Name: Shakespeare’s Jewish Questions
Start: 2010-02-09T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2010-02-09T17:30:00-06:00
Location: Ida Noyes Hall, Library

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May 2008
May 29th, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

In this lecture, Jean-Luc Marion advances a phenomenological notion of sacrifice that is distinct from the notion of sacrifice typically discussed in Sociology or even Religious Studies. He argues that sacrifice restores the gift from the side of the givee, much as he has argued previously that forgiveness restores the gift from the side of the giver. He develops both notions within the framework of a phenomenology of givenness, advancing the thesis that sacrifice requires neither destruction, nor restitution, nor even exchange, and still less contract. Sacrifice surpasses all this because sacrifice does not arise as an economic notion (one...
November 2008
November 12th, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

Thomas Aquinas, Scientist: How Might He Approach 21st Century Biotechnology

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Despite flaws in his biology, Aquinas' writings offer us guidance in our approach to 21st century biotechnology. Aquinas' notion of a Just War provides us with a way for thinking about biotechnology, since both use morally ambiguous means to address evils in an imperfect world. A comparison of these two disparate issues can yield criteria for an ethics of biotechnology.
November 19th, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

The Solzhenitzyn Question

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn left a vast body of work, an inestimable influence on Russian culture, and a deeply divided public opinion. He documented the Soviet prison system, developed forms of literary representation for describing the experiences of prisoners, and was courageous in the face of repression. But doubts linger about him as artist, thinker and person, and thus prompt us to raise the Solzhenitsyn question.
March 2009
March 5th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm

The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL
September 2009
Seminar

September 5th, 2009 @ 11:00 pm - September 10th, 2009 @ 11:00 pm

Seminar: Summa theologiae

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Prof. Corey Barnes (Oberlin College) led a seminar on Aquinas’s Christology in his Summa theologiae at the University of St. Mary of the Lake Conference Center in Mundelein, Illinois.
October 2009
October 6th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm

Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History and Modernity

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

Deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of historical change prevent an adequate comprehension of the transformations that have created the contemporary Western world over the past half-millennium. Departures from traditional Christianity since the sixteenth century, and related attempts to ground truth claims in scripture or reason alone yielded unintended pluralisms via Protestantism and modern philosophy that remain pervasively influential today. Catholicism continues to offer an intellectually viable alternative–provided one does not subscribe to inadequate views of how the past became the present. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, or by searching for our...
October 9th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm

Vestiges of the Trinity: Joyce on the Artist as Imago Dei

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the Trinity is crucial to James Joyce’s presentation of the artist in both Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses. Now, Joyce’s deployment of Trinitarian themes is not strictly orthodox of course. But the Trinity does provide a model, an exemplar, for a proper understanding of artistic fecundity and a subtle critique of popular romantic conceptions of artistic self-expression. Whatever his intentions, Joyce’s treatment suggest ways in which the Thomistic doctrine of the Trinity and the Imago Dei can contribute to a fresh understanding of artistic activity.
October 9th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm - October 10th, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

Imago Dei: Philosophical Approaches to the Human Being as Image of God

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This conference addresses the following questions: What constitutes the image of God? How are we to understand Augustine’s claim that human beings come to understand both who they are and who they have been only through relationship with God? How do St. Thomas Aquinas and Blaise Pascal remain within or depart from the Augustinian tradition? What role do Aristotelian and Platonic (or neo-Platonic) conceptions of human identity and the soul play? Lastly, as Genesis offers an essentially relational account of “Imago Dei,” in what way can we discover or participate in such relationship with God through social relationships?
October 13th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm

Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

The broad public debates on religion and ethics frequently suffer from empirical deficiencies. All sides tend to argue in a way one might call an “a priori” mode of argumentation. In contrast, this lecture offers some empirically grounded reflections. First, Hans Joas asks whether the morality of secularized societies could be a mere remnant or reverberation of religious traditions. Secondly, he briefly investigates with regard to tribal societies whether religion should be considered to be constitutive for morality at all. Thirdly, he uses an example from Christian missionary work to look at the interaction of new religion and traditional morality....
October 19th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm

A Colloquium on Kathleen Sprows Cummings’s New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the “New Woman” and Catholics’ struggle to define their place in American culture. Cummings highlights four women: Chicago-based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women’s colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy, SSJ; and Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor, public figure, and antisuffragist. Cummings uses each woman’s story to...
November 2009
November 4th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm

Are Catholics Unreliable from a Democratic Point of View? Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of Paul Blanchard’s American Freedom and Catholic Power

University of Chicago 5801 S Ellis Ave Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Published in 1949, Paul Blanshard’s American Freedom and Catholic Power captured the attention of American intelligentsia with its claim that American Catholic citizens had to choose “between a church hostile to fundamentals of democracy and a state where contrary views are implicit under our Constitution.” John F. Kennedy’s famous speech to Protestant ministers in Houston on Sept. 12, 1960 was in many respects a response to Blanshard’s thesis. Today Blanshard’s bigotry may not be explicitly defended in educated circles, but questions remain about what made his book so compelling. Patrick Brennan considers whether Blanshard was onto something about the incompatibility of Catholic...
February 2010
February 9th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

Shakespeare’s Jewish Questions

Ida Noyes Hall, Library 1212 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies

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Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History and Modernity

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Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?

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