Name: Master Class on “Plato’s Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato’s Literary Predecessors”
Start: 2017-11-17T15:00:00-06:00
End: 2017-11-17T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Gavin House

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August 2017
August 18th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. Ressentiment is a term of art in philosophy and social theory for the psychological pathology of self-loathing that the human person may experience vis-à-vis an other who is imagined to be stronger, more noble, or “higher.” Friedrich Nietzsche famously associated ressentiment with the overturn of the ancient moral order and its replacement with Christian morality – such that glory, honor, and magnificence were replaced with humility, turning the other cheek, and poverty of spirit. Nietzsche’s understanding of...
October 2017
October 5th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown

Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Open to University of Chicago students. Transportation and dinner will be provided. A Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago to the special exhibition "Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders of the Spanish Andes." ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the 17th through 19th century, this focused exhibition introduces visitors to images promoted by several Catholic orders at work in the Spanish Andes—the Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and Jesuits—examining the politics of the distinct iconographies each group developed as they vied for devotees and dominion. SCHEDULE 5:00PM: ...
October 12th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. About Ulrich Lehner's recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: "Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today as it was hundreds of years ago. It is the sentiment behind the narrative that Catholic beliefs were incompatible with the Enlightenment ideals. Catholics, many claim, are superstitious and traditional, opposed to democracy and gender equality, and hostile to...
October 14th, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self, Transforming the World

University of Chicago Law School Auditorium 1111 East 60th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Visit the conference webpage for more information. Free and open to the public. Registration Required. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich will deliver the Keynote Address for the October 13-14 Capstone Conference for the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life, which will feature discussions with the philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists who have been working together to investigate whether self-transcendence helps to make ordinary cultivation and exercise of virtue a source of deep happiness and meaning in human life. The President of the University of Chicago, Robert.J. Zimmer, will provide introductory remarks. A reception will follow Cardinal Cupich's talk. This event...
October 21st, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

Schola Antiqua Concert: Music in Secret

St. Clement Parish 642 W Deming Pl. Chicago, IL 60614, Downtown, IL

British organist and Renaissance music historian Naomi Gregory leads the women of Schola Antiqua in a wide-ranging program of music from medieval and early modern convents. “Music in Secret” offers some of the earliest known polyphony associated with nuns from the anonymous 1543 collection of printed partbooks Musica quinque vocum. In addition to plainchant sung from a recently unveiled source at the Art Institute of Chicago, Schola Antiqua’s program will include the music of Sulpitia Cesis, a nun from the northern Italian city of Modena. Gregory will also perform keyboard works linked to Italian convents. Guest viola da gamba player...
October 26th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Disenchantment is one of the key concepts in the self-understanding of "modernity." It was introduced by Max Weber, but its precise meaning in his writings and in the discourse of modernity is quite controversial. This lecture is based on a new book in which Hans Joas traces this concept through Weber's writings, criticizes it in fundamental respects, and develops an alternative understanding of the connections between the history of power and the processes of sacralization.
October 28th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s general conception of evil is very well known, and very simple. Evil, he holds, is nothing other than privation of due good. This conception has sometimes been criticized, as not adequate to our experience of evil or to certain types of evil. It is also connected with other controversial positions of his, such as that no one directly intends evil. And it is not easy to square with his own...
November 2017
November 2nd, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited

Swift Hall, Room 106 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. About The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: A perceptive, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience. Wallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression in his poetry. His philosophical questioning, spiritual depth, and brilliantly inventive use of language would be profound influences...
November 3rd, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. You can read about Professor Mariani's biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. READINGS Paul Mariani, "The Mystery and the Majesty of It," Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 47/2 (2015) Gerard Manley Hopkins, 6 sonnets (God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Felix Randal, Spelt from Sybil's Leaves, No worst there is none, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and in the comfort of the Ressurection, To R.B.) SCHEDULE 1:30pm ...
November 14th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Gospel According to Matthew

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

6:00pm Buffet Dinner | 6:30pm Lecture Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. St. Matthew's Gospel brings us into powerful contact with Israel's longed-for Messiah and permits us to hear the voice of Jesus of Nazareth with memorable vividness. Foregrounding the Israelite language of expectation, the narrative views Jesus as Son of Man, Son of David, and Son of God, reminding us of Israel's messianic hopes and showing us how these hopes are, in Jesus, both brought to fulfillment and surpassed. The course will focus on what might be called the spirituality of the evangelist, by means of a...
November 16th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. Plato found philosophy in some of the same erotic anxieties that permeate contemporary life, and even explored themes central to Catholic conceptions of sexuality. This lecture will be based on central themes from Plato's Symposium, drawing on David O'Connor's Plato's Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love. ABOUT Plato's Bedroom Plato’s Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who...
November 17th, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Master Class on “Plato’s Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato’s Literary Predecessors”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. This seminar will look at striking examples of how in the Symposium and Phaedrus Plato read and re-wrote the myths available in the literary culture of his time. We will be especially interested in how the literary templates that seem to underlie the dialogues complicate their surface "doctrine." SCHEDULE 1:30pm Coffee & Pastries 2:00pm Session I 3:25pm Break 3:35pm Session II 5:00pm End, wine and cheese reception To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page.

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A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self, Transforming the World

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The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”

A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited

Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

Master Class on “Plato’s Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato’s Literary Predecessors”

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