Sharing the Wisdom Lecture Series

“Beyond Politics: Christopher Dawson and T.S. Eliot on Church and State”

Ben Lockerd (Professor of English, Grand Valley State University) 
September 14th, 2012

The recipient of The Alumni Association of Grant Valley State University’s Outstanding Educator Award, Dr. Lockerd is the author of The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in "The Faerie Queene" and Aethereal Rumours: T. S. Eliot's Physics and Poetics, as well as articles on Eliot and on Renaissance literature. He also wrote the introduction to a new edition of Russell Kirk’s book Eliot and His Age. He has served as president of the T. S. Eliot Society. A collection of essays edited by Professor Lockerd, Light Invisible: T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition, is forthcoming in the near future.

“Bernardino de Sahagún's Psalmodia Christiana and Catholic Formation Among the Mexica in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”

Lorenzo Candelaria (Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Texas at Austin)
October 26th, 2012

Dr. Candelaria is a historian of Western European art music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His research focuses on Catholic music in sixteenth-century Spain and its subsequent impact on devotional cultures in Latin America and the southwestern United States. An accomplished violinist and an active lecturer, Dr. Candaleria is also a prolific author. His recent books include American Music: A Panorama (with Daniel Kingman) and The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo. He is currently writing a book entitled Music in Mexican Catholicism.

"Bioethics in 21st-Century Genomic Medicine: the Catholic Contribution"

Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, SJ (Associate Professor and David Lauler Chair for Catholic Health Care Ethics, Georgetown University
February 1st, 2013

In addition to his positions at Georgetown, Father FitzGerald is a member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, the Advisory Board for the Center for Infectious Disease (CID), and the Angiogenesis, Invasion, Metastasis Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests have included the investigation of abnormal gene regulation in cancer and ethical issues in human genetics, including the ethical and social ramifications of molecular genetics research. He is also a Jesuit priest and an expert on ethical issues in personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, human cloning research, stem cell research, and genetic testing.

"Latinitas Ossium Carnes Multae"

Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD 
April 19th, 2013

For four successive pontificates, Fr. Foster was the chief Latinist for the Holy See, and has had a hand in many of the most important documents published by the Vatican in the last forty years. A member of the Discalced Carmelites, he was a beloved professor of Latin at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he taught thousands of students over a period of more than thirty years. Perhaps best known for his "Latinitas Aestiva" (where he taught an intensive course of both written and spoken Latin), Fr. Foster is currently finishing a series of books entitled Ossa Latinitatis, which is forthcoming this year.

All presentations are open to the public.