The institute offers a variety of programs, including conferences, colloquia, and lectures:
 

Saint Anselm Conference

The Seventh Saint Anselm Conference:

Saint Anselm and the Place and Role of the Human in the World

April 23-24, 2021
Saint Anselm College
Manchester, New Hampshire
 

Schedule

Friday, April 23

Session A 9:00-10:00 Anselm’s Influence on Late Medieval and Renaissance Thinkers

Maria Leonor Xavier, “The Presence of Saint Anselm in the Horologium of André do Prado”
José Carlos Sánchez-López, “Preludes of Modern Freedom: Saint Anselm and Francisco Suárez”

Session B 10:30-12:00 Anselm’s Ethics

Gregory Sadler, “Sin, Grace, and Justice in The Human Will”
Harald Kavli, “Freedom, and Man’s place in the Cosmos According to Saint Anselm”
Tomas Ekenberg, “Anselm’s Ethics and the Gift”

First Plenary 1:00-2:00

Thomas Williams, “Can Anselm Have Everything He Wants?”

Session C 2:30-3:30 Anselm’s Proslogion

Felipe G. A. Moreira, “Intuition and God’s Existence”
John A. Demetracopoulos, “Anselm vs. Devil: Interpreting Eadmer’s Account of the
Circumstances of the Invention of the Proslogion Argument (Vita Anselmi I.19) in Light
of Anselm’s De casu diaboli 4”

Session D 4:00-5:00 Anselm on Interpreting Time and Eternity

Marcia L. Colish, “Anselm’s Boethius: A View from De Concordia I”
Richard Campbell, “Anselm’s Concept of Eternity as Permeating Spacetime”

Social hour 5:30-6:30

Saturday, April 24

Session E 9:00-10:00 Anselm in Context

Wim van den Dool, “Cur Deus Homo’s Dialogue Form and Its Relationship to Augustine”
Christian Brouwer, “Anselm in the Seventies: Revisiting the Context of Writing the
Monologion”

Session F 10:30-12:00 Anselm on Grace and Human Nature

Keqi Chen, “Anselm on Free Will and Divine Grace”
Rachel Cresswell, “The Role of the Saints in Anselm’s Vision of Redemption”
Kyle Hubbard, “The Incarnation and Human Nature”

Second Plenary 1:00-2:00

Bernd Goebel, “‘Thus we arouse every creature in anger against us’:
Anselm and His Students on Our Relation to Non-human Creatures”

Session G 2:30-4:00 Anselm and Contemporary Thinkers

Emery De Gaal, “Anselm of Canterbury and the Third Reich: Gottlieb Söhngen on Restoring the
Humanum amid the Inhumane”
Matthew Pietropaoli, “Being Open toward and Helping Manifest the Mystery: Martin Heidegger
and Saint Anselm on Place and the Role of the Human Being”
Kevin Staley, “Trinitas Abscondita: Overcoming Mere Monotheism”

Social hour 5:00-6:00

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The Legacy of Humani Generis

In commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Humani Generis, the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies is pleased to host a two-day conference on June 10-11, 2020 on the teaching and impact of Pope Pius XII’s encyclical letter. The Institute invites papers on the letter’s core interests, including the importance of reason to the life of faith, the successes and limitations of scholastic philosophy, theories of matter and spirit, the metaphysics of the Eucharist, the gratuity of the supernatural order, natural law, human evolution, monogenism and original sin, as well as the movement referred to as the nouvelle théologie and its leading figures, among them Henri Bouillard, Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar. In addition, papers are welcome on the thought of Donald Keefe, S.J., who grappled with these issues in the light both of these writers and of Humani Generis.

Selected papers will be published in The Journal of Saint Anselm Studies.

Due to Covid-19 this conference was cancelled. We plan to offer it in spring 2021.

 

The Saint Anselm Lecture

The 2020 Saint Anselm Lecture will be given by Professor Thomas Williams, who is Professor of Philosophy and Catholic Studies at the University of South Florida. The topic for his lecture is “Can Saint Anselm Have Everything He Wants?” It will address questions of freedom and eternity. The lecture will be on the Feast of Saint Anselm, April 21, at 7:30 in Perini Auditorium. All are invited.

Due to Covid-19 the Saint Anselm Lecture was cancelled. Professor Williams is presenting at the Saint Anselm Conference in April 2021.
 

John and Judy Paul Summer Research Grant

The John and Judy Paul Summer Research Grant, is offered to doctoral candidates and those who recently completed doctoral studies (within last four years) working on some area of Anselm studies. The Institute provides the recipient with an opportunity to do research for a week in the extensive O'Rourke Saint Anselm Collection at Saint Anselm College.

Learn More

  • Inaugural Fides et Ratio Lecture

    Dr. John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, and CJ Newton Rayzor, Sr. Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at Baylor University, gave the inaugural Fides et Ratio Lecture on Friday, October 25 at 12:30 p.m. in Dana 1D. The title of his lecture was, “Embodied Meanings and Signs of God.”

  • 2019 Metaphysics Colloquium

    The 2019 Colloquium being held June 19-20 will commemorate the work of Fr. Donald Keefe, S.J.

    The 2019 Metaphysics Colloquium Schedule (PDF/115KB) is now available.

    To register, please contact Laurie Nicewicz at (603) 641-7150 or by email at lnicewicz@anselm.edu.

  • 2019 Saint Anselm Lecture

    Dr. Michael Krom, Professor of Philosophy, St. Vincent College
    "Archbishop Anselm, Benedictine Spiritiuality, and the Challenge of Worldly Wealth"
    Date & Time: Monday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.
    Location: Dana Center

  • John and Judy Paul Summer Research Grant

    John and Judy Paul Summer Research Grant

    The Institute for Saint Anselm Studies is accepting applications for the 2020 John and Judy Paul Summer Research Grant, which is offered to doctoral candidates and those who recently completed doctoral studies (within last four years) working on some area of Anselm studies. The Institute provides the recipient with an opportunity to do research for a week in the extensive O’Rourke Saint Anselm Collection at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

    The exact period of the grant is to be decided by the recipient but will fall between the dates of May 20 and June 30. Travel reimbursement will be covered up to $1000, and housing for six nights will be provided with $50 per diem reimbursement for food. The recipient will have library privileges for the week. Special access will be arranged for times when the library is normally closed.

    The application should include your name, academic affiliation, research topic with a brief explanation of the project (300-400 words), a current CV, and a letter of reference from someone familiar with your work. A report on the research of 3-4 pages will be expected as well as a citation in the dissertation or article if published. A copy of the dissertation or the article for the Collection would also be expected.

    For more information on the O’Rourke Saint Anselm Collection, visit Publications. For more information on the Institute, visit Institute for Saint Anselm Studies.

    Please apply through email or regular mail by March 1, 2020, to:

    Prof. Montague Brown
    Director, Institute for Saint Anselm Studies
    Saint Anselm College
    100 Saint Anselm Drive #1644
    Manchester, NH 03102
    mbrown@anselm.edu

  • The Sixth Saint Anselm Conference

    The Institute for Saint Anselm Studies hosted the Sixth Saint Anselm Conference on April 20-22, 2017. The Conference theme was Saint Anselm, the Church, and the Reformers.

    Marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the Sixth Saint Anselm Conference welcomed papers on topics that were important to Anselm and the Reformers alike. Areas included issues in theology, such as Christ, redemption, free will and grace, the place of scripture in the Church, the nature of the Church, authority and reform in the Church, and also broader issues such as the value of reason, the reception of Anselm among the humanists, and the relations between Church and individual, Church and state authority, conscience and authority, conscience and civil law.

    Plenary Speaker:
    Rev. David Pignato, J.D., S.T.D., Professor, Systematic Theology
    St. John's Seminary, Boston

    The Saint Anselm Lecture by Rev. Pignato was held on Friday evening, with Panel sessions held on Friday and Saturday. Selected papers will be published in The Saint Anselm Journal.

  • 2018 Metaphysics Colloquium

    Is There a Catholic Philosophy? was the topic for the 2018 Colloquium. Angela Knobel of Catholic University of America presented the main paper.  Her respondents were William Haggerty, Gannon University, and Kent Wallace, Anna Maria College