West Coast Methods Institute Annual Meeting 2025
Communication and (Mis-)Understanding in the Information Age
Schedule of Sessions
Thursday, April 24
3:30–5 p.m. – Humanities Building 243 (Reading Room)
- Fr. William Ryan, SJ Memorial Panel: The Inner Word and Hermeneutics with Hannah Ferguson, Lachlan Macdonald, Andrew Barrette, and Gregory Floyd
5:30 p.m. Keynote – Jepson 006
- Tom Hughson, SJ, “An Intertextual Reading of Method, Chapter 14”
Friday, April 25 – All sessions in Hemmingson Auditorium (Hemm 004)
9–10:15 a.m. Self-Appropriation and/in Conversation
- Cody Sandshafer, “Divine Self-Communication and the Transformation of ‘Felt Meaning’”
- Paul LaChance, “Mediating Self-Appropriation Through Communication Training: An Insight Studies Approach”
- Tom O’Connor, “Constitutive Conversation and Dialogue”
10:30–11:45 a.m. Insight and Communication
- Mark Doorley, “Will the real ‘me’ stand up?”
- Greg Floyd, “Naïve and Critical Realism Reconsidered”
- Clayton Shoppa, “Lonergan as Exemplar of Communication”
1:30–2:45 p.m. Communication in Classical Philosophy
- Tom McPartland, “Being, cosmos, and community in Plato”
- Erin Stackle, “Finding Meno: A Socratic Contribution to the Functional Specialization of Communication”
- Tom Jeannot, “Verbum 101: thought and language, the language of thought”
3–4:05 p.m. Panel: Values and the Work of Patrick Byrne with Sean Hafner and Andrew Barrette
4:20–5:30 p.m. Communication in Theology
- Cathal Doherty, SJ, “Actio est in Passo: Presence and Sacrament”
- Jeremy Wilkins, “Communication and Praxis: A Meditation on Luke-Acts”
6 p.m. Bernard J. Tyrrell Lecture in Philosophy of God and Theology
- Ligita RyliškytÄ—, SJE, “Lost in Communication: The Aporia of Kenosis”
Saturday, April 26 – All sessions in Hemmingson Auditorium (Hemm 004)
9–10:15 a.m. Communication and Community
- John Krambuhl, “Coherence in Catholic Schools: Lonergan on Community and Common Meaning”
- Tim Muldoon, “Cor ad cor loquitur: Lonergan on spirituality, meaning, and community”
- Cecilia Moloney, “Fostering Dialogue, Countering Isolation: Aspects of Lonergan’s Philosophy in Practice”
10:30–11:45 a.m. Communication and Pedagogy
- Henry Widdicombe, “‘Something Done, Not Read’: Insight as ‘Workbook’”
- Michael Costas, “The Communicative Pedagogy of Cooperative Structures”
- Mary Elliot, “The Immediacy of Form: Lonergan and Poetry”
1:30–2:45 p.m. Lonergan and AI
- Michael Pelosi, “Raising the Curtain on AI’s Debut Performance”
- Roisin Lally, “Designing for Dignity: Lonergan’s Contribution to Ethics in AI”
- Stephen Mutavdzija, “Promissory rhetoric in an age of (mis)information: A Lonerganian critique”
3:00-4:15 p.m. Panel: Communication and Conflict Resolution with Jamie Price, Marnie Jull, and Vieve Radha Price