Symposium on “The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy”

Symposium on "The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy"

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, […]

Mary at the Art Institute

Mary at the Art Institute

REGISTER HERE Open to all university students. Registration Required. Cosponsored with Calvert House. Mary is the most-depicted woman in the history of Western art, which means that images of her […]

Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace

Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace

Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers.  Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her.  O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly […]

Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature

Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature

This luncheon seminar for students and faculty examined essays by Dame Iris Murdoch on literature, philosophy, morality, virtue, and the concept good. The focus of discussion centered on why Murdoch thinks truth, understood […]

Schola Antiqua – Music in Secret

Schola Antiqua - Music in Secret

The sounds flowing from pre-modern convents constitute one of the better kept secrets of music history. This spring, the women of Schola Antiqua, long-time Artists-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute, return to […]

WEBINAR: Dante as Poet and Philosopher

WEBINAR: Dante as Poet and Philosopher

A conversation with Professors Jason Aleksander (San Jose State University) and Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College). Part of our Summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture,” presented […]

Alberti and Renaissance Architecture

Alberti and Renaissance Architecture

An evening webinar with Professor of Architecture Il Kim (Auburn University). Part of our summer webinar series on “Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture,” presented in collaboration with […]