Name: Winter 2023 Fundamental Questions Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone
Start: 2023-02-16T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-02-16T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Gavin House

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January 2023
January 19th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

The Atomic Bomb and the Technological Imperative

Social Sciences 201 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, IL

James Nolan, Williams College

How has technology taken on a life of its own, determining human behavior, thought, and actions in unintended and unexpected ways? Using the development and use of the first atomic bombs as a defining case study, this lecture reflects on the technological momentum that helped to usher in the nuclear age and that remains a defining and determinative feature of modern society. This event is free and open to the public. It is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Questions can be directed...
January 20th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Master Class on “Hope, Suffering, and the Atom Bomb”

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

James Nolan, Williams College

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. 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 Following the August 9, 1945 dropping of the second atomic bomb ever used in a military conflict, residents of Nagasaki responded in a unique and surprising way to the vast destruction visited upon their city. As reflected in the writings of Nagasaki radiologist Takashi...
January 26th, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Aristotle’s Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine

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

J. Warren Smith, Duke Divinity School

This event was co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. Augustine famous referred to the classical virtues as "splendid vices". Although he stood in the tradition that valued virtue, he was concerned that the pursuit of greatness through the life of virtue - a theme dating back to Aristotle's ideal of the Great-Souled Man - could actually breed a sense of self-righteousness. Yet there is much to the Aristotelian ideal. The pursuit of greatness in the service of God seems preferable to complacent mediocrity that sadly characterizes so much of our life. This lecture,...
January 27th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Master Class on “The Myth of Unconditional Love: Augustine on the Love of God, Neighbor, and Self”

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

J. Warren Smith, Duke Divinity School

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. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow. Following Kant’s insistence that individuals must be treated as ends in themselves and not means to something else, Hannah Arendt objected that Augustine’s subordination of the love of people to the love of God did not allow a true love of one’s neighbor. Citing his distinction between love as enjoyment (frui), which alone applied to God, and love as use (uti),...
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...

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