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The Search for God: Testimonies to Grace

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This weekly non-credit course is open to current Chicago area students and faculty. Others interested in attending should contact us. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. One hundred and fifty years ago, Matthew Arnold described the receding of "the Sea of […]

Christian Intellectual Life in Today’s Universities: A Conversation with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP is the newly appointed rector of the Angelicum, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. A prominent American theologian, Fr. White has also directed the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C. for many years. In this public webinar, Nova Forum executive director David Albertson interviews Fr. White about the state […]

POSTPONED: Jacques Maritain’s “Man and the State”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE IN THE COMING WEEKS. THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Man and the State (CUA Press, 1998) will be provided for registrants. Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was perhaps […]

Making a Case for the Humanities with Zena Hitz

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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... […]

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 […]

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. […]

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

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, 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, […]

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 […]

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

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]