Classical Studies and the Jesuit Educational Tradition Program
27-29 April 2012, Loyola University Chicago
All paper sessions take place in the Information Commons, Fourth Floor, Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus.
Friday, 27 April
3:00 p.m. Welcome, Francis L. Fennell, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University Chicago
3:15 p.m. Keynote Address
James J. O'Donnell, Provost, Georgetown University
4:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, 28 April
9:45 a.m. Welcome, John Pelissero, Provost, Loyola University Chicago
Paper Session I: Jesuits and the Classical Tradition
Chair: Donald E. Sprague, Kennedy-King College and Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
- 10:00 a.m. "The Classical Tradition in Gerard Manley Hopkins" – Mark Bosco, S.J., Loyola University Chicago
- 10:30 a.m. "Experientia docet: A Word to the Wise" – Philip Caliendo, Xavier High School, New York, NY
10:50 a.m. Coffee Break (the Coffee Breaks are funded by the Joseph S. Pendergast, S.J., Memorial Fund)
Paper Session II: Pedagogy Today: Classical Studies at Jesuit Schools
Chair: Alice Newman Mulberry, Chicago Public Schools (Retired)
- 11:10 a.m. "Classics and the HAB Program at Xavier University: Change and Success" – Thomas E. Strunk and Shannon N. Byrne, Xavier University
- 11:20 a.m. "Founding Fathers: Aeneas and Ignatius" – Becki Wick, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
12:00 noon Lunch
Paper Session III: Caesar and Values in the Classroom
Chair: Thomas E. Strunk, Xavier University
- 1:30 p.m. "Teaching Caesar's de Bello Gallico through a 'Just War' Lens" – William Lowe, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
- 1:50 p.m. "Gaul Was Divided into a Lot More than Three Parts: Caesar for His Time as Well as Ours" – Nicholas Young, University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy and University of Detroit Mercy
2:10 p.m. Coffee Break
Paper Session IV: Early Jesuit Teaching: Principled Pedagogy
Chair: Robert Bireley, S.J., Loyola University Chicago
- 2:30 p.m. "Christi praecones: Advice for Latin Teachers from the First Jesuit High Schools" – Stephen M. Beall, Marquette University
- 3:00 p.m. "Pontanus' Progymnasmata Latinitatis and the Humanist Dialogus Latinus in Early Jesuit Education" – Matthew M. McGowan, Fordham University
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
Paper Session V: Jesuit Principles in Research, Practice, and Reflection
Chair: Thomas Tobin, S.J., Loyola University Chicago
- 3:50 p.m. "Rhetoric or Face Value? Augustine of Hippo and 'Critical Charity' towards the Expression of Authority" – Alexander Evers, Loyola University Chicago John Felice Rome Center
- 4:20 p.m. "Jesuit Pedagogy in the Dublin Notebook of Gerard Manley Hopkins" – Brian Dunkle, S.J., University of Notre Dame
5:30 p.m. Reception, Piper Hall
6:30 p.m. Dinner for Registered Participants, Piper Hall
Sunday, 29 April
9:30 a.m. Latin Mass, Ignatius House Chapel, 6324 N. Kenmore Ave.; Breakfast will follow the Mass, in the Ignatius House Foyer
11:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion (“Where Next”?), Information Commons, Fourth Floor
Chairs: Jacqueline Long and James G. Keenan, Loyola University Chicago
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon Conclusion
This page updated 27 April 2012 by jlong1@luc.edu