This lecture was offered at Harvard University on 10 October, 2019 Dr. Bronwen Catherine McShea lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is an Associate Research Scholar with Princeton University's James Madison Program. With advanced degrees from both Harvard University and Yale University, she is a scholar of European history and of the history of Christianity, with research interests in French culture and overseas imperialism, and Catholic missions across the globe, in the 15th through 19th ...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 5 min
This lecture was given at the University of Texas at Austin on 24 October 2019. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rere...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 12 min
This lecture was given at Harvard University by Prof. Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) on 11 October 2019. Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology and publishes on the Church, education, tradi...
Nov 12, 2019•45 min
This lecture was given at the University of Kansas on 30 September 2019. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. ...
Nov 08, 2019•56 min
This lecture was given at Brown University on 18 October 2019. Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (Continuum). His research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics...
Nov 07, 2019•54 min
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Nov 07, 2019•47 min
This lecture was given at University College Dublin on 8 October 2019. Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews, and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include her major study Aquin...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min
This lecture was given by Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP (Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and Professor of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception) at University College Dublin on 26 September 2019. Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., 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 Provinc...
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This talk was given at our chapter at West Point. For more information on other upcoming events, visit us online: thomsiticinstitute.org.
Nov 01, 2019•49 min
This talk was given September 25, 2019 at The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon by Fr. Gregory Pine OP (Thomistic Institute) For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct profe...
Oct 31, 2019•52 min
This lecture was given by Prof. Peter Kreeft (Boston College) at Rutgers University on 8 October 2019. Dr. Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and teaches philosophy courses at King’s College. Kreeft is a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics and the author of dozens of books, two of which include The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings and Symbol or Substance: A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Gra...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 35 min
This lecture was given at the Yale Law School on 7 October 2019. Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his AB (history) and PhD (government) from Harvard. His writings appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the Norton Anthology of American Political...
Oct 29, 2019•52 min
This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 24 September 2019. Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., 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 ...
Oct 28, 2019•48 min
This lecture given by Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute)is pt. 2 of a 2 pt. installment in the Wisdom of Aquinas series at The Catholic Center at NYU held on 28 September 2019. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2...
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 2 min
This lecture given by Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute)is pt. 1 of a 2 pt. installment in the Wisdom of Aquinas series at The Catholic Center at NYU held on 28 September 2019. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2...
Oct 24, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This lecture was given to the undergraduate chapter at the University of Virginia on 17 September 2019. The handout for the lecture can be found here: tinyurl.com/yxg6f2ty Dr. Cleveland received his B.A. in philosophy and biblical studies from Taylor University, his M.A.R. in philosophical theology & philosophy of religion from Yale Divinity School, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Baylor University (2014). Before coming to UMary, he conducted postdoctoral research at Saint Louis University ...
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr
This lecture by Prof. Thomas Pavel was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This lecture by Sr. Ann Astell was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Oct 21, 2019•59 min
This lecture was given on September 17, 2019 at John Hopkins University. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. ...
Oct 19, 2019•44 min
This lecture by Lauren Kopajitic was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). The hand out for this lecture can be found here: thomisticinstitute.org/lauren-kopajtic-hand-out For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.or...
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr 7 min
This lecture by Dhananjay Jagannathan was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Oct 17, 2019•42 min
This lecture was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019. The conference included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell (Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1
Oct 16, 2019•34 min
This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on September 11, 2019. Captain Joe McInerney is the Chairman of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and Permanent Military Professor of Applied Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Captain McInerney lectures in the Naval Academy’s core ethics course, which is offered to all Third Class Midshipman (sophomores) at the Naval Academy and teaches elective courses in the fields of Christian morality and leadership. In addition to his...
Oct 15, 2019•51 min
This talk was offered for our chapter at the University of Texas at Austin on September 26, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. JeanPierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the ...
Oct 11, 2019•40 min
This lecture was given by Prof. Catherine Pakaluk at the United States Naval Academy on 10 September 2019. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America in the summer of 2016 and is Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Ave Maria University. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, fa...
Oct 10, 2019•50 min
This talk was offered at the University of Utah on September 19, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he serves as a Consultor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He ...
Oct 09, 2019•37 min
Fr. Gregory Pine explores the question of why humans should think and engage intellectually, contrasting it with nihilistic views that suggest abandoning higher aspirations for a contented hedonism. This lecture was given September 10th, 2019 at the University of South Carolina. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events . Speaker Bio: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 2 min
This lecture was given by Prof. Matthew Ramage at Ohio State University on 12 September 2019. Matthew Ramage's current positions include Associate Professor of Theology at Benedictine College and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He has authored and translated several books, including the monographs "Dark Passages of the Bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinas." His work has appeared in a number of journals including Nova et Vetera, Scr...
Oct 07, 2019•51 min
This lecture was given by Prof. Gaven Kerr at University College Dublin's Newman Building on 19 September 2019. About the Speaker: Gaven Kerr is a married father of three and a third order Dominican. He has degrees in scholastic philosophy and philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast: BA, MPhil, and PhD. His doctoral research was on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant. Gaven currently teaches theology at Mary Immaculate College Limerick. For more information on this and other event...
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 21 min
This retreat conference was given at the Fall 2019 Intellectual Retreat "Dante and Aquinas: The Theological Vision of the Divine Comedy" held at the Moody Center on 20-22 September 2019. Presenters at this retreat were Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute), Dr. Robert Royal (Faith and Reason Institute), and Fr. Albert Trudel, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception). For more information on this and other events, go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1...
Oct 03, 2019•51 min
