This dinnertime non-credit course will consider the “false gods” that menace our freedom and happiness.
This symposium will bring together top scholars to discuss new advances in “grief-tech,” 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.
This lunchtime master class explores the problem of suffering in light of Pope John Paul II’s twenty-two page Salvifici Doloris.
The Latin language reading group will translate the Psalms in Latin this fall. All levels of Latin are welcome. Each session will consider one Psalm.
The Kurosawa Film Club will screen Rashomon, the classic account of multiple
unreliable narrators. The screening is intended for undergraduates, and is
student-only. Dinner will be provided.
This weekly reading group will meet over dinner on Mondays to discuss J.R.R Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings trilogy. Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
This dinnertime non-credit course will consider the “false gods” that menace our freedom and happiness.
This dinner-time reading group will read selections from Dante’s Purgatorio. Open to current undergraduate students.
This dinner-time reading group will read Randy Boyagoda’s new Lords of Serendipity. Open to current graduate students.
In 1516, Thomas More published Utopia. More takes his reader on a tour of an idealistic island society: six-hour work days, religious toleration, no private property, and no lawyers. But is it really possible for such a society to exist? And was Utopia actually a good place? Come and join us for dinner and discussion.
The Latin language reading group will translate the Psalms in Latin this fall. All levels of Latin are welcome. Each session will consider one Psalm.
A lunchtime poetry salon, in which participants read and discuss a great poem slowly together. Open to all students. No advance preparation required.
