The 2026 Lonergan Workshop Committee is pleased to announce “Progress, Decline, Redemption” as the theme of this year’s Workshop #53. The Workshop will be held June 15-18, 2026 at the Boston College Connors Center. You can find more information about the Workshop on our website.
Paper and session proposals of 500 words or less are invited on related topics, including:
- The human good (and the “good under construction”)
- Papers on “attention” — as a requirement for understanding, as a transcendental precept, as well as related topics such as attention and technology, attention and redemption, etc.
- The flight from understanding; bias; the social surd
- Modernity/postmodernity/late-modernity; secularization; alienation
- We particularly welcome papers putting theorists of modernity in conversation with Lonergan, e.g., Charles Taylor, Hartmut Rosa, Alasdair MacIntyre, etc.
- Laudato Si’ and the technocratic paradigm; Fratelli Tutti, Dilexit nos/Dilexi te, or other early Leonine texts and addresses
- Artificial intelligence and development (intellectual, economic, moral)
- The role of education/pedagogy in effecting/encouraging conversion
- Catholic Social Teaching
- Papers engaging the thought and work of John Henry Newman
- The Law of the Cross; redemption as theory, as symbol, as event
- Cosmopolis (and its relation to the triple dialectic of history); "The not numerous center”; the creative minority
- Panton anakephalaiosis - the recapitulation of all things/the relation of history to the totus Christus
- Existenz; drifting v. deciding; the relation of the individual to history
For inquiries about the Workshop, please contact Mary Elliot at mary.franks@bc.edu or at 617-552-2935.
*Ordinarily we do not encourage/accept graduate student submissions, but graduate students are welcome to contact Mary about our connected Lonergan Clinic seminar.*
Proposals should be 500 words or less and can be in the form of a paper abstract or a panel proposal. Proposals are due no later than April 1, 2026.