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SUMMARY:Beyond the Tenure Track: Catholic Vocation in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGraduate 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 Catholic scholars from different disciplines and institutions will share their experiences of living out their faith in the classroom\, the lab\, and the wider intellectual community. Together\, they will reflect on vocation\, institutional culture\, and sustaining Catholic intellectual life across the varied landscapes of higher education—from Catholic liberal arts colleges and mission-oriented non-Catholic universities to state institutions. The panel will also open space for the practical dimensions of vocation: discerning how to balance family life\, community\, and parish participation alongside the responsibilities of teaching and research. \nSchedule\n-5 PM-5:40 PM Panel Interview\n-5:40 PM-6:15 PM Open Q&A and Discussion \nPanelists\n-Robert Miner\, Ph.D\, Professor of Philosophy\, Providence College\n-Tyler Thomas\, Ph.D\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership\, Arizona State University\n-Katherine Bulinski\, Ph.D\, Professor of Geoscience\, Bellarmine University \nThis webinar is for graduate students\, postdocs\, and early career faculty. Registration can be found here. \nTimes are Central Standard Time \nA house watch party with dinner served will be hosted for graduate students and early career scholars. For more information contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org \nThis project is supported by Providence College and by a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #63614)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/beyond-the-tenure-track-catholic-vocation-in-higher-education/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260123T090000
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SUMMARY:Glimpses of Wonder: Faith\, Reason\, and Technology in the University Today
DESCRIPTION: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 of wonder at the beauty of creation in this synthesis. In this class\, we will engage the unity of these virtues under the guidance of wonder and discuss specific applications to new technologies in artificial intelligence and ecological engineering. True human flourishing is not necessarily about slowing down or accelerating the advance of progress as finding a new measure that allows one to see epiphanies of beauty and learn from them about oneself\, the world\, and the creator of the beauty of the world. \nThis masterclass will provide an engagement with topics related to the 2026 Summer Seminar “Glimpses of Wonder: Epiphanies of Beauty in the Midst of Technological Change” and will help students explore in advance related themes.  \nThe Zoom link will be distributed in advance of the seminar.  \nThis program is restricted to graduate students from any university or discipline. \nThe syllabus and readings can be found here.  \nThis program is part of the project “In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide” (Grant #63614) supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \nAll times are Central Standard Time.  \nFor more information email Geoffrey Zokal at gzokal@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/virtual-masterclass-epiphanies-of-beauty-in-the-midst-of-technological-change/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Masterclass: The Thought of John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:Recently canonized as the first English saint since the Reformation and declared the 38th Doctor of the Universal Church and Co-patron of Catholic Education (along with St. Thomas Aquinas)\, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) stands as the most important Catholic thinker between the Council of Trent of the sixteenth century and the second Vatican Council (1962-65).  \nNewman’s intellectual autobiography (Apologia pro Vita Sua)\, treatise on higher education (Idea of a University)\, theory of knowledge (Grammar of Assent)\, and major work of theology (Development of Doctrine) stand as classics in their genres.  In addition\, his prolific sermons cover both his Anglican career at Oxford and Catholic career in Birmingham. \nWe will discuss two sermons from his Anglican years\, delivered as “University Sermons” on the relation between faith and reason. In them\, Newman offers creative insights that deepen the classic Catholic position put forth by Aquinas. \nThis masterclass will provide a glimpse of the 2026 intensive summer seminar on Newman’s thought. A full syllabus of the masterclass can be found here. \nThe Zoom link will be distributed in advance of the seminar.  \nThis program is restricted to graduate students from any university or discipline.  \nThis program is part of the project “In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide” (Grant #63614) supported by the John Templeton Foundation. \nTimes are central standard time. \nFor more information contact Geoffrey Zokal at gzokal@lumenchristi.org
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/virtual-masterclass-the-thought-of-john-henry-newman/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250130T173000
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SUMMARY:The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE for IN PERSON\nREGISTER HERE for ONLINE\nArtificial intelligence is increasingly interfacing with all aspects of human life\, raising particular ethical challenges in medicine and biotechnology. The ethical challenges of AI must be grounded in the limits of the discipline it is applied to. Medicine has seen amazing advances in the last few decades\, but these advances also raise questions about limits\, especially in living patients. We must ask: What are the limits of medicine and biotech – and how does this translate into limits on the use of AI in these fields? This public panel will serve to explore what the limits in medicine and biotech are and what role the wisdom of the Christian tradition can play in forming them. \nStudents and faculty are also invited to join us on Friday\, January 31\, for a master class on Technology\, Culture\, and Virtue\, with Professors Jeffrey Bishop. Readings will be provided to registrants \n  \nFor more information\, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org \nThis event is cosponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago\, and the Albert Gnaegi Center at Saint Louis University. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/the-human-person-and-biotechnology-artificial-intelligence-and-its-limitations/
LOCATION:Knapp Center for Biological Discovery Room 1103\, 900 E 57th street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Lectures & Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231028T090000
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SUMMARY:Pondering the Psalms with Early Christians: Origen and Augustine
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis online-only event is for students\, faculty and university staff only. Registration is required. For more information\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org. \nThis online event will take place from 9:00am – 11:00am C.T. / 10:00am – 12:00pm E.T. on Saturday\, October 28th. \nExegesis is the core of early Christian theology and this comes alive in the interpretation of the psalms. In this master class we will look at two interpreters of the psalms—Origen and Augustine—led by Lewis Ayres (Durham University/Australian Catholic University/Angelicum) and Paul Blowers (Milligan University)\, two leaders of our upcoming summer seminar. \nThis online master class is a preview of our regular summer seminar offering in Patristics. \nReadings:\n\nOrigen of Alexandria\, Homily 1 on Psalm 77\nAugustine of Hippo\, Exposition 2 of Psalm 30\n\nReadings for the masterclass can be found here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-pondering-the-psalms-with-origen-and-augustine/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Master Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230831T000000
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SUMMARY:Brideshead Revisited Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:LCI  alumni of the René Girard seminar for undergraduates are the primary audience for this group. However\, if you are interested in joining\, please contact John-Paul Heil at heil@msmary.edu. The cost for participation is $25. \nSingled out by Bishop Robert Barron as the “best Catholic novel of the twentieth century\,” Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited remains the exemplar not just of Catholic literature\, but of the novel as a genre. Over the course of four months\, this group will revisit Waugh’s classic and explore the text’s contribution to the Catholic intellectual tradition\, the models it offers of lives well- and ill-lived\, and its central theme of conversion (with some reference to the thought of Girard). \nFour monthly meetings beginning in August
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-08-brideshead-revisited-reading-group/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230718T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230722T150000
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SUMMARY:Tolkien\, Christianity\, and Art
DESCRIPTION:The Lumen Christi Institute has designed this two-day seminar to introduce major themes and debates from the Catholic Church’s history to a wide online audience. It offers the opportunity to read primary sources in the context of a seminar-style discussion\, led by Catholic faculty.   \nThe enrollment fee for this short course is $95 USD. Because we believe the Catholic Intellectual Tradition should be made available to everyone\, a limited number of scholarships are available. Contact info@lumenchristi.org for more details. \nThis is one of three short courses hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute this summer. If you would like to take a deep dive into the Church’s tradition by signing up for all three short courses for the discounted price of $200\, you can do so HERE. \nJRR Tolkien stands as a colossus among modern fantasy writers and mythmakers. Many are familiar with his Christian faith and his famous books\, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and many discuss whether or how his Christian faith figures into these fantasy stories or whether his fantasy is separable or only superficially related to his personal Christian belief. This course will examine Tolkien’s robust concept of creativity and art in his other writings: ‘Leaf by Niggle\,’ ‘On Fairy Stories\,’ and selected letters\, and excerpts from his Silmarillion. In these texts Tolkien articulates his ideas of subcreation\, ‘the long defeat\,’ and ‘eucatastrophe’\, the promise and danger of art as well as art’s redemption. \nPreparatory materials will focus on Tolkien’s essays and art that discusses his theory and practice of art and creativity and how his Christian beliefs informs this vision of and practice of creativity. Introductory videos will frame the overall life of Tolkien and introduce our readings. The three sessions of the course will prioritize discussion of our readings in the tradition of Great Books style seminars. Primary topics will include the practice of art\, its promise\, danger\, and possible redemption; the value of myth for truth and living for truth. ‘Fairy Stories’ will introduce central concepts\, including subcreation and eucatastrophe. Finally\, we shall see the performance of these ideas in the myths of the Silmarillion in the creation of Middle-Earth\, the subcreation of Middle-Earth\, and ingenious and hazardous creation of the silmarils by heroic Feanor. We shall also bring this back to re-read Leaf with new eyes. \nSchedule\nSession 1: Tuesday\, July 18: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM \nSession 2: Saturday\, July 22: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM \nSession 3: Saturday\, July 22: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM \nReadings\nSession 1: The Promise and Danger of Art \n\n‘Leaf by Niggle’\n‘Mythopoeia’\n\nSession 2: Theory of Fantasy / Creative Art (‘Subcreation’ and Eucatastrophe) \n\n‘On Fairy Stories’\nIntroduction to the Creativity Narratives of Silmarillion \n\nSession 3: The Promise and Dangers of Subcreation \n\nSilmarillion\, selections\n‘Leaf by Niggle’\n\n​​*Pdfs. of all readings will be provided to participants. 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-07-tolkien-christianity-art-robert-porwoll/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230617T103000
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SUMMARY:The Trinitarian Theology of Karl Barth
DESCRIPTION:The Lumen Christi Institute has designed this two-day seminar to introduce major themes and debates from the Catholic Church’s history to a wide online audience. It offers the opportunity to read primary sources in the context of a seminar-style discussion\, led by Catholic faculty.   \nThe enrollment fee for this short course is $95 USD. Because we believe the Catholic Intellectual Tradition should be made available to everyone\, a limited number of scholarships are available. Contact info@lumenchristi.org for more details.  \nThis is one of three short courses hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute this summer. If you would like to take a deep dive into the Church’s tradition by signing up for all three short courses for the discounted price of $200\, you can do so HERE. \nWhen we say “God is love\,” what do we really mean? The renewed attention to the dogma of the Trinity so important to the last century of Catholic theology gets to the heart of this question. Standing in the background of this development\, though\, is a Protestant theologian whom Pope Pius XII allegedly called “the greatest since Thomas Aquinas”: Karl Barth. In this seminar\, we will look at Barth’s understanding of the Trinity using short selections from his masterpiece\, the Church Dogmatics. We will explore how\, for Barth\, the biblical idea of a covenant is that of an exclusive\, noninterchangeable partnership between a superior lover who chooses and a subordinate beloved who is chosen. This means\, in his interpretation\, that the relationships between God and the world—and between man and woman—mirror\, in time\, a covenant between God the Father and God the Son in eternity. We will thus ask if Barth offers us a way of thinking about human participation in God’s Triune life that lets the human be made holy or even godlike while still respecting the human creature’s physical and intellectual limits. \nSchedule\nSession 1: Tuesday\, June 13: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM \nSession 2: Saturday\, June 17: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM \nSession 3: Saturday\, June 17: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM \n\nReadings\nSession 1: \n\nChurch Dogmatics II/2\, pp. 175-181 (selection from “The Eternal Will of God in the Election of Jesus Christ”)\nChurch Dogmatics\, IV/1\, pp. 200-205 (selection from “The Way of the Son of God into the Far Country”)\n\nSession 2: \n\nChurch Dogmatics III/1\, pp. 42-53\, 288-291\, & 311-324 (selections from “Creation\, History\, and Creation History” and “The Covenant as the Internal Basis of Creation”)\n\nSession 3: (note: please read in this order) \n\nChurch Dogmatics IV/2\, pp. 20-31 (selection from “The Homecoming of the Son of Man”)\nChurch Dogmatics IV/1\, pp. 259-273 (selection from “The Judge Judged in Our Place”)\n\n​​*Pdfs. of all readings will be provided to participants. 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-06-trinitarian-theology-of-karl-barth-kristof-z-oltvai-2/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230507T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230507T200000
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SUMMARY:The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
DESCRIPTION:Copresented with The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture\, First Things\, and The Portsmouth Institute for Faith and Culture. \nThis online-only event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information\, please contact info@lumenchristi.org \nFrom his role as a key peritus at the Second Vatican Council\, a professor in Germany\, to his tenure as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith\, Joseph Ratzinger was a part of almost every Catholic theological conversation in the latter half of the 20th century. As pope\, he brought his lifetime of learning to bear on his preaching\, encyclicals\, and continued publishing. \nThis webinar takes a look at Pope Benedict’s theological vocation and offers perspectives on his enduring legacy and witness.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-05-vocation-of-a-theologian-legacy-of-pope-benedict-xvi/
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CATEGORIES:ONLINE
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230318T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230318T150000
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SUMMARY:Our Troubled Minds\, Our Anxious Age\, and the Ancient Alternative of Cistercian Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Watch the Recording Here\nThis event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought at the University of Virginia. Find out more at their website: https://www.stanselminstitute.org/index.php/publicectures/upcominglectures/270-march-18-2023-public-lecture \nHave you ever been afflicted by a lack of focus\, feelings of loneliness\, debilitating anxieties\, or inexplicable bouts of sadness\, anger or despair in the midst of great personal achievements? Can advances in neurological medicine and pharmaceutical therapies heal our broken hearts\, fix our troubled minds\, and lead us to even greater personal triumphs? Many hope so\, turning to neuro-chemical treatments that soothe our brains without bringing clarity to our difficulties and the social conditions within which we live. But is this type of happiness and lack of meaning what we truly seek? Or are there other unexplored alternatives that reveal who we are along with the realities of our everyday sufferings? Join us for a novel interrogation of these questions that exposes the limits of contemporary interpretations and the time-tested Cistercian perspective of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)\, who offers a salvific “compound that no pharmacist can produce.” \nThis program is made possible through the support of grant #62372 from the John Templeton Foundation\,“In Lumine: Promoting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide.” 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-03-school-of-happiness-cistercian-wisdom-for-an-anxious-age/
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SUMMARY:Justice and Peace: A Radical Reconsideration of Public Safety – A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 5:00 PM PT\nThis zoom webinar event is free and open to the public. Presented by Seattle University and The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network.  \nNearly fifty years ago\, Pope St. Paul VI said\, “If you want Peace\, work for Justice.”  Echoing his words\, “No Justice\, No Peace” has become the chant of protesters from Seattle to Atlanta seeking freedom not only from excessive use of force by police but also from unjust inequities across social and political structures.  This roundtable presentation invites policing scholars in the fields of law\, criminology\, and theological ethics to explore how we might build peace on a foundation of justice. The interdisciplinary panel will address the future of public safety through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. \nProfessor Herschella Conyers (University of Chicago Law School) bleakly assesses the current state of affairs: “[R]eform must begin … with an acknowledgement of the sad history and present conditions that have left the people totally alienated from the police\, and afraid for their physical and emotional safety.”  Similarly\, Professor Michael Scott (Arizona State University) points to a possible source of guidance: “[I]nsofar as the Catholic Catechism represents a coherent and comprehensive moral code\, and if one accepts the proposition that law\, law enforcement and governance must\, minimally\, be moral\, then the Catholic Catechism…merits being consulted on police reform.” “In dialogue with the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching\, Professor Michael Jaycox (Seattle University) argues that “a credible Catholic commitment to pursuing the common good would have to include\, at minimum\, ensuring whatever social conditions are necessary for Black freedom from white violence.”  To advance the common good\, Professor Tobias Winright (St. Louis University) suggests that involving “the police in other community and social peacekeeping activities serves to contextualize\, moderate and restrain that use of force\, ensuring that it is a last resort.” \nThis panel serves as the keynote event for a three-day colloquium addressing Catholic perspectives on criminal justice reform. The workshops and public lectures include leading scholars examining how Catholic tradition and social thought might inform the challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-10-a-radical-reconsideration-of-public-safety-abolition-regulation-or-redemption/
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SUMMARY:Great Texts in Legal History Seminar and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\n$104 Registration Fee/ $50 for JD students.\nOpen to lawyers and law school students. CLE credit available. \nOthers interested in participating should contact us. Seminars will be held online over Zoom. \nThe Lumen Christi Institute has partnered with the Catholic Lawyers Guild to offer a monthly close-reading seminar on “Great Texts in Legal History.”  The seminar will be led by Austin Walker (Assistant Director of the Lumen Christi Institute) and moderated by Judge Tom Donnelly. This monthly online seminar will allow lawyers to read and analyze great short works that illuminate the relationship between law\, ethics\, free will\, authority\, and God. Selections are short enough to read immediately beforehand. We will also read them during the session. \n\nSCHEDULE \nSeptember 23 | The Ten Commandments \nOctober 28 | Lincoln’s Second Inaugural \nNovember 18 | 2 Samuel 11 and 12: David and Bathsheba & Nathan rebukes David \nDecember 16 | Frederick Douglass\, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpts) \nJanuary 20 | Thomas Aquinas\, Treatise on Law (excerpts) \nFebruary 24 | Lawrence Joseph\, Curriculum Vitae (poem)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-02-great-texts-in-legal-history-seminar-thomas-donnelly/
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