Schedule


November 54:30 OPENING SESSION

Opening remarks: Peter Kilpatrick, President of The Catholic University of America


5:00 PANEL 1. Working on a Masterpiece.

A conversation between Amilcar Vargas, World Heritage Manager, Casa Batlló Gaudí, and Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments
Moderated by Mark Ferguson.

Catalan cuisine dinner and immersive visual experience to follow


November 68:00 AM Sung lauds (optional)

Saint Michael the Archangel Chapel, Maloney Hall


9:00 AM Papers sessions


10:30 AM PANEL 2. XTA-Theological Aesthetics

A conversation between Matthew Niermann, Mark McInroy, and Ian Church
Moderated by Julio Bermudez


12:00 PM Lunch and conversation

A conversation with Jordi Faulí, Chief Architect of Sagrada Familia (Online)


1:30 PM PANEL 3. Sound, Music, and Sacred Architecture

A conversation between Jonathan Berger, Subdeacon Brian A. Butcher, and Nima Farzaneh
Moderated by Isabel Potworowski


3:00 PM PANEL 4. Social Scientific Perspectives on Beauty, Space, and Spirituality

A conversation between Victor Counted, Robert Brenneman, and Nicholas Boys Smith
Moderated by Brandon Vaidyanathan


4:30 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS


6:00 PM PANEL 5. The Search for Beauty and the Sacred: Building Cathedrals in the Twenty-First Century.

A conversation between architects Craig Hartman and James McCrery
Moderated by Michael Crosbie

Dinner to follow


November 7, 20268:00 AM Sung lauds (optional)

Saint Michael the Archangel Chapel, Maloney Hall


9:00 AM Papers sessions


10:30 AM PANEL 6. Neuroscience and Architecture

A conversation between Anjan Chatterjee, Upali Nanda, and Milton Shinberg
Moderated by Navneet Anand


12:00 PM Presentation

Presentation by Msgr. Melchor Sánchez de Toca
Leading voice in the cause for Gaudí's canonization


12:30 PM Lunch


1:30 PM PANEL 7. Curating Beauty

A conversation between Julie Carmean, Ian Koebner, and Jennifer Walsh
Moderated by Michael Utsunomiya


3:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS


4:30 PM PANEL 8. Outer Space, Sacred Space, and Inner Space: The Architecture of Awe

A conversation between Roberto Chiotti, Massimo Robberto, and Andrew Newberg
Moderated by Cabrini Pak

Reception to follow


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