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The Boldness of Belief and Timidity of Technology: A Symposium on Gratitude, Creation, and the Technological Mindset

Social Sciences, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Melanie Barrett, University of St. Mary of the Lake | Matthew Crawford, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture | Mark Shiffman, Saint Patrick’s Seminary and University

REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM LIVESTREAM REGISTER HERE FOR IN-PERSON Open to students and faculty. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is cosponsored and supported by the University of Chicago John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought. It is also cosponsored by The Point Magazine. 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. In his Introduction to Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger saw that at the root of the “technological mindset” was an anxiety about how man can come to know the world.  Ratzinger contrasted...

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A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL
Emily Austin, University of Chicago

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series Fall 2024 A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century REGISTRATION (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End October 16th: Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility Emily Austin (University of Chicago) The challenges of our times can make Christians feel embattled and besieged. But the Catholic intellectual tradition, at its best, equips us to look with openness for the Truth, incarnate in the world around us. In this lecture, Prof. Emily...

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Virtue, Moral Formation, and the University

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Jonathan Brant, University of Oxford | Sarah Schnitker, Baylor University | John W. Boyer, University of Chicago

REGISTER HERE FOR IN-PERSON REGISTER HERE FOR LIVESTREAM Open to students and faculty. For more information, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org. 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. As scholars such as Julie Reuben have documented, there has been a decline in the mission of moral formation of students over the history of US higher education and this role of the university is no longer to be taken for granted. What role, if any, does the university play in the moral formation of its students?...

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The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations

Knapp Center for Biological Discovery Room 1103 900 E 57th street, Chicago, IL
Rick Stevens, The University of Chicago | Matthew Elmore, Duke AI Health | Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University | Stephen C. Meredith, University of Chicago

REGISTER HERE for IN PERSON REGISTER HERE for ONLINE Artificial 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...

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Gender, The Body, and Holiness in the Middle Ages

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago | Rachel Smith, Villanova University | Barbara Newman, Northwestern University | Willemien Otten, University of Chicago | Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago

A symposium on Rachel Smith's (Villanova University) book, Excessive Saints: Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies. Rachel Smith will outline the major themes of her work. Then, Willemien Otten (University of Chicago), Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), and Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) will respond. Ryan Coyne (University of Chicago) will moderate the conversation.

Cultural Forum

A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Butterfield Country Club 2800 Midwest Rd, Oak Brook, IL, United States

In his well-known and influential essay, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper claims that we in modern western society have come to inhabit a “world of total work,” and that an essential precondition for escape is recapturing a more ancient notion of “leisure” (in Greek: scholê, in Latin: otium). While much has been said in support of this claim, especially in Catholic intellectual circles, the focus has typically centered on the nature of leisure, which much of this dialogue takes as the starting point. In this lecture, Prof. Blaschko, who studies the philosophy of work at Notre Dame, will proceed in a different direction, asking “What kind of culture, and what kind of work culture, would we create if we wanted to incorporate genuine leisure into our lives?”

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Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy

International House at the University of Chicago 1414 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
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Teresa Sullivan, University of Virginia | Clemens Sedmak, University of Notre Dame | James Heckman, The University of Chicago | Michael Hüther, The German Economic Institute | Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame

REGISTER HERE for IN PERSON REGISTER HERE for ONLINE  For more information, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org   With polarization on the rise around the globe, scholars have pointed to a broader fragmentation of social cohesion. Economics, sociology, theology and philosophy offer different entry points for exploring these problems. How might we better understand this global moment? This marks the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’s social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, which sought not only to diagnose these problems, but to also offer moral responses for all people of good will. How might principles derived from Catholic social teaching, such as solidarity, human dignity, and "the...