Franciscan Studies Public Lectures 2021
Two public Franciscan Studies Lectures are taking place this May, both to be hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University.
Tickets are £5 each* and more details and registration are available at https://centreforcatholicstudies.eventbrite.com.
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Wednesday 19 May
Prof. Jacques Dalarun
Clare of Assisi and Thomas of Celano: An Essential Relationship
6pm-7.30pm BST (UK time), online
Prof. Jacques Dalarun is a medieval historian, member of the Institut de France, and a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Recognised as a leading scholar in Francisan studies, he has published numerous books on Francis and Clare, and has discovered new medieval sources, including another Life of St Francis of Assisiby Thomas of Celano. He has an honorary doctorate from the Franciscan School of Theology (San Diego, CA), and has been awarded the Franciscan Institute Medal from St Bonaventure University (NY).
Wednesday 26 May
Sr Prof. Ilia Delio OSF
Teilhard’s Evolution and the Body of Christ
Annual Teilhard Lecture, supported by the British Teilhard Network
6pm-7.30pm BST (UK time), online
Ilia Delio OSF holds the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova University. Her area of research is Systematic-Constructive theology with a focus on evolution, quantum physics and artificial intelligence and the import of these for Christian doctrine and life. She is the author of twenty-three books including Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness—a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize—and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love, for which she won the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award in Faith and Science. She is founder of the Center for Christogenesis, an online spiritual and educational resource for the integration of science, religion and culture.
*Bursaries are available – please contact ccs.admin@durham.ac.uk to enquire.
*Those taking part in the Francis and Clare module of the Franciscan Studies Summer School already have a place for Jacques Dalarun’s lecture and don’t need to register for that lecture separately. Those taking part in the Franciscan Global Vision module of the Franciscan Studies Summer School already have a place for Sr Ilia Delio’s lecture and don’t need to register for that lecture separately.