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The Augustinian Institute sponsors an international conference on St. Augustine and his thought under the title
Reconsiderations. The first was held in 2003 and the 2nd in 2006. On both occasions leading scholars from around the world were invited to Villanova and their papers were published in a special issue of the journal Augustinian Studies.
Reconsiderations III will take place in the Fall of 2009.
Our most recent conference:
Reconsiderations Conference II (2006)
 September 28-30, 2006
A conference on Augustine of Hippo and
the development of his thought.
This Conference was part of The Dialogue between Faith and Culture: A Series of Conferences and Symposia in Honor of the Inauguration of the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A. as Villanova University’s thirty-second President.
2006 St. Augustine Lecture
Thursday, September 28, 2006
at 7:30 P.M.
"Facing Wealth and Poverty: Defining Augustine's Social Doctrine"
Professor Claude Lepelley:
Emeritus professor, University of Paris X – Nanterre. Emeritus lecturer, École des Hautes Études – Sciences religieuses, Sorbonne. Emeritus president of the Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, Paris.
Session I:
The God of Augustine
Lewis Ayres,
Emory University, Atlanta;
Isabelle Bochet, sfx,
Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, Paris, Centre Sèvres-Facultés Jésuites de
Paris; Michael Cameron, University of Portland; John Kevin Coyle, St. Paul
University, Ottawa.
Session II:
Augustine on “The Self”
Sarah Byers,
Ave Maria University; John Cavadini,
University of Notre Dame;
John Kenney,
St. Michael’s College;
James Wetzel,
Villanova University.
Session III:
Augustine the Controversialist
Robert Dodaro O.S.A., Istituto Patristico Augustinianum;
Eric Rebillard,
Cornell University;
Michel Barnes,
Marquette University;
Karla Pollman,
University of St. Andrews.
Session IV:
Augustine and the Philosophers
Johannes Brachtendorf,
Universität Tübingen;
Giovanni Catapano,
Università di Padova;
Gerd Van Riel
Katholieke, Universiteit Leuven;
Marianne Djuth,
Canisius College.
Sponsored by
Villanova University and Augustinian Studies,
in collaboration with the Augustinianum, Rome and the Augustijns Historisch Instituut, Heverlee-Louvain, Belgium.
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