LoginCATHOLIC STUDIES CONFERENCE
In Search of the Good in the World:
Scholarly Perspectives in Conversation
St. Thomas More College
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
March 11 - 12, 2011
Inquiries to: ctstconference@stmcollege.ca
This conference will bring together professional scholars and students from various disciplines within the interdisiplinary field of Catholic Studies, as well as several directors of Catholic Studies programs in Canada. It is intended to promote research in areas of Catholic Studies and to highlight interdisciplinary programs in Catholic Studies at Canadian universities, including the University of Saskatchewan, where a Catholic Studies minor was formally approved in February 2010. The two-day conference will feature a panel discussion on the current state of Catholic Studies programs in Canadian universities, and four sessions on the theme of the conference - the concept of the "good" and its pursuit in the world - as understood in various disciplines (e.g., Economics, Political Studies, Philosophy) within Catholic Studies.
The theme of "the good and its pursuit in the world" is both perennial and contemporary. We have chosen a theme on which we think Catholic Studies scholars have something disticintive to say. On the one hand, the theme of "the good" invites theoretical (e.g., philosophical and theological) treatments of a good that may be transcendental and removed from immediate human experience. Catholic thought, however, has always insisted that even a transcendant good must be manifest and "incarnate" if it is to make a difference. Thus, linking the good to its pursuit in the world calls for more practical considerations of the social, political, and economic conditions under which we experience goodness or its deprivations.
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 We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.”— John Henry Cardinal Newman |
