2008 Conference

Register

To register please use the following link: Edith Stein Conference Registration Page

Schedule

Friday
12:00-1:00	Registration and Introduction
1:00-2:00	Dawn Eden: The Thrill of the Chaste
2:15-3:15	Dr Mango: Femininity Caroline Murphy: Eating Disorder
3:30-4:30	Dr. Mango: Masculinity Anamaria Scaperlanda: Simone De Beauviour
4:45-5:45	Fr. Schu: Theology of the Body
6:00	Bishop D'Arcy idND mass
7:00	Pizza Party w/ the Bishop and Q&A
9:00	Artistic Presentation
Saturday
9:00-10:00	Fr. Connor: Dealing with an Impure World: How to Act in a Sexualized Culture Vocation Panel: Anni Duna, Monica Korson, Paul Nistler, Andy Sherwood, and Catherine Twetten Meghan Lueck: Women in the Media Caitlin Dweyer: Working Mothers
10:00-11:00	Dr. Groves: Sex and Vatican City Amelia Marcum: Sexual Assault
11:15-12:30	Sr. Ann Astell: Biography of Eidth Stein-relationship to Carmelite order and feminine sense of space in comparison to Virginia Wolfe's Room of Ones Own Kelly Florek: Creighton Model and NFP Mr. Korson: Fatherhood
12:30-2:00	Luncheon (on your own)
2:00-3:00	Barbara Nicolosi: Hollywood and Effects of Sexual Revolution Fred and Lisa Everett: Chastity in Marriage Ruth Lassiter: Education
3:15-4:30	Sr. Mary Angelica: Edith Stein: Feminine Nature and Feminine Virtue
5:00	Mass at the Basilica
6:30	Banquet

Speakers

Ann Astell	Ann W. Astell was Professor of English at Purdue University prior to her appointment as Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2007. The recipient of an N.E.H. Fellowship and of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, she is the author of six books: The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (1990), Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (1994), Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (1996), Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (1999), Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (2003), and Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages (2006). She is the editor of four essay collections: Divine Representations: Postmodernism and Spirituality (1994), Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models (2000), (with Bonnie Wheeler) Joan of Arc and Spirituality (2003), and (with Justin Jackson), Levinas and Medieval Literature, English and Rabbinic (forthcoming, Duquesne University Press). A Board member for the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, she also serves as executive secretary of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.
Kelly Florek	Kelly Terese Florek is a clinical professor of nursing at Purdue University - Calumet. Kelly received her baccalaureate degree in nursing in 2001 from Purdue University - Lafayette and her Masters degree in nursing in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her background is in OB and women’s health with a particular interest in infertility and Natural Family Planning (NFP). She is certified as a Creighton Model Fertility Care Practitioner and currently teaches NFP in the Gary diocese. She resides in Merrillville Indiana and enjoys being an active member in her diocese young adult ministry.
Dr. Charles Groves	Dr. Charles A. Groves, MD is a family practice doctor in La Porte, Indiana. Charlie received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1986 from Knox College and his Doctorate in 1990 from Indiana University Medical School. He and his wife of 19 years, Dr. Valerie C. Maguire, reside in Three Oaks, MI. Charlie is involved with the music ministry of Youth for Truth, winner of EWTN’s Annual This Rock Video Award and plays the bass with Dr. Groovy and the Soul Surgeons (available for weddings and bar mitzvahs).
Barbara Nicolosi	Originally from Newport, RI, Barbara R. Nicolosi has a B.A. from the Great Books program at Magdalen College in Warner, NH, and an M.A. in film from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She is a screenwriter and the Executive Director of The Writers Table at Origin Entertainment in Santa Monica, CA. Miss Nicolosi was the Founder and currently the Chairman of the Board of the prestigious Act One program which trains Christians for mainstream careers in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Miss Nicolosi has worked in a variety of capacities in the entertainment industry as a script and story consultant, a creative executive, a marketing consultant, a theatrical producer and as a film critic. She is co-editor of the baker Books 2006 release Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith and Culture. Miss Nicolosi has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, a juror for the Humanitas Prize for screenwriting, and has served on film juries for the Anegelus Awards student film festival, the Catholics in Media Awards and the Gabriel Awards. An adjunct professor of screenwriting at Azusa Pacific University, Barbara also teaches theology and ethics of entertainment at the Los Angeles Film Study Center.
Fr. Walter Schu, LC	Legionary Father Walter Schu was ordained a priest in 1994. He earned his STL in moral theology summa cum laude from Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, specializing in marriage and family. He has taught logic, epistemology, metaphysics and moral theology in Rome. Father Schu currently teaches at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and Humanities College in Cheshire. He is author of The Splendor of Love, on John Paul II’s theology of the body. Father Schu has given various conferences in the United States and Canada on the theology of the body and written numerous articles on this topic, referred to by George Weigel as “a theological time bomb,” which opens compelling new perspectives on the depth and beauty of married love.
Sr. Mary Angelica
Fr. Martin Connor
Caitlin Dweyer
Dawn Eden
Fred and Lisa Everett
Gerald Korson
Ruth Lassiter
Dr. Philip Mango
Amelia Marcum
Caroline Murphy
Anamaria Scaperlanda-Ruiz