2nd International Conference on Theological Aesthetics

 “Beyond von Balthasar”

May 25-28, 2006

Westin Tabor Center, 1672 Lawrence Str., Denver, CO, USA

 Schedule

Thursday, May 25

Arrival

5 PM

Registration

6PM

Keynote address: “Is Good Art Good for Religion?”

Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN

7 PM

Reception and dinner

Friday, May 26

Panel 1: Aesthetics of the Trinity

Organizer: Trent Pomplun, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

9-10 AM

"What does Beauty have to do with the Trinity? From Augustine to Duns Scotus"

Oleg Bychkov, St. Bonaventure University, NY

"The Trinitarian Structure of Arguments Ex Convenientia in John Duns Scotus"

Trent Pomplun

15 min. break

10:15-11:15 AM

"Harmonious Consent: Jonathan Edwards's Trinitarian Aesthetics"

Brian Sholl, Creighton University, NE

"Masaccio's Trinity: Transcendent and Immanent Spaces"

Frederick Bauerschmidt, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

15 min. break

11:30 AM -12:30 PM discussion

12:30-2:30 PM lunch

Panel 2: Liturgical Aesthetics

Organizer: Alex Garcia-Rivera, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

2:30-3:30 PM

"Do this in Memory of Me: The theodramatics of the liturgy"

Alex Garcia-Rivera

"Go in Peace: Justice and the Liturgy"

Thomas Scirghi, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

15 min. break

3:45-4:45 PM

"Bells: A Theological-Aesthetic-Semiotics of the Liturgy"

Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Italy

"What will happen to the children?: Retrieving the Glory of the Lament in the Age of AIDS"

Kimberly Vrudny, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

15 min. break

5-6PM 1-hour discussion period

6-8 PM dinner

8:30-9:30 (10:00)PM evening lecture and discussion

Alex Garcia-Rivera

Saturday, May 27

Panel 3: Theology in Built Environments

Organizer: Sigurd Bergmann, Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

8:30-9:00 AM

"God’s Here and Now in Built Environments. Introductory Remarks on Architecture as Theology"

Sigurd Bergmann

9:00-10:20 AM

"Sacred Places/Spaces: Tradition & Transcendence"

Michael Crosbie, Architect; Editor, Faith & Form

"The Way of Christ - The Way of Dao. Artefacts inbetween Western and Asian Religion"

Grete Refsum, Sculptor; National College of Art, Oslo

10 min break

10:30-11:10 AM

"Less is more? The modernist headquarters of the Norwegian Lutheran Home Mission Society (1935): an inspiration for aesthetic/theological reflection"

Per Anders Aas, Oslo University College

11:10 AM-12:15 PM discussion

12:15-1:30 PM lunch

1:30-2:10 PM

"The Reconstruction and Conversion of St. Maximin in Trier"

Annette Homann, Architect; Berlin/Carleton University, Ottawa

2:10-3:10 PM discussion

10 min. break

3:20-4:50 PM

"Text, Image, and Inscriptions in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi"

Holly Flora, Museum of Biblical Art, New York

"From Narrative to Icon: Fifteenth Century Franciscan Reform and the Canonical Images of the Order"

Trinita Kennedy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"The Man of Sorrows and the Mendicants: The Construction of a Metaphor"

Xavier Seubert, O.F.M., St. Bonaventure University, NY

10 min. break

5-6 PM discussion and planning period

6 PM onwards

Reception and dinner

Sunday, May 28

Optional: excursions

Departure