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Other Conferences and Symposiums
Beyond the Circle of Scholars and the regional and international colloquia, the Lumen Christi Institute Program in Catholic Scholarship organizes a range of conferences and symposiums on important themes or recently published books of significance for current debates in Catholic thought. These have included the following:
Theology and Poetry: da Todi, Herbert, Hopkins, Claudel, February 26, 2005, Armando Maggi (U of C) Richard Strier (U of C), Stephen Lewis (St. Joseph's College), Kevin Hart (Notre Dame), Sarah Beckwith (Duke)
The Grace of Knowing: Reading Augustine, Reading Ourselves, October 16, 2004, John Cavadini (University of Notre Dame), Paul Griffiths (University of Illinois-Chicago), James Wetzel (Colgate University)
The Theological Aftermath of Vatican II: A Symposium, February 7, 2004, Avery Cardinal Dulles (Fordham University), Robert Barron (Mundelein Seminary), Agnes Cunningham, SSCM (Mundelein Seminary), Lawrence Cunningham (University of Notre Dame), Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago, Richard Schenk, OP (Graduate Theological Union)
Exegesis and the Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship, April 26, 2003, Luke Timothy Johnson (Emory University), William Kurz, SJ (Marquette University), Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ (Catholic Theological Union), Paul Griffiths (University of Illinois-Chicago), Francis Martin (John Paul II Cultural Center)
The Freedom of Religion in a Post-Christian Europe: The European Union's Human Rights Charter and the Continent's Religious Heritage, July 1, 2002, Janne Haaland Matlary (University of Oslo), Paolo Carozza (University of Notre Dame)
The Nature of Nature in Feminism, Old and New, November 5, 2002, Michele Schumacher (Fribourg, Switzerland), Jean Bethke Eshtain (Univeristy of Chicago), Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)
City of God: A Symposium (co-sponsored with Communio), June 2, 2000, Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago/Sorbonne), Marc Ouellet (University of the Lateran, later Archbishop of Quebec), Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America), Javier Prades (San Damaso, Madrid) Bishop Peter Henrici (Diocese of Zurich), Robert Jenson (Princeton University), Francis Cardinal George (Archbishop of Chicago)
Yves Simon: Thomist and Sans-Culotte, May 11, 2000, Alasdair MacIntyre (Duke), Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame), Raymond Denney (University of San Francisco)
Traditional Religion and the Contemporary Mind: A Symposium in Honor of the Publication of Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier, February 17, 2000, Leon Wieseltier (The New Republic), Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago), Francis Cardinal George (Archbishop of Chicago), David Novak (University of Toronto), Cosponsored by the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, the Divinity School and the Newberger Hillel Center
Exegesis and Theology: A Symposium, October 23, 1999, Robert Wilken (University of Virginia), Gary Anderson (Harvard Divinity School)
Faith and Reason: A Symposium on Pope John Paul II's Encyclical Fides et Ratio, April 22, 1999, Archbishop Joseph Zycinski (Lublin, Poland), Daniel Garber (University of Chicago), Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago, Sorbonne), Francis Cardinal George (Archbishop of Chicago)
Catholic Faith and the Secular Academy: A Symposium, January 9, 1999, Francis Cardinal George, Sarah Bond, Stephen Lewis, Kevin Madigan, Mark Shiffman (University of Chicago students and alumni), David Tracy (University of Chicago), Robin Young (Catholic University of America), Paul Griffiths (University of Chicago), Robert Shreiter, CPPS (Catholic Theological union), Peter Casarella (Catholic University of America)
Veritatis splendor, October 16, 1998, Michael Baxter, CSC (University of Notre Dame), Jamie Schillinger (Doctoral student, University of Chicago)