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Augustine: Theological and Philosophical Conversations

A Conference Honoring David Tracy
Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies, the Divinity School, the University of Chicago

May 4-6, 2008
University of Chicago Divinity School
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60637

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Sunday, May 4

1:30 - 4:00 -- Session I

Dean Richard Rosengarten, Introduction
Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago), Chair

John Cavadini (University of Notre Dame): "Solidarity and Ideology in Augustine’s City of God"
Willemien Otten (University of Chicago): "The Open Self: Augustine and the Early-Medieval Ethics of Order"
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago, emeritus): “'Semper agens, semper quietus': Notes on the History of an Augustinian Theme"

4:30 - 5:30 -- David Tracy (Andrew W. Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Disstinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago): “A Troubling Conflict: The Two Selfs in Augustine”

5:30 - 6:30 -- Public reception, Swift Common Room

Monday, May 5

9:30 - 12:00 -- Session 2

Mary Gerhart (Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges, emeritus), Chair

Vincent Carraud (University of Caen): "Pondus meum amor meus"
Jean Elshtain (University of Chicago): "Why Augustine? Why Now?"
William Schweiker (University of Chicago): "The Saint and the Humanities"

2:30 - 5:00 -- Session 3

James Robinson (University of Chicago), Chair

Franklin I. Gamwell (University of Chicago): "The Sources of Temptation"
Kathryn Tanner (University of Chicago): "Augustine and the Holy Spirit: Implications for the East/West Divide"
Adriaan Peperzak (Loyola University): "Teachers Without and Within"

5:00 - 6:00 -- Public Reception, Common Room, Swift Hall

Tuesday, May 6

9:30 - 12:00 Session 4

Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago), Chair

Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago): "The Impossibility of the Cogito According to Saint Augustine"
Francoise Meltzer (University of Chicago): "Baudelaire, de Maistre, and Hyper-Augustinianism"
Fredrick Lawrence (Boston College): "Philosophy, Theology, Self-knowledge, and Conversion: How Saint Augustine influenced Heidegger and Lonergan"