Comedy has become a mainstay of contemporary entertainment through movies, tv shows, comedy specials, and more. We engage with comedic entertainment so frequently, but what does comedy have to offer us regarding answers to the big questions about the nature of the world and our place within it? In this fifth installment of Food for Thought, we will engage with comedians, from the Greeks to Godot, in order to gain wisdom through levity.
In this next Food for Thought series, “Sacred Stuff,” or "The Stuff We Live With: Objects and the Sacred in the Everyday,” we will explore our relationship to things, memory, and the sacred.
Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things: The Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith for our online Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus.
Join Collegium Institute for a soulful dive into the afterlife guided by the epic poet Dante Alighieri.
Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things for our next Virtual Campus Seminar on Global Catholic Literature, in which we will explore Olav Audunssøn: Vows by the Nobel Laureate, Sigrid Undset.
Led by Dr. Chiyuma Elliott and several special guest facilitators, this seminar on Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille gathered during summer of 2021. Written by one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance more than a decade before he converted to Catholicism, Romance in Marseille offers readers the opportunity to consider the ways McKay’s early work about diasporic suffering and injustice relates to his later faith-inspired writing on those same topics, and to think about how both might fit into the broader corpus of Catholic literature.
This Food for Thought module will explore questions like: What does it mean to think imaginatively and live poetically? Can poetry help us access the truth in a way that is distinct from prose and other media? How ought we as readers—or hearers—encounter a poem? How familiar should we be with the “poetry of the page” to be able to appreciate the hidden verse of everyday life? Open to students only.
Collegium Institute is pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to explore Flannery O’Connor’s final novel, The Violent Bear It Away, in a seminar series led by three distinguished O’Connor scholars. Due to the high demand, we are opening up this second seminar, as the first filled up.
For the month of June, our Faith in Fiction seminar will be building off our special event on Wednesday June 3rd to explore the Imaginary of Flannery O'Connor. We will dive into her second and final novel, The Violent Bear it Away, and encounter her strange, sometimes humorous, shocking and glory-filled literature, replete with a motley crew of characters and plot twists.
This fall, we investigated the relationship between art, beauty and faith. We will ask questions like: How do these three things inform each other and feed each other? Does beauty aid a life of faith? What effect does beauty have on the human soul? Why do we seek it, does it seek us?
