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Birmingham Lecture Series

The Birmingham lecture and discussion series features faculty from other departments speaking on their research.  The lecture series is particularly important as it allows our faculty to network with faculty in other departments.


Past Lectures

Thursday, October 29, 2009

11:30-1:00 p.m.
300 St. Augustine Center
 

Speaker:  Dr. Paul Contino
Director of Great Books and Associate Director, Center for Faith and Learning, Pepperdine University
Topic: "Teaching The Brothers Karamazov"

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

12 - 1:30 p.m.
103 Mendel Hall
 

Speaker:  Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions
Topic: “Walking Among Faith Traditions: Epistemological Considerations”

 

Thursday, March 27, 2008

4- 5:30 pm.
Falvey Library Study Lounge
 

Speaker: Professor Jessica Murdoch
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Topic: "The Intellectual Challenge Facing Catholic Thought: Establishing the Plausibility of Faith in a Time of Pervasive Relativism”

 

Friday, February 23, 2007

12 - 1:30 p.m.
St. Augustine Center, Fedigan Room
 

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Shay
Psychiatrist and Author
Topic: "Homer on Military Leadership"


Dr. Jonathan Shay has been a staff psychiatrist at the Dept. of Veteran's Affairs outpatient clinic in Boston, Massachusetts since 1987. Dr. Shay works with Vietnam Veterans who suffer from severe pyschological injuries. Between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005, he was Chair of Ethics, Leadership, and Personnel Policy in the Office of the US Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He is the author of the best-selling book Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character published by Simon & Schuster. For several years, his book has been part of the U.S. Marine Corps professional reading program for “all hands.” In addition to clinical work and visiting lectures on Homer’s epics, he speaks and writes frequently for active duty military audiences on prevention of psychological and moral injury in military service. He has delivered visiting lectures in ethics at the USMA and USNA. In February 2000, he delivered the Guest Lecture of the Secretary of the Navy, and in 2000 completed a study for the Commandant of the Marine Corps known as the Trust Study. In 2001, he was Visiting Scholar-at-Large at the Naval War College, Newport, RI. He describes himself as a missionary to the active duty force for the veterans he serves. His new work, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, with a foreword by Senators John McCain and Max Cleland, was published by Scribners on Veterans Day 2002.
 

Friday, December 1, 2006

12 - 1:30 p.m.
St. Augustine Center, Fedigan Room

 

Speaker: Dr. Edward M. Sion
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Topic: "Novae, Supernovae and Hypernovae: Nature's Three Greatest Explosions"


Tuesday, October 31, 2006

12 - 1:30 p.m.
St. Augustine Center, De Leon Room (Rm. 300)
 

Speaker: Dr. Jean Lutes
Assistant Professor of English
Topic: "Covering Lynch Mobs: Racial Violence and the American Reporter-Novelist"