The 2013 Catholic Literature Series focused on the importance of children’s literature while highlighting popular children’s books like the Harry Potter series. Watch video recordings of the lectures at the links below.

• “Children’s Literature and the Golden World,” Daniel McInerny, Daniel McInerny Productions, LLC
   
• “Harry Potter and the King’s Cross,” John O'Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
   
• “Confessions of a ‘Book Banner,’” Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
   
• “The Hunger Games,” Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University

Past Series

• 2013: Children’s Literature
• 2012: J.R.R. Tolkien
• 2011: Victorian Catholics
• 2010: Strangers in a Strange Land
• 2009: Close to Catholic
• 2008: Wit’s Way to Wisdom
• 2007: Shakespeare and Catholicism
• 2006: Shining in Obscurity
• 2005: Tolkien’s Catholic Myth
• 2004: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh
• 2003: Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy
• 2002: G.K. Chesterton