Loyola University Chicago

Department of Theology

Intellectual Life Events 2014 - 2015



Spring 2015



Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, 3:30–5 p.m.
Lecture—Theology Department's Majors and Minors Spring Lecture
"Incapable of Contentment”: A Merton Style Sanctity
Pauline Viviano
Crown Center 530


Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 3:30–5 p.m.
Symposium
The Racial Divide in the United States
The Most. Rev. Edward Braxton, Bishop of Belleville, IL
Timone Davis, Institute for Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago
Dr. John Nilson, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Theology, Loyola University Chicago
IC 4th Floor
Co-sponsors—Department of Theology, CCIH, Office of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Provost Office for Social Justice Initiatives, Peace Studies, Catholic Studies Minor


Monday, March 16, 2015, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lecture by Prof. Yarina Liston
Cudahy Science Building 207
Sponsored by the Cody Chair


Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, 2015
Conference
To Tend the Earth: Responding to the Global Climate Crisis

Thursday, March 19
7 p.m. Keynote Address
"Addressing Climate Change with Next Generation Energy Storage Technology"
George Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Mundelein Center Auditorium

Friday, March 20
9:30 a.m. Action Workshop I
The Risks, Nuts, and Bolts of Divestment
>A workshop describing the motivation for divestment from fossil fuel companies, the financial risks, investment portfolio complexities, and success stories of universities who have divested from fossil fuels.
Mundelein Auditorium

11:30 a.m. Lunch
Institute of Environmental Sustainability/Campus Sustainability tours
Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) Rooms 123/124

1 p.m. Panel Sessions
McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall

1–2:15 p.m.—Climate Justice
Lisa Sideris, Associate Professor, Indiana University
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University
William French, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Moderator—Jame Schaefer, Associate Professor, Marquette University

2:30–3:45 p.m.—Climate Action and Policy
Rep. Robyn Gabel, 18th District, Illinois House of Representatives
Kathleen Smythe, Professor, Xavier University
Daniel R. DiLeo, Project Manager of Catholic Climate Covenant
Moderator—Michael Schuck, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

4–5:15 p.m.—Human Motivations for and against Climate Action
Susan Clayton, Professor, College of Wooster
Elke U. Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Management and Psychology at Columbia University
Moderator: Associate Professor Robyn Mallett, Loyola University Chicago


Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4–6:30 p.m.
Lecture and Colloquium
Responsibility and the Integrity of Life
William Schweiker, The University of Chicago Divinity School
4–5:15 p.m.—Lecture and question and answer
5:15–5:30 p.m.—Break
5:30–6:30 p.m.—Discussion
IC 4th Floor
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick S.J., Chair



Fall 2014



Friday, September 5, 2014 Islamic World Studies, 8 p.m.
Concert
"Sufi Music from Pakistan"
Fareed Ayaz & Abu Muhammad Qawwals
Mundelein Center
Sponsored by Islamic World Studies, Asian Studies, and the CAS Dean's Office


Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Advanced Seminar
In the frame of Theo 313/424, the Cody Chair invites all graduate students of NTEC, BS and BLL to an Advanced Seminar with

Cambry Pardee, “Scribal Harmonization of the Synoptic Gospels” 
Jeff Tripp, “Statistical Methodologies Applied to the Study of the Synoptics”



Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7–9 p.m.
"Hinduism and Catholicism: Finding God in All Things"
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
4th Floor, Information Commons (IC)
Lake Shore Campus, LUC


Friday, September 19, 2014, TBA
Student Seminar (students only)
Francix X. Clooney, Harvard University
Cuneo Hall, Room 417
Lake Shore Campus, LUC
Sponsored by CCIH


Tuesday, September 30, 2014
A Graduate Cody Colloquium with Dr. Clare K. Rothschild, “How Pauline is the Gospel of Mark?”
(Faculty and graduate students are invited)


Thursday, October 9, 2014
Theta Alpha Kappa Lecture
"Liberation Theology: What Is It?"

Miguel Diaz, John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service
Meghan Toomey, PhD Student, Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology
Annie Burns, Junior Undergraduate Student, BA Program in Theology, Catholic Studies Minor, and BBA Program in Management

Cuneo Hall Room 002
Sponsored by Loyola University Chicago's Chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honors Society for Religious Studies and Theology


Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 3:30–5:30 p.m.
Theology Department Majors and Minors Event
"C.S. Lewis, the Enchantment of the World, and Mystical Theology"
Mark McIntosh


Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 4–5:30 p.m.
McCormick Chair Lecture
"Human Subjectivity and the Limits of Autonomy"
Prof. Knut Wenzel
Information Commons, 4th Floor


Tuesday, November 18
A Graduate Cody Colloquium with Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld, “The Gospels as Midrash.”
(Faculty and graduate students are invited)


Thursday and Friday, November 20–21, 2014
25th Commemoration of the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador

Thursday, November 20
Noon: Memorial Mass in Madonna Chapel
Fr Jon Sobrino, SJ Presider
Fr Dan Hartnett, SJ Homilist

6 p.m.: Salvadoran Martyrs' Lecture
Fr Jon Sobrino, SJ
"A Community of Blood: Jesuits, University Professors and Worker Martyrs"
Mundelein Auditorium
Registration required to attend

Friday, November 21
9:30 a.m.: Academic Roundtable
"Memory and Hope: The Salvadoran Martyrs, Prophetic Witness, and the Future of Jesuit Higher Education."

Dan Harnett, SJ, Xavier University and Bellarmine Parish
Cecilia Gonzales-Andrieu, PhD, Loyola Marymount University
Robert Lasalle-Klein, Phd, Holy Names University
Response: Fr Jon Sobrino, SJ

Information Commons, 4th Floor, Lakeshore Campus


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