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The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations

Knapp Center for Biological Discovery Room 1103 900 E 57th street Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Rick Stevens, The University of Chicago | Matthew Elmore, Duke AI Health | Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University | Stephen C. Meredith, University of Chicago

REGISTER HERE Artificial intelligence is increasingly interfacing with all aspects of human life, raising particular ethical challenges in medicine and biotechnology. The ethical challenges of AI must be grounded in the limits of the discipline it is applied to. Medicine has seen amazing advances in the last few decades, but these advances also raise questions […]

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Event Series Dante’s Divine Comedy Graduate Reading Group

Dante’s Divine Comedy Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Kristóf Oltvai at oltvai@uchicago.edu. Books and dinner will be provided.  In what is perhaps the literary triumph of the European imagination, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia offers a vision of unforgettable cosmic and spiritual grandeur. […]

Event Series Dante’s Divine Comedy Graduate Reading Group

On the Consolation of Philosophy Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Drinks and Snacks will be provided. The Consolation of Philosophy, written by Boethius while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Roman Emperor Theodoric for treason in the AD 523, concerns a man confronted with […]

Event Series Latin Vulgate Reading Group

Latin Vulgate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Emily Barnum at ebarnum@uchicago.edu. Coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided.  St. Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible was used exclusively by the Western Church for centuries; its […]

AI and Healthcare Master Class

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Walter Scheirer, University of Notre Dame | Megan Levis, University of Notre Dame | Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University

REGISTER HERE Further details coming soon.  For more information, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org 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.

Event Series The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

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

This event is sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Nicklin Fellows Program, which supports and encourages University of Chicago undergraduate students to develop their intellectual maturity. Jacob Neplokh, who designed this program, is a Nicklin Fellow. This program is for undergraduate students only. REGISTER HERE The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final masterpiece,  explores the human questions […]

Event Series The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch Reading Group

The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch Reading Group

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Garrett Ashlock at gashlock@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided. The reading may be picked up at Gavin House (1220 E 58th street) during business hours at the start […]

Event Series Non-Credit Course | Reasonably Vicious

Non-Credit Course | The Bible and the Big Bang

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

REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This non-credit is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. […]

Event Series Greek New Testament Reading Group

Greek New Testament Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Joe Haydt at jhaydt@uchicago.edu. Lunch will be provided.  We will work through the Greek text of chapters eight and nine of the Gospel of Luke. Particular attention will be paid […]

Event Series How to Find Yourself on a Deserted Island: Ibn Tufayl’s Philosophical Tale

How to Find Yourself on a Deserted Island: Ibn Tufayl’s Philosophical Tale

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

Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 25. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. The Fundamental Questions Seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are made possible by the First Analysis […]

Event Series On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Group

On the Nature of Angels: Thomas Aquinas Reading Course

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
Stephen Brock, University of Chicago

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty. Food, beverages, and readings will be provided. One of Saint Thomas Aquinas's very last projects was a treatise On Angels. He did not finish it, but the part that he did carry out is exceptionally brilliant, even by his standards. It is a work of theology, but the title under which it […]

Event Series Dante’s Divine Comedy Graduate Reading Group

On the Consolation of Philosophy Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Drinks and Snacks will be provided. The Consolation of Philosophy, written by Boethius while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Roman Emperor Theodoric for treason in the AD 523, concerns a man confronted with […]