Purgatorio
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThis dinner-time reading group will read selections from Dante’s Purgatorio. Open to current undergraduate students.
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How to Grieve as a Catholic | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
West Suburban Series
Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, ILCassandra Sever, Lumen Christi InstituteGrief takes many forms. Contemporary therapeutic approaches often emphasize that there is no right way to grieve: each person's loss is unique. But does the Catholic tradition have more to say about how we should live with loss? Drawing on interviews with grief counselors and chaplains alongside St. Augustine and the Catholic intellectual tradition, this talk will explore what grief reveals about love and its right ordering.
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Do We Still Remember What a University Is For? Reading Boyagoda’s Lords of Serendipity
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThis dinner-time reading group will read Randy Boyagoda’s new Lords of Serendipity. Open to current graduate students.
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A Visit To Nowhere: Reading Thomas More’s Utopia
Fundamental Questions Seminar
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILRabbi Anna Levin Rosen, Middot: Institute for Lived Ethics | Giovanni Giorgini, University of Bologna | Daniel Wasserman-Soler, Lumen Christi InstituteIn 1516, Thomas More published Utopia. More takes his reader on a tour of an idealistic island society: six-hour work days, religious toleration, no private property, and no lawyers. But is it really possible for such a society to exist? And was Utopia actually a good place? Come and join us for dinner and discussion.
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The Psalms in Latin
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThe Latin language reading group will translate the Psalms in Latin this fall. All levels of Latin are welcome. Each session will consider one Psalm.
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A Poetry Salon
Reading Courses
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILAustin Walker, Lumen Christi InstituteA lunchtime poetry salon, in which participants read and discuss a great poem slowly together. Open to all students. No advance preparation required.
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Lord of the Rings
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThis weekly reading group will meet over dinner on Mondays to discuss J.R.R Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings trilogy. Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
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American Idol(s): The False Gods That Threaten Our Freedom
Non-Credit Courses
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILRabbi Anna Levin Rosen, Middot: Institute for Lived Ethics | Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi InstituteThis dinnertime non-credit course will consider the “false gods” that menace our freedom and happiness.
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Purgatorio
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThis dinner-time reading group will read selections from Dante’s Purgatorio. Open to current undergraduate students.
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Do We Still Remember What a University Is For? Reading Boyagoda’s Lords of Serendipity
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThis dinner-time reading group will read Randy Boyagoda’s new Lords of Serendipity. Open to current graduate students.
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Affirming the Human Person in the Age of AI: A Novel Approach
Downtown Lectures
University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, ILRandy Boyagoda, University of Toronto | Michael Murphy, Loyola University ChicagoWhat happens to our sense of the human person, to our sense of ourselves and others, if we give up the demanding goods of reading books for the efficient, instant rewards of Artificial Intelligence?
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The Psalms in Latin
Reading Groups
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILThe Latin language reading group will translate the Psalms in Latin this fall. All levels of Latin are welcome. Each session will consider one Psalm.
