Sponsored by The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Committee on Social Thought, The Committee on Creative Writing, The Program on Poetry and Poetics, and The Lumen Christi Institute. Saturday, October 22, 1:30pm-4:00pm Symposium on Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz At the 100th anniversary of his birthday Social Sciences, Tea Room (2nd Floor) Program 1:30pm Introductory […]
Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute, presented a program exclusively dedicated to the music of Josquin des Prez, one of the most important composers from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His fluid and persuasive style of composition encapsulates the transition between the sound-world of the late Middle Ages and […]
Mary Ann Glendon A.B., J.D., M.C.L., University of Chicago Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School, President, The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences On the occasion of the publication of her book The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social […]
Edmund Husserl was a philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the philosophical school of phenomenology. Professor Moran will argue that Husserl was correct to see naturalism as the dominant tendency of twentieth-century science and philosophy. Naturalism can be understood in many different senses, but it is typically defined by its commitment to science as the arbiter […]
Lecture Abstract: The claim that knowledge involves an identity of knower and known has its historical roots among the Greeks. This lecture explores this claim as one finds it in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Professor O’Callaghan will explore these issues in critical dialogue with two different papers, one by Wilfrid Sellars titled “Being […]
This conference is offered for legal scholars, law students, and others interested in Christian legal thought. Conference Schedule Registration: 8:45am Panel One: 9:00am-10:30am “Public Unions and the Current State of Organized Labor ” David L. Gregory, St. Johns University School of Law Thomas C. Kohler, Boston College Law School John O. McGinnis, Northwestern University Law School Panel […]
Lecture, 7:00pm Informal Dinner, 6:30pm Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org. January 19 Athanasius of Alexandria: Theologian of the Incarnation†Aaron Canty (St. Xavier University) January 26 Jerome in Bethlehem Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame) February 2, 7:15pm Social Sciences 122 The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply […]
Before “solidarity” became a legal concept and later the name of the Polish labor movement, it developed as an economic, political, social, but most fundamentally a theological idea from which the rest of the Catholic social teaching tradition developed.
Cosponsored by The Theology Workshop Stephen Hawking has recently declared that philosophy is dead, and that science is the only reasonable method for securing knowledge. In response, Professor Cavadini will argue that philosophy is rooted in man’s wonder about the universe, and that scientific inquiry is only one aspect of true wisdom and should not […]
Cosponsored by The American Religious History Workshop and The Center for Latin American Studies Finely researched, engagingly written, and more comprehensive than any other book on the subject, Timothy Matovina's Latino Catholicism is a scholarly labor of love that does justice to the historic presence of Latino Catholics in America….His book raises the bar for studies […]
