Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture) The Vatican Film List: Introduction and Reflections Nathan Douglas (Independent Scholar/Filmmaker) The Filmmaker as Auteur Andrew Petiprin (Spe Salvi Institute; Word on Fire Institute) Europe for Everyone: Yesterday’s Vatican Film List and Catholic Imagination Today Chair: John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)

Shann Ray (Gonzaga University) Philip Metres (John Carroll University) Laura Reese Hogan (Independent Scholar) Chair: Tamara Nicholl-Smith (Catholic Literary Arts)

Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount University) Praying Like Saint Augustine: Imagination and Discernment in Writing to God Cait Weighner (University of Notre Dame) In Their Hearts Are the Highways to Zion: The Liturgy of the Hours and the Catholic Imagination Br. José Rosa, O.S.B. (Saint Vincent Archabbey) A Fruitful Contemplation: The Creative Influence of Lectio Divina on Monastic Culture Chair: Rev. Terrence Ehrman, C.S.C. (University of Notre Dame)

Dwight Lindley (Hillsdale College) Romanticism: A Protestant Gift to the Catholic Imagination Laurel Dugan (Aquinas College) Saints, Serrano, and Secondarity: A Lens to Engage Contemporary Art Gregory Beabout (Saint Louis University) Nature Writing and the Catholic Imagination: The Story of a Whooping Crane Chair: Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame)

David Griffith (University of Notre Dame) Theology of Creativity in the Age of Generative A.I. Jordan Joseph Wales (Hillsdale College) Medieval Theology, Cultural Imagination, and Generative A.I. Andre Chavez (St. Louis University) A Eucharistic Philosophy of Technology in the Age of the Post-Human Chair: Heather Foucault-Camm (University of Notre Dame)

Brett Robinson (University of Notre Dame) Chrisopher Baglow (University of Notre Dame) Jonathan Pageau (Artist) Chair: Brett Robinson (University of Notre Dame)

Helen Alvaré (Antonin Scalia Law School) Richard Doerflinger (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture) Chair: Sherif Girgis (Notre Dame Law School)

Ben Reinhard (Franciscan University of Steubenville) J. R. R. Tolkien and Liturgical Imagination Jon Balsbaugh (Hillsdale College) The Way of Beauty Is the Way of Truth: Imagination, Desire, and Openness to Transcendence Siobhan Maloney Latar (Trinity School at Meadow View) Image of the Maker: George MacDonald, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Sacramental Imagination Chair: Richard Kim (Loyola University Chicago)

Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame) Reconciliation Through Justice: A Christian Response to National Polarization Canon Sarah Snyder (Rose Castle Foundation) Impossible Friendships and Risky Reconciliation Jason Springs (University of Notre Dame) Can Restorative Justice Transform Structural Violence? The Case of U.S. Mass Incarceration Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University; Seymour Institute) The Road to Justice and Reconciliation: Righting Past Wrongs Chair: Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame)

Jerome Cole (Composer, Director, Organist) The Saint Hildegard Project Chair: Zach Pearson (University of Notre Dame)

Catherine Sims Kuiper (Hillsdale College) A School of Life: Theater as Education in the Jesuit Order Andrew Kuiper (Independent Scholar) Choroi for Dionysos: Art as Creative Liturgy in Fifth Century Athens and Its Relevance for Today Kathryn Wales (Hillsdale Academy; Hillsdale Classical) Holding the Mirror Up to Nature: Theater as Therapy for Children Chair: Denise Trull (Independent Scholar)

Benjamin Miller (Thomistic Institute) Shūsaku Endō and the Messiness of Human Life Aaron Urbanczyk (Franciscan University of Steubenville) “An image of Him that conforms to my own heart”: Spiritual and Cultural Striving with the Image of Christ in Shūsaku Endō’s The Samurai Corynne Staresinic (Independent Scholar) Toward a New Body Image: Reconsidering Ourselves in Light of Shūsaku Endō’s Vision of Christ the Weakling Chair: Brian Mulholland (University of Notre Dame)

Andrew Smith (AWS Sculpture Studios) Integrating the Production of Art with the Education of Aspiring Artists Hunter Dickens (Independent Scholar) The Way of Beauty in Forming Local Culture Carl Fougerousse (Red Fern Studio; Franciscan University of Steubenville) Toward a Master’s Degree Program in Sacred Art John Haigh (Benedictine College) Tell Us a Story from Before We Can Remember Chair: Caroline Cole (Duncan G. Stroik Architect, LLC)

Margaret Chisolm (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) Visual Arts: How Museum-based Teaching Can Support the Moral Formation of Future Physicians Noah Hoonhout (New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine) History of Medicine Scaffolds Physician Formation John Rhee (Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School) The Use of Narrative Medicine to Develop Physician Virtue Ethan Schimmoeller (Ohio Health Hospice and Palliative Medicine) Of Technology and Sacrament: A Medical Pilgrimage with Walker Percy Chair: Michael Egan (Hippocratic Society)

Cyril O’Regan (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Artur Rosman (University of Notre Dame)

Sonnez Les Matines by Jane Clark Scharl (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) The Man Who Was Thursday by Alexi Sargeant (St. Jerome Institute) Chair: Betsy K. Brown (Poet)

Colin Cutler (Independent Songwriter; Guilford Technical Community College) Made of Dust: At the Crossroads of Flannery O’Connor and American Folk Music Eric Cyr (University of St. Thomas, Houston) Beauty in the Mystery: Biblical Imagery and Paradoxes of Faith Christian Lingner (University of St. Thomas, Houston) What Would John Prine Do?: What Folk Music Can Teach Contemporary Christians Chair: Anthony Monta (Holy Cross College)

David O’Connor (University of Notre Dame) Christian Art and the Nation: Maritain Versus Tolkien Raymond Hain (Providence College) “Ardent, Yet Not Idolatrous”: On Loving Pagan Beauty Chair: Andreas Waldstein (University of Notre Dame)

Katy Carl (Word on Fire; University of St. Thomas, Houston) Catholic Literary Publishing: A Flourishing Ecosystem Mary Ann B. Miller (Presence; Caldwell University) Anticipating the “Test of Time”: Editors’ Sample Excerpts from Works Published by Dappled Things, Presence Journal, Wiseblood Books, and Word on Fire Joshua Hren (Wiseblood Books; University of St. Thomas, Houston) Wiseblood Books: Wide-Eyed for Hard Won Wisdom, Wide-Eyed for New Epiphanies of Beauty Chair: Rhonda Ortiz (Dappled Things)

Robin Jensen (University of Notre Dame) Elizabeth Lev (Duquesne University)

Krzysztof Zanussi (Director) Chair: Artur Rosman (University of Notre Dame)

John F. Deane (Poet) Cyril O’Regan (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Michael P. Murphy (Loyola University Chicago)

Elizabeth Huddleston (Duquesne University) Bonnie Lander Johnson (University of Cambridge) Julia Meszaros (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University) Chair: Abigail Favale (University of Notre Dame)

Morris Inn and McKenna Hall

Amy Alznauer (Author) Jessica Hooten Wilson (Pepperdine University) Kathryn Laborde (Xavier University of Louisiana) Chair: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Fordham University)

Elizabeth Mirzaei (Director and Cinematographer) Tim Reckart (Director and Animator) Sean Schiavolin (Director) Chair: Lauren Spohn (University of Oxford)

J. J. Wright (Composer; University of Notre Dame) Dana Gioia (Poet) Please note, LaBar Recital Hall and LaBar Performance Halls are separate spaces.

Celebrant: Most Rev. Paul Tighe (Dicastery for Education and Culture)

Ron Hansen (Author) James Matthew Wilson (Poet) Sally Thomas (Poet) Chair: Jennifer Newsome Martin (de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)