More on the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI May 12-15, 2011)
I previously noted the high number of presentations on Aquinas for this year’s Congress. I should have mentioned also the wide range of Thomistic topics. Here are the papers directly on Aquinas or the history of Thomism:
Thursday, May 12
- Romans and the Summa: Exploring the Scriptural Foundations of Aquinas’s Question on Merit (I–II.114.1–3) (Charles Raith, Honors College, Baylor Univ.)
- The Changing Identification of a Methodological Prius in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae (Richard Nicholas)
- Analogical Science in Aquinas’s Five Ways (Alexander W. Hall, Clayton State Univ.)
- Job in the Sentences Commentaries of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (Franklin T. Harkins, Fordham Univ.)
- Natural Law and Human Nature from Augustine and Aquinas to Francisco de Vitoria and Villegaignon: Adams Rib, Cannibalism, and Otherness (Toy-Fung Tung, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)
- Moral Subjectivity as the Basis of Self-Cognition in Thomas Aquinas’s Thought (Magdalena Plotka, Univ. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie)
- Aquinas on the Role of Bishops in the Mendicant Controversy (Hui Hui, Peking Univ.)
- Aquinas on Natural Law and Virtue Ethics (Melissa Moschella, Princeton Univ.)
- The Distention of “Mens” and the Unity of Consciousness in Augustine and Aquinas (Therese Scarpelli Cory, Seattle Univ.)
- Augustine, Thomas, and the Memory of Things Sensed (Jamie Spiering, Benedictine College)
- Thomistic Self-Knowledge and Avicennian Medicine (Kevin White, Catholic Univ. of America)
Friday, May 13
- The Doctrine of Transcendentals and Aquinas’s De veritate: A Comparative Analysis of Lawrence Dewan and Jan Aertsen (Nathan R. Strunk, Boston Univ.)
- On Aquinas’s Incorporation of Boethius’s Account of Being and Goodness (Tyler D. Huismann, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
- Revisiting Owens’s Interpretations of Individuation in Aquinas (Gaston LeNotre, Catholic Univ. of America)
- Exoteric Sexism: Aristotle and Aquinas on Generation and Delayed Hominization (Samuel Condic, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston)
- Love for Animals: Singer and Aquinas (Steve Jensen, Center for Thomistic Studies)
- Modernity, Tradition, and Society: Thomism and the Early Twentieth Century in the United States (Markus Faltermeier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München)
- Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Gregory of Palamas on the Simplicity of God (James Carey, St. John’s College)
- Thomas Aquinas on the Will’s Self-Motion (Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., Center for Thomistic Studies)
- Divine Causality and Human Freedom in Actions Caused by Grace (John Rziha, Benedictine College)
Saturday, May 14
- Aquinas and Rhetoric (Jennifer Constantine-Jackson, Univ. of Toronto)
- Saint Thomas and the Rabbis (Luis Cortest, Univ. of Oklahoma)
- Friar Thomas, the Apostle, and the Philosopher (Eric M. Johnston, Seton Hall Univ.)
- Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and Rational Astrology (Scott Hendrix, Carroll Univ.)
- Divine Predilection and the Hierarchy of Created Natures (Francis Murphy, Univ. of Oxford)
- Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Proofs from Motion in Summa contra gentiles 1.13: Their Nature and the Function of the Nominal Definition (Michael G. Sirilla, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville)
- Analogy and Relation (Steven A. Long, Ave Maria Univ.)
- Of Schoolrooms and Manuscripts: Seeing Aquinas’s Roman Commentary in Its Dominican Context (M. Michele Mulchahey, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
- Thomas’s Students and Precursors to His Lectura romana (Robert Barry, Providence College)
- The Holy Spirit as Divine Impulse: Aquinas’s Account of the Eternal Procession of Love in the Lectura romana (Paul Shields, Ave Maria Univ.)
Sunday, May 15
- Truth, Existence, and Aquinas’ Theory of Adequation (R. J. Matava, Georgetown Univ.)
- Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent on a Substance as the Immediate Principle of Its Operations (Simona Vucu, Univ. of Toronto)
- Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and Henry of Ghent on the Soul’s Relationship to Its Powers (Adam Wood, Fordham Univ.)
A full schedule of papers is here.