Collegium Institute 2022 Annual Newman Lecture: Dermot Moran On Education

111 S 38th,Philadelphia PA 19104

22 February, 2022

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Collegium Institute is pleased to welcome Prof. Dermot Moran of Boston College to deliver this year’s Annual Newman Lecture. Collegium Institute, together with the Penn Catholic Newman Community, welcomes Prof. Dermot Moran to deliver this year’s Annual Newman Lecture. Prof. Moran is the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College, where his research areas include medieval Christian philosophy and contemporary European philosophy, especially phenomenology. Prof. Moran was previously Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic) at University College Dublin and has been Visiting Professor at Yale University, Northwestern University, Rice University, and Connecticut College. He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2012, and an Honorary Doctoral Degree from the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens in 2015.  He is Honorary Professor at Wuhan University, Nankai University, and Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou. Prof. Moran is the author of 9 monographs, 1 co-authored book, 15 edited books, 50 peer-refereed journal articles, and more than 120 book chapters and encyclopedia entries. Prof. Moran’s lecture for Collegium Institute will be on Edith Stein and John Henry Newman on Christian education and the university. Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Time: 7:00 p.m. EST Location: Penn Newman Center111 S 38th St.Philadelphia, PA 19104 Registration: This event is free and open to the public. The event organizers will heed whatever COVID-19 guidelines are in place for the city of Philadelphia at the time of the event. Please click the "Register" button to RSVP. If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at [email protected]. Founded by faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the University of Pennsylvania, the Collegium Institute is an independent scholarly foundation that draws academic learning into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition. In so doing, it cultivates reflection on "catholic" or universal questions and on the unity of truth across the disciplines.