Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times
This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event […]
Catholic Culture Series on “Catholic Literary Heritage”
The Lumen Christi Institute’s West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature […]
Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Free and open to the public. Early Christian authors rarely composed tragedies, but they did discern elements of “the tragic” both in the background of sacred history and in the […]
Finding Tragedy in the Bible with Its Early Christian Interpreters
Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. Prof. Blowers will also give a lecture on “Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late […]
Logical to the Bitter End: Absurdity, Suicide, and Hope in Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus
Does the absurdity of life dictate death? Can one find hope—can one truly live—in an absurd universe? These are the questions Albert Camus labors mightily to answer in his seminal […]
Lunch Discussion on “The Vocation of the Poet: Humanism, Christianity, and Verse”
Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University […]
The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry
Part of our Western Suburban Catholic Culture Series. This event will be live streamed on Zoom. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Historian Henry Adams wrote admiringly of […]
Master Class on T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”
A master class with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson (University of St. Thomas, Houston). Open to current graduate students, faculty, and advanced University of Chicago undergraduate students. Others interested in […]
Symposium on “The Future of Christian Art”
Is there a future for Christian Art? Can beauty save a “modern” world? This symposium features a presentation by Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ (Georgetown) in which he distinguishes between modernity […]
Superheroes, the Void, and Utopia: Reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the End of Days
Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. Copies of Watchmen will […]