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SUMMARY:The Thought of René Girard
DESCRIPTION:Apply here\nDescription:\n\nOne of the most influential 20th century Catholic thinkers\, René Girard transformed our understanding of culture\, religion\, and human desire. Through an intensive reading of Girard’s works\, in conjunction with the fiction of the greatest writers\, this five-day seminar will explore imitation\, conflict\, and scapegoating\, connecting them to central themes of Christian theology. \nThe seminar is co-sponsored by the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. \nLocation and Format:\nThis seminar will be held at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. \n Students will meet twice daily during 2.5 hr sessions in seminar style lecture and discussion. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully\, submit study questions in advance\, and participate in each session. \nApplication Information \n\nThis seminar is open to all undergraduate students (including 2025 graduates) interested in understanding the thought of one of the great modern Christian apologists.\nApplicants will be required to submit an online application form including:\n\nA list of completed coursework.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a professor at the school in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current intellectual interests.\n\n\nAll application materials can be submitted through the online application interface. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen applicants will be admitted to this seminar.\n\nAdmitted students will be granted a stipend of $350 to offset travel costs in addition to having their lodging and meals covered for the duration of the seminar.\n\nApplication Deadline is February 2\, 2025\n\n\n  \nCynthia L. Haven is an American literary scholar\, author\, critic\, Slavicist\, and journalist. \nWhile at the University of Michigan\, she studied with Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky. Her books include Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard\, which the San Francisco Chronicle named one of the best books of 2018. The biography was also named a 2019 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Her Czesław Miłosz: A California Life was a finalist for a Northern California Book Award. She is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. \nHer Penguin Modern Classics anthology for the selected writings of René Girard was published in June 2023\, and a short German anthology was published in 2022 with the Leipzig publisher Reclam\, for its popular “Was bedeutet das alles?” series. \nShe has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna and a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages while researching her book on French theorist René Girard. She was a Voegelin fellow at the Hoover Institution while working on her book on Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky and his translator\, George L. Kline. \n  \nGrant Kaplan  is professor of historical and systematic theology at Saint Louis University (USA). He is the author of three monographs\, including René Girard\, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2016)\, Answering the Enlightenment: The Catholic Recovery of Historical Revelation (Crossroad/Herder\, 2006)\, and Faith and Reason through Christian History: A Theological Essay (Catholic University of America Press\, 2022). He is the author of many scholarly articles\, essays\, and reviews in such venues as Theological Studies\, America Magazine\, Modern Theology\, Pro Ecclesia\, Newman Studies Journal\, and First Things. \n\n  \nTrevor Cribben Merrill teaches French and French literature at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is the author of The Book of Imitation and Desire (Bloomsbury\, 2013) and The Situation of the Catholic Novelist (Wiseblood Books\, 2021). He collaborated with Jean-Michel Oughourlian on Psychopolitics: Conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill (Michigan State University Press\, 2012) and co-edited René Girard’s La Conversion de l’art (Grasset\, 2023) with Benoît Chantre. He is co-producer of the documentary film Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard. \n\n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/the-thought-of-rene-girard/
LOCATION:University of Southern California\, University Park Campus 3551 Trousdale Pkwy\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90007
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Catholic Social Thought in Business Education
DESCRIPTION:Apply here\nWe are pleased to announce the fifth annual seminar on “Business and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer.” During the seminar\, graduate students and faculty members in business schools will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought and apply them to their own field of research and teaching. This seminar aims at widening epistemological preconceptions and showing practical implications of Catholic social thought for business in a way that affirms the goodness of business directed toward the common good. Participants will delve into social encyclicals\, secondary sources\, and relevant business texts that show the path for principled entrepreneurship in order to gain knowledge\, exchange experiences\, receive help with their syllabi and consider how best to integrate Catholic social thought into business education.\n\nThe seminar is co-sponsored by the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought\, Law\, and Business\, the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame; the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of America; the Lumen Christi Institute; and the Markets\, Culture and Ethics Research Centre at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross\, Rome.\n\nLocation: The seminar will take place at the University of Notre Dame between Monday June 16 (day of Arrival) and Thursday June 19 (Departure after lunch).\n\n\n\n\n\nA limited number of travel grants are available. To apply for financial assistance\, please complete and submit the attached request for funds to murphyinstit@stthomas.edu by May 5\, 2025\n\nClick for the Attachment\n\n\nAll participants will be provided with accommodations and meals.\n\n\n\nApplication Information\n\nThis seminar will be open to graduate students and faculty of any specialization in business schools.\n\nApplicants will be required to submit a completed online application\, including:\n\nAn updated CV/resume.\nA brief statement of research interest related to Catholic social thought no longer than 750 words.\nOne academic writing sample.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application interface. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Fifteen students will be admitted to this seminar. \n\n\nApplication materials are due March 16\, 2025.\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will be led by:\n\n\nJames Otteson\, University of Notre Dame\n\n\nLloyd Sandelands\, University of Michigan\n\n\nMsgr. Martin Schlag\, University of St. Thomas\n\n\nAndreas Widmer\, The Catholic University of America
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LOCATION:University of Notre Dame\, Notre Dame\, IN 46556\, Notre Dame\, IN
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Dionysius the Areopagite: The Corpus and Its Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Apply here\n\nCo-presented with the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College\, University of Toronto. \nDionysius the Areopagite is a figure who is as elusive as his prose is powerful. The course will involve a close reading of his entire corpus and situating his writings in the intellectual and historical context of the first millennium. We will further outline the indelible marks he leaves on subsequent Christian theology\, liturgy\, and the broader philosophical tradition. \n\n\nLOCATION AND FORMAT\n\nThe seminar will be held at Sheptytsky House at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Admitted students will be required to arrange their own travel to and from the seminar\nParticipants will receive a stipend of up to $350 to offset travel expenses.\nLodging will be provided to participants. \n\nMeals will also be provided\, although students will be responsible for meals when on their own outside the seminar\n\nParticipants will arrive on Sunday\, June 22 and depart on Friday\, June 27.\nParticipants will be provided with the relevant books.\nThere will be two sessions each day in the morning and in the afternoon. Each session will include lectures and seminar-style discussions. Students will be expected to prepare the readings carefully and participate in the discussions of the material.\n\nAPPLICATION INFORMATION \n\nThis seminar is open to graduate students. Working knowledge of relevant ancient languages will be helpful\, but not essential. Preference will be given to Ph.D. students in theology\, philosophy\, classics\, and other relevant fields of study\, though advanced M.A. students will be considered.\nApplicants will be required to submit an online application form including:\n\n\nA list of completed coursework.\nAt least one and as many as two letter(s) of recommendation from a professor at the school in which the student is currently enrolled.\nA statement of interest no longer than 750 words\, which includes an explanation of how this seminar might bear on the student’s current intellectual interests.\n\n\nAll application materials can be submitted through the online application interface. Incomplete applications will not be considered.\nFifteen applicants will be admitted to this seminar.\nApplication Deadline is February 2\, 2025\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will be led by:\n\n\nLewis Ayres\, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas/Durham University\n\n\nPaul Blowers\, Milligan University\n\n\nFr. Andrew Summerson\, Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
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LOCATION:University of St. Michael’s College\, 81 St. Mary's Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 1J4\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Summer Seminars
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SUMMARY:Self Knowledge as "First Philosophy:" Introducing Bernard Lonergan
DESCRIPTION:Apply Here\nThe seminar is co-presented by the Lonergan Institute. \nThis graduate seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the thought of Bernard Lonergan\, SJ. The seminar will examine Lonergan’s approach to self-knowledge and “self-appropriation\,” epistemology\, and method in metaphysics and theology. The main text for the course will be Lonergan’s seminal Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Upon first publication in 1957\, Insight was greeted by reviewers as “probably… one of the great philosophical treatises of the century\,” “a profound book… evincing an extraordinary sense for the persistent significance of ancient and medieval thought in the light of modern science\,” “a Catholic Phenomenology of Mind with a personalist orientation.” \nOur principal objectives will be to understand the fundamental ideas animating Lonergan’s project\, to facilitate the personal “philosophic experience” Insight was intended to provoke\, and to introduce a critique of methods to help participants begin to make sense of the deep sources of disagreement in the humanities\, particularly philosophy and theology. Although it would be impossible to communicate the whole of Lonergan’s thought in a week\, the seminar will attempt to give a sense of the whole “in” Lonergan’s thought\, that is\, of the through-line linking the project of Insight to his theological work and to the framework for methodical collaboration he proposed in Method in Theology\, his sequel to Insight. \nApplication Information: \nThis seminar will be of interest to students in philosophy\, theology\, and other disciplines that address foundational questions in the humanities and human sciences\, including law\, economics\, politics\, and history. Although primarily intended for doctoral students\, advanced master’s degree candidates will be considered. Previous familiarity with Lonergan is not required. \nPlease submit the following: \n\nA completed online application form.\nAn updated CV.\nAt least one and no more than two letter(s) of recommendation.\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).\nAll application materials can be submitted via the online application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.\nApplication deadline is February 2\, 2025\n\nThe seminar will take place at Boston College between June 22 and June 28\, 2025 \nAdmitted students will be provided housing and most meals during the seminar. They can submit for up to $350 travel reimbursement after the conclusion of the seminar. \nFor full consideration\, applications should be submitted by February 2. \n  \n  \nJeremy D. Wilkins is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College\, and Director of the Lonergan Institute. He is the author of Before Truth: Lonergan\, Aquinas\, and the Problem of Wisdom (The Catholic University of America\, 2018). In addition to the philosophy and theology of Bernard Lonergan\, his research focuses on Thomas Aquinas\, Trinitarian theology\, Christology\, and grace. \nRoberto J. De La Noval is Assistant Professor of Theology at Mount St. Mary’s University (Emmitsburg\, MD). A systematic and historical theologian\, his research concerns Russian religious thought\, eschatology\, and the thought of Bernard Lonergan.
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LOCATION:Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Avenue\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
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