Ethics in Leadership

 HOPE: A Conference on the Theological Virtues 

The D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership 
Viterbo University 
La Crosse, Wisconsin 
March 29-31, 2012

Thursday, March 29    Fine Arts Center 

7:00pm           Keynote Lecture        Fine Arts Center Main Theatre 

Amy Dickinson          “Second Chances, Fresh Starts and New Beginnings: Embracing the Fine Art of the Do-Over” 

8:30pm           Reception and Book Signing 

Friday, March 30        Reinhart Center 

7:30am            Registration/Continental Breakfast 

8:00am            Welcome         RC 107 

8:15-9:30        Session I         RC 107           

#1        Peter R. Gathje, Memphis Theological Seminary 

            “Hope and the Practice of Hospitality” 

 #2        Sara Cook, Viterbo University 

            Tom Thibodeau, Viterbo University 

            “Leadership and Hope” 

  Session Ib       RC 127           

  #3        Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 

            “Is Hope Also a Moral Virtue?” 

#4        John Tutuska, University of Dallas 

            “Holding Fast in Hope to the Good, Beautiful, and Just in Plato” 

9:45-11:00am Session IIa      RC 107               

 #5        Patricia Bruininks, Whitworth University  

           “Defining and Measuring Hope” 

  #6        Roland Bluhm, Technische Universität Dortmund 

            “Hope and Wishful Thinking: Distinct, But Intertwined” 

Session IIb      RC 127           

  #7        Richard Geenen, Westminster College  

            “Harnessing Hope for the Existence of God: A Response to Lawrence Crocker’s ‘New Proofs’” 

 #8        Stephen W. Minnema, Viterbo University  

            “Calvin’sHope: Dynamic but Deficient” 

11:15-12:30    Session IIIa    RC 107            

 #9        S. Joshua Thomas, St. John’s University  

            “Does Hope Have Moral Force? Reflections on a Virtue” 

   #10      Richard A. S. Hall, Fayetteville State University 

            “Josiah Royce’s Great Hope”  

  Session IIIb    RC 127             

#11      Samantha Merry, Violetta Iguchi, James Kerchove, Megan Frank, Debra Murray, and Gary Robbins, Viterbo University 

             A Panel Presentation on “Identifying and Igniting Hope in Mental Health Counseling” 

1:45-2:45pm   Session IV      RC 107  

#12      Scott Moore, Baylor University 

               “Hope, Consolation, and Fantasy”

3:00-4:15pm   Session Va      RC 107             

#13      James G. Hanink, Loyola Marymount University 

            “PuttingHope to the Test” 

#14      Mark Moes, Grand Valley State University 

            “Cultural Perspectives on Hope and Despair: Josef Pieper and Charles Taylor” 

Session Vb      RC 127             

 #15      Mary Lenzi, University of Wisconsin-Platteville 

            “A Pragmatist Lexicon andIts Usefulness for Interpreting Hope” 

#16      Lyon Evans, Viterbo University 

             “‘Miss Lonelyhearts, Help Me!’: The Advice Columnist as Christ Figure in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts” 

Saturday, March 31    Reinhart Center 

8:15-9:30am   Session VIa    RC 107             

#17      Michael Lamb, Princeton University 

            “Hope and Its Semblances”    

#18      Adrienne Martin, University of Pennsylvania 

           “Normative Hope” 

 Session VIb  RC 127 

 #19      Jeffrey Gold, East Tennessee State University  

            “Is There a Role for Hope in Zen?” 

#20      Lucy Slinger, Viterbo University 

            “HOPE: the Essential for True Sustainability Praxis” 

9:45-11:00      Session VIIa   RC 107            

#21      Lewis Pearson, University of Saint Francis 

            “Aquinas on the Theological Virtue of Hope” 

#22      Jeff Stolz, Viterbo University 

             “TwentyMinutes on a Friday Night: the Adulteress, the Inmate, and the Theatre  

 Session VIIb   RC 127            

#23      Michael Lopez-Kaley, Viterbo University 

              “Hope in Forgiveness: Solidarity as a Model for Genuine Reconciliation” 

#24      Jessica Gosnell, St. Ambrose University 

               “The Value of Hope in Conflict Transformation 

11:15-12:30    Session VIIIa RC 107                                    

#25      Pedro Alexis Tabensky, Rhodes University (South Africa) 

            “Agape or Philia? A Critical Evaluation of Gabriel Marcel’s Conception of Hope”    

#26      Ormond Smythe, Antioch University Seattle 

              “Hope and the Pursuit of Happiness: Notes in Praise of Melancholy”   

Session VIIIb RC 127            

#27      Jo Ann Oravec, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

              “Narratives of Hope for Victims of Bullying: Online Support Groups, Youtube Videos, and Social Media”    

#28      Debra Gillman, Viterbo University 

             “Meet Me at the Intersection of Inspiration and Action: A Caregiver’s Journey through the Promise and the Perils of Hope” 

1:45-2:45pm   Session IX      RC 107            

#29      Rebecca DeYoung, Calvin College  

            “Practicing Hope” 

3:00-4:15pm   Session Xa      RC 107            

#30      Juliana Vazquez, Marquette University 

            “Aquinas and Lonergan on the Hope of the Children of God: Hope and Divine Filiation in the Shift from a Metaphysical to a Methodical Theology”    

#31      Joseph Tadie, St. Mary’s University 

            “Hope and Fear: To Be Beyond or To Be Between?”    

 Session Xb      RC 127            

#32      Bob Reuschlein, Lakeland College 

            “Keeping Hope Alive” 

#33      Keith Knutson, Viterbo University 

            “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dream of a Post-Racial Society”