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Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte

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An evening webinar lecture with Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai'i at Manoa). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society After a brief review of women humanists like Laura Cerata, Cassandra Fedele, Lucrezia Marinella, and Isotta Nogarola, the presentation will focus […]

2020 Newman Forum Summer Institute

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The Newman Forum aims to run a week-long Summer Institute for high school students at Mundelein Seminary every year. Due to COVID-19 concerns, this year's Institute will run ONLINE, Mondays and Thursdays, from July 13th-30th. This year's Summer Institute will be centered on the three transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty! Feelings of wonder point us to transcendental truths […]

Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy

A webinar lecture with Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Perspective drawing, map-making, musical harmonics, astronomy, and number theory—these were all mathematical disciplines in the Renaissance. We tend to link measuring sounds, sights, […]

Titian’s Icons: Logos and Kairos in Renaissance Devotion

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An evening webinar lecture with Christoper Nygren (University of Pittsburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Titian is one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance. He is mostly known for his amazing mythological paintings and […]

A Sort of Bazaar or Pantechnicon: Newman’s Challenge to the Modern University

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REGISTER HERE This master class is open to current graduate students and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Others interested in participating should contact us. In 1854, John Henry Newman worried that the contemporary university was losing its ability to teach its students to see and recognize the truth. Instead of integrated […]

Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom. Registrants will be sent a link to the Zoom event or to a secondary livestream. Co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, Calvert House Catholic Center, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, […]

Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos

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A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, and cosmologist. Bruno’s notoriety is due both to […]

On the Eternity of the World: Aristotle, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Kant

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This master class is open to current graduate students and uper-level University of Chicago undergraduates. It will take place online via Zoom, in four sessions, over two days. Toward the end of his Physics, Aristotle argued that the motion in the physical world, and with it the world itself, never began and will never cease.  Medieval […]

ONLINE SEMINAR on Dominican Theological Anthropology: Albert the Great and Meister Eckhart

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

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS SEMINAR On consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays in August (August 3, 4, 10, 11) Bernard McGinn and Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn will lead a set of young scholars through questions relating to the theological anthropologies of Albertus Magnus and Meister Eckhart. Topics of special interest will include contemplation, Albert on the […]

Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism

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A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society The Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of English philosophers around the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth-century, in […]