About the Lonergan Workshop
*Please note, scroll down for this year's schedule and logistics.*
Bernard Lonergan hoped that his work would yield āongoing collaborationā among intelligent and faithful people. For more than fifty years, the Lonergan Workshop at Ķęż½ć½ć has brought thousands of people into that cooperative project.
The Lonergan Workshop was founded in 1972 by Emeritus Prof. Fred Lawrence and his wife, Sue Lawrence. For fifty years, Fred and Sue welcomed artists, psychologists, philosophers, theologians, sociologists, people in the worlds of business, law, and medicine, educators, physicists, social workers, biologists, and many others to the Workshop, publishing the proceedings in the Lonergan Workshop Journal. Fred and Sue made it a priority that the Workshop be financially accessible to everyone who wanted to attend, and cultivated the cooperative spirit which made that possible.
At the Workshop, scholars deeply engaged in Lonergan studies come together with practitioners and experts on the year's theme; presentations are followed by ample time for conversation; and friendship and hospitality animate the whole proceeding in the spirit of its founders.
Everyone is welcome.
Logistics
The 2025 Lonergan Workshop will be held Sunday, June 15th through Wednesday, June 18th at the Ķęż½ć½ć Connors Center in Dover, MA.
Registration will open on May 5th.ĢżScholarships are available (information forthcoming).
Registration is $75 per day, or $250 for all four days. The registration fee covers all meals and drinks at the Workshop.
Rooms are available at the Connors Center for $80 per night; rooms with private bathrooms are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For guests flying into Boston, we recommend a taxi or ride-share service to the Connors Center. If you would prefer to take the train part of the way, the Connors Center is about a ten minute drive from the Natick Center T Station (the commuter rail) and about a twelve minute drive from the Needham Junction T Stop (Needham line).
āSchedule of Probabilitiesā
In memory of Glenn "Chip" Hughes and David Tracy, among others.
All times listed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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Sunday, June 15
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| 3:00 PM | Check-in to rooms available from 3:00 PM onward at the Connors Center, Dover, MA (coffee available) |
| 4:00 PM | Mass (Garden Terrace Room) |
| 4:45 PM | Conference registration opens in Entry Hall (drinks and hors d'oeuvres provided) |
| 5:15 PM | Dinner; Welcome by Jeremy Wilkins (Estate Room) |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Opening Keynote (TBA) |
7:00 PM | Evening reception (Dover Parlor) |
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Group photo of some of the 2024 Lonergan Workshop participants.
“The speakers in the Lonergan Workshop were, in their different ways, describing how their personal appropriation of these processes enabled them to make certain advances. Fr. Whelan and I concluded that the reason Lonergan's influence on them was hard to discern was that what they had learned from him was how to make better use of their own minds, to become conscious of what they were doing when they were knowing, to think in terms of development and schemes of recurrence, to notice what is going forward in their various disciplines and to become more aware of the biases that can distort one's perceptions and analyses.”
Director of the Workshop, Jeremy Wilkins (left) with Director Emeritus, Fred Lawrence.
“There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists. There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now this, now that new development . . . But what will count is a perhaps not numerous center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking enough to work out one by one the transitions to be made, strong enough to refuse half measures and insist on complete solutions even though it has to wait.”