Poetry and the Theological Virtues

Moderated by Stefano Rebeggiani and Fr. Luke Dysinger

Poetry and the Moral Virtues

Moderated by Stefano Rebeggiani and Leigh Tost

Beauty and Virtue

Moderated by David Albertson and Fr. Luke Dysinger

Moderated by Jason Blakely & Leigh Tost

Moderated by David Albertson & Fr. Luke Dysinger

Moderated by Paul Contino & Leigh Tost

Moderated by David Albertson & Jason Blakely with Guest Scholar, Angela Franks.

Moderated by Stefano Rebeggiani & Fr. Luke Dysinger

Moderated by Stefano Rebeggiani & Paul Contino

Moderator: Prof. Jason Blakely

Text: John Paul II, Theology of the Body

Moderator: Prof. David Albertson

Text: John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: The Theology of the Body

Moderator: Prof. Stefano Rebeggiani

Text: Carrie Frederick Frost, Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East [book]; “Pro-Life Liturgy,” from First Things

Moderator: Prof. Joanna Demers

Readings: Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song; John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle

Moderator: Dr. Matt Farley

Readings: Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to Romans; Justin Martyr, Apology; Basil the Great, On Fasting

Readings: Irenaeus of Lyons, Against the Gnostics; Athanasius, On the Incarnation; Hildegard of Bingen, Book of Divine Works

Session 1: Sr. Kathy Schneider, “Modern Catholic Politics”

Session 2: Guest TBD

Session 1: Junior Fellows

Session 2: Vincent Lloyd (Villanova), “Abolition and Christian Utopianism”

Session 1: Jason Blakely, “How to Read Utopia”

Session 2: Amy Cannon, “Christian Poetic Imagination”

Session 1: Cynthia Colburn, “The Art of Human Limits”

Session 2: Douglas Christie (LMU), “Darkness and the Common Life”

Session 1: Stefano Rebeggiani, “Rome and the Republic”

Session 2: Veronica Ogle (Assumption College), “Politics in the City of God”

Session 1: David Albertson, “Introduction to the Seminar and to St. Augustine”

Session 2: Fr. Luke Dysinger, “Eschatology in the Christian East and West”

Via Zoom

Session 1: Prof. Jason Blakely: Catholic Utopian Humanism

Session 2: Prof. David Albertson hosting Fr. Greg Boyle SJ (Homeboy Industries): Hope in Los Angeles

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Session 1: Prof. Amy Cannon: The Limits of Paradise: Butler, Morrison, and (Re)writing Utopia

Session 2:Prof. Stefano Rebeggiani hosting Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini (University of St. Andrews): J.R.R. Tolkien and the Gift of Creativity

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Session 1: Prof. Cindy Colburn with Prof. Bryan Keene (Riverside City College): Arts of renewal from the Renaissance to the Baroque

Session 2: Prof. Jason Blakely hosting Prof. Eric Nelson (Harvard University): On St. Thomas More

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Session 1: Prof. Cindy Colburn with Prof. Bryan Keene (Riverside City College): Arts of death from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Session 2: Prof. David Albertson hosting Prof. Paul Contino (Pepperdine): Dante’s imagination

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Session 1: Prof. Stefano Rebeggiani: Utopia and dystopia in the Roman imagination

Session 2: Fr. Luke Dysinger hosting Prof. Robin Darling Young (CUA): Christian monasticism

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Session 1: Fr. Luke Dysinger: Resurrection, theosis, apokatastasis

Session 2: Prof. Amy Cannon hosting Prof. Dana Gioia (USC): The Catholic imagination