Mary FioRito (Ethics and Public Policy Center), Pia de Solenni (IWP Capital) God’s Gift of Laughter Helena Tomko (Villanova University) Hidden Laughter in the Catholic Imagination: Flannery O’Connor, Umberto Eco, and St. Augustine Chair: Ken Hallenius (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)

James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Artistic Apprenticeship as an Aesthetics of Ascent Joshua Hren (Wiseblood Books; University of St. Thomas, Houston) A School of the Catholic Imagination: Change in Order to Remain the Same Ryan Wilson (The Catholic University of America) St. Thomas and the Whole Horse Katy Carl (Word on Fire; University of St. Thomas, Houston) Positionality, Prophecy, and the Artist of Faith Brigid Pasulka (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Four Conversations Chair: James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston)

Kyle Washut (Wyoming Catholic College) “Poetry and the Power to Know”: The Impact of Poetic Knowledge on the World of Higher Education Rev. Peter Puleo, C.S.C. (St. Joseph Parish, South Bend, IN) Imagination as the Doorway of Christian Education Michael Tomko (Villanova University) The “Great Questions” Curriculum, Character, and the Catholic Imagination John Breen (Loyola University Chicago School of Law), Lee Strang (University of Toledo) Catholic Legal Education and the Failure of Catholic Imagination Chair: Theresa MacArt (Holy Cross College)

Kenneth Woodward (Writer in Residence, Lumen Christi Institute) Anthony Domestico (Purchase College) Dominic Preziosi (Commonweal) Chair: Michael P. Murphy (Loyola University Chicago)

John Sehorn (Augustine Institute) “Their Eyes Were Opened”: Sacramental Light and Vision in the Gospel of Luke Rev. Austin Litke, O.P. (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota) Deer and Snakes in Pagan and Catholic Imaginations Randall Smith (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Journeying with St. Bonaventure into the Mind of God: Bonaventure’s Use of Literary Imagery to Inspire the Heart and Illuminate the Intellect Chair: Maura Shea (University of Notre Dame)

Dorian Speed (Independent Scholar) Muriel Spark: Transformative Satire Amy Fahey (Thomas More College of Liberal Arts) Sigrid Undset: Novelist of Mercy Amy Welborn (Independent Scholar) To Have “felt fire as well as seen it”: The Limits of Willa Cather’s Catholic Imagination Chair: Maire Mullins (Pepperdine University)

Rev. Christopher Justin Brophy, O.P. (Providence College) Tradition, Rupture, and the Dangers of Imagination Margaret Laracy (Laracy Psychotherapy) The Holding Environment and Being Upheld in Being: Reflections on the Foundations of Mental Health and of the Imaginative Capacity Mark Gerig (Divine Mercy University) Metaphor and Imagination in the Facilitation of Therapeutic Change Chair: Beth Hlabse (University of Notre Dame)

Christopher Rziha (University of Notre Dame) Liturgical Mysticism in the Autos Sacramentales of José de Valdivielso John Rziha (Benedictine College) The Generous Bridegroom: The Role of the Eucharist in the Moral Life in The Phoenix of Love by José de Valdivielso Edward Mulholland (Benedictine College) Words Made Flesh: Theatre and Theology, a Match Made in Athens Chair: Kathryn Wales (Hillsdale Academy; Hillsdale Classical)

Gregory Wolfe (Slant Books) Transcendence in Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi Thomas Hibbs (Baylor University) Transcendence in the Poetry of William Everson/Brother Antoninus Paul Contino (Pepperdine University) Providence, Prudence, and Alyosha Karamazov Chair: James McFetridge Wilson (Cambridge University)

Francis X. Maier (Ethics and Public Policy Center) Rebecca Devine (ND ’16, CCCG Tocqueville Fellow) Carl Trueman (Grove City College) Anna Moreland (Villanova University) Chair: V. Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame)

Farrell O’Gorman (Belmont Abbey College) Unknowing, Absence, and the Lost Child in Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor Bryan Giemza (Texas Tech University) Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being as Cormac McCarthy’s Favorite Religious Text Richard Rankin Russell (Baylor University) Reading McCarthy’s Sacramental View of Landscape and Bodies Chair: Rev. John Paul Kimes (Notre Dame Law School)

Thomas Williams (St. John’s University) Elizabeth Lev (Duquesne University) Chair: Jay Martin (University of Notre Dame)

Stacey Noem (University of Notre Dame) Encounter: Initial Framing Remarks Damian Costello (NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community) Ever Ancient, Ever New: Nicholas Black Elk, the Two Roads Map, and Visual Catechesis Today Joe Tyrell (St. Joseph’s Indian School) Integrated Communication between Catholic Theology and Lakota Spirituality LaRayne Woster (St. Joseph’s Indian School) Walking a Path of Strength through Prayer, Values, Ceremony and Understanding Chair: Stacey Noem (University of Notre Dame)

Carolyn Pirtle (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Lesley Kirzeder (University of Notre Dame)

Mark Cherry (St. Edward’s University) Protecting Patients from the Casual Cruelty of Contemporary Medicine: Recapturing the Catholic Imagination for Healthcare Lauris Kaldjian (University of Iowa) Narratives and Ethics: Testing the Stories We Encounter in Medicine Chair: Christopher Tollefsen (University of South Carolina)

Brent Little (Sacred Heart University) Divine Stranger(s): A Sacramental Reading of Morrison’s Paradise Michael Peppard (Fordham University) The Spiritual Exercises of Springsteen Michael O’Connell (Independent Scholar) “Why not try being happy?”: George Saunders’s Hell Chair: Callie Tabor (Sacred Heart University)

Artur Grabowski (Jagiellonian University) Krzysztof Zanussi (TOR Studios) Paweł Rojek (Jagiellonian University) Chair: Artur Rosman (University of Notre Dame)

Joshua Hren (Wiseblood Books; University of St. Thomas, Houston) Fiction Reading: The Animating Spirit Behind Wiseblood Books Sally Thomas (Wiseblood Books; University of St. Thomas, Houston) Fiction Reading: The Blackbird and Other Stories Julia Yost (First Things) Jane Austen’s Darkness Glenn Arbery (Wyoming Catholic College) Fiction Reading: Sherman at Big Shanty Chair: Joshua Hren (Wiseblood Books; University of St. Thomas, Houston)

Okey Ndibe (Author) Chika Unigwe (Author) Martin Jumbam (Author) Chair: Rev. Emmanuel Katongole (University of Notre Dame)

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Fordham University) Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J. (Georgetown University) Elizabeth Coffman (Loyola University Chicago) Chair: Jon Peede (Ashland University)

Tara Isabella Burton (Author) Desire and Speculation: Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, and the Allure of the Unreal Trevor Cribben Merrill (Author) The Novel in the Age of “Post-Mimetic Desire” Michael P. Murphy (Loyola University Chicago) Of Grifters and Grace: Girardian Readings of Patricia Highsmith and Flannery O’Connor Chair: Brett Robinson (University of Notre Dame)

Morris Inn and McKenna Hall

Nicholas Chong (Rutgers University) Isaac Parlin (The Juilliard School) Chair: Nicholas Teh (University of Notre Dame) Please note, LaBar Recital Hall and LaBar Performance Halls are separate spaces.

Jennifer Newsome Martin (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture) George Corbett (University of St. Andrews) Vittorio Montemaggi (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Jennifer Newsome Martin (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)

Poets: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Sarah Cortez, Dana Gioia, Orlando Menes, and James Matthew Wilson Chairs: April Lindner (St. Joseph’s University), Ryan Wilson (The Catholic University of America)

Celebrant: Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades (Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend)

Judith Wolfe (University of St. Andrews) Chair: Jennifer Newsome Martin (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)