5th Annual Student Leadership Conference
Dominican House of Studies | Washington, DC
Wednesday, June 28 - Sunday, July 2, 2023
This conference will gather students who will be Campus Chapter leaders in the 2022-2023 academic year, for a time of formation in philosophy, theology, and the practical aspects of running a Thomistic Institute Chapter. There will be ample time for learning more about Aquinas on faith, reason, and the spiritual life, as well as time for prayer, sacraments, meals, socializing, and outings in Washington, D.C. The topic for the 5th Annual Student Leadership Conference is “The Catholic Intellectual Vocation."
All registration costs, food, lodging, and activities are covered by the Thomistic Institute. The deadline for registration will be announced soon. Participants who submit travel receipts will be reimbursed for travel.
The registration deadline is Friday, April 14.
Reach out to your campus chapter coordinator or Mr. Ben Sutter at bsutter@dhs.edu to register.
Some pictures from last year’s conference
About the Speakers
Dr. Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).
Fr. James Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.