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The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies
2023-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Johns Hopkins Medical University
The Johns Hopkins Medical University presents a lecture by Prof. Matthew Dugandzic of St. Mary’s Seminary and University titled “The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies.”
Wednesday, February 22
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Turner Auditorium
About the speaker
Matthew Dugandzic joined the theology faculty at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in 2019 after completing a Ph.D. in moral theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His dissertation, “A Thomistic Account of the Habituation of the Passions,” explored the ways in which people can develop virtuous affective inclinations.
Dr. Dugandzic’s scholarship focuses on medieval thought, especially Thomas Aquinas’ anthropology, psychology, and ethics. His work on Christ’s passions recently appeared in the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas and his other writings on the passions and on bioethics have appeared in New Blackfriars and National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. His current research focuses on the sources that Aquinas used in developing his understanding of virtue and on recovering ancient and medieval wisdom regarding economics in order to apply this wisdom to contemporary financial problems (like student loan debt).
Dr. Dugandzic has taught courses in fundamental moral theology, bioethics, theological anthropology, and Catholic social teaching. In addition to his work in the academy, Dr. Dugandzic has also brought his theological expertise to the aid of the Church, having taught theology to RCIA groups, catechists, and candidates for the permanent diaconate.
In addition to his doctorate, Dr. Dugandzic holds a BSc in biology from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec and an MA in religious studies from St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. He and his wife, Audra, live in Baltimore, MD. In his spare time, he likes to play hockey, which he enjoys almost as much as reading theology.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Galileo and the Inquisition: The Legend of the Warfare Between Science and Faith
2023-02-23 17:30 - 19:00 UTC
Yale University
The Thomistic Institute at Yale University presents a lecture by Prof. William Carroll of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law titled “Galileo and the Inquisition: The Legend of the Warfare Between Science and Faith.”
Thursday, February 23
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
William Harkness Hall Room 116
Dr. William E. Carroll is a distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Philosophy at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China) and Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium of Anton Neuwirth (Bratislava, Slovakia). His specialty is the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology, with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the doctrine of creation. He is the author of works and articles, including Creation and Science: Has Science Eliminated God?; Galileo: Science and Faith; and (with Steven Baldner) Aquinas on Creation. Beginning in 2013, he has spent several weeks each year giving lectures and seminars at various Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Seeking Peace in the City: Augustine and the Virtue of Humility
2023-02-23 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Harvard University – Graduate Chapter
The graduate chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Harvard University presents a lecture by Prof. Mary Keys of the University of Notre Dame titled “Seeking Peace in the City: Augustine and the Virtue of Humility.”
Thursday, February 23
5:30 PM
Sever Hall 213
About the Speaker:
Mary M. Keys holds a BA from Boston College and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests span a broad spectrum of political theory, with a special focus in Christianity, ethics, and political thought. She is the author of Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine’s City of God (Cambridge) and Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (Cambridge). Her work includes articles and chapters in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s City of God. She has held various fellowships, including a NEH Fellowship supporting her ongoing research project on Humility, Modernity, and the Science of Politics, and she has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Modeling, Idealization, and Truth: A Dialogue between Contemporary Philosophy of Science and the Aristotelian Tradition
2023-02-24 09:00 - 2023-02-25 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
Modeling, Idealization, and Truth: A Dialogue between Contemporary Philosophy of Science and the Aristotelian Tradition
24-25 February 2023
Aula Minor, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome
Language: English
Theme of the Conference: Philosophy of Science & Aristotelian Tradition
A central theme within the philosophy of science is the importance of idealization, metaphor and modeling for both how we know, and what we know, through the natural sciences. This improved understanding of how the sciences work has led (at least within the philosophy of science community) to the realization that physical theories should not be interpreted literally, and that the mathematical structure of a theory is not a straightforward guide to the metaphysics of the entities described by that theory. On the other hand, the philosophical discussion of modeling, metaphor and idealization — and the relationship of these notions to truth is not new and has a long pedigree within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. This conference brings together philosophers of science and those working within Aristotelian-Thomism to discuss how the resources of this tradition can be brought to bear on contemporary philosophy of science.
Speakers Include:
Nicholas Teh (University of Notre Dame)
John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
Fr Kevin Flannery (Gregorianum)
Jonathan Buttaci (Catholic University of America)
Santiago Schnell (University of Notre Dame)
Dave O’Connor (University of Notre Dame)
James Nguyen (Stockholm University)
Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P. (Angelicum)
Thomas Davenport, O.P. (Angelicum)
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Call for Papers
Recent doctoral scholars and graduate students are invited to submit proposals (no longer than 300 words) for a short paper addressing topics discussed at the conference, as well as other issues in the dialogue between science and religion. Please include a short academic biographical note (50-150 words) in the submission that lists any degrees and the institutions where they were obtained, as well as your current affiliation. All submissions should be emailed TIinfo@pust.it by 1 January 2023 in order to be considered.
PUST-Angelicum Thomistic Institute Website link: https://angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/event/philosophy-of-science-and-aristotle/

Death & Dying | An Intellectual Retreat
2023-02-24 15:00 - 2023-02-26 13:30 (America/New_York)
Dominican House of Studies | Washington, DC
This retreat is being offered for current university students!
Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and study the riches of the Church’s intellectual tradition with the Thomistic Institute. Throughout this retreat we will consider death and dying.
The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).
Schedule:

Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24th

Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 26th

Speakers:

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Prof. Michael Root (Catholic University of America) is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology). He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification. Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission. He served on the drafting teams that produced the Lutheran Roman Catholic “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification”.

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Sin and Sacrifice in Augustine’s Confessions
2023-02-27 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sin and Sacrifice in Augustine’s Confessions

Monday, February 27, 2023
5:30 PM 6:30 PM

University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Thomistic Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham presents a lecture by Prof. Chad Pecknold of The Catholic University of America titled, “Sin and Sacrifice in Augustine’s Confessions.”
Monday, February 27
5:30 PM
Spencer’s Honors House
This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Chad Pecknold received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) and since 2008 he has been a Professor of Historical & Systematic Theology in the School of Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He teaches in the areas of fundamental theology, Christian anthropology, and political theology. Pecknold is the author of a number of scholarly articles and books including most recently, Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade, 2010) and The T&T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology (Bloomsbury, 2014). A self-described “Augustinian-Thomist,” Pecknold is an Associate Editor for the English Edition of the international Thomistic journal of theology, Nova et Vetera, and co-edits with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., the new Sacra Doctrina series at Catholic University of America Press. Dr Pecknold is currently writing a book on Augustine’s City of God. Dr. Pecknold resides in Alexandria, VA with his wife, Dr. Sara Pecknold (who teaches Music history at CUA) and their five children.
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JP2 Lectures // Dariusz Karłowicz: Reset or Revolution? Contemporary Problems of Political Stability and Some Ancient Solutions
2023-03-01 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
ST. JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE OF CULTURE
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, we invite you to the sixth JP2 Lecture, which will be given by dr Dariusz Karłowicz, Program Director of St. John Paul II Institute of Culture. The lecture entitled “Reset or Revolution? Contemporary Problems of Political Stability and Some Ancient Solutions” will begin at 3:00 p.m. (CET) in Aula 11 at the Angelicum (Largo Angelicum, 1, 00184 Rome).
Can political and legal stability be a political problem? Is it possible that what seems to be the goal and the best fruit of good policy can lead to degeneration of the political system, injustice and crisis? How does stability relate to conflicts and deep divisions within Western societies? Has history known political crises similar to the one tearing Western societies apart today? Have effective solutions ever been found to deal with the toxic side effects of stability? If so, what did they consist of? Can we apply them to our problems? This is a list of questions I will try to answer in my lecture – Dariusz Karłowicz
Dariusz Karłowicz – philosopher, lecturer, publicist, book publisher. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the philosophical yearbook “Teologia Polityczna” and president of the Saint Nicholas Foundation. In 1997, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (thesis under the supervision of Professor Juliusz Domański). In 2005, he published the book “Socrates and Other Saints”, which deals with the philosophical foundations of the ideas represented by the early Christians and the Fathers of the Church. The book resonated with the public and received positive reviews in both the Catholic and the large-circulation mainstream press. In 2017, the book was translated into English under the title “Socrates and Other Saints: Early Christian Understandings of Reason and Philosophy”. Co-founder and initiator of the John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), established on the centenary of Karol Wojtyla’s birth.
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Can Rule by AI Be Like Rule by a God?
2023-03-02 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Can Rule by AI Be Like Rule by a God?

Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:30 PM 7:30 PM

University of Virginia
The Thomistic Institute at the University of Virginia presents a lecture by Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “Can Rule by an AI Be Like Rule by a God?”
Thursday, March 2
6:30 PM
Clark Hall 107
This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker:
Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was born and raised in Connecticut and studied philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He joined the Order of Preachers in 2007, making his solemn vows in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. Fr. Little has a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Aristotelian Change and the Scala Naturae. He primarily works on topics of interest in Aristotelian-Thomism and natural philosophy. He has previously taught at Providence College and is now a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.
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The Work of Fear in the Human Heart
2023-03-02 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
The Work of Fear in the Human Heart

Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:30 PM 8:00 PM

College of William and Mary
The Thomistic Institute at the College of William and Mary presents a lecture by Sr. Anna Wray of The Catholic University of America titled “The Work of Fear in the Human Heart.”
Thursday, March 2
6:30 PM
Small 235
This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
A native of New Canaan, Connecticut, Sister Anna Wray received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2002 and subsequently entered the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia. After completing her initial religious formation at her community’s motherhouse in Nashville, Sister Anna taught for five years at the high school level in Knoxville and Chattanooga. She also spent a year in Australia, preparing for World Youth Day. She then returned to Catholic University, and in 2019 completed a doctorate in philosophy. Her dissertation was on “Noetic Thinking in Aristotle’s De Anima III.6.” Sister previously taught as a First Year Experience fellow at the university and as an adjunct professor at Aquinas College. She currently serves as an assistant professor in the philosophy department at the Catholic University of America.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Soul: Can Computers Be People Too?
2023-03-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Artificial Intelligence and the Soul: Can Computers Be People Too?

Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:00 PM 8:00 PM

Texas A&M University
The Thomistic Institute at Texas A&M University presents a lecture by Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Soul: Can Computers Be People Too?”
Thursday, March 2
7:00 PM
Rudder 301
This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker:
Anselm Ramelow is a Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He is professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and currently the chair of the philosophy department. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism? George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, 2005). He contributed articles to the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophy and essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology, as well as a translation and commentary on part of Aquinas’ De veritate. He continues to work on questions of free will, philosophy of religion (miracles, existence and nature of God), and philosophical aesthetics.
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A lecture on the existence of God
2023-03-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
A lecture on the existence of God

Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:00 PM 8:30 PM

University of Washington
The chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of Washington presents a lecture by Prof. Michael Gorman of The Catholic University of America on the existence of God.
Thursday, March 2
Time TBD
This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:
Michael Gorman is professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has doctorates in philosophy and theology. He has authored over thirty academic papers and a book entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and ethics.
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Lectures de Thomas d’Aquin au couvent de Saint-Jacques
2023-03-02 20:00 - 21:15 (Europe/Paris)
Lectures de Thomas d’Aquin au couvent de Saint-Jacques
(Readings of Thomas Aquinas
at the convent of Saint-Jacques)
Chaque 1er jeudi du mois – de 20h à 21h15 – les membres de la Commission Léonine vous
invitent à une lecture de textes de Thomas d’Aquin
Jeudi 2 mars : “LaSagesse joue devant Dieu”.
L’étude selon saintThomas d’Aquin
(fr Adriano Oliva)
The members of the Leonine Commission invite you to a reading of texts by Thomas Aquinas every first Thursday of the month from 8:00 to 9:15 P.M.
Thursday, March 2: “Wisdom plays before God”.
Study according to St. Thomas Aquinas
(fr. Adriano Oliva)
For more information, please read the attached PROGRAM.
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Contact: marc.millais@commissio-leonina.org
Venue: 20 rue des Tanneries 75013 Paris

Ritual Life in the Medieval Dominican Order - Liturgical Expressions
2023-03-06 09:00 - 2023-03-07 17:00 (America/Toronto)
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Ritual Life in the Medieval Dominican Order – Liturgical Expressions
Monday, 6 March to Tuesday, 7 March 2023
This conference will focus on the rituals, chant, and texts of the Dominican liturgy during the medieval period, after the reform of the Rite under the Master of the Order Humbert of Romans (1256). Attention will also be paid to recent manuscript discoveries for the Translation of the Relics of St Thomas Aquinas (1368/69).
Sessions will be held in person at PIMS (59 Queen’s Park Crescent E., Toronto) and The Yorkville Royal Sonesta.
Featured Speakers:
Margot Fassler – University of Notre Dame, USA
Eleanor Giraud – University of Limerick, Ireland
Dominik Jurczak, O.P. – International Dominican Liturgical Commission, Rome
Constant Mews – Monash University, Australia
M. Michèle Mulchahey – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
Marika Räsänen – University of Turku, Finland
Innocent Smith, O.P. – St Mary’s Seminary and University, Maryland, USA
Richard Sundt – University of Oregon, USA
Augustine Thompson, O.P. – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
Registration is free but required to register.
For further information please contact cynthia.watson@utoronto.ca
For the full programme, please open the website link at: https://pims.ca/event/ritual-life/
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
M O N D A Y, 6 M A R C H (The Royal Sonesta Hotel, Portman Room)
9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Augustine Thompson, O.P., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
Humbert of Romans’ Reforms and their Reception
10:00 a.m. Dominik Jurczak, O.P., C.L.I.O.P., Santa Sabina and San Anselmo, Rome
“The Idea and Need for Change of the Early Dominican Liturgy in Light of the Humbert of Romans Reforms.”
10:30 a.m. Eleanor Giraud, University of Limerick, Ireland
“The Humbert Codex, (Santa Sabina, MS. XIV L1): Prototype, Final Product, A Work in Progress, All of the Above?”
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Innocent Smith, O.P., St Mary’s Seminary and University, Maryland, USA
“A Tale of Two Missals: The Missale Conventuale and Missale Minorum Altarium in Post- Humbert Dominican Missals.”
12:00 p.m. Augustine Thompson, O.P., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
“The Officium for Dominican Penitents: and that of the Lay Brothers, 1200s to 1400s.”
12:30 p.m. Questions and Discussion Period
1:00 p.m. Lunch
Dominican Music and Chant
2:00 p.m. Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame, USA
“The Dominican Magdalene: An Overview of the Liturgical Sources.”
2:30 p.m. Constant Mews, Monash University, Australia
The Custom of the Poets: John of Garland and Jerome of Moray on Literature and Music.”
3:00 p.m. Question and Discussion Period
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break (Reconvene in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto Library Paleography Room)
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library – Palaeography Room
Dominican Liturgical Manuscripts in Toronto
4:00 p.m. Missals, Breviaries, and Bernard Gui
Comments: Innocent Smith, O.P., Augustine Thompson, O.P., M. Michèle Mulchahey
St. Basil’s Church
4:30 p.m. Solemn First Vespers of St. Thomas Aquinas
with Prof. Michael O’Connor and Toronto Student Choir
His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins will preside in choro at this liturgy
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Laurence K. Shook Common Room
5:00 p.m. Reception (Followed by Dinner for the Invited Speakers)
T U E S D A Y, M A R C H 7 (The Royal Sonesta Hotel, Portman Room)
9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
The Liturgies of St. Thomas Aquinas
10:00 a.m. Marika Räsänen, University of Turku, Finland
“The Matins Lessons of the Office of the Translation and their Relation to the Chants, particularly the Antiphons and Responories.”
10:30 a.m. Richard Sundt, University of Oregon USA
“The Functioning of the Dominican Church in Toulouse and the Shrines of St. Thomas Aquinas.”
11:00 a.m. Health Break
11:30 a.m. M. Michèle Mulchahey, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
“Preaching Thomas Aquinas: Newly Discovered Sermons for the Feast and Translations.”
12:00 p.m. Questions and Discussion Period
12:30 p.m. Lunch (and preparation for Mass/Performance)
St. Basil’s Church
2:30 p.m. Dominican Rite Solemn High Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas
Music by Professor Michael O’Connor and Student Choir
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Laurence K. Shook Common Room
4:00 p.m. Closing Reception

St. Thomas’ “Catechetical Instruction” 聖多瑪斯的教理訓導
2023-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Rome)
St. Thomas’ “Catechetical Instruction” 聖多瑪斯的教理訓導

March 8 at 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Chinese Online Series 中文系列線上講座
Dialogue with Thomas Aquinas 與多瑪斯阿奎那的對話
St. Thomas’ “Catechetical Instruction”
聖多瑪斯的教理訓導
Lecture in Cantonese | 粤语讲座
Andrew Lam | 林康政
Adjunct professor, Caritas Institute of Higher Education; Professor, Holy Spirit Seminary College
明愛專上學院客席教授, 聖神修院客席教授
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
12:00 (Rome) / 19:00 (Beijing)
2023年4月14日，星期五
12:00（罗马）/19:00（北京）
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Beauty and Religiosity in Science
2023-03-09 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome)
Beauty and Religiosity in Science
9 March 2023
Aula Minor, Angelicum
Language: English
Beauty and Science
What role does beauty play in science? To address this question, this lecture draws on data from the world’s first empirical study of the role of beauty in science, conducted in the UK, US, Italy, and India. After analyzing surveys of more than 3000 physicists and biologists and in-depth interviews with more than 200 of them, we identify ways in which scientists’ aesthetic experiences shape the practice of science and the well-being of scientists. The presentation will also assess the relationship between scientists’ aesthetic experiences and their religious/spiritual commitments.
About the Speaker: Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and HEC Montreal respectively, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Vaidyanathan’s research examines the cultural dimensions of religious, commercial, medical, and scientific institutions, and has been published in journals such as Business and Society, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Social Forces, Social Problems, Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, and Work, Employment, and Society. His research has been funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, and the Lilly Endowment.
This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust (#TRT0296, PI: Brandon Vaidyanathan).
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Thomism and Analytic Philosophy: The Promises and Perils of Dialogue
2023-03-14 14:30 - 2023-03-15 17:30 (Europe/Rome)
Thomism and Analytic Philosophy: The Promises and Perils of Dialogue

March 14 at 2:30 pm – March 15 at 5:30 pm – Angelicum, Aula Minor

Largo Angelicum, 1 Rome, Italy 00184
Language: English
Theme of the Conference:
Dialogue across philosophical traditions, like dialogue across disciplinary fields, is a dangerous enterprise. It comes with the danger of misunderstanding and the danger of being misunderstood, the danger of creating difficulties where no difficulties exist, and the danger of dismissing difficulties that will not go away even if we ignore them. In the contemporary philosophical academy, moreover, these dangers are only aggravated by widespread institutional pressures for philosophers to specialize their research. The more we dedicate ourselves to a single topic, within a single field of a single philosophical tradition, the less likely we are to engage with scholars who work on other topics in other fields—lets alone other philosophical traditions.
At the same time, dialogue also seems to be uniquely characteristic of philosophy. This is true not just because some of the greatest philosophical works were written in dialogue form, or because philosophy, historically, seems to have sprung out of a dialogical context, but more importantly because philosophers seem to be uniquely well suited for dialogue: we dialogue with physicists and film-makers, mathematicians and musicians, historians, politicians, theologians, and a great many others. It would be strange, indeed, if philosophers can dialogue widely beyond the bounds of their own discipline, but cannot dialogue widely within the bounds of their own discipline.
The purpose of this conference, then, is to explore the possibility of dialogue between two rich philosophical traditions, namely, Thomism and analytic philosophy. We will neither shy away from the dangers that come with attempting such a dialogue, nor will we turn a blind eye to the benefits that such dialogue may bring. Moreover, we will be even-handed in our representation of the two traditions. By discussing both the perils and the promises of dialogue from both the Thomistic and the analytic perspectives, we hope that this conference will serve as an example and an impetus for future collaboration between philosophers in these two traditions.
Speakers for the Conference:
Gaven Kerr (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth)
Philip-Neri Reese, O.P. (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas)
Mack Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
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La Verità e la dottrina di Dio
2023-03-21 15:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome)
Joint Diploma Doctor Humanitatis
La Verità e la dottrina di Dio
Serge-Thomas Bonino, OP e Vivian Boland, OP
martedì, 21 marzo 2022 15:00
Angelicum, Aula Minor
Language: Italian
Per informazioni sul programma di diploma congiunto 2022-2023 sul Pensiero di San Tommaso e per fare l’iscrizione, visita www.sitaroma.com
Orario
15.00 Introduzione e presentazione
15.10 – 16.15 Serge-Thomas Bonino, OP | Dio la Prima Verità
16.15 – 16.30 Domande
16.30 – 16.45 PAUSA
16.45 – 18.00 Vivian Boland, OP | Le idee divine nella teologia di san Tommaso; aporia o elemento essenziale?
18.00 – 18.15 Domande
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Why is God Called Father? A Lecture on Divine Paternity
2023-03-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax)
Why is God Called Father? A Lecture on Divine Paternity
University of Toronto
The Thomistic Institute at the University of Toronto presents a lecture by Prof. Paige Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University titled “Why is God Called Father? A Lecture on Divine Paternity”.”
Tuesday, March 21
7:00 PM
University College Room 161
This lecture is free and open to the public.
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The Forgotten History of Science and Faith: Origins of the Myth of the Warfare of Religion with Science
2023-03-22 16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Rome)
Angelicum Thomistic Institute – Science & Religion Online Series
The Forgotten History of Science and Faith: Origins of the Myth of the Warfare of Religion with Science
Lawerence Principe
John Hopkins University
22 March 2023
4:30 PM (Rome) / 3:30 PM (London) / 11:30 AM (New York)
Online and In-Person at the Angelicum (Aula Minor)!
Language: English
Although repudiated today by all serious historians of science, the concept of an eternal and inescapable conflict between science and religion remains strong among the general public as well as among a large number of scientists. This talk will begin by examining the historical origins of the concept, showing how it emerged from a constellation of political, social, and
peculiar personal circumstances of the late 19 th century. It will then explore the resilience of the concept and how, why, and by whom it has been perpetuated down to the present day, and suggests some means by which it could be more effectively countered.
About the Speaker: Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in the Departments of History of Science and Technology and of Chemistry. He holds a Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in History of Science from Johns Hopkins. His research focusses on late Medieval and early modern alchemy/chemistry and the interactions of science and religion. His recent books include The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2011), The Secrets of Alchemy (Chicago, 2013), and The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences (Chicago, 2020). He also produced the 12-lecture course “Science and Religion” for The Teaching Company. He is the recipient of the Francis Bacon Medal (2005), the Franklin-Lavoisier Prize (2016), the American Chemical Society’s HIST Award (2020) and the St. Albert the Great Award from the Society of Catholic Scientists (2020) for his scholarly contributions.
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Course by Visiting Professor: Rémi Brague
2023-03-23 10:30 - 2023-03-31 16:30 (Europe/Rome)
JP2 STUDIES COURSE
Course by Visiting Professor: Rémi Brague
This week, we welcome Rémi Brague, renowned philosopher and Ratzinger Prize laureate, as Visitng Professor at the Angelicum. Professor Brague will teach an intensive course titled “Europe’s Philosophical Identity” as part of the 2nd Cycle in Philosophy and of the JP2 Studies program run by the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture. The course will begin on March 23 and continue until March 31. Angelicum students are invited to audit the lectures.
Course description:
Europe is clumsily groping for her political identity. Her far older cultural identity looks easier to assess. Yet, the question of what European culture might be deserves asking. I suggest to look for the sources (not “roots”) of said identity in the basic experiences of the world which are summarized in the names “Athens” and “Jerusalem”, and in the way both were mediated by the Roman experience. Europe’s cultural identity proves to be eccentric: the points of reference are neither inside of the European space nor already given. They have to be acquired by learning. Hence an uninterrupted series of “Renaissances”.
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Happiness and Beatitude | An Intellectual Retreat
2023-03-24 15:00 - 2023-03-26 13:30 (America/Halifax)
Happiness and Beatitude | An Intellectual Retreat
Dominican House of Studies | Washington, DC
This retreat is being offered for students in the NYC-area! Apply below.
Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and study the riches of the Church’s intellectual tradition with the Thomistic Institute. Throughout this retreat we will consider happiness and beatitude according to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).
Schedule:

Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, March 24th

Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 26th

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Thomas Aquinas on Friendship, Human and Divine
2023-04-01 15:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Rome)
2022-2023 Hong Kong Series – How to Win Friends and Influence Others: Living Meaningfully Today
Thomas Aquinas on Friendship, Human and Divine
Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas

1 April 2023
Time TBD
Language: English
The lecture will be held in person in Hong Kong as well as live-streamed on Zoom and on our YouTube Channel and Facebook Page.
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Arise, Let Us Be On Our Way: The Eucharist and Evangelization
2023-04-04 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Arise, Let Us Be On Our Way: The Eucharist and Evangelization
University of Dallas
The Thomistic Institute at the University of Dallas presents a lecture by Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. of St. Mary’s Seminary and University titled “Arise, Let Us Be On Our Way: The Eucharist and Evangelization.”
Tuesday, April 4
6:00 PM
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This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker:
Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. is Assistant Professor of Homiletics at St. Mary’s Seminary and University. His research interests are at the intersection of liturgy and theology, including sacramental theology, homiletics, liturgical manuscripts, ecclesiology, and sacred music. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of Province of St. Joseph of the Order of Preachers. He is presently assigned to the Dominican community of Sts. Philip and James in Baltimore, MD.
Smith’s forthcoming monograph, “Bible Missals and the Dominican Liturgy,” focuses on medieval bibles which contain liturgical texts for the celebration of the Mass. The liturgical selections contained in bible missals give precious insight into both the development of the celebration of the liturgy as well as the processes of customization and design of medieval bibles. Bible missals present a fascinating example of the interpenetration of memory and enactment, enabling the celebration of the mysteries articulated in the biblical text.
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Why Would a Biologist Believe in the Soul?
2023-04-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Halifax)
Why Would a Biologist Believe in the Soul?
Indiana University
The Thomistic Institute at Indiana University presents a lecture by Prof. Jonathan Buttaci of The Catholic University of America titled “Why Would a Biologist Believe in the Soul?”
Monday, April 10
Time TBD
Location TBD
This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Jonathan Buttaci is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He came to CUA in 2016 after completing his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Buttaci’s research focuses on accounts of mind and the soul in ancient Greek thought, in particular Aristotle’s theory of knowledge, learning, and scientific discovery. He is also interested more generally in the interplay between ancient Greek science, philosophy, and literature.
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Gerbert of Aurillac: Pope and Scientist
2023-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Rome)
Angelicum Thomistic Institute – Science & Religion Online Series “The Forgotten History of Science and Faith”
Gerbert of Aurillac: Pope and Scientist
Constantino Sigismondi
Contract Professor in Rome Universities: Sapienza, Unicampus and APRA, Professor of Physics in Alessandro Volta Institute of Rome.
12 April 2023
7:00 PM (Rome) / 6:00 PM (London) / 1:00 PM (New York)
Language: English
A passionating history, which has be seen as the ideal self-made man, or the genius prevailing against all odds.
Reliably Gerbert was noble and cadet, monk and mathematical genius, so he could move from Aurillac to Catalunya around 969, were he met the mozarabic science world and developed some original algorithms either in mathematics and in music, as in the treatises on the Abacus and on the Orgue’s tubes lengths, written in Reims where he was called as scholarch since 972 by Archbishop Adalbero. In 991 he become Archbishop of Reims after the discussed deposition of Arnulf. Pope John XV did not accept such deposition and Gerbert went to the court of the young Emperor Otto III to be his teacher. He encouraged the election of Bruno of Carinthia, Gregory V, cousin of Otto III, to strengthen the relationship between Church and Empire. Gregory moved the exiliated archbishop Gerbert from Reims to Ravenna, and his sudden death in 999 determined the election of Gerbert to the Roman Pontificate. Never before such a prominent scholarly figure, renowned in all Europe for his science, become Pope (999-1003). During his papacy the young Emperor died in January 1002 and the political situation in Rome remained in strong tension, but respected the wise Pope.
The historiography on Gerbert assumed some mithological elements due to the uncommon genius, until 1640, after Baronius, when the Polish Dominican Bzovsky wrote a first biography based on his works and letters. In XIX century his mathematical works were reviewed by Bubnov and in XX century his music works come out thanks to Sachs. The astronomy of Gerbert was known and studied as well, and his Epistolarium edited in several languages (Pratt Lattin in English, Pierre Riché in French, Panvini Carciotto in Italian). Flavio Nuvolone in Switzerland promoted the studies on Gerbert of Aurillac since 1983 to his death 2019: they are in the books in Italian “The Number and The Cross” (2012) and “From Gerbert to Sylvester II” (2013), were he was able to decodificate the underlying text in the Carme Figuratum, about the first introduction in Europe of Hindu-Arabic numbers, by Gerbert.
Join us, as we rediscover the forgotten history of Science and Faith.
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Lectures de Thomas d’Aquin au couvent de Saint-Jacques
2023-04-13 20:00 - 21:15 (Europe/Paris)
Lectures de Thomas d’Aquin au couvent de Saint-Jacques
(Readings of Thomas Aquinas
at the convent of Saint-Jacques)
Les membres de la Commission Léonine vous invitent à une lecture de textes de Thomas d’Aquin aux dates suivantes :13 avril, 4 mai et 1er juin de 20h00 à 21h15.
The members of the Leonine Commission invite you to a reading of texts by Thomas Aquinas on the following dates: April 13, May 4, and June 1 from 8:00 to 9:15 P.M.
For more information, please contact: marc.millais@commissio-leonina.org
Venue: 20 rue des Tanneries 75013 Paris

Thomas Aquinas on self-knowledge of the soul and its relationship with God 多瑪斯論靈魂的自我認識與神的關係
2023-04-14 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Rome)
Chinese Online Series 中文系列線上講座: Dialogue with Thomas Aquinas 與多瑪斯阿奎那的對話
Thomas Aquinas on self-knowledge of the soul and its relationship with God 多瑪斯論靈魂的自我認識與神的關係
Lecture in Mandarin | 普通话讲座
Yueh-Kuan Lin | 林約光
Friday, 14 April 2023
13:00 (Rome) / 19:00 (Beijing)
2023年4月14日，星期五
13:00/19:00（北京）
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UST-Manila, Philippines on Media Leadership Lecture Series
2023-04-14 13:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
UST-Manila, Philippines on Media Leadership Lecture Series
The University of Santo Tomas , through the Office of Public Affairs, will hold the 5th installment of the Media Leadership Lecture Series. For this session, the discussion will center on countering the information disorder.
Serving as resource speakers will be the Research Information Department Director of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies Dr. Sheila Siar, Philippine Communication Society Director and UST Journalism Program Coordinator Mr. Felipe Salvosa II, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila Office of Communications Director Fr. Roy Bellen, Multidisciplinary journalist and documentarist Mr. Atom Araullo, Limitless Lab Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ms. Joie Cruz, and Break the Fake Movement Founder Mr. Gabriel Billones, Jr.
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Sharing the Life of God | An Intellectual Retreat for the West Coast
2023-04-14 15:00 - 2023-04-16 13:30 (America/Denver)
Sharing the Life of God | An Intellectual Retreat for the West Coast

Friday, April 14, 20233:00 PM
Sunday, April 16, 20231:30 PM

Dominican House of Studies
487 Michigan Avenue Northeast
Washington, DC, 20017United States (map)

St. Albert’s Priory | Oakland, CA
This West Coast retreat is being offered exclusively for current university students
Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and study the riches of the Church’s intellectual tradition on divinization with the Thomistic Institute. The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).
Schedule:

Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, April 14th

Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 16th

Applications to this retreat are due by Friday, March 24th.
Sign up for our mailing list here if you’d like to be notified of future retreat opportunities.

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Speakers:

Dr. Daria Spezzano (Providence College) is Associate Professor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Master’s in Liturgical Studies from the Liturgical Institute. Her book, The Glory of God’s Grace: Deification according to St. Thomas Aquinas, was published by Sapientia Press in 2015. She has published 10 scholarly articles in Nova et Vetera, Cistercian Studies and the Journal of Moral Theology, and chapters in several edited volumes, including Aquinas on Initiation and Mystagogy (Peeters, 2019), Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2020), Thomas Aquinas, Biblical Theologian (Emmaus Academic, 2021), and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press, 2021). Among other projects, she is currently coediting a volume, Christ, the Wisdom of God in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed a Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity, specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology, and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University of America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

Questions? Contact Ms. Lauren Frawley at lfrawley@dhs.edu.

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E-SÉMINAIRE : PHILOSOPHIE DE L’ANIMAL (E-SEMINAR : PHILOSOPHY OF THE ANIMAL)
2023-04-17 09:00 - 2023-06-12 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
E-séminaire de Philosophie
Nicolas Tenaillon
17 April to 12 June, 2023
DESCRIPTION
To know the stakes of the question of the animal today, in particular the recent discoveries of ethology, the place which one gives to the animal in the process of hominization, the new rights which one grants to him since one recognizes his sensitivity and his suffering, the morals which that induces in our behavior with regard to the alive ones, the relevance (or not) of the movements “vegan”, of the parties “animalists”, of the antispeciesism, the concern caused by the reduction of the biodiversity.
OBJECTIVES
1. To show that humans cannot do without animals for reasons that are not only useful (food, work, research) but also metaphysical.
2. To know how to distinguish conceptually what makes the specificity of the animal, the difficulty of classifications, to become aware of the problem of biodiversity and the arguments of veganism, anti-speciesism, animalism while keeping a critical sense with regard to certain theories.
3. To show that a theology of the animal remains to be written.
Registration fee: 350,00 €
For more information, you may open the DOMUNI Universitas main website link: http://www.domuni.eu
Website Seminar Link: https://www.domuni.eu/fr/formations/e-seminaire-philosophie-de-lanimal/
