painting the Image of Christ
Room 103
Chair:  Frances Biscoglio, Mercy College

The Impact of St. Augustine upon Duccio’s 14th-Century Panel Painting Depicting Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well
Mary D. Edwards, Pratt Institute ad School of Visual Arts

Painting as Meditation as Painting
Ann Driscoll, Independent Scholar, Chapel Hill, NC
 

SESSION VII: PLENARY SESSION 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM - Room 115 Michèle Mulchahy, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, "Dominican Learning Becomes Dominican Prayer:  Thomas Aquinas and the Office for the Feast of Corpus Christi"

Vigil Mass 5:45 PM Room 119

Cocktails 6:15 PM Atrium & Courtyard

Feast in Celebration of the 33^rd  Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance Studies Conference 7:00 PM Atrium

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009

10 AM:  Ora et Labora/Pray and Work - An Open Conversation with John Van Engen and Michèle Mulchahey Room 115