Conference

Plan now to attend the
27th Annual Chesterton Conference

“The Orthodoxy Centennial”
June 12-14, 2008
O'Shaughnessy Education Center
(New Location!)

University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, Minnesota

A Chapter-by-Chapter Look at Chesterton’s masterpiece, Orthodoxy Plus Chesterton and Shakespeare, Chesterton and Pascal, Chesterton and Jane Austen!

Schedule:

Thursday, June 12

4:00–6:00 pm: Registration, Room Check-In

6:00 pm: Dinner

7:00 pm: Welcome

7:15 pm: Dale Ahlquist
(President of the American Chesterton Society)
“Introduction in Defense of Everything Else”

8:30 pm: David Zach
(Professional Futurist who has worked with over 1200 associations, corporations and colleges)
“The Eternal Revolution: A Question of Progress”

Friday, June 13

8:00 am: Breakfast

9:00 am: Tom Martin
(Professor of Philosophy at University of Nebraska-Kearney and Editor of The Examined Life)
“The Maniac: Especially, Nietzsche”

10:30 am: Sean Dailey
(Editor-in-Chief of Gilbert Magazine)
“The Suicide of Thought: Intellectual Helplessness”

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Jennifer Overkamp
(Doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Instructor at Saint Gregory the Great Seminary, Seward, Nebraska)
“The Ethics of Elfland: Fairy Tale Philosophy in a Gift Universe”

2:30 pm: Ross Arnold
(President of Ross Arnold and Associates
and Teacher at University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, Washington)
“The Paradoxes of Christianity: The Danger of Not Paying Attention”

4:00 pm: James Woodruff
(Teacher of Mathematics at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts)
“Chesterton and Pascal: Not All Mathematicians Go Mad”

6:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm: Joseph Pearce
(Author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien, Solzhenitsyn, Wilde and the newly released The Quest for Shakespeare)
“The Orthodoxy of Shakespeare”

8:30 pm: Dwight Longenecker
(Chaplain of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Greenville, South Carolina, and author of 10 books, including Adventures in Orthodoxy)
“The Romance of Orthodoxy: Why Heresy is Dull and Deadly”

Saturday, June 14

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am: Geir Hasnes
(Bibliographer Extraordinaire and Norway’s Official Ambassador to Chestertondom)
“The Flag of the World: Loyalty to Life”

10:30 am: William Oddie
(Former Editor of England’s Catholic Herald and author of the forthcoming The Making of GKC: Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, 1874-1908 to be published in November by Oxford University Press)
“Authority and the Adventurer: Landmarks on the Road to Orthodoxy”

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm: Sara Bowen
(Columnist for Gilbert Magazine, and former board member of the American Chesterton Society and the Jane Austen Society of North America)
“Sense and Orthodoxy: Jane Austen and Chesterton”

2:30 pm Small Group Seminars and Discussion

OEC 203 Chesterton’s Past – The Life and Works of GKC (with William Oddie)

OEC 204 Chesterton’s Present – How to Start a Local Chesterton Society (with Dale Ahlquist)

OEC 206 Chesterton’s Future – “Chesterteens” and other fresh faces (with Alicia Van Hecke)

OEC 310 Chesterton’s Orthodoxy – A chance to discuss the book under consideration (with Geir Hasnes)

OEC 319 Chesterton Academy – Meet the Headmaster and Faculty for the new school opening September, 2008

4:00 pm: Scott Richert
(Executive Editor of Chronicles: The Magazine of American Culture)
“It Is Not Good for God to Be Alone: Orthodoxy vs. Islam”

5:30 pm Mass

7:00 pm Closing Banquet

8:00 pm Traditions: Jokes, Toasts, Readings, Clerihews

This Schedule is subject to change, but so is everything else.

This conference is presented by The American Chesterton Society and the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas

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