McCormick Chair Events and Lectures Archive
Spring 2016
April 18-19, 2016
4th International McCormicks Ethics Colloquium
"Healing the Wounds of Violence: How to Understand and Respond to Religious and Political Violence"
Keynote Speaker: Fr. Michael Pfleger
Coffey Hall- McCormick Lounge
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Catholic Moral Theology, the Loyola Theology Department, and the Centetr for the Human Rights of Children
Spring 2014
Thursday, April 16, 2014, 4 p.m.
McCormick Chair Lecture and Colloquium
Responsibility and the Integrity of Life
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School
Information Commons, 4th Floor
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Fall 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Lecture
''Storytelling as Sword and Shield: Oak Creek and Supermax - Two Case Studies''
Valarie Kaur
Damen Student Center MPR North
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Thursday and Friday, November 14 & 15, 2013
Conference
''U.S. Energy and Environment: Science, Ethics, & Public Policies''
James Balog, Founder & Director, Extreme Ice Survey, Founder, Earth Vision Trust
Knut Nadelhoffer, University of Michigan
Larry Rasumussen, Union Theological Seminary
Emmanuel Agius, University of Malta
Howard Learner, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Donald Wuebbels, University of Illinois
Jame Schaefer, Marquette University
Jo Ann Rooney Hall
Organized by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Catholic Moral Theology, the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the Department of Theology, and the College of Arts and Sciences
Spring 2013
Monday–Wednesday, March 18–20, 2013
Colloquium
2nd International McCormick Chair Ethics Colloquium
''Christianity in a Pluralistic Society''
Water Tower Campus, Lewis Towers
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Theologisches Forschungskolleg Erfurt
Monday, March 18, 2013
Lecture
''Blessed are the Peacemakers?''
Robin Lovin
4th Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Theologisches Forschungskolleg Erfurt
Friday, February 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.
Graduate Student Seminar
"Human Dignity in Applied Ethics"
Marcus Duewell
Coffey-McCormick Lounge
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Thursday, February 7, 2013, 3–5 p.m.
Lecture
"Human Dignity as the Basis of Human Rights"
Marcus Duewell
IC Commons, 4th Floor
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
Fall 2012
Thursday & Friday, October 12, 2012
Conference
10th Annual Conference on Contemporary Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Neiswanger Institute, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
(The Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair of Catholic Moral Theology is sponsoring the attendance at the conference of a group of German health care chaplains from the International Project on Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy. In addition, a task force meeting of the project will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 3–5 p.m. to explore possibilities of collaboration with Loyola University Chicago.)
Spring 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4–5:30 p.m.
Lecture
"Anatheism: A Poetics of the Sacred"
Richard Kearney
Coffey—McCormick Lounge
Audio
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Graduate Student Seminar
"Narrative and Catharsis"
Richard Kearney
Simpson Living-Learning Center Multipurpose Room
Audio
Fall 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
The First Annual Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Catholic Moral Theology Graduate Student Colloquium
Water Tower Campus, Terry Center, 3rd Floor
Friday, November 11, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
The First Annual Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Moral Theology Lecture
"Experiential Ethics"
Dietmar Mieth
Simpson Living-Learning Center
