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Events

The Hank Center hosts a variety of panels and audience participation events where speakers and panelists address a current social topic connected to concerns within the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.

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Faith in Focus series

Open to members of Loyola University Chicago and the general public, the Faith in Focus Film Series, explores themes of faith and the lives of prominent figures in the Catholic Church. Feature film screenings are followed by discussion led by prominent LUC professors or guest speakers.

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Catholic Minds, Catholic Matters

This lecture series takes place in the Fall semester and offers public lectures and forums on various Catholic topics important to contemporary academic life. ‌

Catholicism and the Professional Life

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage hosts its Catholic Thought and the Professional Life Series. These events seek to connect faculty from across Loyola’s Professional Schools in conversation about the role of Catholicism in their respective disciplines today.

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Catholicism and the Arts

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage hosts its Catholicism and the Arts Series every spring. It is designed to promote cultural productions, both classical and contemporary, theatrical, musical, or pictural, that illuminate the rich heritage of art in Catholic culture.

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Living Tradition Award

‌Every year the Hank Center presents the Living Tradition Award to a Loyola University Chicago emeritus faculty member who has exemplified the integration of Catholic thought into their work. This award commemorates extraordinary lives of scholarship, research, and teaching in specific fields of expertise. The Living Tradition Award ceremony and banquet occur every Spring.

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Publication Luncheons

These informal meetings celebrate a recent publication, primarily but not always by a Loyola University Chicago faculty author, exploring its link to Catholic intellectual and artistic thought.

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Catholic Q&A Program

Offers students an opportunity to learn more about the Catholic thought and practice through faculty presentations and discussions. The questions are usually of the "current concern" variety and drawn from a combination of student interest and faculty expertise and the faculty presenters represent some of the University’s—and the wider community's—most engaging speakers. The environment is warm and genial so that dialogue and good will might flourish, even if there is disagreement.

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Catholicism in Dialogue

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage holds a Catholicism in Dialogue event every fall. These panels are offered as platforms for ecumenical conversation and interaction.

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Graduate Summer Institute on the Catholic Imagination

The Graduate Summer Institute (GSI) provides an opportunity for current graduate students to broaden and deepen their engagement with the Catholic imagination, specifically in the spheres of theology, poetry, literature, and film. This ten day program combines master classes and seminars with scholarly research, relaxed time for community collaboration and reflection, and a series of interesting excursions—all in the setting of one of the country’s most bustling campuses and cities.

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Colloquia, Symposia, and Public Events

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage hosts a number of colloquia every academic year. These events are so named because of their conversational nature. Seeking to spearhead the universal significance of Catholicism, each colloquium engages a unique topic and features a number of guest speakers, each one a noted authority in their respective discipline.

Conferences

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage offers a variety of conferences as platforms for the exposition and interchange of ideas by specialists in their own field.‌

The Hank Center hosts a variety of panels and audience participation events where speakers and panelists address a current social topic connected to concerns within the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.