2022-2023 Past Events
You Cannot Do This Without God’s Grace: Newman, Dowling, and Conversion as Daily Practice.
March 14, 2023
Dawn Eden Goldstein offered this year's Newman Lecture: You Cannot Do This Without God's Grace: Newman, Dowling, and Conversion as Daily Practice. The Newman Lecture series invites scholars to recount their own discovery of the Catholic intellectual tradition in light of their ongoing research and thought. This event was free & open to the public. This event was in-person and will be livestreamed. Registration to the livestream is closed.
2023 Annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Lecture - Bishop John Stowe, O.F.M. CONV.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
7:00PM-8:30PM CT
McCormick Lounge, LSC and Livestreamed
The Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause lecture series provides Catholic prelates a platform to engage people of good will in common cause with the Church on important issues facing us today. The Hank Center welcomed our 2023 Bernardin Lecturer - the Most Rev. John Stowe, O.F.M. Conv., Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky. Rev.
This event was free and open to the public. Event recording is coming soon.
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Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Video Available
October 13, 2022, 7:00 PM
The Hank Center was honored to welcome the Fall 2022 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow in Catholic Studies, Kathleen Sprows Cummings to offer the 2022 lecture.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Fourth Biennial Catholic Imagination Conference
Along with Cowan Center at the University of Dallas and a host of others, the Hank Center was pleased to once again serve as a major co-sponsor of the Fourth Biennial Catholic Imagination Conference last fall. This one-of-a-kind conference was held from September 30 - October 1, 2022 in Dallas; and, in a style that is characteristic of this conference, the circle expanded, and the session rooms were bursting at the seams. More than 400 attendees delighted in an array of substantive speakers and topics, spent good time and treasure in the bustling book room, and shared lovely meals and conversation with one another. View the program, proceedings, and session videos by clicking the title of this post -- and we hope to see you for CIC Number Five at the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 2024. All are Welcome!
Michael O'Loughlin and Hidden Mercy
October 18, 2022
McCormick Lounge
7:00-8:30pm
A Loyola--Rogers Park Community Book Club Event
Michael O'Loughlin read from his book Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear and engage our community in conversation. A collaboration between the Hank Center, St. Gertrude Church, and Loyola's Office of Mission Integration. This event was free and open to the public.
Restorative Justice: Unguarded Viewing and Discussion
We were pleased to host a viewing of Unguarded, a documentary film that tells the story of successful restorative justice work in Brazil and America through the experience of Association for the Protection and Assistance of the Convicted (APAC). Discussion with film director and producer, Simonetta D'Italia-Wiener, film producer and Loyola Alumnus, T.J. Berden, Loyola Criminal Justice and Criminology Graduate School Alumnus, Phil Whittington, and The Honorable Thomas More Donnelly of Loyola University's School of Law followed viewing. This event was Co-sponsored with the School of Communications, the School of Law, the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and the Center for Criminal Justice. This event was free and open to the public.
The Hank Center's 2023 Living Tradition Award honors Dr. David Ozar
The Hank Center will honor Dr. David Ozar as the 2023 Living Tradition Award recipient. Although the banquet has been postponed, we look forward to celebrating Dr. Ozar's accomplishments in person when we are able.
2022 Catholic Studies Symposium
We were pleased to host the 2022 Catholic Studies Symposium was held at Loyola University Chicago from September 8, 2022 - September 10, 2022. This event welcomed over 50 national scholars, leaders, and directors of centers in Catholic Studies. You can learn more about the prompts for the symposium here.
Welcome and Protect: Jesuit Refugee Service's Response to the Ukraine Crisis
February 9, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM CDT
McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall, LSC.
Staff member, Diana Haidemak, a legal counselor for JRS Romania, visited Loyola to discuss the expansive work that JRS is leading in response to the Ukraine crisis.
This event was in-person and will be livestreamed. It was free & open to the public.