Events (ALL EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)


Summer 2010 Events

Catholicisme, sécuralisation et laïcité

panelists include Charles Taylor and Paul Thibaud

(all presentations given in French)

Thursday, June 24, 7pm

College des Bernardins

18 rue Poissy, 75005 Paris


Free and open to the public
Part of a larger Conference on Secularism
RSVP to Elayne Oliphant: elayne@uchicago.edu     

Spring 2010 Events at the University of Chicago


THURSDAY EVENING LECTURE SERIES

An Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching: Texts and Concepts

Spring Quarter  pdf
Thursdays, 6:30pm dinner, 7:00pm lecture
Cobb Hall, Room 103  map
 
 
LECTURES AND OTHER EVENTS pdf

From Curiosity to Studiousness: Catechizing the Appetite for Knowledge

Paul Griffiths (Duke University) 
Wednesday, May 12, 4:30 pm
Swift Hall, Commons Room    map 

 

Symposium on Caritas in Veritate
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)

Patrick Deneen (Georgetown University)

William Cavanaugh (University of St. Thomas)

Wednesday, April 28, 4:30 pm

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall  map  


West Meets East: French Sacred Music from Cyprus
Schola Antiqua of Chicago 
Friday, May 14, 8:00 pm, Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Saturday, May 15, 8:00 pm, St. Benedict Parish, 2215 W. Irving Park Rd.

Tickets: $15 general, $5 students and seniors

University of Chicago students free with ID 

Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center


The Apocalypse in Origen and the Origenian Tradition
Ilaria Ramelli (Catholic University of Milan) 
Tuesday, May 25, 4:30 pm
Classics, Room 110  map   


Catholics in Political Life
Ross Douthat (NY Times and Atlantic columnist) 

Mark Stricherz (blogger at True/Slant)

Melinda Henneberger (blogger at Politics Daily) 

Wednesday, June 2, 5:30 pm

Loyola University Chicago, School of Law

Ceremonial Courtroom, Room 1040


Winter 2010 Events at the University of Chicago


THURSDAY EVENING LECTURE SERIES


Philosophers, Theologians and Mystics of the Middle Ages

Winter Quarter   pdf

Thursdays, 6:30pm dinner, 7:00pm lecture

Cobb Hall, Room 115   map

Cosponsored by the Catholic Students Association


LECTURES AND OTHER EVENTS


Shakespeare's Jewish Questions
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, February 9, 4:30 pm

Ida Noyes Hall, Library

Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies


Symposium on Gary Anderson's Sin: A History

Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame)

 Cyril O'Regan (University of Notre Dame)

Jeffrey Stackert (University of Chicago)

Wednesday, February 24, 4:30 pm

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall   map
 

The Authority of Law in Recent Catholic Political Philosophy 
Mark C. Murphy (Georgetown University) 
Tuesday, March 2, 4:30 pm
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall   map
Cosponsored by the Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values