Sheila Ager lecture January 24th

[David Seljak]

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A reminder that this Friday January 24th the St. Jerome’s Lectures in Catholic Experience <https://www.sju.ca/lce> presents “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! Or have you?” featuring Dr. Sheila Ager, the Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo. In a lecture that promises to be thought-provoking, engaging and even funny, Dr. Ager demonstrates that the prejudices and discriminatory practices of the ancient world persist in the world’s societies and religions. A professor of Classical Studies, Dr. Ager is the first woman to serve as Dean of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts.

Location: Vanstone Lecture Hall, Academic Centre, St. Jerome’s University
Time: 7:30p.m. | Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Admission is free, but please register<https://ticketfi.com/event/3386/lectures-in-catholic-experience-youve-come-a-long-way-jan-24-2020>. Tickets are not required at the door.
Free parking in Lots A and B.
Refreshments served before lecture.

We hope that you will join us on January 24th!

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SPECIAL EVENT ADDED TO SERIES
Friday, March 6, 2020, 7:30 pm

The St. Jerome’s University Lectures in Catholic Experience has added a lecture to this year’s program! Not only will this lecture be inspiring and engaging, but it will highlight some of the amazing teaching that we do at SJU!

ENCOUNTERING THE MYSTICAL IMAGINATION
Friday, March 6, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Vanstone Lecture Hall, Academic Centre

In Fall 2017, Drs. Klassen and Wriglesworth took a class of 14 undergraduate students on a tour of the mystical imagination as expressed in literature, theology, and the visual arts. Their intent was to show what it means, for many writers, artists, and thinkers in the Christian tradition and elsewhere, to say that all of reality participates in the larger mystery of God. In 2018 their efforts were recognized when they were awarded the University of Waterloo's Federation of Students Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance's Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.

In response to that previous class’s excellent suggestion, Klassen and Wriglesworth are now adding notable architecture, sculpture, and experiential learning to the course, and will be teaching the class abroad in Rome in May 2020. They join us on March 6th as a special addition to the Lectures in Catholic Experience series to introduce the mystical imagination through a contemporary American poet’s reflections on his bright abyss; an Australian Catholic writer’s discovery of his Aboriginal roots; and the affirmation of language, mystery, and reason reflected in the Jewish and Christian traditions alike. We hope that you will join us!

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Norm Klassen<https://www.sju.ca/norm-klassen> is Associate Professor of English and Acting Chair of the Religious Studies Department at St. Jerome’s University. He is the author of The Fellowship of Beatific Vision, an award-winning book on Chaucer, as well as Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight. He is co-author (with Jens Zimmermann) of The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education.

Chad Wriglesworth<https://www.sju.ca/chad-wriglesworth> is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at St. Jerome's University. His research and teaching explores the interplay between contemporary American literature, theology, and environmental thought through novelists and poets such as Marilynne Robinson, Christian Wiman, Jane Kenyon, and Robert Hass. He is editor of Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder, and currently serves as associate editor of The Raymond Carver Review.

Admission is free, but please register.<https://ticketfi.com/event/3614/special-event-encountering-the-mystical-imagination>
Tickets are not required at the door.
Complimentary parking in Lots A and B is available on a first-come first-served basis.
See the Campus MAP <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/32b8faf3b62cb8f35a23e2996/files/6e52dd19-4d7d-42dd-8f3d-818021fa1711/Campus_Map_St._Jerome_s_University.pdf> for parking lot locations.

Everyone welcome!

David Seljak
Coordinator, Lectures in Catholic Experience
Professor, Department of Religious Studies

St. Jerome's University
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G3
www.sju.ca<http://www.sju.ca>








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Coming Soon in this Series<https://www.sju.ca/lectures-catholic-experience-2019-2020-series>



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A public lecture in support of St. Jerome's University’s commitment to the
HeForShe<http://www.heforshe.org/> campaign of United Nations Women<http://www.unwomen.org/en>





















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