Last Updated: June 4, 2010
September 22 and 29
October 6 and 13
8:00 p.m., DeBartolo 155
CALL FOR PAPERS: Fall Conference 2010
This past November, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture hosted its 10th annual Fall Conference, entitled The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good. Our most successful to date, the 2009 conference reflected in myriad fashion on what it means to be truly free. This year, we will continue this inquiry by a discussion centered around the proposal that humility, wonder, and joy are great among those virtues which undergird human flourishing in this world and—in the Christian tradition—lead in grace to eternal happiness in the next. These virtues, the fullness of which Georges Bernanos identified in the state of the Blessed Virgin who, attending at the manger, is described as ―"younger than sin"—free, with a virtuous simplicity of soul, for her joyful assent to and embrace of the Truth and the Good that has set her free. We, not so "young" as she, must undertake the journey to simplicity by humility, which enables honesty concerning oneself and one’s dependence on others; wonder, which as Aristotle wrote, first leads one to seek the freedom of the truth; and joy, the delight of the soul that is able to apprehend the true and the good and draw them to itself.
The 11th annual conference, Younger than Sin: Retrieving Simplicity through the Virtues of Humility, Wonder and Joy, will take place at Notre Dame November 18-20, 2010. One-page abstracts for individual papers must include name, title, affiliation (academic or otherwise), address, and e-mail address. The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 16, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by Monday, August 2, 2010. To read the call for papers, click here. Please check back for more information about the conference, including information about invited speakers, as the date approaches.
With the cosponsorship of the Center for Ethics & Culture, the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project is now convening an international conference in Rome for the purpose of initiating the critical reception of Dietrich von Hildebrand's work, The Nature of Love, published in 2009 for the first time in English translation. The conference will take place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross May 27-29, 2020. For more information, click here.
Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life
An exciting new initiative, to be administered by the Center for Ethics and Culture, is The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life. The Fund, together with the five person committee which will oversee it, will provide a proactive impetus for pro-life activity on the Notre Dame campus, including support of the student right to life clubs as well as involvement of the faculty and administration. For a summary description of the scope and plans for the Fund, click here. To donate, please visit Notre Dame Department of Development http://supporting.nd.edu/make-a-gift/.
Summer 2009 Ethics & Culture Newsletter Available Online
Fall Conference 2009 - The Summons of Freedom : Virtue, Sacrifice and the Common Good
The Center for Ethics and Culture held its tenth annual fall conference November 12-14 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Visit the conference homepage for full schedule and videos of invited speaker presentations.
Fall Catholic Culture Series - A Celebration of Kindred Spirits
This fall's Catholic Culture Series featured four influential and fascinating authors, none of whom were Catholic. Yet the writings of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, C.S. Lewis, and Fyodor Dostoevsky all shared much in common with Catholic theology and philosophy. For more information, including video recordings of the lectures, visit here.
