Provisional Program
Vatican II - Remembering the Future:
Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Perspectives on the Council’s Impact and Promise
The different components of our gathering’s program will include Full Plenary sessions; Parallel Plenary sessions (when delegates
can opt to attend one of three-four thematic sessions pertaining to the day’s overall focus); concurrent sessions (when accepted
paper proposals will be presented in sessions organized around a common theme); spiritual plenary components of the program
and, as important as any of the program, opportunities for informal and social dialogue and interaction.
NB: Below are listed only the main components of the program and Full Plenary sessions – please note further details on all other
sessions, presenters etc. including Parallel Plenary Sessions, Concurrent Sessions and spiritual parts of the program will appear
here in due course.
Day 1: Thursday May 21st: Vatican II - Revisiting the Vision
Time:
12.3014.00pm
13.30pm
15.00pm
15.30
Arrivals - Collect Registration Packs
Optional Guided Tour of Georgetown University
Welcome and Plenary Opening of EIDC 2015 (Plenary 1)
Conference Opening Address: Cardinal Tauran
16.00
16.30
17.00-18.45pm
John O’Malley
Celebrating the Council’s Memory in Word and Film (details to be confirmed)
Plenary Address: Cardinal Tagle: 'Vatican II: a Global Vision for Today and Tomorrow’
Coffee
Plenary 2: Discerning the Council – Impact and Promise
Dawn DeVries
Mark Chapman
Bahar Davary
19.00pm
Washington, DC 2015 Opening Reception & Buffet
20.30pm
Conversation and Bar:
Day 2: Friday May 22nd - Opening to the World
Time
7.00-8.00am
8.15-8.45am
9.00-11.15am
Linda Woodhead
11.00-11.45am
11.45pm-13.00pm
Venue:
A. Africa’s Impact Upon Vatican II
– and Vice Versa
13.00-14.00pm
14.00-16.30pm
16.30-17.00
17.00-19.15
Mary McClintock
Fulkerson
19.15-19.30
19.30
Amitai Etzioni
Breakfast
Spiritual Plenary
Plenary Session 3
Charles E. Curran
Coffee
Parallel Plenary Sessions:
B Asia’s Impact Upon Vatican II –
and Vice Versa
Sandra Arenas
C. Latin America’s Impact Upon
Vatican II – and Vice Versa
Richard Gaillardetz
D. Stumbling Blocks for ChurchWorld Relations: Hard Sayings
Left Behind by Vatican Ii
Lunch
Concurrent Thematic Panels and Paper Sessions I
Coffee
Plenary Session 4
M. Shawn Copeland
TBC
Anant Rambachan
Spiritual Plenary
Reception
Followed by Free Evening (dinner at delegates’ own venue of choice)
Conversation and Bar
Michael Amaladoss
Day 3: Saturday May 23rd - Church and Churches
Time
7.00-8.00am
8.00-8.30am
9.00-10.30
9.00-10.30
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.40pm
11.45-12.30
12.30pm
Breakfast
Depart for National Cathedral
Plenary Session 5
Welcome from Dean Gary Hall
Fulata L. Mbano-Moyo
Radu Bordeianu
Dean Gary Hall
Coffee
Plenary 6: Keynote Address: Cardinal Walter Kasper – ‘Toward Multifaceted Communion: Reflections for the Ecumenical Future’
Prayer Plenary: Commemoration of Ecumenical Prayer Service from Closing of Vatican II
Spiritual Plenary: Guided Tour of National Cathedral in Groups
13.15pm
14.30pm
Lunch
Depart Cathedral
15.00pm-16.15pm
Venue:
Parallel Plenary Sessions:
A. Stumbling Blocks for Ecumenism: Hard
Sayings Left behind by Vatican II
16.15-16.45
Auditorium
16.45
17.00-18.45pm
18.45-19.00
19.00-20.15
20.15-21.30
21.15-late
22.00
Dagmar Heller
B. Futures for Synodality
C. Re-Thinking Ecumenism
Coffee
Plenary Session 7
Welcome from Marymount President Matthew Shank
Christoph Schwöbel
Dorothea Sattler
Howard Griffith
Susan Wood
Spiritual Plenary
Dinner
Concurrent Thematic Panels/Papers/Poster Sessions II - with accompanying Refreshments
Entertainment, Conversation and Bar
Buses Begin to Depart
Day 4: Sunday May 24th - Religion – Opening to Other Faiths
Time
7.30-8.30m
8.30am
10.00-10.20
10.30am-12.30
12.30-14.00pm
14.00-15.15
Breakfast
Mass in Dahlgren Chapel
(In addition to other worship opportunities among Georgetown’s many Faith Communities)
Coffee
Plenary Session 8
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Archbishop Michael
Susannah Heschel
Sandra Mazzolini
Fitzgerald
Lunch
Parallel Plenary Sessions:
A. Stumbling Blocks for Interfaith Dialogue:
Hard Sayings Left behind by Vatican II
15.15-15.45
15.45-17.45
Jonathan Ray
17.45-18.00
18.00-18.20
18.20-18.45
B. Vatican II and Monastic Interreligious
Dialogue
Coffee
Plenary Session 9
John Pawlikowski
Sallie King
Brief Break
Closing of Gathering
Spiritual Plenary
19.15
Closing Celebratory Dinner
21.00
Closing Social Event
Roger Haight
C. Perspectives on Nostra Aetate: Impact and
Promise
Archbishop Felix
Machado
Francis Clooney