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Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) cosponsored by the Department of English The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast, Christianity offers a different response to wrongdoing: Jesus engaged in a polemical attack on “the […]

Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop This lecture will situate Bonaventure’s thought on education, philosophy, and the sciences into the context of the thirteenth century’s controversies regarding the place of philosophy in the universities and human life generally.  While Bonaventure accepts the […]

Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE This master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. This seminar will begin with crucial texts from the middle of the thirteenth century […]

Saturday, February 6, 7:30pm St. Vincent DePaul Parish1010 West Webster Avenue Sunday, February 7, 2:00pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE $25 General/$10 Students In the sixteenth century, all roads led to Prague – or from it. The city had long been an incubator for rich musical activity and was an […]

Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) Cosponsored by First Things, the Chicago Leadership Forum, and Relevant Radio For all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four decades in American public life, and these were many, he really understood his work in vocational […]

Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department Aristotle’s remarks in the last book of the Nicomachean Ethics that the highest form of happiness consists in θεωρία is often translated as revealing happiness to consist in contemplation, without noting that both terms designate a kind of seeing, a mode of vision. This oversight if more remarkable when we recall […]

Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) REGISTER HERE This master class is open to graduate and undergraduate students, including non-University of Chicago students. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the readings will be provided. This seminar will discuss Aristotle’s account in Book 6 of the Nicomachean Ethics of what he there terms “virtues […]

A lecture with Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) Cosponsored by the Department of History It is difficult today to imagine a world in which religious communities were deeply intertwined with the civic order and when a third of a town’s population might be priests, monks, and nuns. In Renaissance Florence the Dominican Monastery of San […]

Due to unforeseen personal reasons, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. Carol Zaleski (Smith College) REGISTER HERE cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop The idea of Purgatory – “that second kingdom,” as Dante puts it, “where the human […]

Due to unforeseen personal reasons, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. with co-authors Philip & Carol Zaleski REGISTER HERE $50 General/ $15 Student/ $500 Table Sponsorship At this luncheon event, authors Philip and Carol Zaleski will discuss their book The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the […]