Collegium Institute invites graduate students to participate in the 2024-2025 Graduate Student Fellows Colloquia Series, titled “Great Women of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition”. We will explore the rich contributions of major female writers, theologians, and philosophers from the medieval period to the modern era. We will examine the enduring legacy of figures like Hildegard of Bingen, the mystic and musician whose compositions remain influential on the theory and practice of sacred music; Teresa of Avila, who formulated a doctrine of prayer that renewed the Catholic world in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and beyond; Edith Stein, who developed a personalist philosophy on human nature and gender later embraced by John Paul II; and Elizabeth Anscombe who returned moral philosophy away from linguistic analysis and consequentialism back toward virtue ethics and the good life.
In each 90-minute monthly session, graduate fellows will join with a facilitator to delve deeper into the work of each thinker, and understand the role that she has played in shaping the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Dates: Monthly on Thursdays. 7:00 - 8:30 pm.
Fall sessions:
September 26: Hildegard of Bingen: Illuminating God’s Designs for Creation & the Centrality of the Incarnation
October 24: Gertrude the Great and Julian of Norwich: Elucidating Scripture & the Mystery of the Heart of Christ
November 14: Catherine of Siena: Reforming and Praying for the Church in a Time of Crisis
Spring sessions (Dates TBA):
January 16: Teresa of Avila: Renewing the Religious Calling to Prayer, Penitence, & Contemplation
February 20: Therese of Lisieux: Teaching the Modern, Skeptical World How to Find & Love God
March 20: Edith Stein: Deepening Our Understanding of the Nature of the Human Person, Male & Female
April 24: Elizabeth Anscombe: Faith Seeking Understanding in the Secular University
May 8: Mary the Mother of God: Teacher of the Doctors of the Church & All the Saints
Click the button below to sign up. Please direct any questions to Joe Perez-Benzo (jperezbenzo@collegiuminstitute.org).