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Categoria: CONGRESSI
Visite: 11144
Sant’Anselmo, Rome (both online and in presence)
When: 8-11 June 2021
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Welcome

The Monastic Institute of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome organizes an International Symposium every four years, dedicated to different themes related to monasticism. After discussing the themes of culture and of economy, this time we propose focusing on education and formation which are the themes partially connected to the previous ones. However, above all, the problems of education are currently very relevant, for various reasons, both in the modern world and in the Church, which dedicated the last Synod of Bishops to youth, and was crowned with the post-synodal exhortation Christus vivit.

The theme we propose includes four integrated and interwoven dimensions of monastic activity:

  1. education as teaching both of knowledge and competences and as forming attitudes (Erziehung);
  2. formation as an explicit activity focused on spiritual growth, both as religious education and as educating a sense of the religious dimension of experience;
  3. external activities of monasteries, developed in different schools run by Benedictine monks and sisters as well as in other social contexts;
  4. internal activities directed to the members of monastic communities as well as to oblates and guests visiting monasteries and their Guest Houses.

There are two factors which authorize and legitimize the monastic contribution to modern education: the long and rich history of monastic education and the presence of about 200 schools, colleges and universities around the world run by Benedictines. The Symposium would like to record, appreciate, analyze and develop this reality. So, the historical themes can range from the pedagogical and formative experiences of the Desert Fathers (especially present in the teachings of Evagrius and in the writings of Cassian) and other monastic authors, such as Basil the Great, Augustine and Gregory the Great; they can include proposals contained in various Rules and monastic traditions, both Oriental and Occidental, the social impact of monastic life, particularly visible in the work of Cassiodorus or Alcuin, in the tradition of lectio divina and hesychasm (Mount Athos but also, later, the monastery of Optina in Russia); they can cover the whole tradition of monastic sapiential methodology, combining studies and meditation as practised by Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux and rediscovered by Jean Leclercq, particularly in his famous book L’amour des lettres et le désir de Dieu. One should not forget that among alumni of monastic schools there were Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin and Herman Hesse.

The look at the monastic impact on modern education can be directed by five values resulting from the Gospel interpreted by the Rule of Benedict and considered as essential by the Benedictine Colleges and Universities:

  1. the primacy of God and the things of God;
  2. reverent listening to the varied ways in which God is revealed;
  3. the formation of community built on respect for individual persons who are each regarded as Christ himself
  4. the development of a profound awareness of the meaning of one’s existence
  5. the exercise of good stewardship.

Through these emphases Benedictine Colleges and Universities strive to promote the common good of Church and society and assist individuals to lead lives of balance, generosity and integrity. The most recent vision of the role of the Benedictine tradition in education today was outlined by Abbot Elias Lorenzo, the president of the International Commission on Benedictine Education (ICBE), at their conference in August 2019 : You may  read the pdf of his address here.

Finally, all these values can be found in, and inspire, various modern methods and approaches to education, pedagogy or formation. Interactions, affinities but also contrasts of these values and other Benedictine characteristics of education or formation with new ways and methods of education (Montessori, Waldorf, education through art, writing, computers) would be another interesting group of themes for the Symposium.

As in previous cases, the inter- and hyper-disciplinary exchange will be achieved by the active and open participation of specialists in history, theology, sociology, archeology, pedagogics, education, coming from different continents, languages, cultures and also various academic traditions. That is always a distinctive feature of our projects. We would like to animate it by two panel discussions and one workshop, coming from different educational contexts. Some details currently are  available on the “Special Guests” page, linked in the menu and located here. However, program details will be updated regularly on the Google Docs “Program” page, linked in the menu and located here.


Scientific Committee

  • Greg Peters (Biola University, USA)
  • Thomas Quartier OSB (Radboud University Nijmegen, KU Leuven)
  • Paolo Trianni (Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Ansemo, Roma, Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Roma)
  • Isabelle Jonveaux (University of Graz)
  • Marcin Jewdokimow (University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Warsaw)
  • Bernard Sawicki OSB (Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo, Roma)

 


Advisory Board
  • Michel Van Parys OSB (Abbey of Chevetogne)
  • Fernando Rivas OSB (Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo)
  • Mario Comoglio (Università Pontificia Salesiana), Ioannis Panagiotopoulos (University of Athens)
  • Barbara Spalova (University of Prague)
  • Mark Barrett OSB (Worth Abbey)
  • James Clark (University of Exeter)

» Program pdf

» Workshop


  • De Kovel

  • The Benedictine Centre at Radboud University Nijmegen and the Chair of Monastic Studies at KU Leuven
  • Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin, USA

  • Department of XXth and XXIst century Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

  •  Religious Life Research Group (at Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, Poland)

  • Titus Brandsma Institute (University of Nijmegen, Holland)

  • Lehrstuhl für Religionspädagogik Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München)


    » Download abstract


    Danièle Hervieu-Léger Director of Studies at EHESS

    Danièle Hervieu-Léger

    Director of Studies at EHESS

    Research Themes

    • sociology of advanced religious modernity: secularization and religious renewal;
    • forms of religiosity, conversions, modalities of communalization and religious institutions in contemporary societies;
    • sociology of Catholicism;
    • monasticism and religious reforms.
     
    Michel Van Parys Abbot of Chevetogne, Igumen of the Abbey of Grottaferrata

    Michel Van Parys

    Abbot of Chevetogne, ex-Igumen of the Abbey of Grottaferrata

    Michel Van Parys was born in Gent (Belgium) in 1942. He entered the Benedictine Order where he made his monastic profession in 1960. Licensed in Philosophy in 1965, he later received his doctoral degree at the Sorbonne. In 1968 he graduated in Literature at the Sorbonne with a thesis on Grégoire de Nysse. He was ordained a priest on May 29, 1969 and appointed as novice master. In 1971 he was elected Prior of Chevetogne and in 1991 he received the abbatial blessing as the first Abbot of Chevetogne. Since 1993 he has collaborated with the Congregation for the Oriental Churches carrying out various missions, and in a stable form from 1997 to 2002, becoming a Consultor. From 2008 to 2013 he held the office of Pontifical Delegate for the Armenian Mechitarist Congregation in Venice. In recent years he was igumen of the Basilian monastery of Grottaferata and until 2019 the spiritual father of the Greek College in Rome.

     
     
    James Clark Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Professor of History

    James Clark

    Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Professor of History

    My historical interests are focused on the period between the Black Death and the Break with Rome. While a medievalist by training, I explore themes in religion, intellectual and cultural life which reach across the traditional boundaries of medieval and early modern; likewise, my approach is informed not only by the sources and methods of the historian but also by those of researchers in literary, artistic and material culture.

    Christopher Jamison Abbot President of the EBC, President ICBE

    Christopher Jamison

    Abbot President of the EBC, President ICBE

    Dom Christopher Jamison OSB is a Benedictine monk and former Abbot of Worth Abbey in West Sussex, England. He became well-known through the BBC TV series The Monastery. In the summer of 2017, Jamison was appointed Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation. He is also the president of the International Conference on Benedictine Education which facilitates dialogue between Benedictine secondary schools across the world.


     

    Workshop | Discussion

     
    James Clark Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Professor of History

    Roberto Scanarotti

    Giornalista, membro del consiglio direttivo della Libera Università dell’Autobiografia di Anghiari (LUA)

    Roberto Scanarotti, giornalista ed ex media manager, è membro del consiglio direttivo della Libera Università dell’Autobiografia di Anghiari (LUA) e segretario culturale del Centro Nazionale Ricerche e Studi autobiografici “Athe Gracci”. Specializzato in metodologie autobiografiche, nel ruolo di formatore organizza e cura laboratori di self-writing e progetti di narrazione biografica; per il biennio 2021/22 è inoltre responsabile della Scuola per Referenti territoriali LUA. Oltre alle numerose raccolte di storie di vita, prevalentemente rivolte agli ambienti del disagio sociale e psicofisico, ha pubblicato i saggi “Treno e cinema” (Le Mani) e “Destinazione immaginario” (Equinozi) e il romanzo “Se non dovessi tornare” (nuovanarrativaitaliana.it). Presso l’editore Mimesis, è in uscita il suo saggio “La mia anima è un’orchestra. Scrittura autobiografica e molteplicità dell’io”.

    Christopher Jamison Abbot President of the EBC, President ICBE

    Sabrina Tinghi

    Cantante, polistrumentista, autrice di canzoni e testi teatrali, musicoterapeuta

    Sabrina Tinghi è cantante, polistrumentista, autrice di canzoni e testi teatrali, musicoterapeuta. Nata a Firenze nel 1962, si diploma presso la Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori (Firenze, 1984). Appassionata di canto e musica fin da bambina, studia da privatista. È ammessa al Conservatorio L. Cherubini per il triennio propedeutico a canto, teoria e solfeggio (Firenze, 1982-1985). Nel 1986 si iscrive alla Scuola di jazz “Andrea del Sarto” per il canto e la musica d’insieme, completando il percorso formativo (Firenze, 1988). Già nel 1987 inizia a lavorare professionalmente con il canto e la musica, compone e scrive testi, esplora vari generi musicali con particolare interesse per l’uso della voce nelle varie tradizioni e culture. Dal 1992 in poi si appassiona alla musica antica e dei popoli, individuando nelle composizioni più arcaiche un linguaggio sonoro più vibrante e profondo. Per arricchire la propria tessitura vocale ed espressiva frequenta corsi di canto bizantino, mediorientale e hindustani in Italia, Spagna e India . Da oltre 25 anni è membro co-fondatore del Gruppo di musica antica e teatro storico “I GIULLARI DELL’ ALLEGRA BRIGATA”, dove canta, recita, suona la ghironda e la chitarra rinascimentale, esibendosi con successo nelle maggiori rassegne di cultura medievale, in Italia e in Europa. Nel 2002 inizia a praticare la meditazione silenziosa nella tradizione cristiana e ciò imprime al suo canto una dimensione sempre più intima e contemplativa. La “preghiera cantata e respirata” si fa ponte fra il Silenzio e la Parola, via di autentica ricerca di sé e del Sè, esperienza di grande valore animico e terapeutico. Si diploma in musico-arte terapia presso l’Istituto di Alta Formazione GDL della Dott.ssa Stefania Guerra Lisi (Firenze, 2010). Ha sintetizzato la sua pedagogia vocale e musicale attraverso “La Via del Silenzio Sonoro”, un percorso meditativo e terapeutico per vivere il potere del Suono come esperienza corporea e animica trasformatrice. Vive a Firenze, dove collabora con varie associazioni e centri di meditazione, sia cantando che offrendo sessioni individuali e di gruppo.


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