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Dionysius the Areopagite Reading Course

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 dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Books, food, and beverages will be provided.  This reading group explores the key works of Dionysius the Areopagite. A mysterious figure in the Christian tradition, he presents himself as […]

Franz Kafka 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 Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, dinner, and beverages will be provided.  How do you navigate a world beyond comprehension? Do law and justice care about the individual? What are the causes […]

Non-Credit Mini Course | The Vatican ‘Secret’ Archives

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

Tuesdays, October 31-November 14 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students and the broader university community. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The Catholic Church has […]

Intellectual Samaritanism: Embracing the Stranger and His Strange Ideas on College Campuses

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

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Reception will follow. This lecture is cosponsored by the In Lumine Network. It is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. What moral and intellectual […]

What is Caesar’s? What is God’s? Church, State, and Society in Catholic Social Teaching

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

Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served.  Recent controversies in Catholic political thought have raised anew the question of the proper relationship between Church and state. In this lunchtime discussion, we will look at fundamental texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition that shed light on this issue. These texts articulate distinctions that show […]

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges.

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

The Lumen Christi Institute is a proud co-sponsor of the 2024 Catholic Research Economist Discussion Organization (CREDO) keynote lecture with Anton Korinek, Professor at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Economics and the Darden School of Business. His talk is titled "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges." This is an online event on […]

How Can We Flourish?

Knapp Center for Biological Discovery Room 1103 900 E 57th street Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

What is human flourishing? What insights might we draw from the humanities? What insights might we draw from the empirical sciences? Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences and many policy discussions focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or measures of feeling happy. Human […]

An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain

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

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. The location is tbd. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. German philosopher and former UChicago professor, Hannah Arendt stands as one of the most influential 20th century […]

Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  Hannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s […]

Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain

John Hope Franklin Room SSRB 224 1126 E 59th St., Chicago, IL

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. What did the practice of Christianity look like in a place shadowed by an inquisition? Were personal preferences, conversations, spiritual friendships, and religious questions off the table by default? Did clergy under the Spanish Inquisition neglect their duty […]

Red Mass and Lecture for Legal Professionals

Bond Chapel & Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is free and open to the public.  The Lumen Christi Institute, Calvert House, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School, and the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago are pleased to announce their third annual Red Mass and Lecture. Mass will be held at Bond […]

The Closing of the American Mind and the Death of Philosophy

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 20. 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. This seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are cosponsored by the First Analysis Institute. REGISTER HERE […]