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Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation

University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, CA

In this seminar, students will read, analyze, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures, seminar reports, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents), beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary, since […]

Master Class on Ressentiment and Democracy

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

REGISTER HERE Open to currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for participants via web link. Ressentiment is a term of art in philosophy and social theory for the psychological pathology of self-loathing that the human person may experience vis-à-vis an other who is imagined to be stronger, […]

Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown

Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Open to University of Chicago students. Transportation and dinner will be provided. A Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago to the special exhibition "Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders of the Spanish Andes." ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the […]

Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. About Ulrich Lehner's recent book The Catholic Enlightenment: "Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched […]

A Consistent Ethic of Solidarity: Transcending Self, Transforming the World

University of Chicago Law School Auditorium 1111 East 60th Street, Hyde Park, IL

Visit the conference webpage for more information. Free and open to the public. Registration Required. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich will deliver the Keynote Address for the October 13-14 Capstone Conference for the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life, which will feature discussions with the philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists who have been working […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: Music in Secret

St. Clement Parish 642 W Deming Pl. Chicago, IL 60614, Downtown, IL

British organist and Renaissance music historian Naomi Gregory leads the women of Schola Antiqua in a wide-ranging program of music from medieval and early modern convents. “Music in Secret” offers some of the earliest known polyphony associated with nuns from the anonymous 1543 collection of printed partbooks Musica quinque vocum. In addition to plainchant sung […]

The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

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

Free and open to the public Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Disenchantment is one of the key concepts in the self-understanding of "modernity." It was introduced by Max Weber, but its precise meaning in his writings and in the discourse of modernity is quite controversial. This lecture is based on […]

Master Class on “Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Evil”

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

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s general conception of evil is very well known, and very simple.  Evil, he holds, is nothing other than privation of due good.  This conception has […]

A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited

Swift Hall, Room 106 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. About The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: A perceptive, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth […]

Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. You can read about Professor Mariani's biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. READINGS Paul Mariani, "The Mystery and the Majesty of It," Studies […]

The Gospel According to Matthew

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

6:00pm Buffet Dinner  |  6:30pm Lecture Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. St. Matthew's Gospel brings us into powerful contact with Israel's longed-for Messiah and permits us to hear the voice of Jesus of Nazareth with memorable vividness. Foregrounding the Israelite language of expectation, the narrative views Jesus as Son of Man, Son […]

Plato’s Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Philosophy. Plato found philosophy in some of the same erotic anxieties that permeate contemporary life, and even explored themes central to Catholic conceptions of sexuality. This lecture will be based on central themes from Plato's Symposium, drawing on David O'Connor's Plato's Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom […]