Conferences

The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage offers a variety of conferences as platforms for the exposition and interchange of ideas by specialists in their own field.‌

  • Catholic Conversion Narratives in Modern Aesthetics

    In collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), the Hank Center was pleased to host this international and interdisciplinary conference exploring modern conversion narratives.

  • Andalusia in Andalucía: An International Conference on Flannery O'Connor

    Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in conjunction with the Hank Center, hosted a conference on the American writer Flannery O'Connor in Seville, Spain in June 2017.

  • Instant History: The Postwar Digital Humanities and their Legacies

    In 1949, Jesuit scholar Father Roberto Busa began to collaborate with IBM to build a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Our day-long conference explored several aspects of this legacy of Father Busa’s mid-century humanities computing, including the history of natural language processing and digital text processing, systems of textual markup and the creation of digital scholarly editions, topic modeling, and large-corpora analysis.

  • The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Heritage

    This spring, the Hank Center is sponsoring an international conference on the challenge of God. This three day conference will feature keynote addresses from major figures in the disciplines of continental philosophy and Catholic thought, as well as paper presentations and panel discussions from junior and senior scholars in these fields. Join us!

  • The Third Annual Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference: The Poles

    The third installation of the Hank Center's Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference. In 2015, in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Program in Polish Studies at Loyola University Chicago, the Hank Center looked at the Polish community in Chicago.

  • “this need to dance / this need to kneel”: The Poetry and Poetic Life of Denise Levertov

    In Fall 2015, the The Hank Center hosted an international conference devoted to the life and work of the poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997). “this need to dance / this need to kneel”: The Poetry and Poetic Life of Denise Levertov took place October 23-24, 2015 on Loyola's Water Tower Campus.

  • Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference: The Mexicans

    In November 2014 Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) launched the second in a series of conferences that focused on the historical, cultural, and religious roles that Roman Catholicism played in sustaining ethnic identity for many immigrant communities who came to Chicago in the 20th century. The 2014 Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference focused on the the Mexican immigrant community here in Chicago.

  • Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014

    From 16-18 October 2014, the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago hosted a conference marking the bicentennial of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in 1814.