Sacred Heart Major Seminary’s fall conference
With the Houston Center for Humanity and the Common Good
A lecture with the Houston Center for Humanity and the Common Good.
An adult-education presentation.
I will give a keynote, “Body and Identity,” at 11:10am on Jan. 9.
There is a great need to speak the Church’s wisdom in the midst of polarization. In presenting this vision, our approach will be twofold: to reflect upon the past and to revitalize the present, to celebrate the feminine genealogy of the faith and to amplify the prophetic mission of women in our current moment. By illuminating the riches of the faith and reading the signs of the times, we hope to equip faithful Catholics and formators with a robust foundation for understanding and articulating the Church’s vision for women in our time.
I will give a plenary speech, “The Church’s Vision for Women,” and participate in two panels.
In a world in which new identities are asserted with virulence, the very strangeness of the situation can lead us to ask: How did we get here? Many recent works have presented different genealogies of our present situation; in my upcoming book, Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self, I argue for a much older story than most commentators give. This is a story that cannot be told without speaking of Christianity—its radical proposals and challenges—and how modern thinkers both extended and distorted the Christian vision of identity.
The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal’s 2025 Aquinas Conference at Ave Maria University. I will give a keynote on the loss of metaphysics and its implications.
The COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture’s convocation of student leaders explores the question “Where are we now?”
Man and Woman and the Order of Creation Conference
I will give a keynote on “Rahner and Ratzinger on the Trinity.”
“One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic? Championing the Marks of the Church in an Age of Polarization and Ecclesial Confusion.” I will speak on “The Marks of the Body.”
I will give a keynote: “Is Modern Identity Really Progress?”
A panel with Erika Bachiochi and Rachel Coleman
The 2024 Thomas Lecture in Philosophy and Theology
A panel on Mary Harrington’s work, with Nina Power, Rachel Coleman, Abigail Favale, and Adrian Walker.
On the transition from pre-modern to modern views of the embodied person
For the Nova Forum of Catholic Thought at the University of Southern California
Keynote for The New Ressourcement conference
Keynote for conference: Human Action and the Drama of Accompaniment: The 30th Anniversary of Veritatis Splendor.
Academy for Catholic Theology
I will present on “Liquid Identity and the Sacred Liturgy: The Problem of Experience in Modernity.”
Does Mariology have anything to contribute to our understanding of the body? Dr. Franks will argue that Mary's poverty--that she "let all God's glory through," to quote Gerard Manley Hopkins--is exemplary for what the body contributes in the structure of the person.
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