Program

(Please also have a look at the daily schedule of the monks)

Friday 18/10

  • 13:00-14:00 Guided Tour of the Abbey
  • 14:00-14:30 Michaël Bauwens and Jared Schumacher: Welcome and introduction to the theme
  • 14:30-15:30 Rocco Buttiglione: Some philosophical reflections on the theme of Mary’s Queenship
  • 15:30-15:45 Break
  • 15:45-16:45 Dirk Hanssens, OSB: Mary: not a model for foolish brides
  • 16:45-17:00 Break
  • 17:00-18:00 Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.: Dignity, Hierarchy, and Obedience: Our Lady and the Primacy of the Common Good
    Michaël Bauwens: The social metaphysics of Mary’s Queenship
  • 18:00-19:30 Reception

Saturday 19/10

  • 09:00-09:50 Michaël Bauwens: The social metaphysics of Mary’s Queenship
  • 09:50-10:00 Break
  • 10:00-11:30 Parallel paper sessions 1A (Kapittelzaal) and 1B (Refter)
  • 11:30-12:30 Sarah Jane Boss: The Virgin Mary and the Virtuous Ruler in the Thought of Bl. Ramon Llull
  • 12:30-13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30-14:30 Mark Hoipkemier: Does the Universe need a Queen?
  • 14:30-14:45 Break
  • 14:45-16:45 Parallel paper sessions 2A (Kapittelzaal) and 2B (Refter)
  • 16:45-17:00 Break
  • 17:00-18:00 Hans-Martien ten Napel: The wisdom of Christian democratic political philosophy
  • 18:00-18:15 Break
  • 18:15-19:15 Adrian Vermeule: Mary and political philosophy: concluding reflections
  • 19:15-19:30 Little office of the Immaculate Conception (scores and translation)
  • 19:30-21:00 Conference dinner

Parallel paper session 1A (Kapittelzaal)

  • Prof. Dr. Sr. Theresa Marie Chau Nguyen, OP : The gifts of the Holy Spirit and the divinization of social life: resources for a Marian conception of civil order
  • Drs. Zoe Boyle : “A Child Has Been Born Unto Us”: Interpreting Hannah Arendt’s Natality as a Political Theology of Mary
  • Drs. Tina Lasquety : Mary in the Thought of Hildegard of Bingen: Theo-Political Representations, Gender, and the Gift of Power

Parallel paper session 1B (Refter)

  • Dr. Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes : Polyarchic Prudence in María de Ágreda’s Mystical City of God
  • Prof. Dr. Luca Gili : Our Lady Queen of Siena and the Immaculate Conception
  • Drs. Maurits Potappel : The Marian personalism in the political philosophy of Joseph Ratzinger

Parallel paper session 2A (Kapittelzaal)

  • Prof. Dr. Christine Mengès-Le Pape : La souveraineté de Notre Dame, les allégories politiques de la Mistica ciudad de Dios
  • Drs. Malwina Tkacz : Mary as an Inspiration for Politicians and Lawmakers
  • Casandra Fernández Diez : If Mary is the model of philosophy, is she also the model of Plato’s philosopher (king)queen?
  • Drs. Joseph Evans : Mary as a Model for Building a Political Peace that Transcends Religious Boundaries

Parallel paper session 2B (Refter)

  • Dr. Sr. Anne Frances Ai Le, OP : Standing At the King’s Right Hand: Mary as Queen Mother to Christ the King
  • Dr. Fr. Ján Dolný : “The Social Incarnation of the Divine Wisdom.” The Idea of Universal Theocracy according to Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev (1853-1900)
  • Prof. Dr. Christopher Collins : Mary as Ecclesial Frame of the Political Order
  • Drs. Fr. Servaas Bosch : Transsubstantial Rationality: The Foundation of World Peace in Mary’s Virginity and the Eucharist