Wednesday April 29:

12 – 1:30pm   Opening lunch for speakers

1:30pm - 3:30pm   Ancient Christian Problems of Nature and Creation

• Virginia Burrus, “Origen’s and Augustine’s Eco-Chorologies”
• James Wetzel, “The Dogged Excess of Matter: ex nihilo after Confessions 12.6”

 3:30pm - 4pm coffee and tea

4 – 6 pm    Ancient and Modern Concepts of Nature

• Karmen MacKendrick, “Fractal Divinity and Late Ancient Pantheism”
• M.B. Pranger, “Thinking the Impossible: Henri de Lubac, Augustinianism and Pure Nature”

6 – 7 pm reception in the Common Room, followed by dinner for speakers

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Thursday April 30, 2020

9:30 - 10am   coffee and tea

10am – 12 pm    Nature as Thinking and Being Thought

• Willemien Otten, “Eriugena and Emerson on Thinking Nature”
• Charles Hallisey, “What Does Nature Think? Buddhist Reflections”

12 - 130 pm  lunch for speakers

1 - 130 pm coffee and tea

1:30 – 3:30pm   Pantheism as Problem and Opportunity

• Jean-Luc Marion, “Cartesian Nature and the Limits of Efficient Causality”
• Mary-Jane Rubenstein, “Okay, but Who Cares about Pantheism?”