The Eleventh Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series

Friday, May 10, 5:15p.m.

Organizer and Presider: Donald Duclow (Gwynedd-Mercy College)

Visionaries, Mystics and Reformers: The Case of Lucia di Narni 

E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania

The Philosophy and Theology of Nicholas of Cusa 

Thursday, May 9, 1:30pm 

Organizer: Elizabeth Brient, The University of Georgia

Presider: Peter Casarella, DePaul University

Cusanus and Modernity in Cassirer, Blumenberg, and Gadamer

Michael E. Moore, University of Iowa

An informal roundtable will follow the paper.

Cusanus’ Political Thought: Medieval or Mordern? A Roundtable Discussion 

Thursday, May 9, 3:30pm 

Organizer: Thomas M. lzbicki (Rutgers University) 

Presider: Christopher Bellitto (Kean Univsersity)

• Nicholas of Cusa, Morimichi Watanabe, and Paul Sigmund after Fifty Years 

Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY Fredonia, New York

• Watanabe, Cusanus, and the Medieval Idea of Peace 

Takashi Shogimen, University of Otago

• The Later Works of Cusanus: Rethinking De concordantia catholica 

Thomas M lzbicki, Rutgers University

Respondant: Paul E. Sigmund (Princeton University)