upcoming events

Here you’ll find a list of events sponsored or cosponsored at Duke Divinity School, Duke University, or in the Diocese of Raleigh, by Paul J. Griffiths.

Future Events

Speakers so far confirmed as visiting Duke Divinity School under my sponsorship or co-sponsorship during the academic year 2010-2011 include the following — dates & details shortly to follow: James Wetzel (Villanova University); Russ Hittinger (University of Oklahoma); Raimond Gaita (Australian Catholic University & King’s College London); Sharon Cameron (Johns Hopkins); John Crosby (Franciscan University of Steubenville); Kevin Hart (University of Virginia); Mary Healy (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology).

Past Events

  • 8 April 2010. Jean-Luc Marion spoke under the title, “Saint Augustine, or the Impossibility of a Cogito and the Certitude of Desire.” Marion holds the Greeley Chair of Catholic Theology at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris IV.
  • 18 March 2010. Gregory LaNave spoke under the title, “Bonaventure and Aquinas on the One God: Convergence or Conflict?” LaNave is Assistant Professor of Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in washington, DC.
  • 26 February 2010. Peter Casarella spoke under the title: “Word as Bread: Nicholas of Cusa and the Theological Problem of Language.” Casarella is Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University.
  • 16 February 2010. Michael Novak visited, for an informal brown bag lunch discussion, and for an afternoon lecture entitled: “Three Battle-Cries in Search of Meaning: Social Justice, the Common Good, and Personal Liberty.” Cosponsored with the Thomistic Studies Center.
  • 21 January 2010. Nicholas Wolterstorff for an informal, ‘brown bag’ lunch discussion entitled Anglophone Philosophy of Religion Since 1960: A Conversation with Nicholas Wolterstorff.
  • 26 October 2009. Paul Philibert, OP, & Gerard Austin, OP, gave a lunchtime lecture/seminar under the title Cardinal Yves Congar as Ecclesiologist and Ecumenist.
  • 20 October 2009. David Burrell on Christian-Muslim Theology: An Exercise in Creative Hermeneutics.
  • 8 October 2009. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, spoke on Law & Morality: What’s the Connection? Mar. ’09, Peter Steinfels & Russell Hittinger on Catholic social doctrine
  • Mar. ’09, Peter Casarella on von Balthasar: Holiness, Culture, and Politics
  • Mar. ’09, Edward Oakes, SJ, on apologetics
  • Feb. ’09, Bruce Marshall on Trinity
  • Jan. ’09, Joseph Bottum on the death of Protestantism
  • Oct. ’08, Thomas Joseph White, OP, on Chalcedonian Orthodoxy after Schleiermacher and Barth
  • Sep. ’08, John Donahue, SJ, on Catholic biblical interpretation.