2008-2009 Special Public Events from the Center for Dominican Studies

A Symposium: Catholic Social Teaching
September 6, 2008
Matesich Theatre – Erskine Hall @ 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Featuring keynote speaker the Most Rev. Frederick F. Campbell

The symposium will engage a variety of theologians, philosophers and historians who will address topics including: Catholic Social Teaching: An Historical Context; The Workplace and Social Agencies; Peace and Justice; Poverty and the Environment; Health Care and Stewardship of the Earth. Registration fee is $30 payable to Ohio Dominican University. Group rate of $150 for ten persons is available. To register, please contact Sr. Catherine Colby for a program brochure.

The Church and the Political Landscape
October 2, 2008
Matesich Theatre – Erskine Hall @ 7:00 PM
Featuring: John Allen

John Allen is the Senior Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and serves as senior Vatican analyst for CNN. John traveled with Pope Benedict XVI on his recent trip to the United States. In the summer of 2006, Allen established a new office in New York, allowing him to expand his coverage of both the American church and the global Catholic scene, while continuing to keep his eye on Rome. He is the author of five books on the Catholic Church, including All the Pope's Men andThe Rise of Benedict XVI. His weekly Internet column, formerly "The Word from Rome" and now rechristened as "All Things Catholic," has a wide international readership. Allen's work is followed across the usual ideological divides in the church, and he speaks widely on Catholic affairs in the United States and around the world.

Inter-Religious Dialogue
November 7, 2008
Matesich Theatre – Erskine Hall @ 7:00 PM
Featuring: Thomas Michel, S.J.

Jesuit Father Thomas Michel completed his doctoral dissertation on the thought of the Muslim scholar Ibn Taymiyya and received a Ph.D. in Islamic thought from the University of Chicago in 1978. In 1981, he was appointed to the Asia Desk of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and in 1988, he became Head of the Office for Islam in the same Vatican department. Since 1994, he has served as Executive Secretary of the Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand. Since 1996, he is Director of the Jesuit Secretariat for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome, Italy, and Ecumenical Secretary for the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. At present, he is a Woodstock International Fellow at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Aquinas Convocation
January 22, 2009
Dominican Values: Alive to the Real and the Possible
Matesich Theatre – Erskine Hall @ 10:30 AM
Featuring: Chrys McVey, OP

Chrys McVey, OP, is an American Dominican who has lived most of his life in Pakistan, to which province he belongs. During the past several years he lived in Rome as Socius for Apostolic Life to the Master of the Dominican Order. His interest, and most of his writing, is on inter-religious dialogue and its implications of Christian theology and practice.