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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...

Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred

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

REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. 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 Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. These sacred actions contain and confer Christ’s healing, transformative Grace. This class will highlight the theological meaning, Biblical basis, historical development, and our own personal experiences of the sacraments. The reality of the sacraments raises...

Viewing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence

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

This event is co-produced by the Critical Understanding of Liturgies & Traditions (CULT), a student RSO, and the Lumen Christi Institute, the home for the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. The movie will be screened at Gavin House (1220 E 58th St), directly across from the Booth School of Business. This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Francesco Rahe, who designed this program, is a 2023-2024 Nicklin Fellow.  REGISTER HERE The place is Japan. The year is 1670....

Dubliners 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 Rose Johnson at rodojo23@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and their religions? What freedom can be found within or outside these relationships? James Joyce addresses these questions and many others in his collection of short stories, Dubliners.  Though rich and nuanced like all of Joyce’s writing, these short stories present a straightforward introduction to Joyce’s writing style...

American Gothic 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, lunch, and beverages will be provided.  Fear. Rot. The inescapability of the past. These and more are the themes of Gothic literature. Join us Mondays from 1-2pm at Gavin House for a discussion of Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and Flannery O'Connor. Lunch provided. SCHEDULE: This group will meet on Mondays (beginning January 22nd) from 1:00pm - 2:00pm over lunch. January 22: "The Raven," Poe January 29: "Tell-Tale Heart," Poe Feburary...

The Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Stephen C. Meredith, University of Chicago | Lesley Rice, Pontifical John Paul II Institute | Kyle E. Karches, Saint Louis University | Silvianne Aspray, University of Cambridge | Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

This event is free and open to the public. This event is cosponsored by The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, and The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. How are new developments between biotechnology and big data including gene editing, brain-computer interfacing, and artificial intelligence changing our vision of what it means to be human? How does this bear in the ethical practices of medicine and research at the lab bench and at the bedside? How might an integrative vision of ethics contribute to this conversation? Are there alternative...

Master Classes

Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Paul Scherz, University of Virginia

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. Reception will follow.  This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. The ancient Stoics rejected grief as a passion.  Was it inhuman to grieve? Or was it inhuman to suppress this natural human affect?  What about longing for lost loved ones or the fear of death? ...