International
Association for Anselm Studies (IAAS)
READING ANSELM: CONTEXT
AND CRITICISM
Boston College
27-30 July 2015
An international conference organised
under the aegis of the International Association for Anselm Studies and the
Institute for Liberal Arts, Boston College, with sponsorship from Fairfield
University, the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham
University, and the Philosophy and Theology Departments at Boston College.
Monday,
27 July
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From 10.00
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Registration
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13.30-14.00
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Conference
Welcome
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14.00-15.30
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Plenary
Session 1 - Stokes 195S
William Aird - The silence amid the shouting: Archbishop Anselm at the court of the Norman king |
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15.30-16.00
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Coffee
Break
PLEASE NOTE THAT - a. sessions are in Stokes 325N |
b. sessions are in Stokes 228N |
16.00-17.30
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Parallel
Session 1
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1a. Friends and Friendships
Chair – Dallas Denery |
1b. Augustinianisms
Chair
–
Stephen
Brown
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16.00-16.30
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Thomas Barrows - St Anselm and Gundulf of Rochester: Brothers of Bec, One in Heart and Soul
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Kevin White - Two
Beginnings: The Prologues of Augustine's Confessions and Anselm's Proslogion
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16.30-17.00
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Hollie Devanney - The inclusion
of women in Saint Anselm’s friendship Network
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Kyle Hubbard - A Faithful
Reading?: Anselm’s Monologion
and Augustine’s De Trinitate
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17.00-17.30
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No paper
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Michael Vendsel - Augustine's De
Libero Arbitrio and Anselm's Argument
in Proslogion 1-4
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Tuesday, 28 July
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9.30-11.00
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Parallel Session 2
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2a. Reading the Incarnation
Chair - Burcht Pranger |
2b. Anselm’s Contemporaries
Chair - Grover Zinn
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9.30-10.00
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David L. Whidden - The Proslogion, Gilbert Crispin, and the Cur Deus
homo: Anselm’s Student and the Problems
of the Incarnation
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Hiroko Yamazaki - Anselm and Odo
of Cambrai on God and Evil
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10.00-10.30
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James Wetzel - Remoto Christo:
Anselm’s experiment in Cur deus homo
and an Augustinian aside
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Bernd Goebel - Anselmian themes
and anti-Anselmian stances in Ralph of Battle’s philosophical theology
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10.30-11.00
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Gene Fendt - Anselm's Cur
Deus Homo: A Meditation from the Point
of View of the Sinner
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Bernard van Vreeswijk - Justice in the works of Anselm and the
works of Gilbert Crispin
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee Break
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11.30-13.00
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Parallel Session 3
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3a. Finding God
Chair - Denys Turner |
3b. Order and Disorder
Chair - William Aird |
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11.30-12.00
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Ian Logan - Per rationalem
mentem: Anselm's turn to the subject
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Jana Pacyna - (Re)counting
History: Anselm of Canterbury and the English Investiture Conflicts:
Perspectives of the Historical Network Analysis
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12.00-12.30
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Jonathan McIntosh - Speaking of Possibilities:
The Theistic Actualism of Anselm’s Divine Locutio
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Sally Vaughn - Leading
Everything Irregular in England Back to Due Order: The Probable Theories
behind Archbishop Anselm's Political Endeavors
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12.30-13.00
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Karen Sullivan - False,
Doubtful, and Uncertain Things: Fictions of Lancelot and Anselm’s Proof of
God
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Karen Bollermann - Anselm’s
Second ‘Life’: Eadmer’s Saint becomes John of Salisbury’s Defensor ecclesiae
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-16.00
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Parallel
Session 4
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4a. Salvation, Love and Truth
Chair - Boyd Taylor Coolman |
4b. Reading the Proslogion
Chair - Ian Logan |
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14.30-15.00
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Ian Levy - The Soteriology of
Bruno the Carthusian (1030-1101)
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Christian Tapp - What, in the
end, is “the one argument” (unum argumentum)?
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15.00-15.30
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Devin O'Leary - Anselm's
Influence on William of St. Thierry's Theology of Pneumatological Love
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Juergen Scherb - One God but two Concepts
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15.30-16.00
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Christian Brouwer - How did
Robert and Thomas read Anselm’s definition of Truth?
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Thomas Losoncy - Does Anselm's Proslogion
argument abandon Augustine on a key
point?
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16.15-17.45
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Plenary Session 2 - Stokes 195S
Burcht Pranger - Pondus Dei: Anselmian Poetics |
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18.00-18.30
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IAAS General
Meeting - Stokes 195S - All welcome to attend
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Wednesday, 29 July
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9.30 - 11.00
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Parallel Session 5
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5a. Reason and the Bec Curriculum
Chair - Margaret Healy-Varley |
5b. 19th Century Voices
Chair - Giles Gasper |
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9.30-10.00
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Jacob Archambault - The Teaching
of the Trivium at Bec and its Bearing upon the Anselmian Program of fides quaerens intellectum
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Emery De Gaal - he Rediscovery
of Anselmian Thought in the 19th Century: A Portrayal of Johann
Adam Möhler’s Reading of Anselm
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10.00-10.30
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David Liberto - Verbum in
Anselm's Monologion
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John Slotemaker - Reading Anselm
in the 19th and early 20th Century: Adolph von Harnack and Protestant
Historiography
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10.30-11.00
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No paper
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No paper
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11.00-11.30
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Coffee Break
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11.30-13.00
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Parallel Session 6
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6a. Monastic Cultures
Chair - Eric Weiskott |
6b. Later Scholastic Readings
Chair - John Slotemaker |
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11.30-12.00
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George Younge - Old English
literary culture and the circle of Saint Anselm
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Alexander Stöpfgeshoff - What
makes us deserving of moral praise: Godfrey of Fontaines' reading of De Veritate XII
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12.00-12.30
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Stephanie Britton - Reading Eadmer of Canterbury in light of Anselm: the
influence of Anselm’s political philosophy
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Bernd Goehring - Secundum
regulum Anselmi: Henry of Ghent's Reception of an Anselmian Principle
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12.30-13.00
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Constante Marabelli - The inner
life and its metaphors in the Memorials of St. Anselm
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Severin Kitanov - ‘Beatitudo est
sufficiencia sine omni indigentia’: St. Anselm’s Compositional Model of
Beatitude and its Reception in Late Medieval Scholastic Accounts of Beatitude
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-16.00
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Parallel Session 7
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7a. Ethics in Theory and Practice
Chair - Sally Vaughn
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7b. Meditating
on Anselm
Chair - Robert Stanton |
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14.30-15.00
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Tomas Ekenberg - Anselm and the
Place of Happiness in Ethics
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Greg Sadler - Divine Justice,
Mercy, and Intercession: The Innovative Structure of Anselm’s Prayers and
Meditations
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15.00-15.30
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Thomas Ball - Anselm, Violence
and Warfare: The Differing Roles of a Prince of the Church and a Prince of
the State
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Margaret Healy-Varley - The
Admonitio morienti and Meditatio ad concitandum timorem in vernacular
compilations
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15.30-16.00
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Samu Niskanen - Abbot Anselm and
his priories
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Paulo Martines - Les Méditations
d’Anselme de Cantorbéry
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16.15-17.45
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Plenary Session 3 - Stokes 195S
Nicholas Watson - 'Multi vocati pauci vero electi': Affective Spirituality Reconsidered |
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18.30-21.00
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Banquet
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Thursday, 30 July
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9.30-10.30
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Buffet Breakfast
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10.30-12.00
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Parallel Session 8
8a. Will and Freedom Chair - James Wetzel |
8b. Adapting Anselm Chair - Ian Levy |
10.30-11.00
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Eileen Sweeney - Anselm on Evil and Eudaimonism
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Stephen Brown - Anselm and the Anticipation of Declarative Theology
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11.00-11.30
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Jules vanSchaijik - Uncovering
an important ambiguity in Anselm's affectio commodi
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Giles
E. M. Gasper - Anselm and Grosseteste: the Body of the Cosmos
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11.30-12.00
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Roberto Limonta & Riccardo Fedriga – ‘Omnis volens
ipsum suum velle vult’: on a theory of incontinentia in Anselm's thought
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Daniel Coman - The Cistercians and the assimilation of Anselm in the late 14th
century – study case of Questio in vesperiis fratriis Chunradi de Ebrako
(†1399)
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12.00-13.30
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Lunch
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13.30-15.00
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Parallel Session 9
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9a. Ontologies
Chair - Jean-Luc Solére |
9b. Modern Readings
Chair - Eileen Sweeney |
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13.30-14.00
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Christian Göbel - What was
‘Anselm’s Discovery’? Reading Anselm’s Soteriology in an Ontological Context
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Maggie Labinski - But Is It
Abuse? Feminist Readings of Sadomasochism in Cur Deus Homo
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14.00-14.30
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Cyril Guérette - Semi(ont)ology:
The Unity of Beauty and Verity in Anselm's Theology
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Luca Vettorello - For a New
Interpretation of Saint Anselm’s Proslogion
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14.30-15.00
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Kevin Staley - Anselm and
Hartshorne on Being and Being-in-Relation
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Gavin Ortlund - Beyond ‘the
Problem of Anselm:’ A Fresh Look at Anselm of Canterbury’s Theological
Epistemology
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15.00-15.30
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Coffee Break
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15.30-17.30
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Plenary Session 4 with BCHT - Gasson Hall 100
Denys Turner - Gödel's Reformulation of Anselm's Proslogion Argument: Valid but Unsound? Marcia Colish - Response to Plenary Papers/Lectures |
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17.30-18.30
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Joint IAAS and BCHT
conference reception - Gasson Hall 100
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