Name: Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later
Start: 2023-02-23T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-02-23T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture

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February 2023
February 4th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Red Mass with Address by Hanna Holborn Gray

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Hanna Holborn Gray, University of Chicago

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. The Lumen Christi Institute is glad to present its second annual Red Mass cosponsored by St. Thomas the Apostle, Calvert House, and the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Mass will be held at Bond Chapel at the University of Chicago. The celebrant will be Fr. Jeremiah Lynch. After Mass, there will be a reception followed by a lecture held on the third floor of Swift Hall. Hanna Gray, former President of the University of Chicago and Renaissance historian, will speak on St. Thomas More's Utopia....
February 4th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Red Mass Lecture with Hannah Gray

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

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. Hannah Gray, former President of the University of Chicago and Renaissance Historian, will speak on St. Thomas More's Utopia. Preceding the lecture, there will be a Red Mass at Bond Chapel. You can register to attend the Mass and find more information here.
February 9th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

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

John McGreevy, Notre Dame

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. In his latest book, John McGreevy gives a magisterial history...
February 9th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. In his latest book, John McGreevy gives a magisterial history...
February 9th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. In his latest book, John McGreevy gives a magisterial history...
February 9th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. In his latest book, John McGreevy gives a magisterial history...
February 10th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Master Class on “Catholicism and Upheaval Between the World Wars”

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

John McGreevy, Notre Dame

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. The first 20 registrants will receive a free copy of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. This Master Class will use a mix of primary and secondary sources to examine global Catholicism in the thirty years preceding the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. Themes include the political crisis of the 1930s and the turn toward democracy, Catholicism and post WWII decolonization and the "return to...
February 16th, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Winter 2023 Fundamental Questions Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone

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

David Lyons, University of Chicago

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 copy of the text. “For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery.” Here is the paradigmatic tragic lament, wrenched from Antigone in Sophocles' famous play. But what is tragedy? Is life miserable because it is meaningless? Or is the tragedy not that life has no value, but that it has too many values? What does one do when one’s...
February 22nd, 2023 @ 1:00 am

Ash Wednesday Reflection with Archbishop Borys Gudziak

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

Registration required. Open only to current students at the Univesity of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. This event will be held at the Lumen Christi Woodlawn Residence for Graduate Students. Join us for a special evening program for students with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak. Metropolitan Borys is the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States. He is most known his work with the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. After his PhD at Harvard University, he moved to post-Soviet Ukraine in the 1990’s and helped found--and then lead--the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. He is currently...
February 22nd, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Graduate Reading Group on “The Works of Frederick Douglass”

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

Open to current graduate students students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Wine and cheese reception to follow. Frederick Douglass is, without a doubt, a great American writer and orator. Largely self taught, he wove together the traditions of American rhetoric and law, sacred scripture, classical insight, and the romantic language of his age. In so doing, he became a voice of conscience for the United States, a leading light in the abolition movement, and one of the most famous and respected men of his age–of...
February 23rd, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Lessons from the Past to Heal the Future: A Perspective on healing Ukraine post-war

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Please contact info@lumenchristi.org with any questions. As a Church historian, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has dedicated his vocation to transcribing and articulating the experience of the underground Church in Ukraine during the 20th century. These lessons of perseverance and adherence to the gospel—embodying the cross, death and resurrection—form the foundation of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where Metropolitan Borys was at the beginnings of its re-birth and now serves as its president. At this luncheon, hear Metropolitan Gudziak draw deep from these hard-earned lessons from the past to discuss strategies for healing the wounds...
February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later

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

Elizabeth Prodromou, Boston College | Perry Hamalis, North Central College | Gayle Woloschak, Northwestern University | Borys Gudziak, Archeparchy of Philadelphia; Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented with Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Center, and co-sponsored by the Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Commonweal Magazine, America Media, the University of Chicago's Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, the Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and CNEWA. One year later, the war in Ukraine has risen and fallen in the news cycle but remains an ever-pressing issue in Europe and abroad. Scholars, pundits, and public figures have done much to diagnose the ideological engines that drive the conflict, yet even the most careful public reflection...

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