Ave Maria University’s Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, which is “a new academic institute created to foster the renewal of Catholic theology,” is hosting another conference, this one entitled “Aquinas the Augustinian Conference,” to be held in Naples, Florida, on February 3-5, 2005. From the web site:

The recent work of such thinkers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Servais Pinckaers OP has highlighted the Augustinian aspects of Aquinas’s philosophy/theology. It is thus a fruitful time to bring together a group of scholars to investigate in a systematic fashion the interplay between these two great theologians and the ways that retrieval of their thought in the modern context should proceed.

The list of speakers is as follows:

Conference Speakers:
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, Keynote Address
Michel Barnes, Marquette University
Johannes Brachtendorf, University of Tübingen
Stephen F. Brown, Boston College
Sarah Byers, University of Dallas
Michael Dauphinais, Ave Maria University
Barry David, Ave Maria University
Robert Dodaro, OSA, Augustinianum
Gilles Emery, OP, University of Fribourg
Harm Goris, Thomas Instituut of Utrecht
Wayne Hankey, Dalhousie University
Reinhard Hütter, Duke University
Mark Johnson, Marquette University
Matthew Lamb, Boston College and Ave Maria University
Matthew Levering, Ave Maria University
Jody Vaccaro Lewis, Dominican House of Studies
Guy Mansini, OSB, St. Meinrad’s Seminary
Bruce Marshall, Southern Methodist University
John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
Thomas Osborne, University of St. Thomas (TX)
John Rist, University of Toronto
Tracey Rowland, John Paul II Institute (Melbourne)
Michael Sherwin, OP, University of Fribourg
Jeremy Wilkins, University of St. Thomas (TX)

See you there!