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Franz Kafka Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, dinner, and beverages will be provided.  How do you navigate a world beyond comprehension? Do law and justice care about the individual? What are the causes of modern anxieties and can we find peace? These questions and more are raised by the puzzling and alienating worlds of Franz Kafka. Join us at Gavin House on Mondays at 4:30pm for dinner, drinks, and discussion as we explore this master of 20th century literature!...

Non-Credit Mini Course | The Vatican ‘Secret’ Archives

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

Tuesdays, October 31-November 14 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students and the broader university community. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The Catholic Church has kept archives from the very beginning. They are a treasure trove for researchers seeking to cast light on controversies such as the Investiture Controversy, the Crusades, the Inquisition(s) & the trial of Galileo, and the alleged “silence” of Pope Pius XII vis-à-vis the Holocaust. This...

Intellectual Samaritanism: Embracing the Stranger and His Strange Ideas on College Campuses

Social Sciences, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Reception will follow. This lecture is cosponsored by the In Lumine Network. It is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. What moral and intellectual obligations do we have as scholars when encountering unfamiliar, strange or “other” ideas?  It is a fraught idea on many college campuses right now. This lecture will unpack resources from the Catholic intellectual tradition that can help us navigate these issues, in particular developing a theory...

What is Caesar’s? What is God’s? Church, State, and Society in Catholic Social Teaching

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Scott Roniger, Loyola Marymount University

Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served.  Recent controversies in Catholic political thought have raised anew the question of the proper relationship between Church and state. In this lunchtime discussion, we will look at fundamental texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition that shed light on this issue. These texts articulate distinctions that show what the state is - and what it is not - as well as what the Church is - and what it is not - so that we can better appreciate how the Church is related to social and political life. Our discussion will be...

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges.

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

The Lumen Christi Institute is a proud co-sponsor of the 2024 Catholic Research Economist Discussion Organization (CREDO) keynote lecture with Anton Korinek, Professor at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Economics and the Darden School of Business. His talk is titled "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges." This is an online event on Zoom, open to the public, but aimed at a specialist audience. If you are interested in registering, please contact us at info@lumenchristi.org About the Speaker In addition to his work at the University of Virginia, Anton is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a...

How Can We Flourish?

Knapp Center for Biological Discovery Room 1103 900 E 57th street, Chicago, IL
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University

What is human flourishing? What insights might we draw from the humanities? What insights might we draw from the empirical sciences? Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences and many policy discussions focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or measures of feeling happy. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes. Flourishing might be understood as living in a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good including, but not limited to, affective happiness and life satisfaction, physical and...

An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain

Social Sciences, Tea Room 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Thomas Meyer, Ludwig Maximilian University

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. The location is tbd. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. German philosopher and former UChicago professor, Hannah Arendt stands as one of the most influential 20th century theorists of totalitarianism and political ideology. The sources for her unique insights remain obscure, as she rarely revealed her influences outside of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. Thomas Meyer has discovered in unpublished archives and letters Arendt’s deep interest in two mid-century French Catholic thinkers:...

Master Classes

Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Thomas Meyer, Ludwig Maximilian University

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  Hannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s and produced two remarkable works: The Human Condition (which began as her Walgreens lectures) and Between Past and Future (which she finished while she was at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought). This seminar-style master class will examine excerpts from these works in order to...

Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain

John Hope Franklin Room SSRB 224 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
Lu Ann Homza, College of William & Mary

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. What did the practice of Christianity look like in a place shadowed by an inquisition? Were personal preferences, conversations, spiritual friendships, and religious questions off the table by default? Did clergy under the Spanish Inquisition neglect their duty to care for souls? Sixteenth-century Spaniards — regardless of their vocation, gender or education — defended and practiced a Catholicism that was rich in individual discretion, human communication, and theological inquiry. This talk lays out the evidence for an “inductive Catholicism,” which even Spanish inquisitors sometimes endorsed.

Red Mass and Lecture for Legal Professionals

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Lu Ann Homza, College of William & Mary

This event is free and open to the public.  The Lumen Christi Institute, Calvert House, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago are pleased to announce their third annual Red Mass and Lecture. Mass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. The celebrant will be Bishop Jeffrey Grob, JCD. The lecture will be held at Swift Hall. It will be offered by Dr. Lu Ann Homza. What is a Red Mass? A Red Mass is a Mass celebrated for members of...

Fundamental Questions Seminar

The Closing of the American Mind and the Death of Philosophy

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Daniel Wasserman-Soler, Lumen Christi Institute

Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. This seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are cosponsored by the First Analysis Institute. REGISTER HERE The American university is premised on being open to a wide range of people and ideas, the place “where community and friendship can exist in our times.” But has the university perverted openness into a  “surrender to whatever is most powerful”? Is openness a virtue,...

White Mass and Lecture for Medical Professionals

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Sister Teresa Mary Kozlovski, RSM, MD, Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan

This event is free and open to the public.  The Lumen Christi Institute, Calvert House, and St. Thomas the Apostle Parish are pleased to announce their first annual White Mass and Lecture. Mass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. The celebrant will be Fr. Carlos Rodriguez. What is a White Mass? The tradition of the White Mass in the United States finds its origins in the development of the national Catholic Medical Association in the early 1930s. From its inception, the medical profession has been understood as a healing profession, a way in which Christ’s work continues...