Our Distinguished Lecturer Series, where the College invites prominent guest speakers to visit Lander and speak to our students and the Lander community, have been a wonderful success. We are looking forward to an equally promising series for the coming academic year. (As in the College's first two years of operation, the four lectures to be offered by visiting dignitaries will correspond to feast days of especial significance to the Wyoming Catholic College community.)

 

 

In commemoration of the Feast of All Saints, Dale Ahlquist will speak on G. K. Chesterton. Mr. Ahlquist, known throughout the world for his writings on Chesterton, is the president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society, as well as the publisher of Gilbert Magazine, author of The Chesterton University Student Handbook, editor of The Gift of Wonder: The Many Sides of G.K. Chesterton, and associate editor of the Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. He has been called “one of the most respected Chesterton scholars in the world” and has delighted audiences around the country with his variety of talks on the great English writer. The College faculty and students look forward with enthusiasm to his Chestertonian expertise.
 
The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the renowned author and literature professor, Joseph Pearce, will speak on the topic of Shakespeare. Perhaps best known as the author of several critically acclaimed, best-selling biographies of great nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian authors such as Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and G.K. Chesterton,  Pearce is also the co-founder and co-editor of the St. Austin Review, Editor-in-Chief of Sapientia Press, and is writer-in-residence and assistant professor of literature at Ave Maria University. He lectures widely around the United States and Europe on many topics, and his articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications.

 

February 4th, 2010 

 

The College's patronal feast of Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, will feature a talk from Father John Zuhlsdorf, host of the ever-popular Catholic Blog, What Does the Prayer Really Say? Since receiving his Baccalaureate in Theology (STB) from the Pontifical Lateran University and Licentiate in Theology (STL) diploma from the Patristic Institute "Augustinianum," Father Zuhlsdorf has established himself as an authority on numerous ecclesiastical matters, particularly those related to Summorum Pontificum and the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite. “Father Z,” as he is affectionately known, will visit with the College’s students and staff, celebrate the Extraordinary Form as part of the day’s festivities, and deliver his talk later that evening.

 

Where Is Our Conscience? How Conscience Relates to the Intellect, Emotions, Will, and Imagination

Sister Prudence Allen, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will offer her lecture on the Feast of the Annunciation. Author of a two volume work on The Concept of Woman (Eerdmans), Sr. Allen has lectured widely in Canada, Europe, and the United States and published several articles on woman's identity in a variety of journals. Her talk will close out the "Sharing the Wisdom" series for the year.