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Buenos Aires Conference 2005

 

The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture based at Seton Hall
University in South Orange, New Jersey will hold its first major conference in Latin America in Buenos Aires, Argentina from September 21 – 24, 2005. The conference is also co-sponsored by the Argentine Chesterton Society, by His Excellency Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and by the Santa Maria Catholic University in Buenos Aires. This conference seeks to address a long-felt need in the Spanish-speaking world.

The conference theme is “Chesterton and the Evangelization  of Culture”. Speakers from the United States and Britain include Father Ian Boyd, CSB, President of the Institute and Editor of The Chesterton Review; Dr. Dermot Quinn, Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute and the Editorial Board of The Chesterton Review and Dr. Sheridan Gilley, a member of the Editorial Board of The Chesterton Review and the author of a widely acclaimed Newman biography. Among the many South-American speakers is Mr. Bernardo Ezequiel Korenblit, a well-known Argentinian writer and journalist.

For the last thirty years, The G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture has convened conferences world-wide on topics of faith and culture.

International Press:

For more information about this conference please contact;
in the U.S.:
chestertoninstitute@shu.edu
and in Latin America:
sociedadchestertonianaargentina@yahoo.com.ar
http://www.sociedadchestertonianaargentina.org