The 30th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference!
ACS News — Posted by Richard Aleman on May 10, 2011CHESTERTONIANS!!!
Join us for the 30th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference
“Poet and Prophet”
August 4-6, 2011
Sheraton Westport Plaza
St. Louis, Missouri
PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 15!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4
7 pm Welcome
Dale Ahlquist
(President of the American Chesterton Society)
The Poetic Prophet, The Prophetic Poet
8:30 pm
Christopher Check
(Executive Vice President of the Rockford Institute)
Lepanto: The Battle and the Poem
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5
9 am
Carl Hasler
(Professor of Philosophy at Collin College)
Chesterton: A Franciscan Thomist?
10:30 am
Robert Moore-Jumonville
(Professor of Religion at Spring Arbor University and columnist for Gilbert Magazine)
Paying Attention: The Poetry of Prayer.
1 pm
Dr. Pasquale Accardo
(Professor of Developmental Research in Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of several books on medicine, literature, and detective fiction)
The Christian Epic of Freedom – Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse
2:30 pm
Redd Griffin
(Instructor at Triton College and founding director of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation)
Battling for Elfland: Chesterton and William Butler Yeats
4:00 pm
Geir Hasnes
(Chesterton’s Bibliographer)
The White Elephant: The Inconvenience of Being Chestertonian
7 pm
Leah Darrow
(Former Contestant on the reality TV show America’s Next Top Model)
The Mysticism of Modesty and the Poetry of Purity
8:30 pm
A Performance of Magic
A play by G.K. Chesterton
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6
9 am
(A Mystery Speaker!)
Chesterton and Father Brown
10:30 am
Eleanor Bourg Donlon (who is getting married on June 3, and will then be known as Eleanor Bourg Nicholson)
(Assistant executive editor of Dappled Things and assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review, and editor of the Ignatius Critical Edition of Dracula)
Damned Romantics: Chesterton, Shelley, Poetry, and of course, Vampyres
1 PM
Breakout Sessions
- Women and Chesterton
- Men and Chesterton
- Young people and Chesterton
- A Discussion of Chesterton’s Poetry
- A Discussion of the play Magic
3 pm
Dr. Tod Worner
(Doctor of Internal Medicine, and Lecturer on the History of World War II)
Cigar-Smoking Prophets: Chesterton and Churchill
5 pm
Mass
7 pm
Closing Banquet
8 pm
Traditions: Jokes, Toasts, Songs, Clerihews, and other Fun.
PRE-REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE HERE
PRE-REGISTER FOR ROOMS AT THE SHERATON WESTPORT LAKESIDE CHALET HERE
AND FOR THE BANQUET HERE
The only meal that must be pre-registered for is the Saturday evening banquet. The cost is $50 per person and includes the meal and wine. It must be pre-registered for separately. All conference attendees are urged to come to the banquet, which is one of the great highlights of the conference. There is no need to pre-register for the other meals. Guests may choose from 15 different restaurants, of all varieties, on the grounds of the Sheraton Westport Plaza.
The cost for the conference is $50 for all three days, or $25 per day. Special student rates are available. The special rate on rooms at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet is $89 per night.
Pre-registration ends July 15th. You may still register for the conference after this date, but rooms and banquet tickets are subject to availability. The conference registration fee after July 15th is $65 for all three days, or $35 per day.
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3 Comments
Oh I am sad to have to miss this. I will certainly catch it again if and when the Conference comes back to the Northwest! I will most definitely pass the scheduled info on to potential Chesterton enthusiasts on Facebook.
What would Chesterton have thought of social networks in general?
Cece, I am sorry you cannot make it, and I thank you for spreading the news on FB. I don’t know what cities are scheduled in the future but I will find out, if you like.
In answer to your question, while I think Chesterton would have preferred face-to-face interaction (heck, we all do), he would have enjoyed online social networking quite a bit — while recognizing its limits (i.e., it’s not face-to-face).
Anyone who wants to is welcome to chime in on this too.
Chesterton would probably encourage the use of social networks in as much as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, Pope Bendedict XVI (and I suspect Pope John Paul II) has quoted Chesterton (I only know of one instance. But, I’m sure both Holy Father’s have probably quoted Chesterton on many occassions.) On the other hand, I imagine, Chesterton would have pointed out the ill-presentation of social networking by skeptics (and those who would incorrectly use such mediums in as much as Hudge and Gudge seemingly working paradoxicaly together for the homelessness of Mr. Jones) who would grant all the mis-uses and abuses to affirm the reasons not to have a network of social forms of communication. Afterall, didn’t Chesteron use the social network of his time when he would write letter to his wife and find she received it by the time he arrived home?