This lecture was given at University of California, Berkeley on November 16, 2021. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post. Her schola...
Jan 20, 2022•48 min
This lecture was given at West Virginia University on November 5, 2021. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: 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 continui...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This lecture was delivered for the University of Texas, El Paso Chapter on 4/28/2021. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology fr...
Jul 31, 2021•54 min
This lecture was given to the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara on February 24, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Carol Zaleski is the Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts, where she has been teaching philosophy of religion, world religions, religion and literature, and Catholic thought since 1989. She is the author of Otherwor...
Mar 13, 2021•33 min
This lecture was given to the University of Virginia on February 11, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Catholic Social Doctrine, and internal communication, has been published in several academic journals, ...
Mar 10, 2021•35 min
This lecture was given to UC Berkeley on February 8, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. is a Dominican friar, physicist, and philosopher. He joined the faculty of philosophy at the Angelicum in Rome in 2020, where he co-leads the Project for Science and Religion. Before joining the Dominican order he studied physics at the California Institute of Technology before going on to earn his docto...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 19 min
This lecture was given to the University of Edinburgh on January 26, 2021. The handout for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/tncfnsfe For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. After undergraduate studies at Seattle University, he entered th...
Mar 05, 2021•44 min
This talk was given at the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas held at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21, 2021. For more information about upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or editor of over forty books on topics of dogmatic, sacramental, moral, historical, and biblical theology. He is the translator of Gilles Eme...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min
This lecture was given on February 11, 2021 to the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School chapters. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion associated differences in physician...
Feb 26, 2021•51 min
This lecture was given on October 29, 2020 to Texas A&M University. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics...
Feb 24, 2021•44 min
This lecture was given on January 25, 2021 to West Virginia University. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education includes an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Univers...
Feb 22, 2021•43 min
This lecture was given on November 23, 2020 to the United States Military Academy - West Point. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: 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 (soph...
Feb 19, 2021•43 min
This lecture was given on November 4, 2020 to University College Dublin. The slides for this lecture are available here: tinyurl.com/ydf93234 For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and August...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 10 min
The lecture was given to the University of Edinburgh on November 10, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in the study of early Christian theology, especially the history of Trinitarian theology and early Christian exegesis. He is also deeply interested in the relationship between the shape of early Ch...
Feb 15, 2021•59 min
The lecture was given to Boston University on October 27, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in ast...
Feb 12, 2021•41 min
The lecture was given to West Virginia University on October 16, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: 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 r...
Feb 10, 2021•46 min
This lecture was given to the University of Texas at Austin on November 19, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University and has research interests in metaphysics, Christology, Trinitarian theology, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic...
Feb 08, 2021•47 min
This lecture was given to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November 16, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Corey Barnes is an Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College specializing in scholastic thought from the 12th to the 14th centuries. His research areas include Christology, causation, creation, providence, knowledge of God, theological language, and scholastic receptions ...
Feb 05, 2021•49 min
This talk was given at Texas A&M University on November 9, 2020. For more information on upcoming event, visit our website thomisticinstitute.org/ About the speaker: Ralph C. Wood has served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from East Texas State College (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1971-1997 he taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, Nort...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
This lecture was given to Trinity College Dublin on December 16, 2020. The handout is available here: tinyurl.com/y689bga8 For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the Speaker: Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. is a Dominican friar from Galway. He studied science and theology at the University of Cambridge and taught theology at secondary school before joining the Dominicans in 2009. He was ordained priest in 2016 and undertook furthe...
Feb 01, 2021•42 min
This lecture was given at Texas A&M University on October 15, 2020. For more information on upcoming event, visit our website thomisticinstitute.org/ About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., 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 Sacre...
Jan 29, 2021•43 min
This lecture was delivered at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November 02, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: 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...
Jan 28, 2021•48 min
This lecture was given on December 6, 2020 as part of "The Five Ways: A Symposium on Aquinas’s Proofs for the Existence of God" at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, AL. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org Speaker Bio: Brian T. Carl earned his M.A. in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. He is an assistant professor at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. T...
Jan 22, 2021•53 min
This lecture was given on December 5, 2020 as part of "The Five Ways: A Symposium on Aquinas’s Proofs for the Existence of God" at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, AL. The hand out for this talk can be found here tinyurl.com/y7vdmng8 For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org Speaker Bio: Fr. Ambrose Mary Little O.P. was ordained to the priesthood in 2013 and is a member of the Dominican Order in the Province of St. Joseph. He is currently pursuing a d...
Jan 20, 2021•57 min
This lecture was given on December 5, 2020 as part of "The Five Ways: A Symposium on Aquinas’s Proofs for the Existence of God" at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, AL. The hand out for this talk can be found here tinyurl.com/y7lr4uzd For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org Speaker Bio: Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. (Ph.D., Duke 2001), is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and a member of the Center for Thomistic Studies, Uni...
Jan 18, 2021•38 min
This lecture was given to the St. Thomas More Society of Richmond Virginia on October 17, 2020. For more information on upcoming event, visit our website thomisticinstitute.org/ About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., 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, ...
Jan 15, 2021•28 min
This lecture was delivered to the William & Mary chapter on October 5, 2020. Fr. Brent's lecture concludes around 35:05. The rest of the recording is a Q&A session with students from the William & Mary Thomistic Institute chapter. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed hi...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min
This lecture was given on October 29, 2020 at Baylor University. For more information on other upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and D...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min
This talk was given to the Texas A&M Chapter on October 7, 2020. For more events and info, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. About the Speaker: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University, and has research interests in metaphysics, Christology, Trinitarian theology, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015) and The Light of Christ...
Jan 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min
This lecture was given at Saint Louis University on November 11, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Michael Dauphinais, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Professor Dauphinais holds a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He has co-authored Knowing the Love of Christ: An Intr...
Jan 07, 2021•48 min
