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Grant me, O merciful God, that I might ardently love, prudently ponder, rightly acknowledge, and perfectly fulfill all that is pleasing to you, for the praise and glory of your name.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Friday, July 14

7:30 pm Ralph McInerny
Opening and Keynote Address

9:00 Evening Prayer

Saturday, July 15

Chair: Daniel McInerny

8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture Rev. Michael Dodds, O.P.
"The Doctrine of Causality in Aquinas and the Book of Causes: One Key to Understanding the Nature of Divine Action"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture Mario Enrique Sacchi
"Aristotle's Metaphysics as a Source of Aquinas' Theory of the Act of Being"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Tom Hibbs
"Dionysius as Source of the Doctrine of God in the Summa contra Gentiles"

3:00 Break

3:15 Lecture Mary Catherine Sommers
"Consilium as Act and Utterance in Aquinas' Moral Thought"

4:15 Evening Prayer

5:00 Pizza Party (Law School Basement)

Sunday, July 16

Chair: Peter Hodgson

8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture Rev. Leo Elders s.v.d.
"St. Thomas and the Bible"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture Roger Pouivet
"Aristotle and Aquinas on Soul"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Rev. Lawrence Dewan, O.P.
"Aristotle as Source for St. Thomas's Doctrine of Being"

3:00 Break

3:15 Lecture Maria Lukac de Stier
"Aristotle's De Anima as Source for Aquinas' Anthropological Doctrine"

4:15 Quodlibet Rev. Michael Sherwin, O.P.
"Transformation of Happiness: Thomas Aquinas' Conversation with Antiquity Concerning the Goal of Human Life"

4:45 Evening Prayer

Monday, July 17

Chair: John O'Callaghan

8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture R. E. Houser
"Avicenna and the Metaphysics of Aquinas"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture Louis Chammings
"Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima and Piagetian Psychology"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Rev. Benedict Ashley, O.P.
"Aristotle's De Sensu et Sensato and De Memoria et Reminiscentia as Thomistic Sources"

3:00 Break

3:15 Lecture Alice Ramos
"Aquinas and the Platonic Theme of Measure"

4:15 Evening Prayer

Tuesday, July 18

Chair: William Carroll

8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture Anthony Lisska
"Thomas Aquinas on Phantasia: Rooted in but Transcending Aristotle's De Anima"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture Alejandro Llano
"The Different Senses of 'Being' according to Aristotle and Aquinas"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Marie George
"Aristotle and Aquinas on the Division of Natural Philosophy"

3:00 Break

3:15 Quodlibet Anne Gardiner "St. Thomas on the Suffering of Christ's Soul"

3:45 Quodlibet Rev. Peter Hunter, O.P. "Was Aquinas as Apophatic as Ps.-Dionysius?"

4:15 Evening Prayer

7:30 Lecture Grace Goodell "Anthropology and Universal Cultural Commitments"

Wednesday, July 19

Chair: Anthony Lisska

8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture Steven Baldner
"Sources of St. Thomas' Teaching on Prime Matter"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture Christopher Kaczor
"Aquinas on the Development of Doctrine"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Angelo Campodonico
"'Bonum ex integra causa': Aquinas and the Sources of Ethics"

3:00 Break

3:15 Quodlibet Rev. Rober Gahl
"Augustine and Aquinas on Time"

3:45 Quodlibet Steve Snyder
"Thomas Aquinas on the Reality of Time"

4:15 Evening Prayer

Thursday, July 20

Chair: Mary Catherine Sommers


8:00 am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Lecture John O'Callaghan
"From Augustine's Mind to Aquinas' Soul"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Lecture John Hittinger
"Augustine and Aquinas on War"

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 Lecture Christopher Martin
"Esse ut verum: Aristotle, Averroes, and Aquinas"

3:00 Break

3:15 Quodlibet David Twetten
"On Really Distinguishing Being and Essence: Some Help from Aristotle"

3:45 Quodlibet Hector Zagal
"Saint Thomas in Metaphysics XII: Is Aquinas a Real Aristotelian?"

4:15 Evening Prayer

6:30 Banquet (Morris Inn)

Friday, July 21

8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass

9:00 Breakfast

Departure

General information for the participants:

• All sessions will be in the Notre Dame Law School, Room 121.
• All meals will be in the South Dining Hall (except for the opening pizza party and the final banquet).
• Masses will be in the Alumni Hall Chapel.
  
• Men's dormitory will be Knott Hall
• Women's dormitory will be Pasquerilla West
  
  *Lecture = 40 minute presentation with 20 minute discussion
  **Quodlibet = 20 minute presentation with 10 minute discussion