The University of Scranton this spring will welcome national thought leaders as part of a series of lectures on topics including ethics, history, religion and social issues.
First, on Thursday, Feb. 19, Meghan Sullivan, Ph.D., the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will present “Loving Strangers” as part of the University’s Ethics Across the Curriculum initiative. Dr. Sullivan is the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and has received millions of dollars of grants to support ethics-based work and research.
Dr. Sullivan’s lecture is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. at the PNC Auditorium inside the Loyola Science Center.
A series of Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities-sponsored lectures — with support from various other offices and departments — begins Wednesday, Feb. 25, and closes on Thursday, April 23, with the annual Sondra H’87 and Morey Myers H’12 Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in the Humanities and Civic Engagement Lecture.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Here is a list of the upcoming events:
When: 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25
Where: Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall
Who: Amy Jill-Levine, Ph.D., Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University
What: “The Bible, Gender and Sexuality: Historical Insight and Contemporary Relevance”
When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26
Where: Rose Room, Brennan Hall
Who: Michelle Lelwica, Ph.D., Professor of Religion at Concordia
What: “The Religion of Thinness: How Faith, Culture and Body Ideals Shape Our Relationship With Ourselves and Each Other”
When: 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 4
Where: Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall
Who: Rev. James Alison, Catholic priest and theologian
What: “The Catholic Church and Matters LGBT: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?”
When: 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11
Where: Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library
Who: Andrew Hartman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History at Illinois State University
What: “Karl Marx in America”
When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26
Where: Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall
Who: Michelle Loris, Ph.D., Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Sacred Heart University
What: “Gay and Catholic: A Long and Winding Road to Faith and Flourishing”
When: 4 p.m. Thursday, April 9
Where: PNC Auditorium, Loyola Science Center
Who: Jonathan Nashel, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Indiana South Bend
What: “America, Vietnam and the ‘White Space’ of History”
When: 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22
Where: Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall
Who: Alexis Paige, award-winning author
What: “Shame Must Change Sides: How Gisele Pelicot, Trauma Studies and Survivor-Centered Storytelling Can Inform a New Paradigm on Gender-Based Violence”
The Sondra H’87 and Morey Myers H’12 Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in the Humanities and Civic Engagement Lecture
When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23
Where: Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall
Who: Brandon Terry, Ph.D., John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
What: “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope”
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