Series Schedule:
Monday, October 4, 2004
136 DeBartolo Hall, 8 pm
Ian Ker, Oxford University
"Evelyn Waugh: The Priest as Craftsman"
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
136 DeBartolo Hall, 7:30 pm
Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame
"It Should Rhyme with 'Laugh': Humor in Waugh"
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
138 DeBartolo Hall, 7:30 pm
Film Screening: The Third Man
Thursday, October 7, 2004
131 DeBartolo Hall, 7:30 pm
Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University
"Graham Greene and Film Noir"
More About Our Speakers
Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology in universities in both the United States and Britain, where he is now a tutor in theology at Campion Hall and a member of the Oxford theology faculty. He is the author and editor of 20 books on Newman, including the definitive biography (1988). He is also the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 (published in 2003 by the University of Notre Dame Press ), which was picked as his Book of the Year by the historian and journalist Paul Johnson who described it as "the best work on English literature I have read for many years."
Tomas Hibbs in 2003 moved from Boston College, where he was an associate professor and former acting chair in the Department of Philosophy, to Baylor University , where he is now dean of the Honors College . He received a BA and MA from the University of Dallas and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Before going to Boston College in 1990, he was a tutor in the great books program at Thomas Aquinas College . A specialist in medieval philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of popular culture, Hibbs has edited works of Augustine and Aquinas and authored two books on Aquinas, including Virtue's Splendor: Wisdom, Prudence, and the Good Life (Fordham University Press, 2001). He is also the author of Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld (Spence, 1999). His BC class on nihilism and pop culture was featured in a Boston Globe article. He reviews films and writes about cultural issues for National Review Online and reviews books for The Weekly Standard . He has appeared on TV and radio, including a number of nationally syndicated NPR shows, to discuss film, popular culture, and, most recently, the cultural impact of September 11. Two essays ("What Kind of Evil?" and "Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Virtues") have been published in The Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage of September 11 and the cultural aftermath.
