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Conversation on “Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life”

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Copies of the book will be available for sale by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore at the event. This program will be held as a hybrid, in-person and online event.  Join us for a conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) with author Zena Hitz. ABOUT THE BOOK In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While...

Big Questions and Catholic Scientists: A Science and Religion Fair for High School Students

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Open to all high school students, parents, and teachers. Students attend for FREE (and all adult admission fees are waived if accompanied by at least one student.) In partnership with the Soceity of Catholic Scientists and the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary.  Want to learn from accomplished Catholic scientists about the harmony of faith and science? Interested in the Big Questions on the frontiers of scientific discovery? Then come to this Science and Religion Fair on February 5th at the University of...

Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. Box lunches will be served. Join us at Gavin House, home of the Lumen Christi Institute, for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr (President, Society of Catholic Scientists) for a conversation on what a Catholic scientist can learn from the study of philosophy, theology, and literature. Open to all students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. Prof. Barr will also give a lecture on Feb. 7 on "Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas" For all events held at Gavin House, the Lumen Christi...

Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public. The late Stephen Hawking wrote, “Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that is both tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration.” What lies behind such a claim? And what might explain such a remarkable fact (if it is a fact)? Join us as Dr. Stephen Barr speaks on both the science and the speculations surrounding anthropic coincidences. This convening is open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are...

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Reading Group: “Progress is Dead: Nietzsche’s Indictment of Modern Life in The Genealogy of Morals”

David Lyons, University of Chicago

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason.” The modern world tells us—and we tell ourselves—that we are enlightened and free, but it isn’t true. Our claims to knowledge are just another moral prejudice; our ostensible freedom is disguised slavery.  So contends Friedrich Nietzsche in his On the Genealogy of Morality, where he punctures the self-satisfaction of socialists, democrats, reformers, the bourgeoisie, philosophers, scientists, and anyone else who claims to have it all figured out. This three-week reading group will discuss the three treatises of the Genealogy and debate the following claims: February 10 Is Democracy Slavery? (First Treatise, “ ‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good...

Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Fluno Center, Auditorium 601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715, Madison, WI

The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic tradition and social thought can inform the many challenges confronting today’s American criminal justice system. As part of this colloquium, there will be a keynote panel on "Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform," featuring Dean Strang, Cecelia Klingele, Rev. Javier del Castillo, and Secretary Kevin...

Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

REGISTER HERE This event will be held online over Zoom. Open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. More info TBA. Fr. Fields will also lead a summer seminar for graduate students on the thought of John Henry Newman at Merton College, Oxford this summer. More information can be found here.

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

Open to current graduate students in theology. Others interested in participating should contact us. A two-part, online master class for graduate students in theology on the vocation of the theologian in the contemporary academy. Dates: January 15 & February 12 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST via Zoom Overview: What is the vocation of the Catholic theologian in the academy today? The increasing focus within higher education toward producing economically successful citizens within late modernity’s secularized culture is well-known. Within the theological world itself, graduate programs in theology are deeply compartmentalized into distinct sub-disciplines that often take their self-understanding and academic culture...

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry Hamalis and Gayle Woloschak. The fruit of critical reflection by Orthodox Christian lay Scholars and Church leaders, For the Life of the World offers guidance to navigate contemporary challenges faced by the Orthodox Christian on a wide range of social issues—including racism, bioethics, ecology, and human rights....

Master Class on “Catholic Social Teaching and the Church-State Problem”

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Copies of the assigned readigns will be provided. This virtual master class will take place on Zoom.  Readings The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism: On Law, Politics and Human Nature, Eds. John Witte and Frank Alexander (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-75 The Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, 1864 This master class serves as a preview of our upcoming summer seminar on Catholic Social Teaching for PhD and JD students co-taught by Prof. Hittinger. Learn more about the summer seminar here.

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Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event will take place at Ruth Lake Country Club in Hinsdale, Illinois. In Walker Percy's novel, Love in the Ruins, the narrator, a wealthy and successful denizen of American suburbia, admits that " everyone is happy, but our hearts broke with happiness."  In this lecture, Dr. Jennifer Frey will discuss what Percy's novel can teach us about the pursuit of happiness in contemporary American life, and why the novel's biting satire is relevant to our contemporary political and...