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The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events, and much more. Founded in 2009, the Thomistic

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Goodness, Truth, Beauty: The World According to Dante...

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2026/02/24

Prof. Joshua Hochschild shows how Dante’s Paradiso offers a philosophically rich, Thomistic, and Neoplatonic vision of the cosmos in which goodness, truth, beauty, and peace name both God’s own life and the ordered, participatory structure of creation that our rational desire seeks to know and love.This lecture was given on November 13th, 2025, at University of Louisiana at Lafayette.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Joshua

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Dante’s Passionate Intellect: The Divine Comedy’s...

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2026/02/23

Prof. George Corbett presents Dante’s Divine Comedy as a transformative “journey of desire” in which the passionate intellect—shaped by Virgil (reason) and Beatrice (grace)—leads the sinner from the dark wood of sin and ignorance through Hell and Purgatory to the ordered love and beatific hope of Paradise.This lecture was given on November 20th, 2025, at Trinity College Dublin.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:George

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Edith Stein and Thomism – Dr. Robert McNamara

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2026/02/20

Dr. Robert McNamara presents Edith Stein and Thomistic personalism as a unified vision in which the human face reveals the mystery of the person as both substantial “what” and subjective “who,” integrating Aquinas’s account of rational nature with phenomenological insights into consciousness, interiority, and personal encounter.This lecture was given on March 6th, 2025, at Farm Street Church.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the

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How to Avoid Being Unhappy: Gluttony and the Proper...

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2026/02/19

Prof. W. Scott Cleveland explains how food and alcohol can either undermine or promote true happiness, arguing that gluttony is a disordered desire for the pleasures of eating and drinking that disrupts health, friendship, and virtuous living rather than their proper role in a flourishing, festal life.This lecture was given on November 13th, 2025, at University of Alabama.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Professor Scott

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The Terrible Covenant of Sloth: Boredom and the...

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2026/02/18

Dr. R.J. Snell argues that the real epidemic behind student anxiety, boredom, and frenzied achievement is not laziness but sloth—a refusal of responsibility and a sadness at the divine good—that resists joy, commitment, and genuine happiness.This lecture was given on December 1st, 2025, at New York University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:R. J. Snell is Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse and Director of Academic

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Money, Pleasure, Influence and the Key to a Happy...

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2026/02/17

Fr. Gregory Pine shows how money, pleasure, and influence all fail as ultimate goals and argues that true happiness comes from living in accord with our nature as creatures made for communion with God through the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.This lecture was given on November 19th, 2025, at University of South Florida.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., is an instructor of dogmatic

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Do We Really Have a Bill of Rights? – Prof. Jerome Foss

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2026/02/16

Prof. Jerome Foss argues that what Americans call the “Bill of Rights” is not a true bill of rights but a set of constitutional amendments best understood within a Federalist—and broadly Thomistic—vision of law, liberty, and the common good that resists reducing politics to individual rights talk.This lecture was given on November 4th, 2025, at Washington & Lee University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Jerome C. Foss

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John Henry Newman's Critique of Liberalism: Lessons...

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2026/02/13

This lecture was given on October 9th, 2025, at University of Michigan.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic

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The Types of Miracles and the Possibilty of Demonic...

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2026/02/11

Fr. Anselm Ramelow explains how, in a Thomistic framework, miracles are graded by how they surpass nature and why only God can perform the highest-level miracles of creation and resurrection, while finite spirits—including demons—can produce lesser “signs” that must be carefully discerned.This lecture was given on April 5th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P., a

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Fire on the Altar: A Lecture on St. Augustine – Prof....

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2026/02/10

Prof. Chad Pecknold shows how St. Augustine’s Confessions should be read as a Catholic, sacramental account of conversion in which the “altar of the heart” is turned toward God and united to Christ’s Eucharistic sacrifice, rather than as a merely emotional, garden-conversion memoir.This lecture was given on October 7th, 2025, at Vanderbilt University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Dr. Chad C. Pecknold earned his PhD in

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Dominican Mystics of the Rhineland – Fr. Irenaeus...

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2026/02/09

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy introduces the medieval Dominican mystics of the Rhineland and, in dialogue with Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysius, shows how their often strikingly apophatic language about abyss, detachment, and “ground” can be critically integrated into a Trinitarian, Eucharistic vision of Christian mystical union.This lecture was given on May 3rd, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy,

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Catholic Women in the Arts & Sciences: An...

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2026/02/06

Dr. Bronwen McShea uncovers the rich but often forgotten history of Catholic women in the arts and sciences, showing how figures from late antiquity through the early modern period—nuns, scholars, patrons, and university professors—have long made serious intellectual and cultural contributions within the Catholic tradition.This lecture was given on October 16th, 2025, at The United States Naval Academy.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About

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The Natural Law Ethics of Killing – Prof. Christopher...

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2026/02/05

Prof. Christopher Tollefsen argues from a Thomistic natural law perspective that it is always morally wrong to intend the death of an innocent human being, contending that this absolute norm binds both private individuals and public authorities alike.This lecture was given on November 15th, 2025, at University of FloridaFor more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of

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Catholic Ethics in the Modern World – Prof. Marshall...

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2026/02/04

This lecture was given on January 23rd, 2026, at Washington & Lee University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Marshall Bierson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. His research centers on the intersection of ethics and philosophical anthropology. He is particularly focused on the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and in exploring how her Thomisticly inflected philosophical psychology

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The Scopes Trial & the Myth of Warfare between...

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2026/02/03

Prof. Kenneth Kemp reexamines the Scopes “Monkey Trial” to show that it has been mythologized into evidence of a supposed war between science and religion, arguing instead that the real conflicts concerned constitutional law, educational policy, and competing theological and philosophical visions within Christianity.This lecture was given on October 4th, 2023, at John Hopkins University .For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the

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My Life Exploring the Solar System and Worlds Beyond...

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2026/02/02

Prof. Jonathan I. Lunine recounts his life as a planetary scientist, tracing how early inspirations from Carl Sagan and the space race led to his work on major NASA missions exploring the solar system and distant worlds, from Voyager and Cassini to Juno and Europa Clipper.This lecture was given on January 14th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Jonathan Lunine is the Chief Scientist at

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Creation vs. Creationism – University of America Fr....

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2026/01/30

Fr. Dominic Legge distinguishes the classical Catholic doctrine of creation from modern creationism by showing how a robust Thomistic account of God as the transcendent cause of all being avoids conflict with evolutionary science while deepening our understanding of what it means for the world to be created.This lecture was given on October 20th, 2025, at The Catholic University of America.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the

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Vocation of a Catholic Scientist – Prof. Karin Öberg

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2026/01/29

This lecture was given on January 15th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Professor Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Caltech and her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Leiden. She has taught at Harvard since 2013, where she is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences. Her scholarship aims to uncover how chemical processes impact the outcome of planet

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What Contemporary Culture Needs to Learn from Thomas...

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2026/01/28

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explains what contemporary culture needs to learn from Thomas Aquinas, arguing for a metaphysics of communion in which God, family, Church, and society are not locked in competition but share common goods that make each more fully alive.This lecture was given on September 22nd, 2025, at University of Florida.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Michael A. Dauphinais, Ph.D., serves as the Fr. Matthew

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Flirting with Happiness: Aquinas on the Good Life –...

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2026/01/27

Fr. Alan O’Sullivan unpacks Aquinas on the good life, explaining why wealth, power, fame, and pleasure cannot be our ultimate happiness and how true beatitude is found in virtuous activity ordered to God.This lecture was given on October 23rd, 2025, at Trinity College Dublin.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.About the Speakers:Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P. (Trinity College) is currently the chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a member of

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