Albert the Great, Educator
Symposium in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of College of St. Albert the Great
In 1932, the friars of the Western Dominican Province formally incorporated in the State of California their new seminary in the Rockridge section of Oakland, which they called the College of St. Albert the Great. Today it is known as Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Join us as we celebrate seventy-five years of ministry and study in the service of truth.
November 27, 2007
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
at the
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
2301 Vine Street Berkeley, CA 94708
Admission is FREE, but registration is required
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Keynote Speakers:
Speaker Bios
M. Michèle Mulchahey
Title:
"The Studium at Cologne and Its Role Within Early Dominican Education"
M. Michèle Mulchahey has recently been appointed the first recipient of the Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. She holds a double B.A. in Biology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Rice University. She earned M.A. and Ph.D. graduate degrees in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, and the M.S.L. from the Pontifical Institute. She is one of only twelve persons ever to be granted the M.S.D., a special pontifical doctorate in Mediaeval Studies, and has held fellowships at the American Academy (Rome), and the Villa I Tatti (Florence) – the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies – where she pursued research into the Dominican Order, its schools, and the techniques used by the Dominican friars to communicate their learning. Her landmark book, First the Bow is Bent in Study...." Dominican Education Before 1350, was published in 1999. Current research projects include a book-length study of the Dominican friar Remigio de' Girolami, teacher of Dante Aleghieri, as revealed through some newly discovered manuscripts; and another on Jacopo Passavanti, a popular preacher in late-medieval Florence who was responsible for bringing the church of Santa Maria Novella and its cloister to completion.
Walter Senner, OP
Title: "St. Albert as founder of a theological school of thought”
Fr. Walter Senner, OP, entered the Dominican Order in 1968, where he pursued studies in philosophy, theology, and communication and library science at several institutions, including the Dominican house of studies in Walberberg, and the universities of Bonn, Köln, and Louvain (PhD in 1989). He has served as university chaplain at Berlin (1982-1989), regent of studies of the Province of Teutonia (1990-2000), and as a member of the Leonine Commission for editing the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (1998-2005). Since 2006, he has served in Rome as professor of philosophy at St. Thomas Aquinas University (Angelicum). His main fields of research include Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart and the Rhineland Dominican school.
Thomas Joseph White, OP
Title: “Dominican Ideals of Study in the World of our Time”
Prior to his entry into the Dominican Order in 2003, Thomas Joseph White, OP, received his undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from Brown University, and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he focused on modern Thomistic philosophical theology. Thomas has published articles on Christology in journals such as The Thomist and Nova et Vetera, and is currently working on a manuscript on natural knowledge of God, entitled: Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Modern Thomistic Natural Theology. He resides at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.
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