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  • *NEW SUMMER SEMINARS ANNOUNCED* Applications for our 2023 Summer seminars are open, including two new seminars on theology and the sciences, and an undergraduate seminar on the work of René Girard. Join us in Rome, Oxford, Stanford, and elsewhere to study topics in the Catholic intellectual tradition with top scholars.

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  • VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine

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  • FEB 23: Ukraine One Year Later with Archbishop Borys Gudziak, Elizabeth Prodromou, Perry Hamalis and Gayle E. Woloschak

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Upcoming Events

Feb 9
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

John McGreevy Notre Dame

Hyde Park
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture
1025 E 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
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  1. Tue
    Mar 28
    STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY
    Spring Non-Credit Course | Shame, Suffering, and the Scandal of the Cross

    Peter Bernardi, SJ Lumen Christi Institute

    Hyde Park
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  2. Thu
    Mar 30
    Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective

    Mary Hirschfeld University of Notre Dame

    Amir Sufi University of Chicago Booth

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  3. Wed
    Apr 5
    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
    Lust, Friendship, and Eternity in the Epic of Gilgamesh

    Daniel Wasserman-Soler Lumen Christi Institute

    Hyde Park
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  4. Thu
    Apr 6
    GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY
    Graduate Reading Group on "The Short Stories of Tolstoy"
    Hyde Park
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  5. Wed
    Apr 12
    Catholic Culture Series on "A Catholic Vision of the Person and the World"
    Hinsdale, IL
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  6. Mon
    Apr 17
    STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY
    Maximus the Confessor Reading Group

    Fr. Andrew Summerson Lumen Christi Institute

    Hyde Park
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  7. Tue
    Apr 18
    Magis Lecture | Evil and the God of Love

    Stephen Fields, SJ Georgetown University

    Wilmette, IL
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  8. Thu
    Apr 27
    America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States

    Shannen Dee Williams University of Dayton

    Hyde Park
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  9. Fri
    May 5
    STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY
    Retribution and St. Thomas Aquinas's Teaching on Justice

    Stephen L. Brock Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

    Hyde Park
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Featured Videos
Symposium on "The Future of Natural Law"

Kevin Flannery, S.J.

Pontifical Gregorian University

John Bowlin

Princeton Theological Seminary

Scott Roniger

Loyola Marymount University

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The Future of Christian Art

Stephen Fields, SJ

Georgetown University

Karin Krause

University of Chicago

John David Mooney

Chicago-based Visual Artist

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Singing the Sacred: Music and the Holy in Ancient Christianity

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Brown University

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Symposium on "The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law"

Stephen L. Brock

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

Russell Hittinger

Lumen Christi Institute

Candace Vogler

University of Chicago

Matthew Levering

University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary

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