Introduction:
Angus Stuart - "Introduction."
Presidential Address:
A.M. Allchin - "The Hesychastic Heart of Thomas Merton’s Universal Embrace."
Main Conference Addresses:
Robert Inchausti - "Beyond Political Illusion: Thomas Merton on the Role of the Individual in Troubled Times."
Bonnie Thurston - "Three Islamic Poems By Thomas Merton."
Donald Grayston - "Finding ‘the Great Compassion, Mahakaruna’: Thomas Merton as Trans-Cultural Pioneer."
Concurrent Session Papers:
Michael R. Sobocinski - "Love and the Discovery of the True Self and Healing in Psychotherapy."
David Belcastro - "Thomas Merton and the Beat Generation: A Subterranean Monastic Community."
Angus Stuart - "Grace Beats Karma: Thomas Merton and the Dharma Bums."
Richard Berendes and Earl Madary - "Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day: The Marriage Of Contemplation And Action, A Call To Radical Hospitality."
Tom Del Prete - "The World in My Bloodstream: Merton’s Experience of Relatedness."
Judith Hardcastle - "The Mysticism of World Faiths in Merton’s Inner Experience."
Paul M. Pearson - "Redeeming the Rhinoceros: The Healing Power of the Night Spirit and the Dawn Air."
Fernando Beltrán Llavador and Sonia Petisco Martínez - "Thomas Merton’s World Discourse: Economic Globalisation versus Religious Universality."
Supplement: A selection of poems performed at the Conference Poetry Reading:
David Scott - Valley Road, Louisville; Ibn Abbad Woke Early.
Michael Woodward - Absence; A Postcard for Thomas Merton.
Bonnie Thurston - Ice Dance; Geese on a Foggy Day; Gardener's Eden.
Angus Stuart - Fragments of a Poetic Journal.
Sean Robertshaw - A Note from Gethsemane, California.