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Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  The poet plays a crucial role […]

People: Denys Turner

Brideshead Revisited Graduate Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 Jack Drury at jackdrury@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and […]

Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. Reception will follow.  This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the […]

People: Paul Scherz

American Gothic Graduate Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, lunch, and beverages will be provided.  Fear. Rot. The inescapability of the past. These and more are the themes of Gothic literature. Join us Mondays from […]

Dubliners Graduate Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 Rose Johnson at rodojo23@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and […]

Viewing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is co-produced by the Critical Understanding of Liturgies & Traditions (CULT), a student RSO, and the Lumen Christi Institute, the home for the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. The movie will be screened at Gavin House (1220 E 58th St), directly across from the Booth School of Business. This event […]

Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The Catholic Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, […]

People: Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ

The Closing of the American Mind and the Death of Philosophy

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. This seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are cosponsored by the First Analysis Institute. REGISTER HERE […]

People: Daniel Wasserman-Soler

Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  Hannah Arendt came to Chicago in the 1950’s […]

People: Thomas Meyer

What is Caesar’s? What is God’s? Church, State, and Society in Catholic Social Teaching

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Open to current students and faculty. Lunch will be served.  Recent controversies in Catholic political thought have raised anew the question of the proper relationship between Church and state. In this lunchtime discussion, we will look at fundamental texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition that shed light on this issue. These texts articulate distinctions that show […]

People: Scott Roniger

Non-Credit Mini Course | The Vatican ‘Secret’ Archives

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Tuesdays, October 31-November 14 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students and the broader university community. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The Catholic Church has […]

People: Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ

Franz Kafka Graduate Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, dinner, and beverages will be provided.  How do you navigate a world beyond comprehension? Do law and justice care about the individual? What are the causes […]