Today's Arts and Science events
The third edition of Theology in the City brings together keynote speakers, scholars in theology and other fields, and graduate students to explore the theme of wisdom, experience and knowledge. Free and open to all. Presented in-person at the Loyola campus.
In this public lecture from Cory Labrecque, professor of Theology and Religious Science, Université Laval, Labrecque draws from the field of theological bioethics to reflect on the relevance of studying and doing theology today and of looking to theology as a resource.
Upcoming events
The third edition of Theology in the City brings together keynote speakers, scholars in theology and other fields, and graduate students to explore the theme of wisdom, experience and knowledge. Free and open to all. Presented in-person at the Loyola campus.
In this public lecture by Gerbern Oegema, professor in the School of Religious Studies, McGill University, Oegema examines several responses to crises in antiquity, war, famine, pandemics, persecution, hostilities, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., whether they are responses in the form of retreat, revolt or reformation, and asks what we can apply to the present day.
The third edition of Theology in the City brings together keynote speakers, scholars in theology and other fields, and graduate students to explore the theme of wisdom, experience and knowledge. Free and open to all. Presented in-person at the Loyola campus.
In this public lecture, Charles Briggs, history professor at the University of Vermont, will put the plague pandemic and broader 'crisis of the fourteenth century' in conversation with the history and historiography of early Renaissance humanism. He'll argue that the crisis had a profound impact on not only the development and trajectory of humanism but also how we think about the 'medieval' and the 'modern.'
The third edition of Theology in the City brings together keynote speakers, scholars in theology and other fields, and graduate students to explore the theme of wisdom, experience and knowledge. Free and open to all. Presented in-person at the Loyola campus.
The third edition of Theology in the City brings together keynote speakers, scholars in theology and other fields, and graduate students to explore the theme of wisdom, experience and knowledge. Free and open to all. Presented in-person at the Loyola campus.
In this public lecture by Eric Morelli, adjunct professor of philosophy, Point Loma Nazarene University, Morelli explores the way Lonergan sees our current situation as the legacy of old ideas of history that have proven inadequate and antithetical to democratic society. He says Lonergan invites us to implement a new idea of history and to build our own legacy through creative and loving collaboration in community.
The Theology in the City Forum aims to move us from thinking for older adults to thinking with older adults. The Forum will be both cross- and inter-cultural, welcoming a wide-range of voices, including those of Indigenous communities for whom older persons are revered as traditional knowledge-keepers who bridge the past, present, and future.
Arthur Frank is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Calgary. In "Stories, Generations, and Choices," Frank will share five stories, showing different relationships between stories, those who tell them, and those who decide how to listen. Harry Lafond is an Indigenous Education Scholar at the University of Saskatchewan. In "achimowina: Today," Lafond discusses the importance of oral storytelling and what it can teach us about Canadian settler society and the potential for reconciliation.
Graduate research in the Faculty of Arts and Science is bold, innovative and transformative. This is your opportunity to share your research in a snap through the inaugural Student Research Photo Contest.
In this talk, Reza Hadisi will reflect on the nature of the premises of practical reasoning.
During this hybrid in-person and online event, Dr. Poulin-Dubois reviews decades of riveting research about social learning, children, puppets, and robots.
Join the Department of Economics in welcoming Senator Paul J. Massicotte to Concordia for an armchair conversation about economic policy and governmental institutions.