Lonergan Institute

39th Annual Lonergan Workshop: The Promise of Vatican II – 50 Years Later

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:49:42 +0000

Sample Office Hour Posting

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:31:40 +0000

This is an example of what an office hour posting will look like.

We need to have one in place before we make the Office Hours page live.

Here you might just once again welcome visitors to the website and to the online course. And you might describe how you will address questions you have received by email and online. And also how you will help to clear up issues that recur as you continue to teach and think about Insight…

WCMI 2012

gfloyd — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:20:34 +0000

The 27th Annual Fallon Memorial Lonergan Symposium will be held at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles from Thursday, April 12th to Saturday, April 14th.

Contributors are invited to submit paper proposals (one-page abstracts) and panel proposals (specifying a question or questions to guide discussion) by January 30th, 2012 to mmorelli@lmu.edu. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 15, 2012.

Completed papers must be submitted by April 1st, 2012 in .doc or .docx format to mmorelli@lmu.edu

Please note that papers will be distributed prior to their presentation. Papers may be of any length, but speakers will be allowed 20 minutes to present their central thesis and 10 minutes for questions.

Digital copies of the Symposium Program will be distributed by email prior to the symposium.

Pre-registration: Pre-register by March 1st, 2012 by email to mmorelli@lmu.edu. PLEASE provide your name and professional affiliation, and let us know if you plan to attend our Saturday evening banquet and if you require a vegetarian meal.

Registration Fee: $40 US payable on the first day of the symposium. The registration fee is waived for graduate students.

Accommodations: Custom Hotel, located within walking distance of the university. Their website can be found at http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/losangeles/custom_hotel. Call toll free in the US and Canada: 877.287.8601. You may be able to obtain a cheaper rate by booking through Expedia.com. The hotel provides free shuttle service to and from Los Angeles International Airport.

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SUPPORTED BY
THE LOS ANGELES LONERGAN CENTER AND THE BELLARMINE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY

New Social Media

gfloyd — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:45:23 +0000

In an effort to keep you informed about breaking news and upcoming events at the BC Lonergan Institute and in the Lonergan Community at large we have ventured into the realms of social media.

Check out our new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bclonergan and follow us on Twitter @bclonergan

Upcoming ACPA and annual LPS Meetings

gfloyd — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:20:36 +0000

The 85th annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association will be held on October, 27-30, 2011 at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri. The title of this year’s conference is “Science, Reason and Religion.” Registration begins at 2pm on Friday in the Conference Center pre-function room. More information can be found at http://www.acpaweb.org/Index.htm

In conjunction with the conference the Lonergan Philosophical Society will also host its annual meeting. The meeting will take place at 4:30pm on Friday, October 28th in Waterman. For more information go to http://www2.lmu.edu/lonergan/lps.html

Lonergan on the Edge Conference

gfloyd — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:55:52 +0000

Upcoming Lonergan Graduate Conference at Marquette University:

The annual Lonergan on the Edge conference at Marquette University will be held from Friday, September 16, to Saturday, September 17, 2011. The keynote will be delivered by Dr. Joe Mudd (Gonzaga University) and Saturday will feature a panel discussion on “Lonergan as a Reader of Aquinas” with Dr. Jeremy Wilkins (University of St. Thomas – Houston), Dr. Gilles Mongeau, S.J. (Regis College), Dr. Mark Johnson (Marquette University) and Gregorio Montejo (Marquette University).

For more information please visit http://lonergansociety.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/lonergan-on-the-edge-2011/ or email lonergansociety@gmail.com.

38th Annual Workshop Schedule

admin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:20:43 +0000

This year’s conference was entitled The Mind and Heart of Hope.

More information can be found in the Workshop PDF, or by contacting Prof. Fred Lawrence (lawrence@bc.edu).

To learn more please visit the Workshop page.

Schedule of Probabilities for the Lonergan Workshop 38
(Please click here to view and download a PDF of the 38th Annual Workshop Schedule)

Sunday, 17 June, 7 pm, Fulton 511:
Dominic Doyle [Boston College], A Lonerganian Transposition of Richard McKeon’s Philosophic Pluralism

Fathers’ Day Reception

Monday, 18 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Charles Hefling [Boston College]: Two Cheers for King James: Celebrating the 400^th Anniversary of the Authorized Version

Patrick H. Byrne [Boston College]: Personal Value, Moral Value, and History

Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)

11:15-12:15 am, McGuinn 121:
Richard Grallo[Metropolitan College of New York]: Expanding Horizons of Question and Insight
Introductions to Afternoon Workshops by Their Leaders

2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)

3:30 pm Coffee

4-5 pm, McGuinn 121:
William Mathews, SJ [Milltown Inst.]: Windows on Living, Writing and Reading the Self
Gilles Mongeau, SJ [Regis College] The State of Grace and the Law of the Cross: Further Insights into Lonergan from René Girard

7 pm: Coffee

7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
Joseph A. Komonchak [Catholic University of America]: Vatican Council II as Wendung zur Idee

Tuesday, 19 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer [Sacred Heart University]: “Our Deep Sighs: Being Christian in this Religiously Diverse World”
John Haughey, SJ [Woodstock Inst.]: On the World Transhumanist Association’s Aspirations to Get the After Out of Afterlife
Elizabeth Murray [Loyola Marymount Univ.] The Classical Question of Immortality in Light of Lonergan’s Explicit Metaphysics

Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 pm)

11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Robert Luby, MD [Groton Wellness Center] : Restorative Medicine: Defensive Schemes and Re-emergent Probability
Patrick Daly, MD [Department of Veterans Affairs, Director, Hospice and Palliative Care, VA New England]: The Possibility of Hope

2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)

3:30 pm Coffee

4-5 pm, McGuinn 121:
M. Shawn Copeland [Boston College]: Waiting in Hope
Randy Rosenberg [Fontbonne University]: Is Walker Percy’s Voice Still Viable? An Examination in Light of Lonergan

7 pm Coffee

7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
David B. Burrell, CSC [Uganda Martyrs Univ.]: Lonergan and Anawati: An Interfaith Inquiry

Wednesday, 20 June, 9-10-30 am, McGuinn 121:
Francis McLaughlin [Boston College]: Communicating with Economists
Paul St Amour [St Joseph’s Univ.] Income Distribution and the Problem of the Basic Expansion
Michael Shute [Memorial University]: Lonergan’s Economics and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition: Influence, Criticism and Possible Applications

Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)

11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
RJ Snell [Eastern University]: Performing Differently: Lonergan and the New Natural Law
Ryoko Tamura [Seisen Jogakuin College]: Interiority Analysis as a ‘Meta-study’: a Way of Self-Recovery from Poor Achievement

2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)

EXCURSION TO NEWLY OPENED WING OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ART (INCLUDING THE DALE CHIHULY EXHIBIT)

7 pm Coffee

7:30 pm, Fulton 511:
Paul Kidder [Seattle University]: Joseph Flanagan and the Philosophical Hermeneutic of Modern Art

ICE CREAM PARTY

Thursday, 21 June, 9-10:30 am, McGuinn 121:
Thomas Kohler [Boston College]: Moving Viewpoints: Solidarity in Modern Context
Richard M. Liddy [Seton Hall University]: Lonergan and Climate Change
William E. Murnion [Philosophy/Works] Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind in the De Veritate

Coffee Break (10:30-11:15 am)

11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Joseph Mudd [Gonzaga University]: Church Penitent: a sacramental re-imaging of ecclesial identity in a time of crisis
Matthew Petillo [LeMoyne University]: Love and Light: A Hypothesis Regarding Lonergan’s Four-Point Hypothesis

2-3:15 pm, Afternoon Workshops (Campion & McGuinn Classrooms)

3:30 Coffee

4:15-5:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Words of Gratitude for Mel Mason, Faith Smith, Giovanni Sala, SJ
Gordon Rixon, SJ [Regis College]: Cultivation of the Mind: Newman and Lonergan

6:00 pm Annual Lonergan Workshop Eucharist, St Mary’s Chapel
In Remembrance of Charlotte Tansey, Co-founder and Past President of the Thomas More Institute for Adult Education in Montreal, with tributes by Collaborators and Friends Moira Carley, Eileen de Neeve, Therese Mason

7-7:45 pm Chowder Supper, Fulton 511

8 pm:
Robert M. Doran, SJ [Marquette University]: The Theological Virtues and Participation in Active and Passive Spiration
Greg Lauzon [Independent Scholar]: Lamenting at the Abattoir and Elemental Meaning and Bowsticks

Friday, 22 June, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121:
Mark T. Miller [Univ. of San Francisco]: Conversion as Life, Death, and Resurrection
Jeremy Wilkins [University of St. Thomas (School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary)]: Unpacking Lonergan’s Four-Point Hypothesis
Michael Vertin [St Michael’s University]: Rahner and Lonergan

Coffee Break (10:30-11:15)

11:15 am-12:15 pm, McGuinn 121:
Chai Young Kim [Sogang University]: Bernard Lonergan and Raymond Panikkar on Faith
Luca Sinibaldi [Lonergan Archives, Rome]: The Polymorphism of Consciousness as a Higher Viewpoint on Modern Philosophy

Afternoon Workshops
On Insight: Introductory with Michael Vertin
Lonergan, Business, Economics with Ken Melchin & Team
Lonergan & Orthodox Christianity with Paul LaChance
Lonergan on Four Dimensions: Lonergan and Contemporary Psychology with Richard Grallo
Working on Self-Appropriation and Development of Ourselves as Human Persons with Armando Rugarcia

38th Annual Lonergan Workshop

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:36:47 +0000

The Lonergan Institute at Boston College held the 38th Annual Lonergan Workshop at Boston College this last summer from June 19-24, 2011.

This year’s conference was entitled The Mind and Heart of Hope.

More information can be found in the Workshop PDF, or by contacting Prof. Fred Lawrence (lawrence@bc.edu).

To learn more about this year’s Workshop, and to learn about the history of the Lonergan Workshop, please visit the Workshop page.

A Course on Insight

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:11:26 +0000

Prof. Patrick Byrne of the Philosophy Department at Boston College offered a year-long course on Lonergan’s magnum opus, Insight during the 2009-2010 academic year. The course was entitled “Insight and Beyond.” It is intended to make both the fundamental and the more difficult parts of Insight accessible to a wide audience. During the second half of the Spring 2010 semester, the course was originally intended also to explore the developments in Lonergan’s post-Insight works on meaning, interpretation, history, ethics, values and religion. However, class discussion of the 20 chapters of Insight itself required nearly the entirety of the two semesters.

The course lectures, discussions and visual aids have been made available online for anyone interested in Lonergan’s thought, using the Echo 360 course-capture technology. Viewers will not need to purchase the Echo 360 application. Instructions for using the Echo 360 files, including technical requirements, are available on the Insight Course page.

Please visit the Insight Course page for more information, and to view the lectures and discussions.

M.A. Scholarships Available

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:09:31 +0000

Scholarships will be awarded for Masters Degree studies to students interested in furthering their understanding of the work of Bernard J. F. Lonergan, S.J. and its relationships to other currents of contemporary thought. The scholarships will cover full or partial payment of tuition for Masters Degree courses.

Eligibility for the scholarships is contingent upon acceptance into the graduate programs of Master of Arts in either the Philosophy or Theology Department at Boston College. Applications for these programs may be obtained from the office of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Please print “Lonergan” in the upper right hand corner of the first page of your application to signal your interest in the Lonergan Scholarship.

In addition to applying to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston College, a separate letter of interest in the Lonergan Scholarship should be sent not later than February 15 to:

Lonergan Institute
Bapst Library
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

The letter of interest should include: (I) a statement of desire to be considered for a scholarship award; (II) a brief statement of the source of interest in Lonergan studies; (III) the name of someone who is willing to recommend the student for graduate studies in Lonergan’s work.

Inquiries regarding the Fellowships should be addressed to Dr. Patrick Byrne, Director of the Lonergan Institute, or call Kerry Cronin at (617)-552- 8095. Decisions will be announced by May 1.