Thursday, June 2
2:00-4:00pm
STUDENT PANEL “Fresh Perspectives on Past and Future”
Chair: Luke C. Sheahan, President, Academy of Philosophy and Letters
“I Love my Patria More than My Soul’: Morality and Myth in the Works of Machiavelli”
Thomas Holman, Catholic University of America
“Does the Past Dictate the Future? Competing Conservative Views of the French Revolution”
Jefferson Henry, Middle Tennessee State University
“From Tripartite to Bipolar: On the Loss of Sentiments in a Democratic Age”
Caleb Knox, Patrick Henry College
“Beauvoir and Benedict on the Politics of Death and Dying”
Harry Scherer, Mount St. Mary’s University
“American Catholic Intellectuals and Francoist Spain”
Paul Macrae, Catholic University of America
5:00-6:00pm Registration
6:00-7:00pm Reception/Cash Bar
Welcome: Luke C. Sheahan, President, Academy of Philosophy and Letters
7:00pm-9:00 Dinner
Irving Babbitt Award Lecture
Introduction: Michael Federici, Middle Tennessee State University
“How the Humanities Could Have Saved American Conservatism”
Claes G. Ryn, Recipient of the Irving Babbitt Award
9:00-11:00pm Reception
Friday, June 3
8:00-8:30am Late Registration
8:30-10:30am
PANEL 1 “After Losing Your Soul: Lessons from Philosophy, Classics, and Letters”
Chair: Eric Adler, University of Maryland
“America’s Meiji Moment”
Zachary Yost, Yost Post
“Fishing for Hope in a Sea of Despair: Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Darkness that Discloses Light”
Michael Federici, Middle Tennessee State University
“Repairing the Ruins”: Reclaiming T. S. Eliot’s Nehemian Vision for Our Time
Gage Crowder, Providence Classical School
“Today’s Aberrant Sexual Politics, in the Light of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, in the Light of Revolutions in General”
Harley Price, University of Toronto
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45am-12:45pm
PANEL 2 “After Disorder: Historical and Political Reactions to Disorder”
Chair: William Byrne, St. John’s University
“Did Tocqueville Foresee America’s Current Malaise?”
Gene Callahan, New York University
“Nehemiah’s Job: Entrepreneurial Rebuilding”
Steven Alan Samson, Independent Scholar
“The Constitution of Order”
Ben Peterson, Abilene Christian University
“The Restoration of the Imago Dei“
Scott J. Masson, Tyndale University
12:45-1:00 pm Break
1:00-2:30pm
Luncheon Discussion: “Nationalism and Pluralism”
Introduction: Luke C. Sheahan, President, Academy of Philosophy and Letters
Speakers: Timon Cline, Westminster Theological Seminary
Samuel Goldman, The George Washington University
2:30-4:30pm
PANEL 3 “The Virtuous Scholar and the Virtuous People: The Legacy of George Carey”
Chair: Justin Litke, The Catholic University of America
“George Carey and the Fourteenth Amendment”
Jesse Merriam, Patrick Henry College
“The Virtuous People and the Extended Republic”
Jason Ross, Liberty University
“Matter and Form: Kendall and Carey on the Federalist”
Justin Litke, The Catholic University of America
“Do ‘We, the People’ Want Self Government? Carey on Deliberation, Equality and ‘Rights Thinking’”
Robert A. Schadler, American Foreign Policy Council
6:00pm-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm-9:00 Dinner
Dinner Lecture
Introduction: Shaun Rieley, The American Conservative
“Building Dystopia: What Went Wrong in Modern Architecture“
Justin Shubow, President, National Civic Art Society
9:00-11:00pm Reception
Saturday, June 4
9:00-10:00am Member Meeting Breakfast
For APL members
10:00am-12:00pm
PANEL 4 “After Disorder: Rebuilding Our Institutions”
Chair: Rev. C. R. Wiley, The Theology Pugcast and New Saint Andrews College
“Building on an Old Foundation”
Joseph Pipa, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
“Gazing, Inquiring, and Dwelling: The Beauty of Wisdom”
Gregory Wilbur, New College Franklin
““Evangelical Christianity and Protestant Political Theology”
Ben Dunson, American Reformer
12:30-2:00pm Meeting of the Board of Directors and Officers
The Academy of Philosophy & Letters 