Past LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
2004-05 Notre Dame Erasmus
Lectures
 Gerhard
Böwering, S.J.
Professor of Islamic Studies
Yale University
Islam and Christianity:
eight lectures on the inner dynamics
of two cultures of belief
| October 25 |
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Origins and Common Roots |
| October 27 |
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One God with Many Faces |
| October 29 |
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Scripture and Tradition |
| March 14 |
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Creation, Time and Eternity |
| March 16 |
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Finding God in Prayer and Devotion |
| March 18 |
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Personal Ethics and Social Order |
| March 21 |
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Clashes of Culture and Bonds of Belief |
| March 23 |
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Pluralism and Fundamentalism in Tension |
2003-04 Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures
 The
Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr.
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Deepening the Doctrine:
The Development of
Catholic Moral Teaching
| September 23 |
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Father Newman Startles |
| September 25 |
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The Unknown Sin |
| September 30 |
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A Girl Named Zita and Other Commodities |
| October 2 |
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The Obstinate Hill Climbed, with Éclat |
| October 7 |
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Folly, Championed |
| October 9 |
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Out of Deeds Comes Law |
| October 14 |
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Out of Difficulties Comes Development |
| October 16 |
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The Test of the Teaching |
An eminent jurist, Judge Noonan has written on a wide range of
topics in which legal and religious concerns intersect. He has
treated issues both historical and contemporary in an array of
books including, The Scholastic Analysis of Usury (1957);
Contraception: A History of its Treatment by the Catholic
Theologians and Canonists (1965; enlarged ed. 1986); Power
to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman
Curia (1972); Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo,
Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as Makers of the Masks (1976),
Bribes (1984); The Lustre of Our Country: The American
Experience of Religious Freedom (1998); and, most recently,
Narrowing the Nation’s Power: The Supreme Court Sides
With the States (2002). His Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures
will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press in late
2004.
2002-03 Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures
 Nicholas
Boyle
University of Cambridge
Sacred and Secular Scriptures:
a catholic approach to literature
“Bible as Literature”
September 3, 5, 10, 12, 2002
“Literature as Bible”
April 1, 3, 8, 10, 12, 2003
| September 3 |
Literature and Theology |
| September 5 |
History and Hermeneutics |
| September 10 |
Revelation and Realism |
| September 12 |
Beyond Bibliolatry |
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| April 1 |
Sacred and Secular |
| April 3 |
Wagers:
Pascal's Pensées and Goethe's Faust |
| April 8 |
Faces: Melville's Moby Dick
and Austen's Mansfield Park |
| April 10 |
Rewards and Fairies: The Idea of England
and The Lord of the Rings |
Nicholas Boyle is Professor of German Literary and Intellectual
History at the University of Cambridge. Renowned as a scholar
of Goethe, he has published two volumes of a projected three-volume
biography whose general title is Goethe: the Poet and the
Age. His interests in current issues in European literature,
philosophy, theology, and politics are reflected in his book of
essays, Who Are We Now? (1998). Professor Boyle was awarded
the Goethe Medal in 2000 and has been elected a Fellow of the
British Academy. His Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures were published
as Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach
to Literature (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).
2001-02 Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures
Shirley Williams
"God and Caesar: The Church and Public Life"
(four lectures delivered in September, 2001)
"The Morality of Globalisation"
(four lectures delivered in January, 2002)
Baroness Shirley Williams, as deputy leader and foreign policy
spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords,
is a Catholic intellectual who helped to reshape the landscape
of British politics. Her Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures were published
as God and Caesar: Personal Reflections on Politics and Religion
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).
2000 Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures
Denis Donoghue
"Adam's Curse: Christianity and Literature
in the Twentieth Century"
(eight lectures delivered March-April, 2000)
Denis Donoghue is Henry James Professor of English and American
Letters and University Professor at New York University. He is
the author of more than twenty books, including Words Alone:
The Poet T. S. Eliot (2000), The Practice of Reading
(1998), and Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995).
His Notre Dame Erasmus Lectures were published as Adam's Curse:
Christianity and Literature in the Twentieth Century (University
of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
Past CONFERENCES
Access, Enterprise, and Catholic Social Traditions
CCE - McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame, July 29-30, 2005 Organized by the Erasmus Institute Working Group on Income Inequality
Symposium
on American Literature and Religion
Norton's Woods, American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Cambridge,
Mass., May 20-21, 2005
Organized by Roger Lundin, Wheaton College, and the Erasmus Institute
Working Group on Religion and Literature
Contemporary
Catholicism, Religious Pluralism, and Democracy
in Latin America: Challenges, Responses, and Impact
March 31 - April 1, 2005
Organized by Frances Hagopian, Latin American Studies and Political
Science; cosponsored by the Erasmus, Kellogg, and Kroc Institutes,
University of Notre Dame
Notre
Dame: What's Next?
on realizing our aspirations to be both
authentically Catholic and academically outstanding
University of Notre Dame, November 17, 2004
(co-sponsored with the College of Arts and Letters )
Faith,
Ethics, and Environment:
The Response of a Catholic University
University of Notre Dame, November 7-9, 2004
(co-sponsored with the Department of Theology)
Catholic
Traditions in History, Literature and Philosophy
Lublin, Poland, September 16-19, 2004
(co-sponsored with the Catholic University of Lublin)
Symposium
on Business Ethics Scholarship
and Teaching in Catholic Environment
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, July
28-30, 2003 (co-sponsored with the Institute for Ethical Business
Worldwide and organized by Patrick E. Murphy and Georges Enderle)
Symposium
on Religion and Civil Society
Lima, Peru, August 5-8, 2002
(co-sponsored with Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and
held concurrently with the Ninth Congress of the Latin American
Association for the Study of Religion [ALER])
Conference
on Reconciliation
Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 12-14, 2002
(co-sponsored with Institut für Theologie und Frieden and
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)
Ecology,
Theology, and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics
University of Notre Dame, February 21-24, 2002
The Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts
(Conference Coordinators: David M. Lodge, Biological Sciences,
University of Notre Dame, Christopher S. Hamlin, History, University
of Notre Dame)
Rethinking the State: Catholic Thought and
Contemporary Political Theory
Berlin, September 21-23, 2000
(in cooperation with Institut für Theologie und Frieden)
Catholic Intellectual Traditions in Contemporary Research
in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
University of Leuven, November 10-11, 2000
Religion in American Southern Thought and Culture
(co-sponsored with Indiana University, Bloomington)
February 22-24, 2001
Faith and History: Catholic Perspectives
Cornell University, March 29-April 1, 2001
The Nature of Moral Inquiry in the Social Sciences
Boston College, March 20, 1999
Speakers:
Clarke E. Cochran, Texas Tech University
David Hollenbach, S.J., Boston College
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
(The papers presented at the conference were published
as an Erasmus
Institute Occasional Paper, 1999–3)
Higher
Learning and Catholic Traditions
University of Notre Dame, October 13-14, 1999
Speakers:
Nicholas Boyle, Cambridge University
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard University
Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame
Sir John Polkinghorne, Cambridge University
Bruce Russett, Yale University
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
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