Friday, November 10th - Sean Carroll, Senior Research Associate Theoretical
Physics and Astrophysics, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology" How the Real Universe Works, and What You Should Know About It"
Co-sponsored by the Villanova Center for Liberal Education and the Department of
Astronomy and Astrophysics as part of “Bridges Between the Humanities and
Sciences”
Augustinian Contexts, Spring 2007
Tuesday, March 13 - A Workshop on Augustine and Literature in the Augustine
and Culture Seminar,
Sponsored by the VCLE and VITAL
Presenters: Dr. Jonathan Yates, Ennis Fellow in the Humanities and Dr.
Marylu Hill, Assistant Director, Villanova Center for Liberal Education
Augustinian Contexts, Fall 2006
A Series of Faculty Development Workshops for the Teaching of Augustine and
Augustinian Themes, Sponsored by the VCLE and the Villanova Institute for
Teaching and Learning (VITAL), these workshops will better orient
non-specialists to the tasks of teaching Augustine in ACS: Traditions
in Conversations and teaching Augustinian themes in ACS: Modernity and
Its Discontents . The emphasis will be on “time-saving” regarding
background research and on pedagogy.
We ran a total of four
workshops in the fall semester, one of which was devoted to the thought of
St. Augustine himself, and three of which were devoted to Augustinian themes
in a modern context.
- September 15: Teaching and Researching Augustine’s Works
Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Yates, Ennis Fellow in the Humanities
- October 20: Augustine and Anthropology
Presenters: Fr. Thomas Martin, Dept. of Theology, and Dr. David Schindler,
Dept. of Humanities
- November 3: Augustine and Philosophy
Presenters: Dr. James Wetzel, Augustinian Chair in Philosophy, and Dr. Mark
Shiffman, Dept. of Humanities
- November 17: Augustine and Society
Presenters: Dr. Kevin Hughes, Dept. of Theology, and Dr. Thomas Smith, Dept. of
Humanities
