2024 Conference
The Rebirth of Chesterton – Insight and Foresight
Conference papers will be coming soon!
Dale Ahlquist, A New Educational Movement in America the Chesterton Schools Network
Karl Schmude, "The Prophecies of G K Chesterton Revisited"
Panel Discussion, Classical Education in Schools.
Dr Stephen McInerney on John Senior and the Legacy of an Integrated Humanities
Garrick Small, "Chesterton's Hudge and Gudge..."
Speakers Panel Discussion
Dale Ahlquist Dinner Presentation
2023 Conference
Chesterton and the Rise of a Counter-Culture
Greg Sheridan presents "Chesterton is Good for you: Journalism and books in the counter-culture"
Veronika Winkels presents "A cultural reclaiming of feminism: the launching of Mathilde magazine"
Karl Schmude presents "Would Chesterton have created Campion College?"
Peter Fenwick presents "Why subsidiarity matters: Releasing human energy to enrich society".
Michael Mendieta presents "Lighting a candle in the darkness – A new liberal arts school"
Panel Discussion at the 2023 Chesterton Conference
2022 Conference
GK Chesterton – The Great Detective
Karl Schmude presents ‘Father Brown Meets Inspector Clouseau’
Richard Egan ‘Chesterton and Sayers Mystery Writers and Defenders of the mystery"
Elvis and Heather Joseph: ‘Magic – The Making of a Movie’
2021 Conference
Chesterton and Woman: Romance and Reality
"Shakespeare’s Heroines vs Chesterton’s: Balancing Romance and Reality" by Angela Schumann
Francis Cantrall on "Can Romance be a Reality for Teenagers Today?"
“A servant of God – a stubborn, defiant maid” by Dr Stephen McInerney
Karl Schmude, The Fatherhood of Chesterton
The 2020 Conference of the Australian Chesterton Society on “Chesterton and Woman: Romance and Reality” was postponed to 2021 on account of COVID-19 travel and other restrictions. For the same reason, it did not prove possible to hold the conference in 2021, as was intended, at Campion College in Sydney.
The invited papers, however, were written and later video-recorded, and are presented here.
No conference was held in 2020 due to Covid.
2019 Conference
Reclaiming the Economy – A Chesterton Alternative
Fr Paul Stenhouse, 'John Farrell – Australian Social Reformer'
Mr Karl Schmude, "The Poetry of Distributism"
Dr Garrick Small, "The Marketplace and the Family"
Garrick Small, "Distributism and Henry George".
John Young, "A Comment on Henry George".
2018 Conference
Chesterton and the Child – Fostering the Family Today
Nancy Brown, ‘Frances – The Woman Who Was Chesterton’
Sophie York, Children and the Family in Australia Today
David van Gend, ‘Children and the Family in Australia Today”
Nancy Brown, ‘Father Brown and Other Imaginative Books for Young People’
Karl Schmude, "The Innocence of Father Chesterton"
2018 Chesterton Conference Panel Discussion
Gary Furnell, ‘A Toy Theatre – Memories of a Chesterton Childhood’
2017 Conference
Laughter in Paradise – GK Chesterton and Humour
John O‘Halloran: ‘Hilaire Belloc as a Comical Companion – Some Readings’
Stephen McInerney: ‘Christian Humour in the writings of Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes and Chesterton’
Karl Schmude: ‘A Night at the Uproar – G.K. Chesterton and the Marx Brothers’
Gary Furnell: ‘Spirited Comedy: Merriment and the Mystical’
Chesterton Conference 2017 Speakers Panel and Q&A
2016 Conference
A World of Wonder – GK Chesterton and the literary imagination
Greg Sheridan, ‘G K Chesterton The Journalist as an Artist’
Gary Furnell, ‘Chesterton and Flannery O’Connor’
John Young: ‘Father Brown – The Detective Who Philosophised’
Karl Schmude , "'Chesterton and Georges Bernanos"
Dr Iain Benson, In Quest of Inklings: Some Notes (and a Few Trophies) From A Bookman's Hunting Log
2015 Conference
A Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton and the Convert Cardinals – Newman and Manning
Chesterton Conference: Dr Stephen McInerney, Newman and Catholic University
Chesterton Conference: Dr Paul Morrissey, The Dilemma of the Human Person
Chesterton Conference: Mr Karl Schmude presents "Edmund Campion and John Henry Newman"
Chesterton Conference: Dr Garrick Small, Cardinal Henry Manning & Catholic Social Teaching