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The Briel Symposium
Postponed
Due to the national crisis created by the Coronavirus, the Symposium has been postponed until we can safely convene. Please be safe, and we will be in contact when more information is available. St. John Henry Newman - Pray for Us!
Symposium Theme:
The University and the Church
Featuring
Featuring Dr. Russell Hittinger
as the inaugural Briel Forum Lecturer!
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The Details
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Symposium fee
- $250 per person
Preliminary Schedule
- Symposium begins at 5pm Wed. and ends at Noon, Fri. Please book travel arrangements accordingly.
Complimentary Book
- Upon registration and payment, attendees will be mailed a complimentary copy of Don Briel's The University and the Church.
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Accommodations
For out of town guests:
(includes tax and meals)
Single room (2 nights): $350 per person
Double (2 person per room, 2 nights): $175 per person
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THE BRIEL SYMPOSIUM
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What is the St. John Henry Newman Symposium?
The Newman Symposium gathers scholars, philanthropists, business leaders, and educators together for guided discussions around innovations in Catholic education. The aim is to mutually inform each other on problems faced and solutions discovered. From those discussions we hope to put this knowledge into action. For example, in the wake of our first symposium, The Newman Idea has launched IKON Scholar, which is an interdisciplinary book study to help continue the conversation.
The Symposium features:
- Authentic New Orleans cuisine
- Round table discussions
- A dinner cruise on the Steamboat Natchez
- A tour of the French Quarter
- Mass and prayer
- A courtyard experience in a private French Quarter Residence
- The Briel Forum featuring Dr. Russell Hittinger
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Last Spring The Newman Idea hosted The Briel Symposium. This year, in light of St. John Henry Newman’s canonization, we have renamed the Symposium. We believe the late Dr. Don Briel would want Newman honored this way. His son, Dr. Matt Briel, agrees!
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Introducing the Briel Forum
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The Briel Forum is a chance for Symposium members to go deeper into a specific topic in Catholic education. This will feature a longer and more focused scholarly presentation followed by a robust discussion. In the spirit of Don Briel, we will try to integrate many disciplines into a cohesive conversation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We are excited to annouce our inaugural Briel Forum Scholar is
Dr. Russell Hittinger!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From 1996-2019, he was the incumbent of the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he is also a Research Professor in the School of Law. He specializes in issues of philosophy, theology and law. Since May 2019 he is the
Emeritus Professor of Religion.
In 2019 he became the Senior Fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of
Chicago, where he is a Visiting Scholar in the John U. Neff Committee on Social Thought.
In 2020, he will be Visiting Professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (Graduate Theological Union, U-Cal Berkeley), where he has served as Dean of the College of Fellows since 2014. He was appointed Professor of Law the University of Chicago for the fall term 2020.
In January 2020 he gave the Aquinas Lecture, Blackfriars Oxford.
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