To commemorate the triple anniversary of the deaths of Boethius (d. 524), Aquinas (d. 1274), and Bonaventure (d. 1274), a lecture will be held this year at The Catholic University of America.
The speakers and dates are as follows.
Megan Murton (Catholic) – September 27, 2024
Consolation, Hope, and Prayer: Reading Boethius in Late-Medieval England
Christopher Cullen (Fordham) – October 25, 2024
TBA
Thomas Ward (Baylor) – November 8, 2024
Baptizing the Stoics: Boethius on Images of the Good
Angela Knobel (Dallas) – November 22, 2024
Putting on Virtue: Moral Growth in Aquinas’s Scripture Commentaries
Jean Porter (Notre Dame) – December 6, 2024
The Nature of Normativity and the Normativity of Nature: Aquinas and Contemporary Moral Philosophy on Reasons for Moral Action
Kevin Hughes (Villanova) – February 7, 2025
TBA
Stephen Brock (Chicago) – February 28, 2025
Boethius in Thomas Aquinas’s Ontology and Theology of Accidents
Laure Solignac (Institut Catholique) – March 21, 2025
TBA
All lectures in Aquinas Hall Auditorium at 2:00 p.m.
The series is jointly sponsored by Catholic University’s School of Philosophy, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Institute for Human Ecology, Philosophy Graduate Student Association, and School of Theology and Religious Studies Students’ Association.
