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“...what is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?”
Alexis de Tocqueville
Schedule
Tuesday, June 16
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
Arrival and Registration
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
Opening Reception
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
8:30 pm
Dinner Lecture
Welcome: Thoughts on Human Dignity
8:30 pm
10:00 pm
Hospitality
Wednesday, June 17
8:00 am
9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
10:15 am
Session 1
ALUM Populists and Revolutionaries: A survey of later 19th century Russian social thought
ALUM Tensions in 18th Century Liberal Thought
ALUM The Economic Thought of Augustine and Aquinas
FND 101 Christian Anthropology
10:15 am
10:45 am
Break
10:45 am
12:00 pm
Session 2
ALUM Christianity and the Scottish Enlightenment
ALUM Economic Science and the School of Salamanca
FND 201 Limited Government and the Rule of Law
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
Break
12:15 pm
2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
3:15 pm
Session 3
ALUM Medieval Economics: Bernandino of Sienna and Antonio of Florence
ALUM Natural Law and Economics
FND 301 The Economic Way of Thinking
3:15 pm
3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm
5:00 pm
Session 4
ALUM Alexis de Tocqueville: Philosopher of Civil Society
ALUM The Rise and Fall of Ordoliberalism
ALUM Truth and Fiction: Economic History of the Great Depression
FND 401 Myths about the Market
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
Break
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
8:30 pm
Evening Program
American Founding and Natural Law
8:30 pm
10:00 pm
Hospitality
Thursday, June 18
8:00 am
9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
10:15 am
Session 5
Banking and Finance
CST 101 Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching
Economics and Human Action
FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
PST 101 Introduction to Protestant Social Thought
Virtue and Liberty in the American Founding
Wealth and Poverty in the Christian Scriptures
10:15 am
10:45 am
Break
10:45 am
12:00 pm
Session 6
CST 101 Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching
Economics and Human Action
FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
GLB 101 Poverty in the Developing World
PST 101 Introduction to Protestant Social Thought
Social Justice: Fair and Victimless or Free and Virtuous
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
Break
12:15 pm
2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
3:15 pm
Session 7
CST 201 Distributivism: The Theory and a Critique
FAM 201 Beyond Contracts: Marriage and Sustainable Markets
GLB 102 The Political Economy of Globalization
Islam, Markets, and the Free Society
PST 201 The Bad News about the Prosperity Gospel
The Limits of Markets: Law and Moral Culture
Why Keynesianism Failed
3:15 pm
3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm
5:00 pm
Session 8
GLB 103 Fair Trade v. Free Trade
Orthodox Christian Responses to Economic Globalization
Private Property and Environmental Stewardship
PST 202 Social Gospel and Protestant Liberalism
STW 101 A Theology of Stewardship
The Economics of Healthcare
Urban Ministry and the Enterprise of Private Charity
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
Break
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
8:30 pm
Evening Program
8:30 pm
10:00 pm
Hospitality
Friday, June 19
8:00 am
9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
10:15 am
Session 9
Business as a Moral Enterprise
CST 202 Liberation Theology
GLB 104 Development: Aid, FDI and Microfinance
Perils of the Inner City
PST 203 Black Liberation Theology
STW 102 Non-Profit Leadship
The Nature and Function of Money
10:15 am
10:45 am
Break
10:45 am
12:00 pm
Session 10
CST 203 Social Teaching of John Paul II
FAM 202 Divorce: Cultural and Economic Consequences
Morality and Economics of Taxation
Protestantism and Natural Law
PST 204 Radical Orthodoxy
STW 103 Stewardship and Charitable Giving
The Future of the Social Market
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
Break
12:15 pm
2:00 pm
Lunch
12:15 pm
2:00 pm
CHS Honor Roll Lunch
2:00 pm
3:15 pm
Session 11
Capitalism and its Cultural Critics: A Response
Entrepreneurs in the Muslim World
Pope Benedict XVI and His Vision for Europe
PST 205 Lutheran Social Thought
Subsidiarity and Serving the Poor
Transition Economies
3:15 pm
3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm
5:00 pm
Session 12
Faculty Panel Discussions
Religious Educators Resource Toolkit
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
Break
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
Closing Reception
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
8:30 pm
Dinner Lecture
Piety and Technique
8:30 pm
10:00 pm
Hospitality