All files in pdf format unless otherwise noted.
* Papers given in plenary sessions
"Flowers and Skulls:
Georgia O'Keeffe and René Girard on the Origins of Art"
Ann Astell, Purdue University
"Ideas
to Images"
Ideas to
Images: accompanying slides
Jacqueline Belfort-Chalat, LeMoyne College
"Which Conversation?
Whose Language?"
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Educating Teens
in the Arts to Decrease the Allure of Television"
Alessandra Bouchard, Montrose School
"In Light of Metaphor:
Poetry and Environmental Humility"
Deborah Bowen, Redeemer University College
"Pseudo-catharsis and
the Art of Scriptwriting"
Paolo Braga, Universita Cattolica di Milano
"So What's Wrong With
a Little Fun? Satire and Comedy"
William Cashore, MD, Brown University Medical School
"Night Light: Beauty
and Truth in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan"
Brian Clayton, Gonzaga University
"Image and Word:
The Language of Incarnation"
Tyrus Clutter, Christians in the Visual Arts
"The Role of the Fine
Arts in the Spiritual Life"
Basil Cole, O.P., S.T.D., Dominican House of Studies
"Sodality of the Blessed
Virgin Mary: Forging Ties That Bind Here and Hereafter"
Christopher Collins, SJ, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
"Erotic
Dimensions of Art and the Pursuit of Chastity: Mixed Signals in the 'Epiphanies
of Beauty'"
Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine
"Worship
as High Art: The Liturgy as the Epiphany of Beauty and Truth"*
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Rice University
"The
Kingdom as Present: Truth, Art and Politics"
Garth Gillan, Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University
"Evangelicals and
the Buildings They Build"
Jeffrey Green, University of Notre Dame
"A
Good War is Hard to Find: Abu Ghraib, Flannery O'Connor, and the Problem
of American Innocence"
David Griffith, University of Pittsburgh
"Combing the Tradition:
Ralph Fasanella and the Persistence of the Catholic Imagination"
Fred Herron, St. John's University
"Kieslowski's Inescapable
Moral Horizons"*
Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University
"Reflections on
Newman on Literature"
Ronald Hustwit, College of Wooster
"Epiphany in Word
and Tone in Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole"
The Wild Swans
at Coole - W.B. Yeats
Paul Johnson, University of Notre Dame
"Landscape, Illusion,
and Injustice: The Platonic Case Against Painting"
Irfan Khawaja, The College of New Jersey
"Reclaiming American
Beauty"
James Krueger, University of Redlands
"Creativity and Creation:
Nature, Spirituality and the Paradox of Size in Adam Elsheimer's Flight
into Egypt"
Michelle A. Lang, University of Nebraska at Kearney
"Bridging the
Modern Gap: Tolkien's Reintroduction of the Medieval World to a Post-Modern
World"
Helen Lasseter, Baylor University
"The
Restoration of the Catholic Historical Imagination"
Rollin Lasseter, PhD, Catholic Textbooks Project
"Blessed
with Awareness: Wolterstorff, Danto and Hornby on Responding to Art"
Edward Lawry, Oklahoma State University
"The Beauty that
Saves: Brideshead Revisited as a counter- Portrait of the Artist "
Dominic Manganiello, University of Ottawa
"Catholic
Formation Through Children's Literature: The Novels of Hilda van Stockum"
Christine Marlin, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy
"Procreating
Meaning: The Text and the Artist's Imagination"
George S. Matejka, Ursuline College
"Purifying
the Source: The Relationship between Faith and Art in Jacques Maritain,
Caroline Gordon and Flannery O'Connor"
Ryan J. Jack McDermott, Duke University
"Language,
Art, Community"
Paolo Monti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
"Learning
from Light: What Painting on the Premises of a Gothic Cathedral Has Taught
Me About the Nature of Art, Beauty and the Creative Process"
Gael Mooney, MFA, Painter
"Salvador Dali's The Sacrament
of the Last Supper : A Theological Re-Assessment"
Michael Anthony Novak, Marquette University
"Setting a Libertine
to Music: Some Questions about the Portrayal of the Hero in Mozart's Don
Giovanni"
Joseph Orchard, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
"Literature and the Shaping
of Character: Plato and Tolstoy"
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph's University
"The
Cosmos as a Work of Art: Sketches Toward a Response to the Problem of
Evil"
Alexander Pruss, Georgetown University
"Flannery
O'Connor's Art of Conversion: Unlikely Sacraments for the Post-Christian
Reader"
Joseph Quinn Raab, S.T.L., Santa Catalina School
"Ethiopian
Women are the Most Beautiful Women in the World"
Susan Sprecher, University of Notre Dame
"Catastrophe and Eucatastrophe:
Russell and Tolkien on the True Form of Fiction"
Christopher Toner, Air University
"Art as Invitation
to Prayer"
Kathleen Walsh, Working Artist
"Baby in the Underworld:
Beauty and Tragic Vision in Dirty Dancing"
William Wians, Merrimack College
"The Heart
of Speculative Thought: On the Place of Art and Aesthetics in Philosophy"*
Robert Wood, University of Dallas
