The Thomistic Institute

This lecture was given on December 17, 2021 at the Dominican House of Studies during "Of the Father’s Love Begotten: An Intellectual Retreat on the Incarnation" for the Thomistic Institute’s Texas-area campus chapters. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jonah Teller was born in Cincinnati, OH, and grew up attendin...

This talk was given on December 10, 2021 at Ashland University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: John A. Cuddeback, PhD, is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-five years. He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professi...

This lecture was given on December 7, 2021 at George Mason University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of books including Virtue's Splendor: Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human...

This lecture was given on December 7, 2021 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mrrhu2sp. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph. D. in philosophy fr...

This lecture was given on November 15, 2021 at Oxford University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. George Corbett is a Senior Lecturer in Theology and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Itali...

This walk was given on September 21, 2021 at Yale University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: R. J. Snell is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Ea...

This lecture was delivered on October 28, 2021 at the University of South Carolina. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Christopher Frey is currently an associate professor in the department of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Prof. Frey works primarily in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle’s...

Prof. Bogardus' slides can be viewed here: https://tinyurl.com/dc329b72 This lecture was given on November 30, 2021 at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned hi...

This lecture was given on November 19, 2021 at the University of South Carolina. View Prof. Keown's slides here: https://tinyurl.com/yck2hbwu For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. John Keown is the Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He graduated in law from Cambridge and...

This lecture was given on November 5, 2021 at Auburn University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rom...

Fr. Guilbeau's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/3vw4dp4e This lecture was delivered on December 6, 2021 at St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church for the DC Young Professionals Chapter of the Thomistic Institute. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. entered...

This homily by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. was given on Thursday, Jan. 27 in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the Catholic University of America's annual University Mass in honor of the school's patron, St. Thomas Aquinas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is th...

This lecture was given on November 2, 2021 at Yale University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that...

This lecture was given at University of Alabama, Birmingham on November 1, 2021. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Marie George has been a member of the Philosophy Department since 1988. Professor George is an Aristotelian-Thomist whose interests lie primarily in the areas of philosophy of nature and philosophy of science. She has received several awards from the John...

This lecture was given at University of California, Berkeley on November 16, 2021. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is...

This lecture was given at West Virginia University on November 5, 2021. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is i...

This lecture was delivered for the University of Texas, El Paso Chapter on 4/28/2021. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral...

This lecture was given to the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara on February 24, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Carol Zaleski is the Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts, where she has been teaching philosophy of religion, worl...

This lecture was given to the University of Virginia on February 11, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Cat...

This lecture was given to UC Berkeley on February 8, 2021. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. is a Dominican friar, physicist, and philosopher. He joined the faculty of philosophy at the Angelicum in Rome in 2020, where he co-leads the Project for Science and Religion. Before joining the Dominican...

This lecture was given to the University of Edinburgh on January 26, 2021. The handout for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/tncfnsfe For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theol...

This talk was given at the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas held at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21, 2021. For more information about upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or editor of over forty books on topics of...

This lecture was given on February 11, 2021 to the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School chapters. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics...

This lecture was given on October 29, 2020 to Texas A&M University. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defendi...

This lecture was given on January 25, 2021 to West Virginia University. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education include...