speaking engagements & travel

Future

3-7 August 2010. Leading a seminar on Augustine at the behest of the Lumen Christi Institute; at Mundelein Seminary in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

10 August 2010. Speaking to the young adults of the Archdiocese of Chicago under the title, “Arguing With Atheists: Can We Win & Should We Try?”

17-27 September, in England, in part on pilgrimage to the beatification of John Henry Newman.

21 October 2010. Lecturing on the Song of Songs; at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.

28-30 October 2010. Featured speaker at a conference on “Human Dignity and the Future of Health Care”; at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Speaking under the title: “Defending Life by Embracing Death: The ars moriendi and Caring for Health”

18-20 March 2011: one of three speakers at the first meeting of the Wilken Colloquium, a project of the Center for Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue; on “Augustine and the Saeculum”; at Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Past (since March 2009)

  • 11-13 June 2010. Participant in and speaker at a conference on the life and work of John Henry Newman; on the topic of the Grammar of Assent (video here); at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
  • 27 May 2010: concluding, keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Academy for Catholic Theology, under the title, “‘The Word of the Lord’: Notes Toward a Theology of the Versions“; in Washington, DC.
  • 18-19 May 2010: spoke on the topic of the priesthood; at the Assembly for Priests of the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh; in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • 12 May 2010: Spoke to the Raleigh Chapter of the Catholic Physicians Guild, under the title ‘The Human Person and the Meaning of Health‘; in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • 12 May 2010: Lectured for the Lumen Christi Institute under the title, “From Curiosity to Studiousness: Catechizing the Appetite for Knowledge“; in Chicago, Illinois
  • 14-16 March 2010: served on an external review committee for the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Virginia; in Charlottesville, Virginia
  • 5 March 2010: participated with Stanley Fish in a public discussion of the virtue-vice of curiosity; at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
  • 24 & 27 February 2010: led study days on Benedict XVI’s third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate; at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Raleigh, and at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Newton Grove; both in North Carolina.
  • 20 February 2010: spoke under the title “Desiring the Lord in a Secular Age: Discriminating the Senses of ‘Natural’ in ‘Natural Desire’”; at a conference on Secularism and the Natural Desire to Know God; at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.
  • 2 February 2010: participated in a seminar on the interpretation of the Song of Songs with Shalom Carmy of Yeshiva University; at the editorial offices of the journal First Things; in New York City.
  • 13 January 2010 in England;  spoke on the topic of Augustine on the passions; at a symposium on ‘Faith, Rationality, and the Passions’ sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation; at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
  • 13-15 November 2009: attended the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association; in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 29-31 October 2009: keynote speaker at a Christian Scholarship Seminar on Teaching, Learning, and Christian Practices; at Calvin College, Michigan.
  • 24 October 2009: spoke on the topic “Learning to Speak Catholic,” at the (Catholic) Diocese of Raleigh’s Annual Convocation; at S. Raphael Catholic Church, Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • 26 June 2009: spoke on the topic “Can War be Expunged from the Human Condition?”; at a conference on just war sponsored by the Peace Research Institute (Oslo, Norway), and the Center for Thomistic Studies (Ave Maria University); in Naples, Florida.
  • 21 May 2009: spoke on the topic “John Paul II’s Theology of the Body”; at a seminar for clergy and laity sponsored by Lifewatch; in New Bern, North Carolina.
  • 23 April 2009: delivered  “Experience Attenuated: On the Proper End of the Liturgical Life.”, the William James Lecture at Harvard Divinity School; Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 17-18 March 2009: delivered “Divinely Deranged Desire,” the Woolman Lectures at Malone College; Canton, Ohio.
  • 10 March 2009: delivered “A Theological Defense of Plagiarism,” the Jackson Lecture at Western Carolina University; Cullowhee, North Carolina.