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Watch the videos of this fall's Catholic Culture Series online.
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Every fall since 2002, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture has sponsored the Catholic Culture Series, a series of lectures focused on prominent figures in the Catholic literary tradition. View videos of the Fall 2008 Catholic Culture Series below.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
"Evelyn Waugh"
Rev. Paul Mankowski, SJ, Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"Baron Corvo"
Dr. Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
"Hillaire Belloc
Rev. Marvin O'Connell, University of Notre Dame
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Dr. Daniel Sulmasy is a Franciscan Friar, a general internist and philosopher. He currently holds the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and serves as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College inValhalla, New York. More.
On Friday, March 14, 2008, Dr. Sulmasy presented the J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics at the 23rd annual Medical Ethics Conference on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. View his lecture titled, "Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline", here.
Daniel McInerny, Associate Director of the Center, interviews Professor Thomas Hibbs of Baylor University. The topic ... "Nihilism and American Popular Culture."
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Thomas S. Hibbs is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame (1987) and his B.A. from the University of Dallas. Thomas Hibbs was previously Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Boston College. Hibbs has authored many scholarly articles, edited works of Aquinas and Augustine, and published two books on Aquinas. He has been on the program committee for the Metaphysical Society and on the program and executive committee of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Hibbs also speaks and writes regularly on an array of topics in popular culture. He has published, Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture. He reviews books for The Weekly Standard and writes about film and culture for National Review Online. He is interviewed regularly on radio, including on numerous NPR stations, and writes occasionally for The Chronicle of Higher Education. |
