College Announces Lecture Schedule for 2014-15

August 14, 2014

On Friday nights throughout the 2014-15 academic year, the students of 91�� will have the privilege of attending lectures from some of the nation’s most distinguished scholars — covering a wide range of topics from evolution to literature to Thomistic theology — through the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series.

The Series, endowed by Barbara and Paul Henkels, complements the the College’s classroom discussion method and academic program. It also provides for several concerts of classical, operatic, or sacred music, as well as the twice-annual All-College Seminars. Below is the schedule for the upcoming year:

Aug. 29 7:30 p.m.	Dr. John J. Goyette Tutor 91�� “St. Thomas Aquinas on Faith Seeking Understanding”
Sept. 12 7:00 p.m.	Dr. Sarah Ruden Visiting Scholar in Classical Studies, Wesleyan University “V��’s Aeneid: Reaching Inward and Outward with Words”
Oct. 3 7:00 p.m.	All-College Seminar
Oct. 17 7:30 p.m.	Dr. Richard Sternberg Principal Investigator, Biologic Institute Topic: Evolution
Nov. 7 7:30 p.m.	Br. Kenneth Cardwell, FSC Professor and Director of the Collegiate Seminar Saint Mary’s College of California Topic: The Plague of Frogs in Exodus
Nov. 21 7:00 p.m.	Fall Concert: Paul Galbraith Classical guitarist
Dec. 5 7:00 p.m.	Advent Concert The 91�� Choir
Jan. 16 7:30 p.m.	Dr. David R. Arias Tutor 91�� Topic: St. Thomas on Substantial Form
Jan. 28 1 p.m.	Rev. Romanus Cessario, O.P. Professor St. John’s Seminary, Boston St. Thomas Day Address
Feb. 6 7:00 p.m.	All-College Seminar
Feb. 20 7:30 p.m.	Dr. Daniel Mahoney Professor of Political Science Assumption College Presidents’ Day Address
March 27 7:30 p.m.	Dr. Mark Blitz Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy Claremont McKenna College Topic: Plato’s political philosophy

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College Announces Lecture Schedule for 2014-15

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