Tertio Millennio Summer Seminar

History

The idea of the Summer Seminar originated in the early nineties. With the fall of communism, enthusiasm for freedom spread throughout South-East Europe. On the other hand, in the West there was a growing conviction of the crisis of democracy. The inspiration to organize The Summer Seminar came about through the discussions of a group of friends: Michael Novak, Richard John Neuhaus, Robert Sirico, Rocco Buttiglione, George Weigel and Maciej Zieba OP.

The first seminar of the Summer School entitled The Free Society and Centesiums Annus was held in Lichtenstein. Participants included students and doctoral candidates from the United States and South-East Europe. Lectures and discussions were based on the social encyclical of John Paul II (Centesimus annus). Since 1999 seminars under the title Tertio Millennio & Free Society have been organized by Tertio Millennio Institute. These are held every July in Krakow, where participants stay in the Dominican Priory.

Faculty

Reverend Maciej Zięba, OP

Reverend Maciej Zięba, OP, former Provincial of the Dominicans of Poland, is one of his country’s foremost interpreters of the thought of John Paul II. A founder of the Center for Political Thought in Krakow, he has recently launched a new center dedicated to Catholic social thought, the Tertio Millennio Institute.

http://www.tertio.pl/

George Weigel

George Weigel is former president and now Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He is the author or editor of numerous books. Amongst his recent works is the internationally acclaimed Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II and Letters to a Young Catholic, dedicated to the alumni of the Tertio Millennio Seminar.

www.eppc.org

Russell Hittinger

Russell Hittinger is the Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory and The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World.

http://www.law.utulsa.edu/faculty_staff/rhittinger/view?BIBID=104

Father Thomas D. Williams, L.C.

Father Thomas D. Williams, L.C., is Dean of Theology and Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology and Catholic Social Thought at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome. His books include Who Is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights Servants and Witnesses of Hope, Springtime of Evangelization, and Spiritual Progress.

http://www.upra.org/articulo.phtml?se=2&id=2130

Rev. Dr. Jarosław Kupczak, OP

Rev. Dr. Jarosław Kupczak, OP, from the Pontifical Theological Academy in Kraków, is one of the world's top experts on John Paul II’s Christian anthropology. He is the author of Destined for Liberty: The Human Person in the Philosophy of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II.

Michael Novak

Michael Novak, theologian, author, and recipient of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He has written more than twenty books, including the highly influential The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism.