- 12:00 PM5hRegistration Check-InNote: Check-in will also be available all day Friday.
- 1:30 PM1h 15m4 Poetas: A Letras Latinas Reading and ConversationNatalia Treviño (Northwest Vista College) Gina Franco (Knox College) Adela Najarro (Círculo de Poetas and Writers) Sarah Cortez (University of St. Thomas, Houston; Texas/Catholic Literary Arts) Chair: Francisco Aragon (University of Notre Dame)
- 1:30 PM1h 15mA Hint of an Explanation: Graham GreeneJoshua McManaway (University of Notre Dame) Mihi Quaestio Factus Sum: The Theme of Self-Knowledge in Augustine and Graham Greene Rev. Maximilian Maria Jaskowak, O.P. (St. Mary’s Seminary and University) The “Double Life” of the Catholic Priest: A Primer for the Coincidence of Opposites in the Catholic Literary Imagination Rachel Sherlock (Independent Scholar) The Ends of the Affairs: Medieval Ideals, Modern Trysts, and the Offering of Redemption in the Works of Graham Greene and T. H. White Chair: Leonard DeLorenzo (University of Notre Dame)
- 1:30 PM1h 15mEye Has Not Seen: On Sacred ArtLesley Kirzeder (University of Notre Dame) Learning to Gaze Lively Sarah Crow (St. Gregory’s Hall) Living Tradition: An Artist’s Perspective on What Makes for Great Church Art in All Times Anastassia “Tess” Cassady (Independent Artist) Byzantine Iconography and the Traditional Process Chair: Emily Normand (University of Notre Dame)
- 1:30 PM1h 15mHappily Even After: On Catholic Fairy TalesTessa Carman (Independent Scholar) “Every Meal into a Eucharist”: The Sacramental Imagination in George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales G. M. (Mark) Baker (Stories All the Way Down) Fairytales and the Catholic Writer Sr. M. Anna Joseph Nelling (University of Saint Francis) Written by God’s Finger: Discovering Identity and Belonging through Fairy Tales Chair: Samuel Roberts (University of Notre Dame)
- 1:30 PM1h 15mSprung from the Imagination: Hopkins Among the PoetsCallie Tabor (Sacred Heart University) A Way of Looking: The Incarnational Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Elizabeth Jennings Mary Grace Mangano (Seton Hall University) “The Caged Skylark”: Hopkins’ Influence on Sylvia Plath Rev. Joseph E. Simmons, S.J. (Marquette University) “Glory Be to God for Dappled Things”: The Jesuit Formation and Poetic Formulations of G.M. Hopkins
- 1:30 PM1h 15mVulnerable Bodies and the Catholic Imagination: On DisabilityMiguel Romero (St. Louis University), Annemarie Starr (St. Louis University) Clumsy Worship and Crying Babies: Disruptions, Distractions, and the Spirit of the Liturgy Michael Waddell (St. Mary’s University) Can the Catholic Tradition Solve the Problem of Finding Work for People on the Autism Spectrum? An Application of Catholic Imagination to a Pressing Social Problem Theresa Farnan (Ethics and Public Policy Center) Peanut Butter Falcon, Down Syndrome, and the Good Life: Is the Modern Conception of the Good for Persons with Down Syndrome Sufficient? Chair: Mary O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
- 2:45 PM30mBreak
- 3:15 PM1h 15mArt in the Ruins: Engaging Secular CultureJames McFetridge Wilson (Cambridge University) Augustine, Postcritique, and the Future of Literary Studies Patrick Langrell (Australian Catholic University) The Role of Artistic and Cultural Institutions in Polarized Societies Rev. Damian Ference (Borromeo Seminary) Handling Serpents and Drinking Poison: Effectively Engaging Secular Culture as a Catholic Chair: Santiago Legarre (Universidad Católica Argentina)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mEngaging Shakespeare: Has Thou Not Dropped from Heaven?Craig Boyd (St. Louis University) The Monsters and the Authors: A Thomistic Analysis of Envy on Gollum and Caliban Sr. Mary Edith Humphries (Aquinas College) Our “Glassy Essence”: Imagining the Soul in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Emily Kwilinski (University of St. Andrews) “Yearly will I do this rite”: Communal and Liturgical Forgiveness in Much Ado About Nothing Chair: Nicholas Babich (University of Notre Dame)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mFilm Premiere of "Raffaella: A New Fairytale Ballet"Claire Kretzschmar (Choreographer) Chair: John Nagy (University of Notre Dame)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mImagining a Better World: Art and WartimeEwa Rejman (University of Notre Dame) “They Didn’t Suppress Our Humanity”: Artistic Works Created in World War II Concentration Camps Sarah Maple (Mount Saint Mary College) Beautiful Abstraction and Artistic Imagination William Gonch (Ave Maria University) Idolatry and Sacramentality: The Liturgy of War in Phil Klay’s Fiction Chair: Kenneth Garcia (University of Notre Dame)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mThe Poetry of Virtue and ViceAbe Schoener (Scholium Project) What Does It Mean to Imagine the Dead? Some Beginning Reflections in Homer and Dante Michon Matthiesen (University of Mary) The Anatomy of Envy in Dante: The Death of Charity and the Hope of Conversion Lanta Davis (Indiana Wesleyan University) Personifications of Vices as a Mirror for the Soul Chair: Paul Contino (Pepperdine University)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mTo the Unknown God: World Religions and the Catholic ImaginationPrerita Govil (University of Oxford) Stories as a Vehicle for Imagination: An Interreligious Comparison of the Fall and the Rgvedic Creation Myth Jonathan Bieler (John Paul II Institute, Washington, D.C.) Maximus the Confessor’s Mystagogy: The Liturgy as Sacramental Imagination Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame) Is God Safe? A Conversation with Islam Chair: Rev. Aquinas Beale, O.P. (University of Notre Dame)
- 3:15 PM1h 15mWhat We Talk About When We Talk About GodBr. John Baptist Santa Ana, O.S.B. (University of Notre Dame) Imaginary Friends: Lady Poverty and the Practice of Personification Chair: Antônio Lemos (University of Notre Dame)
- 5:15 PM1hOpening Mass
- 8:00 PM1h 15mJosef Pieper Keynote: "Becoming a Catholic Writer: A Talk and Reading"Dana Gioia (Poet) Chair: Jennifer Newsome Martin (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)
- 9:15 PM45mOpening Reception
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