Humanitas Past Symposia
2024 Humanitas Summer Conference
Past Symposia
2024: God or the Machine: Seeking Truth in a Technological Age
Keynote Speakers
Matthew Crawford, author, Shop Class as Soulcraft and The World Beyond Your Head
Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame, author of Why Liberalism Failed
Speakers
Tara Isabella Burton, author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
Leo Clarke, author of Man and the Economy: Understanding Capitalist Economics and Social Teaching
Carlos Eire, Yale University
Denis Hector, University of Miami
D.W. Pasulka, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jane Sloan Peters, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Brett Robinson, University of Notre Dame
Joseph Vukov, Loyola University Chicago, author of The Perils of Perfection
2023: To Cultivate and to Toil
Keynote Speakers
Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Speakers
Michael Miller, Acton Institute
Michael Krom, Saint Vincent College, Benedictine Leadership Program
Tommy Heyne, Harvard Medical School
2022: The Blessings of Liberty
Speakers
Bishop James D. Conley, Bishop of Lincoln, NE
Sohrab Ahmari, Compact magazine
Erika Bachiochi, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Fr. Paul Clarke, O.P., Providence College
2021: As I Have Loved You: Exploring the Dimensions of Christian Love
Speakers
Elizabeth Lev, Art historian
Timothy P. O’Malley, University of Notre Dame
Andreas Widmer, Catholic University of America
Jason Baxter, Wyoming Catholic College
Michael Foley, Baylor University
Glenn Arbery, Wyoming Catholic College
John C. Cavadini, Catholic University of America
Chad Pecknold, Catholic University of America
Brandon McGinley, Catholic writer and speaker
Timothy Flanigan, Brown University
Erika Kidd, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
2020: Incline the Ear of Thy Heart: Rediscovering the Virtues and Practices of the Christian Life
Speakers
Sohrab Ahmari, New York Post
John Garvey, Catholic University of America
Heather King, Author of Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Therese of Lisieux
Fr. Augustine Wetta, O.S.B., Saint Louis Abbey
2019: God’s Servant First: The Meaning of Christian Citizenship
Speakers
R.R. Reno, First Things
Thomas Hibbs, University of Dallas
Leah Libresco Sargent, author of Building the Benedict Option
Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
Sr. Maria Francesca, O.P., St. Pius V School
Enrique Pallares, Casa Carmen Winery and Vineyards
Donald Cowan, Portsmouth Abbey School
2018: Faith, Family & Civilization: How the Christian Family can Renew Culture
Speakers
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York
Mary Eberstadt, Faith and Reason Institute
Jennifer Hubbard, Magnificat
Fr. Roger J. Landry, Diocese of Fall River, Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United States
R. J. Snell, Witherspoon Institute
Brandon McGinley, EWTN Publishing, author, The Joys and Challenges of Family Life: Catholic Husbands and Fathers Speak Out
2017: Being Human: Christian Perspectives on the Human Person
Speakers
Peter Kreeft, Boston College
Sr. Bethany Madonna, Sisters of Life
Ryan T. Anderson, Heritage Foundation
John F. Crosby, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Erika Bachiochi, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Br. Justin Hannegan, O.S.B., Saint Louis Abbey
Tiernan Kane, Harvard Law School
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, National Catholic Bioethics Center
William H. Rooney, Lawyer
Andrés K. Valenzuela, Robotics Developer
2016: Christian Courage in a Secular Age
Speakers
Robert George, Princeton University
Sister Constance Veit, Little Sisters of the Poor
David Mills, Ethika Politika
John Henry Crosby, Hildebrand Project
Mother Olga, Daughters of Mary of Nazareth
Fr. Benedict Kiely, Diocese of Burlington, Nasarean.org
Brandon McGinley, EWTN Publishing, author, The Joys and Challenges of Family Life: Catholic Husbands and Fathers Speak Out
2015: Like A shepherd He Will Tend His Flock: Understanding the Francis Papacy
Keynote Speaker
Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap, Archbishop of Boston
Speakers
Ross Douthat, New York Times
R.R. Reno, First Things
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Diocese of Charleston
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, New Republic
John Carr, Georgetown University
Fr. Roger Landry, Diocese of Fall River, Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United States
Christopher White
Anna Bonta Moreland
Kenneth Colston, Thomas Jefferson School
2013: Catholicism and the American Experience
Speakers
George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Bishop Thomas Tobin, Bishop Diocese of Providence
Peter Steinfels, author
Alex Mikulich, Jesuit Social Research Institute
Roger Kimball, New Criterion
Robert George, James Madison Program
Jim Forest, author
Samuel Casey Carter, Faith in the Future
2012: Modern Science, Ancient Faith
Speakers
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., Providence College
William Dembski, Discovery Institute
John F. Haught, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University
Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
Kevin O’Brien, Theater of the Word
Michael Ruse, Florida State University
Fr. Dom Pascal Scotti, O.S. B., Portsmouth Abbey
Abbot James A. Wiseman, O.S.B., Saint Anselm’s Abbey
2011: The Catholic Shakespeare?
Speakers
Glenn Arbery, Assumption College
Clare Asquith, author
Fr. David Beauregard, Our Lady of Grace Seminary
Abbot Dominic Terence Joseph Bellenger, O.S.B., Downside Abbey
John Cox, Hope College
Fr. Damian Kearney, O.S.B., Portsmouth Abbey
Gerald Kilroy, University College London
Fr. Peter Milward, S.J., Sophia University
Kevin O’Brien, Theater of the Word
Joseph Pearce, author
Dennis Taylor, Boston College
2010: Newman and the Intellectual Tradition
Speakers
Michael Bonin, Portsmouth Abbey School
Paul Griffiths, Duke Divinity School
Peter Kreeft, Boston College
Fr. Richard Duffield, Actor for the Cause of Canonization of John Henry Cardinal Newman
Deacon John Sullivan, Plymouth Court
Edward Short, writer
Patrick J. Reilly, Cardinal Newman Society
Fr. Ian Ker, Oxford University
William Morgan, architectural historian
Fr. George W. Rutler, Archdiocese of New York
Kevin O’Brien, Theater of the Word
2009: The Catholic William F. Buckley, Jr.
Speakers
Joseph Bottum, First Things
Christopher Buckley, author
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Fr. Damian Kearney, O.S.B., Portsmouth Abbey Monastery
Fr. George W. Rutler, Archdiocese of New York
Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy
Roger Kimball, New Criterion
Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online
Lee Edwards, author
Neal Freeman, Blackwell Corporation
Clark Judge, White House Writers Group
