PROGRAMME

International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Edith Stein's Philosophy

Friday, 6 October 2023
8:45h	Reception
9:15h	Inauguration H.E. Ms. Lydia Jiménez, President of the Catholic University of Avila, Spain Ms. Mª Carmen Madrid, Director of EUM Fray Luis de León, Valladolid, Spain P. Dr. Thomas Gricoski (OSB), President of the IASPES, professor of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, Saint Meinrad, Indiana, USA
10:00h	Plenary Lecture - Prof. Dr. Beate Beckmann-Zöller, President of the Edith Stein Gesellschaft (Deutschland), Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany Perspectives on Edith Stein's philosophy of education. Influences and originality
11:00h	Coffe-break
11:30h	Round table: Postulation of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross as Doctor of the Church: Background and State of the Question Dr. Fr. John Sullivan, OCD, Chairman of the commission of the Institute of Carmelite Studies responsible for the supervision of Collected Works of Edith Stein, Washington, D.C., USA Prof. Dr. Fr. Christof Betschart, OCD, President of the Commission for the Postulation of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross for the Doctorate of the Church, Rector of the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum, Rome, Italy
13h	Holy Mass, Monastery of the Incarnation of the Discalced Carmelite nuns
17:00h	Plenary Lecture - Prof. Dr. Mette Lebech, University of Maynooth, Ireland The influence of John Henry Newman on Edith Stein's Anthropology of Education
18h	Pause
18:30h	round tables Table in English The contribution of education to the individual and social aspect of the human person Prof. Dr. Valentina Gaudiano, Sophia University Institute, Florence, Italy Race and Education: A Steinian Vision for Human Development Mr. William Tullius, PhD, American Public University System, Charles Town, WV, USA Table in Spanish The formation of formators in Edith Stein. A proposal for an itinerary Prof. Dr. Alfonso Martínez-Carbonell López, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain Edith Stein and citizenship education: thinking about community and social links Prof. Dra. Eva Pamela Reyes Gacitúa, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
19:30h	Colloquium with the speakers
Saturday, 7 October 2023
9:15h	Presentation of the new Spanish version of the book Endliches und ewiges SeinEdith Stein - Prof. Dr. D. Mariano Crespo, University of Navarra, Spain
9:30h	Plenary Lecture - Prof. Dr. D. Francesc Torralba Roselló, Ramón Llull University, Barcelona, Spain The 'telos' of 'Bildung' in the work of Edith Stein
10:30h	Coffe-break
11:00h	round tables Table in English Holistic Formation and/or Sectorial Excellence in Edith Stein Prof. Dr. Christof Betschart (OCD), Rector of the Teresianum, Rome, Italy Unfolding a Gift of God: How Edith Stein's Educational Theology Opposes the Technocratic Paradigm Prof. Dr. Mariéle Courtois, Benedictine College Atchison, Kansas, USA Towards Resilience. An approach from Edith Stein's personal letters Prof. Dr. Dr. Claudia-Mariéle Wulf, Centre for Safeguarding for Minors and Vulnerable adults, Saint Paul UniversityOttawa, Canada Table in Spanish Influence of Judaism on Edith Stein's philosophy of education. Critical intersections with Christianity and phenomenology. Prof. Dr. Eduardo González Di Pierro, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico Freedom in a Trinitarian way as the core of the integral formation of the person Prof. Dr. Haddy Yasminacha Bello Díaz, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Theology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, Chile Rescuing the authority of the teacher. Reflections on Edith Stein Prof. Dra. Miriam Ramos Gómez, EUM Fray Luis de León (Valladolid), Centro adscrito a la Universidad Católica de Ávila, Spain
12:30h	Colloquium with the round table speakers
16:30h	Communications Table O.1 For Curiosity's Sake: A Secularizing Stein's Philosophy Lauren Lovestone, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religion, Florida State University, USA Examining the Impact Movement in Western Higher Education Through the Lens of Edith Stein Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hommel, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden, Germany The Theoretical Implications of Stein's Interpersonal Framing Genevieve Buono Frank, M.A. Ph.D Candidate, School of Philosophy The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA Table O.2 Empathy in the stomatologist-patient relationship, a view from Edith Stein's contributions. Prof. Dra. Karla Marisol Teutli Mellado, Facultad de Estomatología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico The educator's being according to Edith Stein: intellect, inner life and empathy in the service of the people Cecilia Giudice, Master in Philosophy of Education, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina The essence of the spirit in Edith Stein as a basis for an education of openness Prof. Dr. Einar Iván Monroy Gutiérrez, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia -UNAD- Bogotá, Colombia Table 1.1 Political Theory and Education according to Edith Stein Laurence Bur, PhD, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Strasbourg, France Method in Interdisciplinarity Fr. Joachim Ostermann (OFM), PhD, Franciscans of Canada, Canada Understanding Light: The Contemplative Pedagogy of Edith Stein Michele Kueter Petersen, Ph.D. Lecturer, Theology and Philosophy Department St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA Table 1.2 Outlines of Edith Stein's phenomenological psychology and its relevance to education Rodrigo de la Vega Pérez, M. A., Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico The configuration of the self in Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger Prof. Dr. María Teresa Stuven Vattier, Facultad de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, Chile Dialogue between Edith Stein's pedagogical thought from the theory of knowledge and Leonardo Polo's transcendental anthropology. Prof. Dr. Katya María Luisa Palafox Gómez, Faculty of Education and Psychology
18:00h	Communications Table O.1 Edith Stein's Philosophy of Education: Einfühlung, Phronesis, and the Bonum Commune Michael F. Andrews, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, USA Philosophy of Education of Edith Stein and Augustine Fr. Patrick Paul de Castro, OSA, PhD, University Chaplain, University of San Agustin, Iloilo City, Philippines Table O.2 How to educate to inhabit the inner world? A look from Edith Stein Prof. Dr. José Raúl Ramírez Valencia, Universidad Católica del Oriente, Bogotá, Colombia University education according to Edith Stein and John Henry Newman Javier Ormazábal Echeverría, Graduate in Philosophy and Literature, University of Navarra and Polis Institute of Jerusalem, Israel The Empathy Thesis, an orientation to the constitution of the person Yuridia Cecilia de la Cruz Gerardo, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, México Table O.3 Social-emotional skills from Edith Stein's empathy theory Aída Milany Tobón Álvarez, M.A., Universidad Católica del Oriente, Bogotá, Colombia Edith Stein's Anthropology, the foundation of an Integral Pedagogy Laura Noemí Urbina Valor (Universidad Católica de Salta) and M. A. Gabriela Alicia Gómez (Universidad Católica de Salta) Salta, Argentina Table 1.1 The concept of self-education in E. Stein and S. Weil Prof. Dr. Alejandra Novoa Echaurren and Prof. Dr. Patricia Moya Cañas, Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile Human formation and study: an approach from Edith Stein and Simone Weil Prof. Dr. Paulina Monjaraz, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico Sensitive education: a pedagogical framework based on the thinking of Edith Stein Prof. Dr. Luis Manuel Martínez Domínguez, FERSE - Grupo de Investigación Fundamentos de la Educación y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Table 1.2 What does it mean to be 'a woman'? Edith Stein on education, gender, and sociopolitical roles Sofía Núñez Mandell, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland Edith Stein's Truth and its Bearing on Education Fr Francis Payo, PhD, Sancta Maria Mater et Regina Seminarium, Roxas City, and San Pablo Seminary, Baguio, Philippines Formation as Individuation: Edith Stein on the Metaphysics of Bildung Travis Lacy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
19:00h	A visit to Ávila
20:00h	Holy Mass (La Santa Church)
Sunday, 8 October 2023
8:30h	Holy Mass (Convento de CC. Descalzas de San José)
10:30h	Plenary Lecture - Prof. Dr. Feliciana Merino Escalera (Edith Stein Institute of Philosophy, Granada, Spain) Current thinking on education in Steinian thought
11:45h	Communications Table 1.1 Educational personalism, Edith Stein's response to today's proceduralism Prof. Dr. María Jesús Carravilla Parra, Universidad Católica de Ávila, Ávila, Spain Teacher education according to Edith Stein: guiding and being guided Prof. Dr. Milagros Muñoz-Arranz, Faculty of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain "Educate to Serve", the ideal of education from Edith Stein's relational ontology. Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Álvarez (OSB), Faculty of Theology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, Chile Table 1.2 Educational Leadership in Edith Stein: Perspectives and Update Prof. Dr. Ana Isabel Gómez Vallecillo and Lcdo. Enrique Sánchez Solano, Universidad Católica de Ávila, Ávila, Spain Educating for knowledge, communication and encounter. A theological approach to the Steinian notion of mysticism in the service of religious pedagogy. Gwendolyn Araya Gómez, PhD Candidate, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Member of the Centro UC Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Edith Stein, Chile Table 1.3 The university as a community and its role in the formation of the person Lourdes Giannina Orejel Orejel and María Pilar Sánchez Barajas, Universidad Panamericana, Instituto de Humanidades, Guadalajara, Mexico The credibility of the communicator: "die Glaubwürdigigkeit des Mitteilenden". Lcda. Myrna Najat Torbay Khoury, Centro Internacional Teresiano Sanjuanista - "Universidad de la Mística", Ávila, Spain Teacher training for a holistic education under the philosophy of Edith Stein María Dolores Pérez Esteban, University of Almería, Almería, Spain Table 1.4 Can the integral man be the remedy for the disease of our time? Edith Stein's contribution to psychotherapeutic practice Helena Teixiera Respondek, M. A. Psychology, Poland Stein's Thought on Education as Informed by Thomistic Anthropology Luke Mohan, St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York, USA Table 1.5 Edith Stein and the Teaching of Design and Innovation: Empathy, Community and Human Creative Achievement Dr. Gabriel J. Costello, Adjunct Lecturer, Atlantic Technological University, Galway City, Ireland When the Student Surpasses Their Teacher Prof. Ken Casey, PhD, Hopkinsville Community College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
13:00h	IASPES Assembly
14:00h	Closure Mr. José Ramón Recuero, Abogado del Estado en el Tribunal Supremo, Spain Excellency and Magfca. Rector of the Catholic University of Avila, Prof. Dra. María del Rosario Sáez Yuguero,

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*Date of publication of the programme: 25/09/2023

PROF. DRA. BEATE BECKMANN-ZÖLLER

Beate Beckmann-Zöller (1966) earned her doctorate in 2001. She is president of the German Edith Stein Society, a philosopher of religion and lives with her family in the south of Munich.

She teaches at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich. She teaches at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich. From 1993 to 2004 she was assistant to Professor Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz (Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Institute of Philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden). Together with the same author, she has edited two collective volumes with studies on Edith Stein.

She has contributed to the editing and introduction of seven volumes of the Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe and has published the monograph Frauen bewegen die Päpste. Leben und Briefe der Hildegard von Bingen, Birgitta von Schweden, Caterina von Siena, Mary Ward, Elena Guerra und Edith Stein. (Augsburg 2010). She has given several lectures and articles on Edith Stein's philosophy of religion and on religious studies.

PROF. DRA. FELICIANA MERINO ESCALERA

PhD in Philosophy of Law from the University of Valencia (2004).

She teaches at the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein (Granada, Spain) and at the Institute of Theology Lumen Gentium, in the same city. She is a well-known specialist in the figure of Edith Stein and a regular lecturer on her thought. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the philosophy of the Jewish philosopher, in several languages, with special attention to Edith Stein's anthropology (especially in the field of sexual differentiation) and her political thought.

She has also translated Alasdair MacIntyre's Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue. She has been a lecturer at the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia; visiting professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany) and lecturer at the International Academy of Philosophy. She is also a regular contributor to the expert network of the Catholic news portal Aleteia (www.aleteia.org).

PROF. DR. DR. DR. DR. FRANCESC TORRALBA

Francesc Torralba Roselló (Barcelona, 1967) holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (1992), a PhD in Theology from the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia (1997), a PhD in Pedagogy from the Universitat Ramon Llull (2018) and a PhD in Art History from the Ateneo Universitario San Paciano (2022).

He is currently director of the Ethos Chair at the Universitat Ramon Llull. Throughout his academic career he has published a large number of essays that have been translated into French, German, English, Italian and Portuguese, among other languages. He chairs various Ethics Committees and is a Full Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors.

His philosophical works include Inteligencia espiritual (2010), La ética como angustia (2015), Mundo volátil (2018) and Vivir en lo esencial (2020).

PROF. DRA. METTE LEBECH

Mette Lebech is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maynooth, Ireland, where she has taught since 1998.

She holds degrees from Copenhagen, Louvain-La-Neuve and Leuven.

She has published widely on human dignity and Edith Stein, is founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES) and Series Editor of the book series Edith Stein Studies with Lexington Books.

She is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Women Philosophers and Scientists at the University of Paderborn.

Timetable of the round tables