The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture has just announced a conference in Paris in October to celebrate the centenary of GKC’s Father Brown. Here are the details:

 

Centenary Celebration

Father Brown: moral parables for our time

Espace Bernanos, Paris, France – October 11, 2011

SOUTH ORANGE – September 1, 2011 — The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture, USA in partnership with “Les Amis de Chesterton” and Espace Bernanos have the pleasure of announcing a one-day conference celebrating the centenary of the publication of Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories entitled “Father Brown—moral parables for our time.” The conference will be held in Paris, France on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at Auditorium Saint-Matthias of the Espace Bernanos (4, rue du Havre, 75009 Paris), from 19h to 21:30h.. The programme will include a reading of one of the Father Brown Stories.

Father Brown is a fictional character created by the English novelist G. K. Chesterton—a priest who stars in fifty-two short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O’Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, England who was a key figure in Chesterton’s conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Their friendship was described in Fr. O’Connor’s 1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton.

Speakers will include Fr. Ian Boyd, CSB, Editor of The Chesterton Review and President of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture, Seton Hall University, USA; Dr. Dermot Quinn, Professor of History, Seton Hall University; Philippe Maxence, President of l’Association des Amis de Chesterton, journalist and writer and Daniel Hamiche, journalist and secretary of L’Association des Amis de Chesterton.

For more information about this programme please contact: chestertoninstitute@shu.edu or by phone 973-275-2431.

ABOUT THE G. K. CHESTERTON INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & CULTURE AND THE CHESTERTON REVIEW

The G. K. Chesterton Institute, a not-for profit educational organization incorporated in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, is located at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Its purpose is to promote the thought of G. K. Chesterton and his circle and more broadly, to explore the application of Chestertonian ideas in the contemporary world. The Institute’s work consists of conferences, lecture series, research and writing. The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, has been widely praised both for its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. Edited by Father Ian Boyd, C. S. B., it includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself, but on the issues close to his heart in the work of other writers and in the modern world. It has devoted special issues to C. S. Lewis, George Bernanos, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring, Christopher Dawson, Cardinal Manning, the Modernist Crisis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Fantasy Literature, and a Special Polish Issue. The Chesterton Review also publishes one annual issue in Spanish and in Portuguese, in French and as of 2011 in Italian.

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR CATHOLIC STUDIES

Seton Hall University’s Center for Catholic Studies is dedicated to fostering a dialogue between the Catholic intellectual tradition and all areas of study and contemporary culture. To that end, it sponsors an undergraduate degree program for students, focusing on interdisciplinary studies, with opportunities for scholarships, community, service, and foreign study. The Center is the home of the G.K. Chesterton Institute, the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute and the Micah Institute for Business and Economics, and their publications. The Center offers many opportunities for study and research, as well as ongoing programs on faith and culture, social justice, business and the economy, to audiences world-wide. For more information, see www.shu.edu/academics/artsci/catholic-studies/ , contact 973-275-2525 or e-mail catholicstudies@shu.edu.

ABOUT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY

For over 150 years, Seton Hall University has been a catalyst for leadership, developing the whole student, mind, heart and spirit. Seton Hall combines the resources of a large university with the personal attention of a small liberal arts college. Its attractive suburban campus is only 14 miles by train, bus or car to New York City, with the wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities the city offers. Seton Hall is a Catholic university that embraces students of all races and religions, challenging each to better the world through integrity, compassion and a commitment to serving others. For more information, see www.shu.edu