International Thomas Merton Society

Bellarmine University

Wide Open to Heaven and Earth:
Contemplation, Community, Culture

Conference Timetable
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Thursday, June 7

10:00 a.m.

 Registration begins

12-2:30 p.m.

 Tour of the National Civil Rights Museum

1:00 p.m.

 Opening Sessions:
- First Timers' Session
- Youth Scholars Orientation
- ITMS Chapters Workshop
- Merton & Jubilee Magazine
- Zen & Merton's Stone Garden
- Merton & Dylan: Prophets

3:00 p.m.

 Stories of Gandhi:
by Arun Gandhi

5:30 p.m.

 Ecumenical Meditation
& "Call to Assembly"

6:30 p.m.

Banquet
Presidential Address: Paul M. Pearson
Presentation of 2007 Louie Awards

8:00 p.m.

 Kate Campbell
   

Friday, June 8

7:30 a.m.

 Morning Meditation

9:00 a.m.

 Springboard Session: Albert Raboteau

10:45 a.m.

 Concurrent Sessions:
- Merton & Southern Writers
- Merton's Civil Rights Letters
- Merton & Spiritual Formation
- Workshop: "Letting Go"
- Guided Prayer: Sky Within

12:00-1:30

 Lunch

2:00 p.m.

 General Session: Joyce Hollyday

3:30 p.m.

 Concurrent Sessions:
- Merton & Alternative Communities
- Merton's Prophetic Humanism
- Merton's Philosophical Roots
- Performance: Merton & Elvis
- Workshop: Personhood
- Prayer: Contemplative Living

5:15 p.m.

 Meditation: Merton's Transforming Vision

6:00 p.m.

 Dinner

8:00 p.m.

 Keynote Address: Jim Forest
   

Saturday, June 9

7:30 a.m.

 Morning Meditation

9:00 a.m.

 General Session: Bishop T. Gumbleton

10:30 a.m.

 Concurrent Sessions:
- Merton & Faulkner
- Merton & Non-Violence
- Merton's Spiritual Forbears
- Workshop: Merton & Eliot
- Prayer: Spiritual Geography

12:00 noon

 Lunch

1:30 p.m.

 Concurrent Sessions:
- Merton, Music & the Muse
- Merton & Ecology
- Merton & Contemplation
- Workshop: Merton-Bonhoeffer
- Prayer: Embracing All Life

3:15 p.m.

 Concurrent Sessions:
- Merton & Dialogue
- Merton & King.
- Merton & Wholeness
- Merton & Photography
- Workshop: Architecture
- Prayer: Ps.173 & Darfur

5:00 p.m.

 ITMS Town Meeting

6:00 p.m.

 Dinner

8:00 p.m.

 John Michael Talbot
   

Sunday, June 10

8:00 a.m.

 Meditation

9:00 a.m.

 General Session: Merton & Walker Percy

10:30 a.m.

 Closing Liturgy: Fr. James Conner, OCSO.

12:00 noon

Light Lunch & Departure

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