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Being Human in the Digital Age: A Discussion

The dominance of technology in our lives and the precipitous rise of artificial intelligence in the last few years has raised profound questions. We are being asked to think more deeply about what it means to be human, how we should (and whether we can) live with our creations, and what kind of life we can share together. How should we understand these new technologies? How does our use of digital technology form us? Is it changing society in fundamental ways? How should we think about the religious aspirations and dimensions of this new technology? In this webinar, professor of...

Beyond the Tenure Track: Catholic Vocation in Higher Education

A webinar hosted by the Office of Mission and Ministry at Providence College and COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture (Cornell University) and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the In Lumine Network. Graduate training often assumes a single path: the tenure-track job at a major research university. But for Catholic scholars, discerning a vocation in academia shouldn't principally be about chasing prestige. This webinar reframes professional development within a Catholic understanding of vocation and invites Catholic graduate students to reflect on their academic calling by exploring possibilities for faithful, flourishing work in higher education. A panel of...

Glimpses of Wonder: Faith, Reason, and Technology in the University Today

One great challenge in the modern research university is the siloing of information and of knowledge. While specialized knowledge is valuable, pressing questions confronting the contemporary world require that diverse forms of knowing be integrated, both in the heart of the knower and in society. A Catholic Institute is uniquely poised to speak to this challenge since the Catholic intellectual tradition has sought to embrace and integrate five intellectual virtues as presented in Aristotle (NE, VI:3) and St. Thomas Aquinas (ST, 1a-IIae, q. 57): wisdom, science, art, prudence, and mind or understanding. The Franciscan tradition has also emphasized the importance...