| Wednesday, June 23 | Virtual Connection 1 | Virtual Connection 2 | Virtual Connection 3 | Virtual Connection 4 |
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| 1 PM | Conference Welcome and Multifaith Prayers | |||
| 4 PM | A1.
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A2.
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A4.
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| a. Paul Pearson | a. Alda Balthrop-Lewis | a. Dung Tran and Michael Carey | Jacqueline Chew and Jonathan Montaldo | |
| a. "To Be Known as You Are": Thomas Merton and the Countercultural Call of St. Benedict’s 12 Steps of Humility | a. Why Merton took Arendt’s Defense of the Active Life as a Defense of the Contemplative Life | a. Strangers and Aliens No Longer: The Experience of Monastic Hospitality and Community in a Hybrid Graduate Leadership Education Course | "We Are Already One" : Musical Meditation and Wisdom of Thomas Merton | |
| b. Michael Plekon | b. Anthony Nuccio | b. Ellyn Crutcher | ||
| b. Merton: Stranger or One at Home—A Paradox and Image of Faithful Living | b. The Importance of Contemplation in a Broken World: Jägerstätter and Merton as Strangers in the "Post-Christian" World | b. The "Houses of Prayer" Concept from Vision to Reality | ||
| 8 PM | Plenary: Bonnie Thurston - "Inward Stranger? Challenge, Coordinates, and Consequences" | |||
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| Thursday, June 24 | Virtual Connection 1 | Virtual Connection 2 | Virtual Connection 3 | Virtual Connection 4 |
| 1 PM | B1.
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B4.
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| a. William Apel | a. Daniel Horan | a. R. Zachary Karanovich | Christine Bochen | |
| a. The Strangest of the Strangers: Merton and the Hibakusha, Survivors of the A-Bomb | a. From Stranger to ‘Sister’ and ‘Mother’: Insights from Thomas Merton’s Relationship with Naomi Burton Stone | a. No New Strangers: Thomas Merton on Conversion without Contempt | Awakening in the Dark: Reading "Day of a Stranger" | |
| b. Dominiek Lootens | b. Glenn Loughrey | b. Matthew Reid | ||
| b. Byzantium, Paris and Louisville: Thomas Merton, Natural Contemplation and Orthodox Pastoral Theology | b. Merton and the Aboriginal Ways of Seeing | b. Happiness: Contemplative Influence on Contemporary Culture | ||
| 4 PM | C1.
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C2.
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C4.
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| a. Christopher Pramuk | a. Fred Herron | a. Emilie Grosvenor | a. Carol Lenox | |
| a. She Who Dwells Among Us: Merton and Melissa Raphael on Theology After, and In, Auschwitz | a. Are We There Yet? Thomas Merton as Experience, Text and Event | a. Feminist Theological Thought and the Spirituality of Merton: Reflecting upon His Relationship with M. | a. Are We Strangers to the Birds? | |
| b. Kathleen Tarr | b. Stephanie Redekop | b. William Simpson | b. Jennifer Trently | |
| b. On the Necessity of Pilgrimage and Traveling with the Inward Stranger | b. Obliged to Speak: Thomas Merton’s Literary Essays and 1960s Crisis Discourse | b. "Jerked clean out of the habitual vision of things": Divided Self and Conversion of Manners in Merton’s Spiritual Autobiography | b. Visio Divina: Using Merton’s Art to Reflect on Stranger | |
| 8 PM | Plenary: Andrew Prevot - "Contemplation in Times of Crisis" | |||
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Friday, June 25 |
Virtual Connection 1 | Virtual Connection 2 | Virtual Connection 3 | Virtual Connection 4 |
| 1 PM | D1.
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D2.
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D3.
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D4.
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| a. Kathleen Baker | a. Mary Frances Coady | a. Christopher Fici | a. Eric Martin | |
| a. These Thickets of Symbols: A Place to Search for the Stranger | a. "Bring Tom to Us!": Merton and the Trappist Renewal from Penitential to Contemplative | a. A Circle Whose Circumference Is Nowhere and Whose Center Is Everywhere: The Regenerative Ecological Vision of Thomas Merton | a. "The Moon is Shining and the Wheels are Turning": Listening to Merton’s Jazz Meditation Today | |
| b. Jamal Lyksett | b. P.E. Wilson | b. Alan Kolp | b. Paul Pynkoski | |
| b. The Knight of Faith and Solitude: Thomas Merton’s Reading of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling | b. When Solitude Becomes Overcrowded | b. A Transforming Moment: A Comparison of Thomas Merton and Illia Delio’s Pivotal Experience and Its Dynamic Implications | b. Merton as Stranger: Witness, Poetry and Protest | |
| 4 PM | E1.
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E2.
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E3.
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E4.
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| a. Patrick O'Connell | a. Elizabeth Burkemper | a. David Odorisio | Judith Valente and Br. Paul Quenon | |
| a. Merton’s Strange Archipelago: Poetic Responses to a Prosaic Journey | a. Countering "Strangerness" in Late Capitalism | a. "Yes to Everyone": Thomas Merton’s Radical Ecumenism and Inter-Monastic Mysticism | Thomas Merton and the Art of Letter-Writing | |
| b. Robert Whalen | b. Jim Robinson | |||
| b. Noir, Hip, Beat, Cool: Thomas Merton as Outsider | b. The "Age of Rosemarys": Merton's Engagement with Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Haughton | |||
| 8 PM | Plenary: Marie Dennis - Nonviolence: Essential to a Laudato Si' Future | |||
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| Saturday, June 26 | Virtual Connection 1 | Virtual Connection 2 | Virtual Connection 3 | Virtual Connection 4 |
| 1 PM | F1.
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F2.
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F4.
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| a. Marjorie Gourlay | a. Gary Hall | Douglas Hertler | a. Aaron Kerr and Emily Muntean | |
| a. Merton and the Refugee: Exploring a Contemplative Approach towards Hospitality to the Perceived “Other”- Syrians in Scotland | a. The Particularity of Strangers and the Practice of Availability: In Memory of Herman Hanekamp | Merton and Me, Haunted By Intimacy: Friendship, Freedom, and the Fire of God's Love | a. Placing Merton in Ministry and Teaching with Undergraduates | |
| b. Gordon Oyer | b. Gray Matthews | b. Thomas Malewitz | ||
| b. Imperfect Knowing: Merton's Inward Stranger in Letters with Blacks | b. Unmasking the Contemplative | b. Secret Path: Using Poetry as a Catalyst for Reconciliation in Response to National Tragedy | ||
| 4 PM |
David Golemboski, Presidential Address Louie Awards and Conference Discussion |
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| 8 PM | Plenary: Carrie Newcomer and Parker Palmer - "Encountering the Stranger: Finding the Hidden Wholeness in a Broken World" | |||
| Closing
Prayer by Christopher Pramuk |
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