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Open to current graduate students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. In her recent book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz writes "For some time, intellectual institutions in the United States have been under significant financial and political pressure to abandon education for programs with economic or political uses... we academic professionals have lost touch with our origins in ordinary human intellectual activity. We have thus lost the capacity to justify and explain to our fellow citizens or to philanthropists—much less to ourselves—why our institutions matter" (p.198). Should one studying or teaching in the...

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.