Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago
Cosponsored by the Hildegard of Bingen Society. Open to University of Chicago students. Transportation and dinner will be provided. A Visit to the Art Institute of Chicago to the special exhibition “Doctrine and Devotion: Art of the Religious Orders of the Spanish Andes.” ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the 17th through 19th century, this focused exhibition introduces visitors to images promoted by several Catholic orders at work in the Spanish Andes—the Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and Jesuits—examining the politics of the distinct iconographies each group developed as they vied for devotees and dominion. SCHEDULE 5:00PM: …
A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens’ Late Poems Revisited
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. About The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani: A perceptive, enlightening biography of one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human experience. Wallace Stevens lived a richly imaginative life that found expression in his poetry. His philosophical questioning, spiritual depth, and brilliantly inventive use of language would be profound influences…
Master Class on Gerard Manley Hopkins
Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for registrants ahead of time. You can read about Professor Mariani’s biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins HERE. To view photos of the master class, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. READINGS Paul Mariani, “The Mystery and the Majesty of It,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 47/2 (2015) Gerard Manley Hopkins, 6 sonnets (God’s Grandeur, The Windhover, Felix Randal, Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves, No worst there is none, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and in the comfort of the Ressurection, To R.B.) SCHEDULE 1:30pm …
The Gospel According to Matthew
6:00pm Buffet Dinner | 6:30pm Lecture Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. St. Matthew’s Gospel brings us into powerful contact with Israel’s longed-for Messiah and permits us to hear the voice of Jesus of Nazareth with memorable vividness. Foregrounding the Israelite language of expectation, the narrative views Jesus as Son of Man, Son of David, and Son of God, reminding us of Israel’s messianic hopes and showing us how these hopes are, in Jesus, both brought to fulfillment and surpassed. The course will focus on what might be called the spirituality of the evangelist, by means of a…
Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and the Seminary Coop Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. You can hear Peter O’Leary discuss the book in a recent OPEN STACKS Podcast interview. ABOUT THE BOOK How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in…
Master Class on Paul Claudel’s “The Muse Called Grace”
Open to current students and faculty. A copy of the poem with English translation will be circulated to those who RSVP. Paul Claudel can be described as the greatest French Catholic poet of the 20th century. His ode The Muse Called Grace celebrates the deep links between human and divine love, between poetry and faith. Join Professors Rémi Brague and Thomas Pavel for a master class on the poem. Previous familiarity with Paul Claudel is not required. SCHEDULE: 2:30pm Coffee & Tea 3:00pm Seminar 5:00pm Wine & Cheese The Franke Institute for the Humanities will host a conference on Paul…
The Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Imagination
REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The fiction writer and essayist Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) once complained that she was pegged as “a hillbilly nihilist,” whereas she viewed herself as “a hillbilly Thomist.” Her profound Catholic faith served in many respects to detach her from the rural Georgia in which she lived and worked, and at the same time gave her a sympathy for and insight…
Staged Reading of “Shakeshafte” by Rowan Williams
To view photos of the performance, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. You are invited to join the Shakespeare Project of Chicago for a special staged reading of a new play by Rowan Willams, a “fantasia” on the possible relationship between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion. Free and open to the public. Online registration is recommended but not required. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the International House Global Voices Program. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or email HERE. You can…
Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. A symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Cosponsored by the English Department, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, the University of Chicago Press, the Our Sunday Visitor…
CANCELLED: Master Class on “Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God”
Due to unforseen circumstances, Professor Inchausti has to cancel his visit to Chicago and unfortnately this event has been cancelled. Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century. His autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, tells the story of a restless and brilliant young man who goes from a literature student at Columbia University to taking vows as a Trappist monk. In this two-part, one day master class, we will look…