Apocalypticism in the Age of Cusanus: In Memory of Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.
Day and Time TBA
Organizers: Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University in St. Louis and Donald F. Duclow, Gwenedd Mercy University
Presider: Wendy Love Anderson

• The Church and the Last Days in Nicholas of Cusa's Brixen Sermons
  Richard J. Serina, Jr., Concordia University-New York
  
• The Conjecture on the Last Days: Cusanus and Apocalypticism
  Bernard McGinn, Divinity School, University of Chicago
• Imagining the Heavenly Jerusalem with Nicholas of Cusa and Thomas à Kempis
  Inigo Bocken, Titus Brandsma Institute for Spirituality and Mysticism, Radboud University Nijmegen

Nicholas of Cusa’s Theology of the Word
Day and Time TBA
Organizer: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame
Presider: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd Mercy University

• Nature and Art in the Cusan Conception of the Word
  José Gonzáles Ríos, University of Buenos Aires – CONICET
  
• Logos-Verbum: The Word in Nicholas of Cusa and Gadamer
  Michael Edward Moore, University of Iowa
• A Dialogical Theology of the Word: Nicholas of Cusa's Idiota de sapientia
  Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame

ACS Business Meeting
Thursday, May 12 5:15 PM

ACS Banquet
Thursday, May 12, 7:00 PM
Martell’s Restaurant 3501 Greenleaf Blvd. Kalamazoo, MI

The Thirteenth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 15, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy University
Presider: David Albertson, University of Southern California

• The Meaning of the Icon in Nicholas of Cusa
  Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago Divinity School
  

Cusanus and the Hussites
Thursday, May 14, 1:30pm
Organizer: Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers University
Presider: Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers University

• Cusanus and the Bohemian Utraquists
  Ian Christopher Levy, Providence College
  
• English Political Posturing and the Trial of Jan Hus
  Michael Van Dussen, McGill University
• Poland and the Hussites: Politics and Religion in the Era of the Council of Basel
  Paul W. Knoll, University of Southern California

Selfhood in Nicholas of Cusa’s De visione dei
Thursday, May 14, 1:30pm
Organizers: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd Mercy University and David Albertson, University of Southern California
Presider: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd Mercy University

• Mystical Experience and the Neuropsychology of Self-Transformation in De visione dei
  Andrea Hollingsworth, School of Theology, Boston University
  
• Man as Deus Creatus: The Role of Creativity in Cusa’s Image Theory
  Susan Gottlöber, Maynooth University
• Self and Sociality: Reading Cusa’s De visione dei with Michel de Certeau and Jean-Luc Marion
  Thomas A. Carlson, University of California–Santa Barbara

ACS Business Meeting
Thursday, May 14 5:15 PM

ACS Banquet
Thursday, May 14, 7:00 PM
Martell’s Restaurant, Kalamazoo, MI

The Twelfth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 9, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame

• "Ramon Marti, the Trinity, and the Religions of the Book"
  Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  

Nicholas of Cusa and Jewish Thought
Thursday, May 9, 3:30pm
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, May 14, 5:15 PM
Chair: Peter Casarella, President

ACS Banquet
Thursday, May 8, 7:00 PM
Martell’s Restaurant, Kalamazoo, MI

The Eleventh Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 10, 5:15p.m.
Organizer and Presider: Donald F. 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)

The Tenth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 11, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
The Literary Tradition of Marguerite Porete
Barbara Newman, Northwestern Univ.

The Philosophy and Theology of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 10, 3:30pm
Organizer: Elizabeth Brient, Univ. of Georgia
Presider: Jason Aleksander, Saint Xavier University

• Cusanus’s Mapmaker: Power and Vision in the Compendium
  Clyde Lee Miller, Stony Brook Univ.
  
• Dividing Cusanus: Reading Nicholas of Cusa in Early Modern England
  Chance Woods, Vanderbilt Univ
  
• The Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa and Al-Ghazali: A Comparison
  Marcia Costigliolo, Univ. degli Studi di Genova

Cusanus and Fifteenth-Century Studies: Past, Present, and Future (A Roundtable)
Thursday, May 10, 3:30pm
Organizer: Christopher Bellitto, Kean Univ.
Presider: Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago

• Cusanus's Importance for Renaissance Theology
Walter Andreas Euler, Institut für Cusanus-Forschung
• Nicholas of Cusa's Cosmic Christology: New Theological Dimensions Joshua Hollman, McGill Univ.
• Cusanus and Pius II Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers Univ.

Comment: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.-C. W. Post Campus

The Ninth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 13, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Marguerite (Porete) of Hainaut, the Religious Life, and the Low Countries
John Van Engen, Univ. of Notre Dame

Digital Initiatives: The Cusanus-Portal and Accessing HMML Manuscripts
Thursday, May 12, 1:30pm
Organizers: Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers Univ., and Walter Andreas Euler, Institut für Cusanus-Forschung
Presider: Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

• Nicholas of Cusa in the Twenty-First Century: The Idea of the Cusanus-Portal
  Marco Broesch, Institut für Cusanus-Forschung
• Nicholas of Cusa in the Twenty-First Century: The Different Components of the Cusanus-Portal
  Alexandra Geissler, Institut für Cusanus-Forschung
• Not Yet Google, but Working on It: Online Finding Aids at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
  Wayne Torborg, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Response: Thomas M. Izbicki

Visuality and Visibility in Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 12, 3:30pm
Organizer: David Albertson, Univ. of Southern California
Presider: David Albertson

• Alberti and Cusanus: A Shared Epistemology of Vision
  Charles Carman, Univ. at Buffalo
• The Inaccessible Cardinal: Visibility and Invisibility in Nicholas of Cusa
  Garth W. Green, School of Theology, Boston Univ.
• Seeing and Not Seeing in Nicholas of Cusa
  Daniel O’Connell, Catholic Univ. of America

The Eighth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 13, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Presider: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Mathematicae ad Theologiam Translatio: From the Quarature of the Circle to Knowledge of God
Jean-Marie Nicolle, Centre Théologique, Univ. de Rouen

Basel and Vatican II: Similarities and Differences
Thursday, May 13, 1:30pm
Organizers: Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean Univ.
Presider: Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers Univ.

• Basel and the Post-Vatican II Debate: Between Council and Conciliarism
  Massimo Faggioli, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Council of Basel: Can the Prodigals Find Their Way Home?
  Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

Respondent: Christopher M. Bellitto

The Philosophy and Theology of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 13, 3:30pm
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Anne Marie Wolf, Univ. of Portland

• The Magnetic Word: Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei, De concordantia catholica, and the Metaphysics of Christian-Muslim Dialogue
  Joshua Hollmann, McGill Univ.
• Nicholas of Cusa and Riccoldo of Montecroce on the Two Falls
  Rita George Tvrtković, Benedictine Univ.

Respondent: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

The Seventh Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 8, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg

The Resurrection of Saint Francis
David Burr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.

Cusanus and Islam
Thursday, May 7, 1:30pm
Organizers: Donald F. Duclow, Gwenedd-Mercy College, and Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers Univ.
Presider: Margaret Meserve, Univ. of Notre Dame

• Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
  Marica Costigliolo, Univ. degli Studi di Genova
• Juan de Segovia and Nicholas of Cusa on Islam
  Anne Marie Wolf, Univ. of Portland
• Preaching Crusade while Dreaming of Peace: An Appraisal of Nicholas of Cusa’s Exegetical Treatment of Islamic Texts
  Nicholas Jacobson, Seattle Pacific Univ.

The Philosophy and Theology of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 7, 3:30pm
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Peter J. Casarella

• Nicholas of Cusa’s Relationship to Mathematical Theory of the Fourteenth Century
  Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College
• Mystical and Materialist Understandings of the Love of God in Nicholas of Cusa and Spinoza
  Jason Aleksander, St. Xavier Univ.
• Nicholas of Cusa and Russian Philosophical Traditions
  Oleg Dushin, St. Petersburg State Univ.

The Sixth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 9, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

Mystical Controversies of the Fifteenth Century: Turning Points in Christian Mysticism?
Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago

The World of Nicholas of Cusa: Session in Honor of Morimichi Watanabe
Thursday, May 8, 10:00a.m.
Organizers: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY–Fredonia

• The Contributions of Marsilius of Padua and Nicholas of Cusa to Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Democracy: A Dialogue with Cary Nederman
  Paul Sigmund, Princeton Univ.
• In the Footsteps of Cusanus: The Visit to Monte Oliveto
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers Univ.

Coincident Theology: Session in Honor of H. Lawrence Bond
Thursday, May 8, 1:30pm
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago

• Coincidentia Oppositorum and the Structure of Religious Experience
  Regine Kather, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg
• Cusanus: Eucharist and “Transubstantiating” Human Nature
  Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
• Coincidentia in 1440: The Riddles of Thierry of Chartres’s Legacy
  David Albertson, Univ. of Southern California

The Future of Cusanus Research (A Roundtable)
Thursday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Participants: Walter Andreas Euler, Institut für Cusanus-Forschungand Theologische Fakultät, Trier; Jason Aleksander, St. Xavier Univ.; Clyde Lee Miller, Stony Brook Univ.

The Fifth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 11, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Presider: Peter J. Casarella, DePaul Univ.
Metaphysics and the Intellectual Desire of God
Louis Dupré, Yale Univ.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Philosophy and Theology
Thursday, May 10, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Peter J. Casarella

• Enhypostasia Mystica: Reflections on the Christology of Nicholas of Cusa
  Philip McCosker, Peterhouse, Univ. of Cambridge
• Between Time and Eternity: Neoplatonic Precursors to Cusanus’s Conception of “Non-temporal Time”
  Elizabeth Brient, Univ. of Georgia
• The French Renaissance Philosopher Charles de Bovelles: A Student of Cusanus?
  Tamara Albertini, Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa

Nicholas of Cusa II: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)
Thursday, May 10, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Emily D. O’Brien, Simon Fraser Univ.
Presider: David J. McGonagle, Catholic Univ. of America Press

• Empire, Emperor, and Council in Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini’s Pentalogus
  Emily D. O’Brien
• Pius II and Bohemia: History and the Heretical Nation
  Phillip Haberkern, Univ. of Virginia
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Nuremberg
  Thomas Mauro, M. Crist Fleming Library, TASIS

Respondent: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.

The Fourth Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 5, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America

The Timaeus latinus and Cusanus
Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Cusanus and the Historical Perspective of Art
Thursday, May 4, 1:30p.m.

Organizer: Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean Univ.
Presider: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State Univ.

• As God Painted Himself: Cusa’s Theological Affirmation of Painting
  Il Kim, Columbia Univ
• One-Point Perspective as a Cusan Coincidence of Opposites
  Catherine Frankenberg, Univ. at Buffalo
• The Dead and the Living Image: The Aesthetics of Nicholas of Cusa and Leon Battista Alberti Rethought
  Matthieu van der Meer, Rijksuniv. Groningen

Nicholas of Cusa II: Philosophy and Theology
Thursday, May 4, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Nancy J. Hudson, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

• On the Desire of God: The Cusan Reversal of Aristotle
  Sophie Berman, St. Francis College
• Color, Light, Knowing in Cusanus’s Later Works
  D. P. O’Connell, Catholic Univ. of America/Univ. Trier
• Metaphors of Motion in Two Late Works of Cusanus
  David Albertson, Univ. of Chicago

The Third Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 6, 5:15p.m.
Organizer: Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America

Resonances of Stoicism in High Medieval Thought: Adiaphora, Synderesis, and Conscience
Marcia L. Colish, Yale Univ.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Rhetoric and Theology in Cusanus and Gerson
Thursday, May 5, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Karlfried Froehlich, Princeton Theological Seminary

• Godspeak: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Theology of Jean Gerson
  D. Zach Flanagin, Saint Mary’s College of California
• Two Christmas Sermons: Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Cusa on “Verbum Caro Factum Est”
  Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY–Stony Brook

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus Research as Critical Scholarship and Politics: The Legacy of Raymond Klibansky on the Occasion of His 100th Birthday
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.
Presider: Morimichi Watanabe

• Raymond Klibansky—The Centenarian: His Contributions to Modern Cusanus Research
  Hans Gerhard Senger, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “The Doorkeeper of Modernity”: The Legacies of R. Haubst, G. Santinello, and E. Colomer
  Peter Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America

The Second Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 7, 5:15p.m.

Approaches to the History of Medieval Philosophy
William J. Courtenay, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

Nicholas of Cusa I: Elizabeth Brient’s The Immanence of the Infinite
Thursday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY–Stony Brook
Presider: Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

• Hans Blumenberg, Intellectual History, and the Problem of Epochs
  Isaac Miller, Oberlin College
• Measure and the Infinite
  Bruce Milem, SUNY–New Paltz

Respondent: Elizabeth Brient, Univ. of Georgia

Nicholas of Cusa II: Late Medieval Reform of Church and Society: Papers in Honor of Gerald Christianson
Thursday, May 6, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Brian A. Pavlac, King’s College, Pennsylvania
Presider: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.

• The Sermons of Pierre d’Ailly at the Council of Constance
  Philip H. Stump, Lynchburg College
• Reform in the Eyes of the Canonist Cardinal: Francesco Zabarella
  Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY–Fredonia
• Law and Order: Reforming Society in Late Medieval France
  Christopher Bellitto, Paulist Press

The First Annual Lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Series
Friday, May 9, 5:15p.m.

What’s in a Name? Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern: A Reconsideration
John Monfasani, Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America

Nicholas of Cusa I: Conjecture in the Metaphysics, Cosmology, and Politics of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 8, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Elizabeth Brient, Univ. of Georgia
Presider: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-MercyCollege

• Subject or Conjecture? Politics and Metaphysics in Nicholas of Cusa
  Inigo Bocken, Katholieke Univ. Nijmegen
• The Discovery of Individuality and the NewExperimental Sciences: The Rise of a Conflict since the Cosmology of Cusanus
  Regine Kather, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg
• Conjecture and Metaphor in CusanThought
  Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY-Stony Brook

Nicholas of Cusa II: Nicholas of Cusa and Tradition
Thursday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY-Fredonia
Presider: James Muldoon, Brown Univ.

• The Election of a Pope at Constance and Basel: A Step toward Unity or against Unity
  Thomas E. Morrissey
• The Council of Basel’s Decree on the Papal Election and Oath of Office: Mirror of Prevailing Concepts of “Mixed Monarchy” or “Unheard of, Dangerous” Innovation Reflecting Radical Concillar Theory?
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith College

A Tribute to Heiko A. Oberman (1930-2001)
Robert J. Bast, Editor, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought
Friday, May 3, 5:15p.m.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Cusanus and Sermons in Late Medieval Germany
Thursday, May 2, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.
Presider: Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace Univ.

• Varieties of Preaching to Fifteenth-Century Germans: Cusanus and Composers of Model Sermons
  John W. Dahmus, Stephen F. Austin State Univ.
• The Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa
  Walter Andreas Euler, Theologische Fakultat Trier

Nicholas of Cusa II: Philosophy and Theology
Thursday, May 2, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Donald F.Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Elizabeth Brient, Univ. of Georgia

• Visions of the “Not-Other”: Unity and Difference in Pseudo-Dionysius and Nicholas of Cusa
  Lisa Marie Esposito, Drury Univ.
• The Trinity of Man: A Variation on aTheme or a Revolution?
  Matthieu van der Meer, Univ. Groningen
• Infinite Desire in De visione Dei
  Bruce Milem, SUNY- New Paltz

Kingship: The History and Significance of an Idea
Francis Oakley, Williams College
Friday, May 4, 5:15p.m.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Ideas of Empire and Nation in Nicholas and His Age
Thursday, May 3, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Cary J. Nederman

• Christine de Pizan: Nationalism, Internationalism, and War
  Kate L. Forhan, Siena College
• Forgery and Empire: Petrarch, Valla, and Cusanus
  Alfred Hiatt, Trinity College, Univ. of Cambridge
• Vitoria on Civil Authority, Natural Rights, and Christendom
  Paul J. Cornish, Grand Valley State Univ.

Nicholas of Cusa II: Humanism and Holiness. Paul Oskar Kristeller and Charles Trinkaus on Late Medieval and Renaissance Thought
Thursday, May 3, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ. - C. W. Post Campus
Presider: Heiko A. Oberman, Univ. of Arizona

• Paul Oskar Kristeller and the Study of Humanism
  James Hankins, Harvard Univ.
• The Iter Italicum from the Libraries to the World Wide Web
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.
• Charles Trinkaus and the Religion of the Humanists
  Ronald G. Witt, Duke Univ.

A Tribute to Charles Trinkaus (1911-99)
The Hunt for Wisdom: The Prehistory of Ideas
Donald R. Kelley, Executive Editor, The Journal of the History of Ideas
Friday, May 5, 5:15p.m.

Canon Law in the Age of Cusanus
Thursday, May 4, 10:00a.m.
Co-Sponsored with Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Presider: Thomas M. Izbicki

• Decrees and Decretals: The DecretalesreformationisdA. the Council of Constance (1414-1418)
  Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College
• Canonists in Crises c. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel
  Thomas E. Morrissey,SUNY—Fredonia
• The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Germany
  Brian A. Pavlac, King’s College

Cusanus Studies in America: In Honor of Morimichi Watanabe
Thursday, May 4, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State Univ.
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

• Publishing Nicholas of Cusa orHow Friendships Arise: A Retrospective
  Manfred Meiner, FelixMeiner Verlag
• Reflections on Cusanus Studies—Past, Present, and Future
  Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.—C.W. Post Campus

World Views in the Age of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 4, 3:30p.m.
Co-Sponsored with POLITICAS
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.—C. W. Post Campus
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Seminary

• Backward, Forward, Inward: History, Authority, and Heresy in the Early Fourteenth Century
  David Burr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Fifteenth-Century Conceptions ofWorld Order: Nicholas of Cusa, Popes, and Canonists
  James Muldoon, John Carter Brown Library
• John Luke and English Reform at the Council of Constance
  Chris Nighman, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
• The Theory of Empire in the Age of Nicholas of Cusa: Aeneas Silvius and Juan de Torquemada
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.

A Tribute to Charles Trinkaus (1911-99)
A View of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Gained Through the Study of Ramon Lull
Charles Lohr, Raimundus-Lullus-Institut, Univ.of Freiburg
Friday, May 7, 5:30p.m.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Theological and Philosophical Backgrounds
Thursday, May 6, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Dennis D. Martin, Loyola Univ.—Chicago
Presider: Dennis D. Martin, Loyola Univ.—Chicago

• Dionysian Mystical Theology in Thomas Callus)
  Tracy Lounsbury, Loyola Univ.—Chicago
• Holiness and the Science of Theology in Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences
  Gregory F. LaNave, Catholic Univ. of America
• Reading Jean Gerson’s Super Magnificat. Mystical Theology and Theological Reform after Constance
  Kenneth N. Pearson, Boston College

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus and Ramon Lull
Thursday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ., and Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Sem.
Presider: Charles Lohr, Univ. of Freiburg

• Ramon Lull—Protagonist of Intercultural Dialogue
  Theodor Pindl, Philosophische Impulse, Freiburg
• Lull, Cusanus, and the Qur’an
  Thomas E. Burman, Univ. ofTennessee

World Views in the Age of Nicholas of Cusa
Thursday, May 4, 3:30p.m.
Co-Sponsored with POLITICAS
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island Univ.—C. W. Post Campus
Presider: Gerald Christianson, GettysburgSeminary

• Backward, Forward, Inward: History, Authority, and Heresy in the Early Fourteenth Century
  David Burr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• Fifteenth-Century Conceptions ofWorld Order: Nicholas of Cusa, Popes, and Canonists
  James Muldoon, John Carter Brown Library
• John Luke and English Reform at the Council of Constance
  Chris Nighman, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
• The Theory of Empire in the Age of Nicholas of Cusa: Aeneas Silvius and Juan de Torquemada
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Some Notes on the Mystery of the Fifteenth Century: Reflections on the End of the Beginning
Heiko A. Oberman, Univ. of Arizona
Friday, May 13, 5:30p.m.

Nicholas of Cusa I: Rhetoric and Reform at the Council of Constance
Thursday, May 8, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Presider: Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY College-Fredonia

• Plague, Politics, and the Pulpit: The Rhetoric of Reform in Richard Fleming’s Funeral Sermon for Robert Hallum
  Chris L. Nighman, Univ. of Toronto
• Peace, Reform, and the Holy Spirit: Nicolas de Clamanges’ Ambivalent Hopes for the Council of Constance
  Christopher M. Beilitto, St. Joseph’s Seminary-Dunwoodie
• Reform Themes in Some Unedited Sources from the Council of Constance
  Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College

Nicholas of Cusa II: The State of the Study of Late-Medieval Exegesis
Thursday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Co-sponsored with The Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace Univ.
Presider: Karlfried Froehlich, Princeton Theological Seminary

• Spiritual Exegesis in Nicholas of Cusa
  Peter J. Casarella, Catholic Univ. of America
• The Hussites, the Bible, and the Council of Basel
  Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
• The State of the Study of Late-Medieval Exegesis
  Philip D. Krey, Lutheran Theological Seminary

Respondent: Karlfried Froehlich

Nicholas of Cusa I: Lawyers and Jurisprudence in the Fifteenth Century
Friday, May 9, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University C. W. Post Campus
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

• Unquiet Life: Franciscus Zabarella at the University of Padua
  Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY College-Fredonia
• Walter Ullmann, Nicholas of Cusa, and the Empire
  James Muldoon, Rutgers University-Camden
• Nicholas of Cusa as a Lawyer in the Context of the Development of the Legal Profession in the Fifteenth Century
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith College

Nicholas of Cusa II: The Acta Cusana, I, iii: Its Recent Publication and its Significance for Cusanus Research
Friday, May 9, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University C. W. Post Campus
Presider: Morimichi Watanabe

• The Great Legation in Light of the “Acta Cusana”: A Reconsideration
  Donald D. Sullivan, University of New Mexico
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Bleeding-Host Shrine of Wilsnack
  Morimichi Watanabe
• From Theory into Practice: The Failure of Nicholas of Cusa as Bishop of Brixen
  Brian A. Pavlac, King’s College

Nicholas of Cusa III: Cusanus as a Spiritual Writer: The Responses to H. Lawrence Bond’s Nicholas of Cusa
Saturday, May 10, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Peter Casarella, Catholic University of America
Presider: Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago
Responses by Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University; Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America; Grover Zinn, Oberlin College.
Respondent: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

Nicholas of Cusa I: Jews and Muslims in the Age of Cusanus
Friday, May 10, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University
Presider: James E. Biechler, LaSalle University

• Truth and Consequences: Juan de Segovia on Islam and Conciliarism
  Jesse D. Mann, University of Chicago
• What is the Problem with Jewish Law and Rites?: Alfonso de Espina’s Answer
  Steven J. McMichael, OFM, conv., St. Louis University
• Luther and the Rabbis
  Brooks Schramm, Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary

Nicholas of Cusa II: Language and Learning
Friday, May 10, 3:30p.m.
Organizer and Chair: Markus Führer, Augsburg College

• Marguerite Porete’s Christology as Language Performance
  Ellen Babinsky, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
• Dialectical Thinking in De Docta Ignorantia, Book III
  Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY-Stony Brook
• A Special Case of Coincidentia in the De Coniecturis
  Thomas McTighe, Georgetown University

Respondent: F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

Nicholas of Cusa III: Aspects of Mysticism in the Age of Cusanus
Saturday, May 11, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
Presider: Peter Casarella, Catholic University of America

Aspects of Mysticism in the Age of Cusanus
Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago
Respondent: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
Respondent: Dennis Tambarallo, Siena College
Respondent: Oliver Davies, University of Wales-Lampeter

Nicholas of Cusa I: Nicholas of Cusa’s Place in Intellectual History
Friday, May 5, 1:30p.m
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
Presider: H. Lawrence Bond

• Hugh of Balma and the Tegernsee Controversy over Affective Mysticism
  Dennis D. Martin, Loyola University-Chicago
• Cusanus’ Place in Western Thought
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College
• Conjecture and Representation in Nicholas of Cusa and Kant
  Eric Crump, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

Nicholas of Cusa II: Preaching and Refonn in the Age of Cusanus
Friday, May 5, 3:30p.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University
Presider: Philip Krey, Lutheran Theological Seminary

• A Call for Reform: Nicolas de Clamange’s Use of Medieval Apocalypticism
  Christopher Bellitto, Fordham University
• The Art of Preaching in Ten Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa
  Lawrence Hundersmarck, Pace University
• Word as Bread: Recent Research in Nicholas of Cusa’s Theology of Preaching
  Peter Casarella, Catholic University of America

Nicholas of Cusa’s Dialogue on World Religions: A Student Response
Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Friday, May 5, 9:00p.m.

Nicholas of Cusa III: Foundations of the Conciliar Theory Forty Years After
Saturday, May 6, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
Presider: Heiko A. Oberman, University of Arizona

Foundations of the Conciliar Theory: Its Significance for Ecc1esiology and Political Thought
Francis Oakley, Williams College

Response: Brian Tierney, Cornell University
Comment: Heiko A. Oberman, University of Arizona

Nicholas of Cusa I: Philosophical Issues in Nicholas of Cusa
Friday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY-Stony Brook
Presider: Clyde Lee Miller

• The Image of God as Idiota in Nicholas of Cusa
  Kirk Payne, University of Texas-Austin
• Fieri posse in Nicholas of Cusa’s De venatione sapientiae
  Clyde Lee Miller
• Participation in Nicholas of Cusa’s De coniecturis
  Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University

Nicholas of Cusa II: Episcopacy and Refonn in the Fifteenth Century
Friday, May 6, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: James E. Biechler, La Salle University

• Ecce sacerdos magnus: Welcomes to a New Bishop: Three Addresses from Franciscus Zabarella in 1396 and 1406
  Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY-Fredonia
• Simony Taxation and Property Rights: An Anonymous French Canonist’s Annate Tract from the Council of Constance
  Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College
• Cusanus as Bishop of Brixen: The Reform of Popular Religion in the Tyrol
  Donald D. Sullivan, University of New Mexico

Nicholas of Cusa III: Teaching Nicholas of Cusa: The Essential Themes
Saturday, May 7, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace University and Peter J. Casarella, Catholic University of America
Presider: Peter J. Casarella

• Nicholas of Cusa’s Social and Political Ideas
  Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
• Fundamentals of Cusanus’s Thought
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College
• Contemplative Practice and Reading Cusanus
  H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

Nicholas of Cusa I: The Influence of Greek Patristic Thought on Nicholas of Cusa
Friday, May 7, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Peter J. Casarella, University of Dallas and Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace University
Presider: Lawrence F. Hundersmarck

• Chalcedonian Neo-Platonism in Maximus the Confessor and Nicholas of Cusa
  Eric Perl, University of Dallas
• Pseudo-Dionysian Negative Theology and the Not Other in Nicholas of Cusa
  Peter J. Casarella
• Tracing Hierarchy in Cusanus’ Theology
  Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus, Constantinople, and the Council of Basel
Friday, May 7, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University and Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

• Cusanus in Constantinople
  Robert H. Trone, Gettysburg College
• The Greeks and the Division of the Council of Basel
  Thomas M. Izbicki
• Nicholas of Cusa and Cardinal Bessarion
  Morimichi Watanabe (Thursday, May 2, 1:30p.m.)

Nicholas of Cusa III: Nicholas of Cusa-Theological and Philosophical Themes
Friday, May 7, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University and Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University

• Contemplative Theology in Nicholas of Cusa’s De apice theoriae
  H. Lawrence Bond
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Ironic Deconstruction of Scholastic Certainty
  Roger E. Moore, Vanderbilt University
• Rotunditas as the Relativizing Agent in De ludo globi
  Edward J. Butterworth, Saint Mary’s College

Nicholas of Cusa I: Nicholas of Cusa at the Diet of Frankfurt, 1442
Friday, May 8, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University
Presider: Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College

• John of Segovia’s Gloss on the Bull Etsi Non Dubitemus
  Jesse D. Mann, University of Chicago
• Nicholas of Cusa’s Attack on Neutrality at the Diet of Frankfurt
  Thomas M. Izbicki

Nicholas of Cusa II: Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance Sermon and the Exegetical Traditions
Friday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
Presider: Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago

• The Reception of Nicholas of Lyra’s Apocalypse Commentary
  Philip D. Krey, Lutheran Theological Seminary
• Nicholas of Cusa as Preacher: Themes from Selected Cusanus Sermons
  Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace University
• Melanchthon Contra Ineptum Erasmum: Melanchthon’s Scolia as Polemical Literature
  Timothy Wengert, Lutheran Theological Seminary

Respondent: Bernard McGinn

Nicholas of Cusa III: In Honor of F. Edward Cranz
Saturday, May 9, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
Presider: H. Lawrence Bond

• De principio and De aequalitate (1459)
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College
• F. Edward Cranz on the Late Philosophical Works of Nicholas of Cusa
  Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
• F. Edward Cranz’s Conception of the Intellectual History of the West
  Charles Trinkaus, University of Michigan

Nicholas of Cusa I: Some Basic Problems of Cusanus Research
Friday, May 10, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

• The Acta Cusana: Goals, Possibilities, and Problems
  Erich Meuthen, University of Cologne and Historische Zeitschrift

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus, The Council of Basel, and the Conciliar Movement
Friday, May 10, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

• From Hierarchy to Sovereignty: The Conciliar Movement, the End of the Middle Ages, and the Beginning of Modernity
  Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago
• Pope Felix V and the Council of Basel’s Program for a Constitutional Papal Monarchy
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith CollegeThursday (May 2, 1:30p.m.)

Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Guest Lecture
Friday, May 10, 3:30p.m.
Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

• Introduction
  Morimichi Watanabe
• How the Reformation Came
  Erich Meuthen, University of Cologne and Historische Zeitschrift

Nicholas of Cusa I: Nicholas of Cusa on the Church, Popular Religion, and Music
Friday, May 11, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presider: Charles Trinkaus, University of Michigan

• The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Wichita State University
• Cusanus and Pastoral Renewal: The Reform of Popular Religion in the Germanies
  Donald D. Sullivan, University of New Mexico
• Nicholas Cusanus’s Concept of Divine Number and its Importance for Renaissance Music Theory
  David P. Goldman, Queens College-CUNY

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus as Theologian
Friday, May 11, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Markus L. Führer, Augsburg College
Presider: Markus L. Führer, Augsburg College

• Cusanus’s De visione Dei and Leonardo da Vinci’s prospettiva
  Robert L. Gallagher, 21st Century Science Associates
• The Concept of the Beyond in Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Cusanus
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

Nicholas of Cusa III: The Idea of Reform in the Fifteenth Century Councils and Nicholas of Cusa: Ideals and Realities – In Honor of Gerhart B. Ladner
Friday, May 11, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Presider: Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago

• Restore, Renew, Emend: Ideas of Reform as Historical Change at the Council of Constance (1414-18)
  Phillip H. Stump, Lynchburg College
• The Annates Controversy and the Crisis of the Reform Idea at the Council of Basel
  Gerald Christianson
• Ecclesiology and the Idea of Reform in Nicholas of Cusa’s Non-Ecclesiological Works
  H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

Respondent: Constantin Fasolt

Nicholas of Cusa I: Nicholas of Cusa, John of Segovia, and the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39)
Thursday, May 4, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-Co W. Post Campus
Presider: James E. Biechler, La Salle University

• Nicholas of Cusa and the Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence-Rome (1431-45)
  Petro B. T. Bilaniuk, University of Toronto
• As Easy as One, Two, Three?: Juan de Segovia’s Explanatio de tribus veritatibusfidei
  Jesse D. Mann, University of Chicago
• Nicholas of Cusa, The Council of Florence, and the Acceptation of Mainz (1439)
  Morimichi Watanabe

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusa’s Thought
Thursday, May 4, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
Presider: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

• The Vita Christi of Ludolphus de Saxonia and Its Influence on Nicholas of Cusa
  Lawrence F. Hundersmarck, Pace University
• Intellectus et ratio in Nicholas of Cusa
  Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
• The Late Works of Nicholas of Cusa
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

Nicholas of Cusa I: Cusanus and the University of Cologne, 1388-1988
Saturday, May 9, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University
Presider: Morimichi Watanabe

• The Agent Intellect in the Writings of Meister Dietrich of Freiberg and its Influence on the Cologne School
  Mark L. Führer, Augsburg College
• Theologians and Theology at the early University of Cologne
  James H. Overfield, The University of Vermont
• The Relationship Between the Epistemologies of Ramon Lull and Nicolaus Cusanus
  Theodor Pindl-Btichel, University of Freiburg

Nicholas of Cusa II: Science and Philosophy
Saturday, May 9, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
Presider: Thomas P. McTighe

• Some Epistemological Questions in Nicholas of Cusa’s Mysticism
  H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
• The Astronomy of Nicholas of Cusa: Science or Theology?
  Richard Hunter, Gwynedd-Mercy College
• Dialectic and Perspective in Nicholas of Cusa
  Clyde Lee Miller, SUNY -Stony Brook

The Council of Basel in Recent Scholarship
Saturday, May 9, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary and Thomas M. Izbicki, Wichita State University
Presider: Thomas M. Izbicki

• Some Issues in the Historiography of the Council or Basel
  Gerald Christianson
• Collections or Basel’s Documenta and Acta
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith College

Comment: Thomas M. Izbicki

Nicholas of Cusa I: Cusanus the Reformer
Friday, May 8, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanahe, Long Island University
Presiding: James E. Biechler, La Salle University

• Cusanus in Thought and Action: the Germanic Legation Revisited
  Donald D. Sulllivan, University of New Mexico
• Nicholas of Cusa as Bishop of Brixen
  Morimichi Watanabe
• Nicholas of Cusa and the First Printed Missal
  Mary Kay Duggan, University of California-Berkeley

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus and His Sources
Friday, May 8, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Donald F. Duclow

• Cusanus’ Use of Pseudo-Dionysius
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College
• The Theory of Intellect in Albert the Great and its Influence on Nicholas of Cusa
  Mark L. Führer, Augshurg College
• The Idea of Sonship in Eckhart and Cusanus
  Maria Lichtmann & H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

The Influence of Proclus in the Middle Ages A special lecture by Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University
Friday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Charles Trinkaus, University of Michigan & Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University
Presiding: Charles Trinkaus

21st Annual Congresses on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1986) Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) I: Aeneas and the Fifteenth Century
Thursday, May 8, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Indiana University and Gerald Christianson, Luthern Theological Seminary
Presiding: James E. Biechler, LaSalle University

• Aeneas and the Historiography of the Council of Basel
  Gerald Christianson
• Plotting in the Privies: Pius II’s Account of His Own Election
  Thomas M. Izbicki
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini’s Epistola ad Mahumetem and Nicholas of Cusa’s Cribratio Alchorani
  Albert R. Baca, California State University-Northridge

Nicholas of Cusa I; Cuasnus, Cusanus Studies, and the university of Heidelberg 1386-1986
Friday, May 9, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus
Presiding: F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

• Nicholas of Cusa at Heidelberg: Historians and the Early University of Heidelberg
  James H. Overfield, University of Vermont
• The Origins of Modern Cusanus Research: Before and After Heidelberg
  Morimichi Watanabe

Nicholas of Cusa II: Nicholas of Cusa’s Philosophy and Thought
Friday, May 9, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University
Presiding: H. Lawrence Bond

• The Function of Universum in Nicholas of Cusa’s Philosophy
  Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
• Convergence and Divergence: Hopkins and Blumenberg on Nicholas of Cusa
  C. Lee Miller, SUNY-Stony Brook
• Reason and Beyond Reason in Nicholas of Cusa’s Thought
  F. Edward Cranz, Connecticut College

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) II: Aeneas and Fifteenth Century Politics
Friday, May 9, 3:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas M. Izbicki, Indiana University and Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Presiding: Pauline M. Watts, Sarah Lawrence College

• Pienza as Propaganda
  Helen S. Ettlinger, Berkeley, CA
• Pius II and Sienese Politics: The Role of the Magnates
  Edward D. English, Victoria University
• Aeneas and the Papal-Imperial Alliances in Defense of Monarchy (1446-48)
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith College

20th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1985) Nicholas of Cusa I: Cusanus in the Western Intellectual Tradition—Unity, Spirituality, and Dialogue
Friday, May 10, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Gerald Christianson, Lutheran Theological Seminary
Presiding: Gerald Christianson

• Ignorantia in Cusanus’ Theologizing on Spirituality
  H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State Univ.
• Responding to Islam: Cusanus, Juan de Segovia, and Some Contemporaries
  James E. Biechler, La Salle Univ.
• Pseudo-Dionysius in Quattrocento Rome
  John E. Monfasani, SUNY-Albany

Nicholas of Cusa II: The Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa
Friday, May 10, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown Univ.
Presiding: Thomas P. McTighe

• Nicholas of Cusa and Some Eastern Philosophical Views: Concordance of Experience
  Francis N. Caminiti, Seton Hall Univ.
• Nicholas of Cusa in the Margins of Meister Eckhart: Codex Cusanus 21
  Donald F. Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

19th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1984) Nicholas of Cusa I: Authority, Reform, and Humanism
Friday, May 11, 10:00a.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, C. W. Post Center, Long Island Univ.
Presiding: James E. Biechler, La Salle College

• Reform and Reforms: Johannes de Turrecremata’s Rejection of the Council of Basel
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Texas Tech. Univ.
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Church in the Empire
  Joachim W. Stieber, Smith College
• Cusanus, Luther, and Humanism
  Morimichi Watanabe

Nicholas of Cusa II: Cusanus’ Philosophy and Theology—Problems, Sources, and Influences
Friday, May 11, 1:30p.m.
Organizers: Pauline M. Watts, Ann Arbor, MI and H. Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State Univ.
Presiding: Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown Univ.

• The Use of Contemplatio in Cusanus’ Mysticism
  H. Lawrence Bond
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Quadrivial Sciences
  Mark L. Fiihrer, Augsburg College
• Cusanus and the Renaissance Cosmos
  Pauline M. Watts

18th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1983) Nicholas of Cusa I: Nicholas of Cusa and the Council of Basel
Friday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University
Presiding: Morimichi Watanabe

• The Council of Basel at the Time of Nicholas of Cusa’s Incorporation and the Presentation of the Concordantia
  Loy Bilderback, California State University, Fresno
• Nicholas of Cusa and Cardinal Zabarella: From Community Authority to Consent of the Community
  Thomas E. Morrissey, State University College of New York, Fredonia
• Cusa, Cardinal Cesarini, and the Council
  Gerald Christiansen, Lutheran Theological Seminary

Nicholas of Cusa II: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa
Friday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizer: Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
Presiding: Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University

• Can Cusanus’ Views on Knowledge Be Separated from His Neoplatonism? Reflections on De Beryllo
  Clyde Lee Miller, State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Genus, Species, and the Positivity of Essence in Nicholas of Cusa
  Thomas P. McTighe

17th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1982) Nicholas of Cusa I
Thursday, May 6, 1:30p.m.
Organizers: Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University and Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Pardon E. Tillinghast, Middlebury College

• Nicholas of Cusa, Gregor Heimburg and the University of Padua
  Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University, C. W. Post Center
• Nicholas of Cusa and Muhammad: A Fifteenth-Century Encounter
  James Biechler, La Salle College
• Cusa on History and Prophecy in the Late Middle Ages
  Donald Sullivan, University of New Mexico

Nicholas of Cusa II
Thursday, May 6, 3:30p.m.
Organizers: Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University and Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Presider: Mark L. Führer, Augsburg College

• Alteritas and Contingentia in Cusa’s Metaphysics
  Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
• The Icon and the Wall: Visio and Ratio in The Vision of God
  Lee Miller, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Nicholas of Cusa’s Influence on Radical Thought in Seventeenth-Century England
  T. Wilson Hayes, Baruch College, CUNY