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The Thought of René Girard

University of Southern California University Park Campus 3551 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
Cynthia Haven | Trevor Cribben Merrill, UCLA | Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University

Apply here Description: One of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture, religion, and human desire. Through an intensive reading of Girard’s works, in conjunction with the fiction of the greatest writers, this five-day seminar will explore imitation, conflict, and scapegoating, connecting them to central themes of Christian theology. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. Location and Format: This seminar will be held at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Students will meet twice daily during 2.5 hr sessions in seminar style lecture and discussion. Students will...

Summer Seminars
Event Series Summer Seminars

Dionysius the Areopagite: The Corpus and Its Legacy

University of St. Michael's College 81 St. Mary's Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4, Toronto, ON
Paul Blowers, Milligan University | Rev. Andrew Summerson, University of St. Michael’s College | Lewis Ayres, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome

Apply here Co-presented with the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Dionysius the Areopagite is a figure who is as elusive as his prose is powerful. The course will involve a close reading of his entire corpus and situating his writings in the intellectual and historical context of the first millennium. We will further outline the indelible marks he leaves on subsequent Christian theology, liturgy, and the broader philosophical tradition. LOCATION AND FORMAT The seminar will be held at Sheptytsky House at the University of St. Michael’s College in the...

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Self Knowledge as “First Philosophy:” Introducing Bernard Lonergan

Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Roberto J. De La Noval, Boston College | Jeremy D. Wilkins, Boston College

Apply Here The seminar is co-presented by the Lonergan Institute. This graduate seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. The seminar will examine Lonergan’s approach to self-knowledge and “self-appropriation,” epistemology, and method in metaphysics and theology. The main text for the course will be Lonergan's seminal Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Upon first publication in 1957, Insight was greeted by reviewers as “probably… one of the great philosophical treatises of the century,” “a profound book… evincing an extraordinary sense for the persistent significance of ancient and medieval thought in the light of...

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Truth and Authority in Augustines City of God

University of California, Berkeley S Hall Rd. Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, CA
Michael Sherwin | Russell Hittinger, Catholic University of America

Apply here This seminar is an intensive week-long course in how to read, analyze, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God tells the history of two societies, and their respective origins, progress, and appointed ends. The story is engaged first from the evidence of profane history (I-XI) and then from the evidence of revelation (XII-XXII). In this seminar, participants will discuss how Augustine reckons with the crisis of the ancient and the human city, and whether it is possible to reconcile truth and authority across the competing domains of polity, religion,...

Summer Seminars
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Economics and Catholic Social Thought – A Primer

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Andrew Yuengert, Pepperdine University | Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame | Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame | Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame

Apply here Now in its eight year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics, finance, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought, starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory, firm and business ethics, wages, markets, globalization, poverty, and development. Participants will delve into social encyclicals, secondary sources, and relevant economics texts. This seminar is sponsored...

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Newman Forum Summer Institute | Encountering Transcendence: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Jay Martin, University of Notre Dame | Jennifer Martin, University of Notre Dame

APPLY HERE Registration for the Newman Forum Summer Institute is currently full. All new applications will be placed on a waitlist. Registration Deadline: June 15th, 2025 | $450 Attendance Fee: EXTENDED to May 22nd, Early Bird Registration | $250   Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office and The University of Saint Mary of the Lake at Mundelein Seminary “Wherefore if the goodness, beauty, and sweetness of creatures are so alluring to the minds of men, the fountainhead of the goodness of God Himself, in comparison with the rivulets of goodness which we find in creatures, will draw the...

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“Vocation of the Catholic Scholar” Summer Seminar

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Stephen Fields, Georgetown University

The Lumen Christi Institute will host an inaugural week-long seminar for recent PhDs interested in the Catholic intellectual tradition. The theme is “The Vocation of the Catholic Scholar,” and the seminar will be led by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J., Hackett Family Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. The foundation of the seminar will consist of reading and discussing John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University, as a springboard for considering the purpose of the university and of the scholar. Guest lecturers from the region will supplement this discussion and reading.  The seminar is an opportunity for early career scholars to meet...