Speakers

John Waters

Administrator — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:05:26 +0000

John Waters, columnist for the Irish Times, author, playwright and songwriter, was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, in the West of Ireland in 1955. He pursued a variety of occupations after leaving school, including railway clerk, showband roadie, pirate radio manager, petrol pump attendant and mailcar driver. He began part-time work as a a journalist in 1981, with Hot Press, Ireland’s leading rock ‘n’ roll periodical, becoming a full-time journalist with the paper in 1984, when he moved to Dublin.

Lisa Schiltz

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Elizabeth R. Schiltz is a Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy, and Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. After receiving a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia School of Law, she practiced for many years as a banking regulatory lawyer.

Dr. Dermot Quinn

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:07:00 +0000

Dr. Dermot Quinn is a Professor of History at Seton Hall University, a member of the Board of Advisors of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and Associate Editor of The Chesterton Review.

Michael Odnoralov

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Michael Odnoralov is a Russian painter, active in the non-conformist movement from the 1960s to 1980s.

John McCarthy

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:40:00 +0000

John McCarthy, Dean of the School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto. His M.A. and his Ph.D. are from The Catholic University of America.

Harold Korell

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Harold Korell is Chairman of the Board at Southwestern Energy in Houston, TX.

Korell, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with a Professional Degree in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering, began his career with Mobil Oil Corporation and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Texas and Colorado. Mr. Korell serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Walton College at the University of Arkansas and the Board of Governors of the Colorado School of Mines.

Tony Hendra

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:19:00 +0000

Tony Hendra, born in England, was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside the likes of John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor. After he moved to the U.S., he became one of the founding editors of NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine.

Michael Hanby

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Michael Hanby, a theologian, is Assistant Professor of Science and Culture at the John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America, where he teaches primarily in the theology, biotechnology, and bioethics specialization. Prior to that, he taught at Baylor University and Villanova University.

Francis Greene

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:15:00 +0000

Dr. Francis Greene has taught French literature, culture, and Fine Arts at St. Francis College since September 1968 and serves as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Fine Arts where he holds the rank of Professor. He holds a Doctorate in French Literature from Rutgers University and a Master of Philosophy in Art and Architectural History from City University, New York.

Jonathan Fields

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Fields is a composer, music teacher and lecturer who in his career has explored many regions of the musical world. After graduating first in his class from Mannes College of Music in 1981, he joined David Horowitz Music Associates, one of the leading commercial music production companies in the world, and has been an award-winning composer of over a thousand television and radio spots.

H.E. Cardinal Edward M. Egan

Administrator — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:45:00 +0000

His Eminence Cardinal Edward M. Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York. During Cardinal Egan’s tenure as Archbishop of New York, the number of registered parishioners increased by 204,000; the budget of Catholic Charities grew by 125 per cent; enrollment in Catholic elementary and secondary schools rose by 15,400; the Archdiocesan newspaper Catholic New York became the largest in the nation; and the Archdiocese and its various agencies were made debt-free.

Julián Carrón

Administrator — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Called by Father Giussani to share in the responsibility of the leadership of the Movement, Father Julián Carrón has been President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation since March 19, 2005, and Ecclesiastical Assistant to the Memores Domini since May 13, 2005.

Fr. Peter Cameron

Administrator — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. was ordained a Dominican priest in 1986 and is Editor-in-Chief of Magnificat.

Paul Bhatti

Administrator — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:15:00 +0000

Paul Bhatti is the Pakistani Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs and brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs assassinated on March 2, 2011.

Krzysztof Zanussi

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:19:11 +0000

Film director. He studied physics at Warsaw University (1955-59) and philosophy at Jagiellonian University (1959-62). Taking an active part in the amateur film movement, he made 11 motion pictures, 9 of which gained various awards. Since 1980 he has been running the TOR Film Studio – initially as its artistic director, subsequently in charge of the entire unit.

Massimo Robberto

Administrator — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:09:16 +0000

Massimo Robberto is Full Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the operation center for the Hubble Space Telescope and the future James Webb Space Telescope. After getting his PhD in Italy in 1989, he held a tenured research position at the Turin Observatory until 1995, when he moved to the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg (Germany) to lead the MAX project, an advanced infrared camera for the UKIRT telescope on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Jane Milosch

Administrator — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Jane Milosch is Director of the Provenance Research Initiative, Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, at the Smithsonian Institution.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

Administrator — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was born in Dublin on 8th April 1945. He attended schools in Dublin (Oblate School, Inchicore; De La Salle School, Ballyfermot; Marian College, Ballsbridge). He studied philosophy at the University College Dublin and theology at the Dublin Diocesan Seminary (Holy Cross College, Clonliffe). He was ordained a priest on May 25th, 1969. He later pursued higher studies in moral theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.

Matthew Kaminski

Administrator — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Editorial board member, The Wall Street Journal. Matthew Kaminski is a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board in New York, a post he took up in July 2008. For the previous three years, Mr. Kaminski was the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, based in Paris.

Fr. Sidney Griffith

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Fr. Sidney Griffith is an Ordinary Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at Catholic University of America, with a concentration in Syriac and Christian Arabic.

Mary Ann Glendon

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

She writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law and political theory. Her most recent book, The Forum and the Tower: How Politicians and Philosophers Have Imagined the World, was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press.

Wael Farouq

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:55:00 +0000

Wael Farouq was born in Cairo, Egypt. He was assistant professor for Islamic studies at the Copto-Catholic Faculty of Theology in Cairo, Egypt (2005-2008). He has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, Macerata University (Italy) since 2005 and professor at the Arab Language Institute at the American University in Cairo since 2006.

Ross Douthat

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:50:00 +0000

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist and Author. Ross Douthat graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2002, where he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In April 2009, he became the youngest Op-Ed Columnist in the history of the New York Times.

Christopher Bacich

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:15:00 +0000

Christopher Bacich is the National Coordinator of Communion and Liberation in the United States and a high school teacher here in New York.

Frank Anderson

Administrator — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Frank Anderson, Former Chief, Near East Division, Directorate of Operations, CIA. Mr. Anderson is President of the Middle East Policy Council, a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization that seeks to contribute to American understanding of the political, economic and cultural issues that affect U.S. interests in the region.

Jonathan Galassi

Administrator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:20:00 +0000

Jonathan Galassi was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1949. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, and Cambridge University, where he earned an M.A. in 1973. Mr. Galassi became an editor in the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Company in 1973. He was a senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, when he joined Farrar, Straus and Giroux as vice-president and executive editor. He was named president of the firm in 2002.

John Garvey

Administrator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:35:00 +0000

John H. Garvey is the 15th President of The Catholic University of America. He attended the University of Notre Dame where he received an A.B. in 1970. He was candidate for a Master of Theological Studies degree at Harvard Divinity School (1970-71), and then entered the Harvard Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor in 1974.

Clara Gaymard

Administrator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:20:00 +0000

Clara Gaymard is the Vice President of Government Strategy and Sales at GE International, and President and CEO of GE France.

Carla Hendra

Administrator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:20:00 +0000

Carla Hendra was named founding Chairman, Global Strategy & Innovation at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in 2010 and was also appointed to the O&M Worldwide Executive Committee. From 2005-2010, Carla served as CEO of Ogilvy & Mather North America, becoming Chairman of Ogilvy New York from 2007-2010. During this period, O&M won significant new business including Stolichnaya Vodka, Medco, Nestle, Fage Yogurt, Kaplan, CDW, United Parcel Service and Citizens Bank.

"Blue Lou" Marini

Administrator — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:25:00 +0000

Bio to come