The Twelfth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series

Friday, May 9, 5:15p.m. [tentative time]

Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

Presider: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame

Names, Language, and Muslim Identity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain 

Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame

Nicholas of Cusa and Jewish Thought 

Thursday, May 9, 3:30pm [tentative time]

Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

Presider: Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers University

• “But Following the Literal Sense, the Jews Refuse to Understand”: Hermeneutic Conflicts in Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei 

Jason Aleksander, Saint Xavier University  

• Mirror, Seed, and Tree: Bridging Transcendence and Immanence in Cusanus and Spinoza 

Martin Sastri, University of Notre Dame

• Nicholas of Cusa’s Ethics of Individuation and Martin Buber’s Dialogic Philosophy 

Sarah Scott, Manhattan College

ACS Business Meeting

Thursday, 5:15 PM [tentative time]

Chair:  Peter Casarella, President

ACS Banquet

Thursday, May 8, 7:00 PM

Martell’s Restaurant, Kalamazoo, MI