The Prince and Father of Music: Palestrina at 500
REGISTER HERE The quincentennial of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is an occasion to recognize the outstanding legacy of this talented musician not only in realm of sacred […]
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages: Umberto Eco Graduate Reading Group
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 Aidan Valente at valenteaidan@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks […]
The Solzhenitzyn Question
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 […]
Vestiges of the Trinity: Joyce on the Artist as Imago Dei
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 […]
Shakespeare’s Jewish Questions
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
West Meets East: French Sacred Music from Cyprus
Tickets: $15 general, $5 students and seniors University of Chicago students free with ID Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center
Follow the Star: Medieval and Renaissance Music for Epiphany
Friday, January 7, 8:00pm Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Saturday, January 8, 8:00pm St. Clement Church, 642 W. Deming Place Tickets available at door: $20 general, $10 students and seniors, Free for […]
“The Freedom of a Christian”
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson will deliver an Yves Simon lecture entitled, “The Freedom of a Christian.”
The Schola Antiqua of Chicago at Roosevelt University
“Tomorrow’s Music Today II” featuring Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird, and special guest, Schola Antiqua of Chicago Sunday, The Lumen Christi Institute co-sponsors Artist-in-Residence Schola Antiqua of Chicago in a University of […]
Dostoevsky’s Pilgrimage: Aesthetics and Ascesis in “The Brothers Karamazov”
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Dostoevsky’s final novel, set partly in a monastery, continues to shape contemporary images of Orthodox Christian monasticism and ascetic practice. Bird […]