Episodes
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Trina Janiec Jones (Wofford College) had her dissertation colloquium in Swift Hall on September 12th, 2001. The events of the previous day not only impacted her colloquium, but eventually, also took her teaching career and scholarly interests in directions she never imagined while sitting in Regenstein working her way through...
Published 01/26/16
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Published 12/17/15
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Published 12/17/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. David Tracy delivers the keynote address, “A Troubling Conflict: The Two Selfs in Augustine.”
Published 12/17/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of English and the Committee on Creative Writing. Prof. Tran, who joined the UChicago faculty in 2010, has published his short fiction widely, and is the author of the noir novel “Dragonfish” from which he will be reading today. Tran is a fiction writer whose...
Published 12/14/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. "The War on Drugs – A New Paradigm: Health Not Punishment." Rev. Alexander E. Sharp (MDiv'96), speaking on the work of Clergy for a New Drug Policy. CNDP, of which Rev. Sharp is the founder and executive director, mobilizes clergy nationally to end the War on Drugs and calls for a health not punishment response to drug policy....
Published 12/14/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Divinity School marks the University’s 125th anniversary – and the Divinity School’s 150th anniversary – with a panel discussion on the history of the Divinity School, followed by a reception, a dinner, and further remarks after dinner. The panel was introduced by Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean and Associate Professor of...
Published 12/14/15
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Published 12/14/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, kick off our 2015-2016 Lunch program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs...
Published 12/14/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago) on “Semper agens, semper quietus”: Notes on the History of an Augustinian Theme.”
Published 12/14/15
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Published 12/14/15
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Published 12/14/15
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Published 12/14/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Jean-Luc Marion speaking on “The Impossibility of the cogito according to Saint Augustine." Marion is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and...
Published 11/20/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Fredrick Lawrence (Boston College) speaking on “Philosophy, Theology, Self-knowledge and Conversion: How Saint Augustine Influenced...
Published 11/20/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A conference honoring David Tracy, the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Françoise Meltzer speaking on “Baudelaire, de Maistre, and Hyper-Augustinianism.” Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished...
Published 11/20/15
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Published 11/20/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This conference uses the particular case study of astrology as a means to study the broader implications of boundary-work. It examines the intersections among science, the occult, and the religious cultures that lived in the medieval Islamic world—including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. The conference hopes to...
Published 08/12/15