About the Lonergan Workshop
*Please note, scroll down for this year's schedule and logistics.*
Bernard Lonergan hoped that his work would yield 鈥渙ngoing collaboration鈥� among intelligent and faithful people. For more than fifty years, the Lonergan Workshop at 乱伦小可爱 has brought thousands of people into that cooperative project.
The Lonergan Workshop was founded in 1972 by Emeritus Prof. Fred Lawrence and his wife, Sue Lawrence. For fifty years, Fred and Sue welcomed artists, psychologists, philosophers, theologians, sociologists, people in the worlds of business, law, and medicine, educators, physicists, social workers, biologists, and many others to the Workshop, publishing the proceedings in the Lonergan Workshop Journal. Fred and Sue made it a priority that the Workshop be financially accessible to everyone who wanted to attend, and cultivated the cooperative spirit which made that possible.
At the Workshop, scholars deeply engaged in Lonergan studies come together with practitioners and experts on the year's theme; presentations are followed by ample time for conversation; and friendship and hospitality animate the whole proceeding in the spirit of its founders.
Everyone is welcome.
Logistics
The 2025 Lonergan Workshop will be held Sunday, June 15th through Wednesday, June 18th at the 乱伦小可爱 Connors Center听at 20 Glen Street, Dover, MA 02030. Some of the Workshop conference sessions will be livestreamed via Zoom; for the Zoom link and information, please email bclonergan@gmail.com.
Check-in for those staying at the Connors Center is available anytime during the conference, starting at 3:00 PM on Sunday. There is a registration table right when you enter the Connors Center, where our graduate students will have your registration packet and room key. If you plan to arrive and check-in after 9 PM or before 8:45 AM, please email Mary Elliot at听 bclonergan@gmail.com to let us know your anticipated arrival time, so we can make sure someone is there to greet you.
The Workshop is free for 乱伦小可爱 faculty, staff, and students; in addition, scholarships cover many participants whose institutions cannot contribute. If you or your institution are able to contribute financially to the Workshop, you can do so 听We appreciate it!
Travel
There is ample parking at the Connors Center; no permit is required.
For guests flying into Boston, you can take a Lyft/Uber directly to the Connors Center (address: 20 Glen Street, Dover, MA 02030), or, for a more affordable option, we recommend the following:
- From Boston-Logan Airport, take the Silver Line train to South Station.
- Follow signs for the "Commuter Rail" (about a four minute walk).
- You have two commuter rail options from South Station, you can choose whichever train is more convenient: 1) you can take the Framingham/Worcester Line; 2) you can take the Needham Line.
- If you take the Framingham/Worcester Line, get off at the Natick Center T Station.
- If you take the Needham Line, get off at the Needham Junction station.
- Take an Uber/Lyft from either the Natick Center T Station or the Needham Junction T Station to the Connors Center (address: 20 Glen Street, Dover, MA 02030), about a 10-13 minute drive.
鈥淪chedule of Probabilities鈥�
In memory of Glenn "Chip" Hughes and David Tracy, among others.
All times listed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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Sunday, June 15th
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| 3:00 PM | Check-in to rooms available from 3:00 PM onward at the Connors Center, Dover, MA (coffee available) |
| 4:00 PM | Mass (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 4:45 PM | Conference registration opens in Entry Hall (drinks and hors d'oeuvres provided) |
| 5:15 PM | Dinner; Welcome by Jeremy Wilkins (Estate Room) |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Keynote (Main Parlor): Neil Ormerod, "Lonergan on Prime Potency: Energy or Action?" |
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Evening reception (Dover Parlor) |
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Monday, June 16th
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast (available until 8:45 AM 鈥� Entry Hall) |
| 8:45 AM | Jeremy Wilkins, Welcome and Opening Remarks (Main Parlor) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 1 (all conference sessions will be in the Main Parlor)
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| 10:45 AM | Coffee break |
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon | Session 2
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| 12:00 Noon | Mass (Garden Terrace room) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch (Estate Room) |
| 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Session 3
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| 3:45 PM | Coffee break |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Session 4
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| 5:00 PM | Reception (Dover Parlor) |
| 5:30 PM | Dinner (Estate Room) |
| 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM | Session 5
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| 7:15 PM | Compline (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Evening reception (Dover Parlor) |
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Tuesday, June 17th
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast (available until 8:45 AM 鈥� Entry Hall) |
| 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Session 6
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| 10:30 AM | Coffee break听(light refreshments provided) |
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM | Session 7
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| 12:30 PM | Mass (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch (Estate Room) |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Case-Study Panel: Cyrus Olsen, Ian Corbin, and Jude Buyondo,听鈥淐onsciousness, Health, and Belonging in Uganda and the U.S.A.鈥� |
| 3:30 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Keynote Conversation: Consciousness and Neuroscience
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| 5:00 PM | Reception (Dover Parlor) |
| 6:00 PM | Banquet dinner (Estate Room) |
| 7:15 PM | Compline (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 7:30 PM | Evening reception (Dover Parlor) |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Art as 鈥渢he fundamental element in the freedom of consciousness鈥� (Main Parlor) |
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Wednesday, June 18th
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast (available until 9:00 AM 鈥� Entry Hall) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 8
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| 10:45 AM | Coffee break |
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon | Session 9
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| 12:00 Noon | Mass (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch (Estate Room) |
| 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Session 10
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| 3:45 PM | Coffee break |
| 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM | Session 11
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| 5:45 PM | Reception and BBQ dinner (Dover Parlor / Estate Room) |
| 7:00 PM | Compline (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM | Evening reception (Dover Parlor) |
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Thursday, June 19th (Juneteenth)
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| 8:00 AM | Early check-out by 8:00 AM due to Juneteenth holiday |
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Group photo of some of the 2024 Lonergan Workshop participants.
“The speakers in the Lonergan Workshop were, in their different ways, describing how their personal appropriation of these processes enabled them to make certain advances. Fr. Whelan and I concluded that the reason Lonergan's influence on them was hard to discern was that what they had learned from him was how to make better use of their own minds, to become conscious of what they were doing when they were knowing, to think in terms of development and schemes of recurrence, to notice what is going forward in their various disciplines and to become more aware of the biases that can distort one's perceptions and analyses.”
Director of the Workshop, Jeremy Wilkins (left) with Director Emeritus, Fred Lawrence.
“There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists. There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now this, now that new development . . . But what will count is a perhaps not numerous center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking enough to work out one by one the transitions to be made, strong enough to refuse half measures and insist on complete solutions even though it has to wait.”