First of December In This Issue: The Review Committee Meeting in Amsterdam, November 28, 2006 Linda Hogan, Jim Keenan, Renzo Pegoraro, Hans Wennink and Peter Merkx met on Tuesday November 28th in Amsterdam and reviewed the evaluations and began planning for the next conference to be held in 2010.
Regarding the evaluations, they were very positive, congratulating the planning committee, with almost everyone expressing a desire to participate in another conference. Moreover, they especially happy with the different program formats that were used, the actual setting of the conference, and the ability that people had to meet and converse with one another.
Among some of the consistent ways of bettering the conference were the following: to establish a particular conference theme, to focus the applied ethics sessions better, to include German among the translated languages, to be sure that every plenary session has at least one woman panelist, and to promote further dialogue until we meet again.
On where to meet: Italy offered great possibilities with a travel agency that could process tickets for those who were sponsored and assist in securing visas.
Questions about meeting in India, Brazil, or South Africa were offered as alternatives.
Planning Committee for the Second International Cross-cultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethicists
Antonio Autiero, Germany Agnes Brazal, Philippines Clement Campos, India Linda Hogan, Ireland James Keenan, US, Chair Tony Mifsud, Chile Renzo Pegoraro, Italy Marie-Jo Thiel, France John Mary Walligo, Uganda Hans Wennink, Stichting Porticus
New Planning Committee Meetings Together with Jim Keenan, the Europeans (Autiero, Hogan, Pegoraro, Thiel, and Wennink) will be meeting in Italy in February 16-18 July 27-27: The Entire Committee will meet
"First Generation Committee" We are also looking to establish a second committee called the "First Generation Committee" that would be made up of new young faculty members from the six continents. More information will be reported after the February Meeting.
Publication of Papers We are happy to report that the two manuscripts from the conference are moving forward beautifully. Jim Keenan is now in the final stages of preparing all the plenary
papers and will submit the manuscript to Continuum on Jan 15th.
The Volume entitled, Catholic Theological Ethics in
the World Church: The Plenary Papers from Padua (New
York: Continuum, 2007) ought to be out in September, 2007 in both
hard and paper back. Linda Hogan is expecting to receive all 33 essays that were accepted for the applied ethics volume entitled, Traditions in Dialogue: Applied Ethics in a World Church and will later submit them to Orbis.
Scholarships for African Women We began planning to do a proper inventory so as to work toward establishing scholarships in Catholic Theological Ethics for women in Africa. We hope by the summer of 2007 that we will have something to report.
From Tom Reese, A Report in the WoodstockReport on the Padova Conference, Georgetown University
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