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SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation
DESCRIPTION: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). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary\, since this tradition of social thought overlaps several disciplines in the contemporary university including political science\, political philosophy\, law\, economics\, theology\, and history. This will be the third time Prof. Hittinger has led this seminar. \nFormat: There will be two 2 ½ hour sessions each day. Professor Hittinger will open each session with a lecture\, and then we will turn to general\, seminar-style discussion of the text and the issues at hand. Students will be expected to make seminar presentations of the material under discussion. \nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of California\, Berkeley. Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. . Students will be provided with a travel stipend\, accommodations\, and meals. \nApplication Information: 
This seminar will be open to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences (such as philosophy\, theology\, political science\, history & medieval studies). \nApplicants will be required to submit: \n\nA completed online application form found HERE.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a member of the program in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of research interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current or future research plans.\nOne academic writing sample (30 pages maximum).\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application except for letters of recommendation\, which can be emailed to mfranzen@lumenchristi.org or mailed to: Lumen Christi Institute\, Graduate Seminars\, 1220 East 58th Streeet\, Chicago\, IL 60637. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 15 students will be admitted to this seminar. \nApplication materials must be received by 11:59pm CST on MARCH 1\, 2013. \nThe Lumen Christi is an institute for the promotion of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and is committed to the integration of the intellectual and spiritual life. The Institute welcomes seminar participants of all or no religious affiliation\, and wants to assure all applicants that the opportunities to participate in devotional activities are optional. \nAny further questions can be directed to Mark Franzen at mfranzen@lumenchristi.org.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013_cst_critical_investigation_hittinger/
LOCATION:University of California\, Berkeley\, S Hall Rd.\nBerkeley\, CA 94720\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Divine is Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:Read the Chicago Maroon article about Dana Gioia’s visit to the University of Chicago HERE. \nDana Gioia—award-winning poet (American Book Award\, 2002; Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal Recipient\, 2010) and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts—takes the faith seriously. During his career as a businessman and later when living in Washington D.C.\, he drew strength from rereading Augustine’s City of God\, helping him resist the lust for wealth\, power\, and status that tempts many who find themselves in corporate America and the nation’s capital. \nGioia eschews an understanding of the faith that is glib and glossy\, that doesn’t explore the dark and squalid aspects of human nature\, as well as the terrifyingly beautiful. In a recent interview for the literary journal Image\, Gioia says: “I am not drawn to the stage business of Catholicism—its pomp and circumstance.” Furthermore\, he says of his own writing: “I write from the daily particulars of real life. You shouldn’t have to visit the Vatican to sense the divine. It is everywhere if you know how to look.” \nIndeed\, Gioia has an uncanny ability to see the hand of the divine everywhere: in shopping malls\, in ghost stories\, even in the horoscope column of a newspaper. \nIn sorrow and suffering\, too\, Gioia finds the hand of God waking the soul to the spiritual. \nBlessed is the pain that humbles us.\nBlessed is the distance that bars our joy. \nBlessed is this shortest day that makes us long for light.\nBlessed is the love that in losing we discover. \nOf his poem “Prayer at Winter Solstice” published in his latest book Pity the Beautiful\, he says: “It is a set of beatitudes that praise the suffering and renunciation necessary to make us spiritually alert… .It is also a poem about facing the hard realities of our existence. Our feel-good society tries to deny suffering.” \nBeauty\, suffering—everything offers the opportunity for grace. \n“The notion of suddenly being ‘saved’ feels alien to a Catholic who sees life as a pilgrimage in which each step forward can easily be followed by a fall backward from grace. For that reason the great Catholic writers characteristically write about the experience of sinners rather than the saints\, often people of great spiritual capacity who have lost their way\,” he says\, arguing for a faith that embraces the realities of damnation and salvation. “The great theme of Catholic imaginative literature is the violent and painful struggle for redemption in a fallen world.” \n****************************** \n\nOn October 17\, 2013\, Dana Gioia gave a luncheon talk on “Why Beauty Matters: Not Just to Artists But to Everyone\, Even Politicians” at the University Club of Chicago.\nLater that evening\, he gave a poetry reading at Gavin House\, home of the Lumen Christi Institute in Hyde Park.\nOn October 18\, 2014\, Gioia taught a seminar on “What is Catholic Poetry?” to students at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2013-08-divine-is-everywhere-dana-gioia/
LOCATION:University of Chicago\, 5801 S Ellis Ave\nChicago\, IL 60637\, Hyde Park\, IL
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