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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
          GLB 105 Population and Development
          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