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SUMMARY:What Does Virtue Have to Do with the Law?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\n*Note: The time has moved from 5:30 to starting at 6:00 p.m. and is in Room I of the University of Chicago Law School \n6:00 – Symposium | 7:30 – 7:45 Q & A | 7:45 Wine & Cheese Reception \nThis event is primarily intended for current University of Chicago students\, faculty\, and staff. It is open to the general public. Please contact William Hurley (whurley@lumenchristi.org) for any questions. \nThis project is made possible through the support of In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide (grant #63614) from the John Templeton Foundation and the generous support of our donors. \nThe University of Chicago chapter of the St. Thomas More Society is co-sponsoring this event. \nThe University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society is co-sponsoring this event. \n \nDescription:\nThe American experiment depends on the people holding something in common. But what was once taken for granted is now up for debate\, as all sorts of norms and established beliefs are under attack. \nIs this the result of an improper intrusion of politics and morality into the legal realm? Should the law aspire to be morally naked? Or does the law depend upon a particular set of moral and political virtues?  \nWhat makes for a good constitutional judge? Are personal and professional virtues necessary to good judgment? Or do they inhibit it? \nIs thinking in these terms helpful to address alienation\, lack of trust\, and institutional collapse? Or does it distract from the real issue? \nIn this spirited conversation\, law faculty from a number of philosophical positions will come together to discuss the relationship between law\, politics\, tradition\, and virtue. \nSchedule:\nRoom I of the University of Chicago Law School \n\n6:00pm – Event Begins – Garnett Frames and Opens with Question\n6:05pm – 6:20pm – DeGirolami Response\n6:20pm – 6:30pm – Miller Response\n6:35 pm – 6:45pm – Pacold Response\n6:50 pm – 7:00pm – Bray Response\n7:00pm – 7:30pm – Moderated Conversation\n7:30pm – 7:45pm – Audience Q&A\n7:45pm – End + Wine and Cheese Reception
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/what-does-virtue-have-to-do-with-the-law/
LOCATION:University of Chicago Law School\, Room I\, 1111 E 60th St\, Chicago\, 60637\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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SUMMARY:Can We Simulate the Dead? A Symposium on Technology\, Grief\, and the Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\nConversation | Q&A | Wine & Cheese Reception \nThis event is primarily intended for current University of Chicago students\, faculty\, and staff. It is open to the general public. For any questions\, please contact William Hurley at whurley@lumenchristi.org. \nA new economy of “grief-tech” has arisen to confront the old problem of death.  Changing social norms and advances in artificial intelligence have made it possible to ask\, “Can we disrupt death?” Are grief-bots and simulated grandpas the solution to the anxieties of the human condition? \nThroughout history\, communities of great cultural and religious variety have provided rituals and traditions to deal with death and guide people through the critical process of grieving\, memorializing the departed\, and aiding the dead in the afterlife. In our time\, such inherited practices and beliefs have declined\, along with the communities that sustained them. \nThis symposium will explore technology and our changed circumstances\, and will ask what disrupting conceptions of death through technology might mean for vital aspects of human self-understanding\, mourning\, care relationships\, and the social order in which we are born\, live\, and pass away. \nThis symposium celebrates the publication of a special issue of Social Research\, Disrupting Death. Copies will be available for sale at the event for $15 each. \nSchedule\n\n5:30 – 5:40 p.m.   Symposium opens with framing remarks by Cassandra Sever\n5:40 – 5:45 p.m.   Dr. Sever asks an opening question\n5:45 – 6:30 p.m.   Conversation and Discussion\n6:30 – 7:15 p.m.   Audience Q&A\n7:15 – 7:45 p.m.   End / Wine & Cheese Reception for Audience\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School \n \nThis project is made possible through the support of In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide (grant #63614) from the John Templeton Foundation and the generous support of our donors.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/can-we-simulate-the-dead-a-symposium-on-technology-grief-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture Hall\, 1025 E 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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SUMMARY:Canonizing Canines?: A Dog "Saint" and Medieval Christians
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\n5:00 p.m. Doors Open | 5:15 p.m.  Mass  |  5:45 p.m. Reception  |  6:30 p.m. Lecture  |   \n7:30 p.m. End \nFor information\, please contact Margaux Taffet at mtaffet@lumenchristi.org. \nWe offer our condolences to the family and friends of Fr. Stephen Molvarec\, SJ\, who died on Saturday. Eternal rest grant unto him\, O Lord\, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. \nWe are grateful to Fr. Michael Maher\, SJ\, who has stepped in to offer the lecture. \nThis talk explores the veneration by Medieval Christians of “Saint” Guinefort\, a greyhound said to have lived a heroic life in 13th-century France. While the Church does not formally name dogs as saints – then or now – this case raises some interesting questions about sanctity and also the relationship of Christians with animals\, particularly dogs\, as well as lived experiences of the natural world by our Christian forebearers. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Loyola Academy. \nRegistration Form
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/bollandist-lecture-oct-2026/
LOCATION:Loyola Academy Chapel\, 1100 Laramie Avenue\, Wilmette\, 60091\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Symposia
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SUMMARY:Rehumanizing Education in an Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\n3:00 p.m. Discussion  |  4:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception  \nFor information\, contact Geoffrey Zokal at gzokal@lumenchristi.org. \nGenerative AI is capable of producing polished\, textual descriptions of information at astonishing speed. However\, as Pope Leo XIV has observed in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas concerning the use of AI\, “Without careful attention\, an educational system lacking in a love for truth may emerge\, in which an incessant flow of information replaces the essential exercise of research\, reflection and discernment.”  \nGiven this concern\, how might the contemporary academy best ensure the continued development of an authentically human education rooted in reflection\, intellectual virtue and truth while also best utilizing the processing capabilities of new AI tools?  \nThis public symposium will feature an engaging discussion with University of Chicago Professor of History Emily Lynn Osborn\, University of St. Mary of the Lake Professor of Moral Theology Melanie Barrett\, and University of Chicago Law School Professor William Hubbard. University of Southern California Professor of Religion and Philosophy David Albertson will serve as moderator.  \nThis project is made possible through the support of In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide (grant #63614) from the John Templeton Foundation and the generous support of our donors. \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the International House Global Voices Program. \nPersons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact International House in advance of the program at (773) 753-2274 or email i-house-programs@uchicago.edu \n \nRegistration Form
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/iln-symposium-nov-2026/
LOCATION:International House at the University of Chicago\, 1414 E 59th St.\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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