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Martha Nussbaum University of Chicago	September 23, 2022 “Justice for Animals: Practical Progress Through Philosophical Theory"
John Corvino Wayne State University	February 20, 2020 “Civility: Its Uses and Abuses in Public Discourse"
Carrie Tirado Bramen University at Buffalo	September 19, 2019 “The Feminist Politics of (In)Civility"
Sister Ilia Delio Villanova University	April 16, 2019 “Artificial Intelligence and Human Desire: Can A Robot Truly Love?"
Carol Bruess University of St. Thomas	September 27, 2018 "Our Love-Af air with Technology: Some (Inconvenient) Truths"
David M. Carr Union Theological Seminary in New York	April 5, 2018 "Beyond Original Sin: Genesis on the Emergence of True Adulthood"
Daniel P. Horan Catholic Theological Union in Chicago	October 26, 2017 "Racism, White Privilege and Thomas Merton on Transformative Spirituality and Justice"
Maureen O’Connell La Salle University	February 23, 2017 "Stepping Out on Faith: Economic Justice through Community Organizing"
Martin Gilens Princeton University	October 27, 2016 “Economic Inequality and Political Power in America”
Carl Elliott University of Minnesota	March 10, 2016 “The Dark Side of Medicine”
Daniel P. Sulmasy University of Chicago	November 5, 2015 “On Being a Doctor: Lessons from a Patient Named Fred”
Gary Gutting University of Notre Dame	March 12, 2015 “Religion in a World of Science”
Philip Clayton Claremont School of Theology	September 25, 2014 "Between Intelligent Design and New Atheism: Science and Religion at the Crossroads"
Owen Flanagan Duke University	February 20, 2014 "Human Flourishing: Lessons From Comparative Philosophy and the Human Sciences"
Ellen Charry Princeton Theological Seminary	September 26, 2013 "Happiness in the Christian Life"
Eleonore Stump St. Louis University	January 31, 2013 "Human Flourishing and the Common Good: Aquinas on Justice"
Robert Audi University of Notre Dame	November 10, 2011 "Religious Diversity-A Challenge to Political Philosophy and Democratic Politics"
Robert Schreiter Catholic Theological Union	February 15, 2007 "Reconciliation as a Means to Overcoming Polarization"
Miroslav Volf Yale Divinity School	September 7, 2006 "Memory, Truth and Reconcilation"
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Drew University	2005-2006 “Mis Dios: Latinas’ Stories of God”
Robert Soloman University of Texas	October 3, 2005 “Emotions, Memory, Narrativity, and ‘Bad Faith’”
Richard L Schacht University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign	January 28, 2003 “Nietzsche and Human Nature”
John Cobb Claremont School of Theology	October 10, 2002 "Peril and Promise of a Shrinking Planet"
John Updike Novelist/Essayist	April 26, 2001 “An Evening with John Updike" Readings from Current Work”
Susan Sontag Fiction Writer/Essayist/Cultural Critic Harvard, City College of New York, Columbia University	December 5, 2000 “Politics and the Arts”
Peter Phan The Catholic University of America	November 18, 1999 "What if the World Will Never End"
Jaroslav Pelikan Yale University	September 17, 1998 "Continuity and Change in the Christian Tradition"
Lisa CaHill Boston College	March 20, 1997 “Euthanasia: A Theological Symposium”
James Rachels University of Alabama at Birmingham	September 26, 1996 "What is the Value of a Human Life?"
Susan Haack University of Miami	April 11, 1996 “Science as Social? – Yes and No”
Richard J. Bernstein New School for Social Research	March 19, 1996 “Hannah Arendt: ‘The Banality of Evil’ Reconsidered”
Richard Rorty University of Virginia	February 15, 1996 “Do We Need Ethical Principles?”
Alvin C. Plantinga University of Notre Dame	November 9, 1995 “An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism”
John Harwood Hick Killeen Chair Resident Scholar	April 20, 1995 "Is Christianity the Only True Religion?"
David Tracy The University of Chicago Divinity School	February 9, 1995 "The Unexpected Return of the Mystics in Contemporary Theology"
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University New York	September 28, 1994 “Disuniting of America”
Rosemary Radford Ruether Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary	May 4, 1994 “Ecofeminism and Earth Healing”
Madeleine L'Engle Author	April 14, 1993 “Story as Truth”
Rabbi Chaim Potok Author	October 29, 1992 “The Story as a Map of Meaning for the Modern World”
M. Shawn Copeland The Divinity School, Yale University	March 19, 1991 "Measuring the Moment: Is There a Future for Catholic Social Teaching?"
Rev. Charles Curran Auburn University	October 21, 1990 "The Rationale for Academic Freedom in Catholic Higher Education"
Martin E. Marty Divinity School, University of Chicago	February 18, 1988 “In the Combat Zone over U.S. Values: The Vision of One America vs. The Vision of Many Americas”
John J. McDermott Texas A&M University	October 8, 1987 “A Cultural Introduction to Philosophy”
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir Executive Secretary to the U.S. Council of Bishops	April 17, 1986 "The U.S. Bishop's Pastoral Letter on the United States Economy: The International Agenda"
Stanley Hauerwas The Divinity School, Duke University	April 15, 1985 “The Family – A School of Character?”

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