Presented by the Collegium Institute and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, America Magazine and the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. In the ferment of the mid 20th-Century, Catholic writers and artists sought to develop a new, distinctly Catholic, modernity. They navigated the political challenges of fascism, communism, and liberalism. In this event, we look to the […]
Free and open to the public. This event was held online over Zoom. This event was presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO), and was cosponsored by Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (GRACE), the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC), the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), the World Organization of Former Students of Catholic Education (OMAEC), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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... […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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