In his history of the impossible, They Flew, award-winning historian Carlos Eire mines the firsthand accounts and archival evidence of the miraculous and demonic in early modern Europe. How did an increasingly skeptical and scientific culture account for events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals? What does this say about the supposed boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity?

Prof. Eire will lecture on the major themes of They Flew. University of Chicago Divinity School professor Kirsten Macfarlane will offer a response and engage Eire in a conversation. Audience Q&A will follow.

REGISTER BELOW *Note: The time has moved from 5:30 to starting at 6:00 p.m. and is in Room I of the University of Chicago Law School 6:00 - Symposium | 7:30 - 7:45 Q & A | 7:45 Wine & Cheese Reception This event is primarily intended for current University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff. It is open to the general public. Please contact William Hurley (whurley@lumenchristi.org) for any questions. This project is made possible through the support of In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide (grant #63614) from the John Templeton Foundation and the...