Friday, February 16, 2024
6:30 pm ET | Pavilion Auditorium
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A Soul Waiting to Be Reawakened
The Encounter opens with poet Christian Wiman and classical pianist Lio Kuok-Wai
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
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Featured image: Jozef Israëls, Waiting, oil on canvas, detail; USPD
Fri, February 16, 2024
9:00 pm ET | Pavilion Auditorium
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‘Silence is like fertile soil.’
An evening with the music of Arvo Pärt with Ekmeles, a vocal ensemble directed by Jeffrey Gavett, music director, Malachi Provenzano, violin, Armando Ortiz, violin, Yeuk Sen Chan, viola, Umi Neal, cello, Miriam Conti Vanoni, piano, Ming Wilson, piano, curated by Gabriele Vanoni
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
SAT, February 17, 2024
9:30 Am ET | pavilion auditorium
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The Power of Language
A presentation on the nature of language and the danger of ideologies with Andrea Moro, professor of general linguistics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy, and Marguerite Peeters, director of the Institute for Intercultural Dialogue Dynamics, Brussels, moderated by Stephen Lewis, professor of English, Franciscan University of Steubenville
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
EXHIBIT PRESENTATION
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
10:45 AM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
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‘The intelligence can only be led by desire.’ The Journey of Simone Weil
Presentation of the exhibit on Simone Weil, with Carlo Lancellotti, curator, and Annie Thompson, Professor of English, St. John’s College, Santa Fe
IN-PERSON ONLY
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
11:30 AM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
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A Fundamental Difference?
A conversation on generative artificial intelligence and its foreseeable development, with Jon Stokes, co-founder and chief product officer at Symbolic AI, and Jennifer Strong, audio journalist and executive producer of Shift, moderated by Davide Bolchini, executive associate dean, Luddy School of Informatics, Indiana University
IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED
SAT, February 17, 2024
12:45 Pm ET | ALTMAN auditorium
AWAKENING THE SOUL SERIES
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A Problem to Be Solved or a Mystery to Be Lived?
A conversation on death, suffering, and euthanasia with Amanda Achtman, author, and Dulce Cruz-Oliver, assistant professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, moderated by John Zucchi, history professor at McGill University
IN-PERSON ONLY
Sat, February 17, 2024
2:00 pm ET | Pavilion Auditorium
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A Torn Open Wound
A conversation on the war between Israel and Hamas, its worldwide impact, and any conceivable road to peace, with Shadi Hamid, The Washington Post columnist, and editorial board member, and Jacob Siegel, senior editor at The Tablet, moderated by Everett Price, foreign policy advisor
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
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Featured image: Six killed in Israeli strikes on a Palestinian refugee camp near the West Bank town of Tulkarem (ANSA), via Vatican News
EXHIBIT PRESENTATION
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
3:15 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ The Pedagogy of Fr. Luigi Giussani
Presentation of the exhibit on Fr. Giussani’s pedagogy with Amy Hickl, exhibit curator, and Carmine Di Martino, professor of philosophy, State University of Milan, Italy
EXHIBIT PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT
Sat, February 17, 2024
4:00 pm ET | Pavilion Auditorium
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Still Awake!
A presentation on this year's Encounter theme accompanied by Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete’s clarity, prescience, and wit, with greetings by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, and a conversation with Jakub Grygiel, professor of politics, Catholic University of America, Fr. Ryan Mann, pastor of St. Basil the Great Parish, Cleveland, moderated by Stephen Sanchez, president of the Albacete Forum
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
EXHIBIT PRESENTATION
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
5:15 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
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Armenia: Ancient Culture, Enduring Faith
Presentation of the exhibit on Armenia, its roots, and identity, with Robert Bagdazian, curator
IN-PERSON ONLY
SAT, February 17, 2024
6:00 Pm ET | PaVilion Auditorium
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What Beauty Can Do to the Soul
A conversation on the power of art to rekindle our humanity, with Patrick Bringley, writer, and J.F. Martel, author, moderated by Jonathan Fields, composer
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
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Featured image: Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888, oil on canvas, detail, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; US PD; Source: Wiki Commons
EXHIBIT PRESENTATION
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
07:15 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
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‘Who Shall I Say Is Calling?’ Heartbreak and Mystery in the Work of Leonard Cohen
Presentation of the exhibit on Leonard Cohen with Sean Wood, curator
IN-PERSON ONLY
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Featured image: Michael Putland, Leonard Cohen, Getty Images
SAT, FEB 17, 2024
8:00 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
AWAKENING THE SOUL SERIES
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Born With a Promise
Stories of unusual friendships and surprising human connections, with Kanihya Glover, founder of Broken Concrete, and Salvatore Snaiderbaur, founder of One City Mission, New York, moderated by James Parker, dean of student life, St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland
IN-PERSON ONLY
SUN, February 18, 2024
8:30 Am ET | pavilion auditorium
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Holy Mass
Mass for the 19th anniversary of Fr. Luigi Giussani’s death, celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, with the Choir of New York Encounter directed by Sebastian Modarelli, music director at the Co-Cathedral of St. John, Rochester, Minnesota
IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAMED
Sun, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
10:15 AM ET | Altman AUDITORIUM
AWAKENING SOUL SERIES
Irreducible Humanity
Stories of faith in dramatic circumstances around the world with Fr. David Michael de Penha, missionary priest from Burma, and Msgr. Mark Nzukwein, Bishop of Wukari, Nigeria, moderated by Msgr. Earl K. Fernandes, Bishop of Columbus, Ohio
IN-PERSON ONLY
Featured image: People in the Kayah state of Myanmar attend Catholic Mass in the Htaykho village. (CNS photo/Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters) via National Catholic Reporter
SUN, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
11:30 AM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
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Made to Be Free
A conversation on education in light of Fr. Luigi Giussani’s pedagogy with Hans van Mourik Broekman, principal of Liverpool College, U.K., and Aaron Riches, professor of theology, Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, moderated by Amy Hickl, dean of faculty, Notre Dame Academy School, Los Angeles
IN-PERSON AND LIVE STREAMED
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Featured image: Stanisław Wyspiański, Little Helen With a Vase, pastel on paper, 1902, National Museum of Art, Kraków, Poland; USPD
Sun, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
12:45 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
AWAKENING THE SOUL SERIES
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Fratelli Tutti
A conversation on Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti, with Amets Arzallus Antia, poet and co-author of Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey, and Mrs. Tawakkol Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner, moderated by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., introduced by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, O.F.M., Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
IN-PERSON ONLY
SUN, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
2:00 PM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
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An Incurable Wound?
Eye-witness accounts of the life of Christians in the Holy Land with Alessandra Buzzetti, TV journalist in Jerusalem, Fr. David Grenier, O.F.M., commissary of the Holy Land for the United States, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza, and other Christians from Gaza and the West Bank, moderated by Riro Maniscalco, Encounter’s president
IN-PERSON AND LIVE STREAMED
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Featured image: In prayer in Holy Family Church in Gaza during the conflict; Source: Traces
Sun, FEB 18, 2024
3:15 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
AWAKENING THE SOUL SERIES
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Can the Soul Remain Open When Life Settles in?
A conversation on the questions, hopes, ideals, and concerns of today’s young adults with Tara Isabella Burton, author, and Fr. Patrick Gilger, assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University Chicago, moderated by Stephen Adubato, writer and educator
IN-PERSON ONLY
Sun, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
4:15 pM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
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Beyond Left and Right
A discussion on the nature, role, and future of the U.S. Supreme Court with Stephanos Bibas, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and Jeffrey Pojanowski, professor of law, Notre Dame University, moderated by Giuliana Carozza Cipollone, lawyer and former clerk at the Supreme Court
IN-PERSON AND LIVE STREAMED
Sun, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
5:30 pM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
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From Death Into Life
Stories of forgiveness and hope, with Gilbert King, journalist, and Rachel Muha, founder of the Brian Muha Foundation, with concluding remarks by John McCarthy, dean of the School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America
IN-PERSON AND LIVE STREAMED
Sun, FEBRUARY 18, 2024
7:30 pM ET | PAVILION AUDITORIUM
Alive Again
Final night of celebration and songs with the Encounter volunteers
