|
Modern Image and
Catholic Truth series
Modern man has a positive image of himself that has been
shaped and very effectively propagandized since the time
of the Renaissance. The Roman Forum’s Modern Image
and Catholic Truth series explores the gap between
this image and the true predicament in which both the
individual and contemporary society as a whole now find
themselves imprisoned. This
year’s series began in November with a conference called
The Sleep of Reason, designed to underline the
fact that modern naturalism ends with the destruction of
the rational in man, achieved in a variety of different
ways depending upon the particular approaches of the
thinkers and activists supporting it.
The Glass of Absinthe and The Rules of the Game were originally intended to be two separate conferences---the
first focusing on the destructive aspects of the
naturalist separation of the individual from society and
his own past; the second on the intellectual, artistic,
psychological and socio-political obstacles placed in
the path of identification of the disease that afflicts
us. These have now been combined into one session--- the
last Roman Forum event in the United States in the
2007-2008 academic year.
Modern Image
and Catholic Truth series
Part
Two: The Glass of Absinthe and the Rules of the Game
|
Date: |
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
|
|
Time:
|
9:00 A.M.—5:00 P.M.
|
|
Location: |
Catholic Center at New York University
238 Thompson St. (Between Washington Square
South and West 3rd St.)
A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to West 4th
St.; R to 8th St.; 6 to Bleecker
St.
|
|
Registration: |
Reserve by April 28th, 2008:
$35 for entrance and luncheon
Pay at the door: $10 for entrance alone
Checks payable to The Roman Forum
11 Carmine Street, 2C, NY, NY, 10014
|
|
Program: |
9:00-10:00 A.M.
Registration and Coffee Hour
10:00 - 11:00 A.M.
The Glass of Absinthe and the Rules of
the Game
Dr. John C. Rao---St. John’s University,
Director of Roman Forum
11:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
The Empire of Nothingness
Christopher A. Ferrara, Esq.---President,
American Catholic Lawyers Assoc.
12:15 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Luncheon
1:45 P.M.-2:45 P.M.
Citycraft and Soulcraft
Dino Marcantonio---AIA,
Architect and Lecturer at the Yale School of
Architecture
3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Reason Gone Mad
James Kalb, Esq.---International Catholic
lecturer and writer; author of:
The Tyranny of Liberalism:
Understanding and Overcoming
Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial
Tolerance, and Equality by Command
(Fall,
2008, ISI Books)
4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
General Discussion |
|
|
|
Questions? |
E-mail us! |
| |
|
