The 2024 Zahm lecture brings Dr. Vandana Shiva, one of the foremost voices in environmental activism, to our campus to expand on that insight and advocate for “Earth Democracy.” An author of over 20 books, Shiva is also a scholar, environmental activist, ecofeminist, and a food sovereignty and anti-globalization advocate based in Delhi. (Read More).
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Vandana Shiva In Person at UP for the 2024 Zahm Lecture! (Sep. 10)
Don’t miss this special evening with Dr. Vandana Shiva for her talk “Earth Democracy: The Democracy of All Life.” Dr. Shiva is the author of over 20 books and was identified by Time Magazine as an environmental “hero” and by Forbes Magazine as one of the “Seven most Powerful Women on the Globe”. (Read More).
2023 Zahm Lecture Now Available Online
The 2023 Zahm lecture “Faith, Race, and Justice” with author, religious commentator, and public scholar Gloria Purvis, is now available to watch on the Garaventa Center website. (Read More)
Annual Zahm Lecture: “I’m Done Being Polite! Truth Telling in Education” with Dr. Cecilia González-Andrieu (Sept. 14)
Join us onWednesday, September 14, at 5 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Auditorium (Dundon-Berchtold 004) for the 2022 Annual Zahm lecture as Dr. González-Andrieu explores themes of social justice, hope, truth, and not letting beauty get lost in the shuffle. Cecilia González-Andrieu is professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University, where she also works on multiple […]
Save the Date: 2020 Zahm Lecture, Sept. 16
Gintaras Duda, Catholic cosmologist and chair of physics at Creighton University, will present the 2020 Zahm Lecture entitled, “From the Big Bang to The Saint John’s Bible: The Role of Astonishment in a Scientist’s Journey to Integrate Faith and Reason.” The event is free and open to the public. Here’s the link to join the […]
“Cosmology, Catholicity, & Consciousness” with Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
Presenting this week’s brain food-packed podcast from the Garaventa Center vault: “Cosmology, Catholicity & Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters” by brilliant polymath Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF. Taking her cue from Laudato Si’, Sr. Delio explores a new understanding of catholicity today by drawing on insights from quantum physics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology and the nascence of […]
Final Chance to Hear Marilynne Robinson’s Zahm Lecture
UP received permission to record Marilynne Robinson’s 2019 Zahm Lecture, “Wisdom and Knowledge,”and make it available only to the campus community for 30 days following her public address. That period ends this Friday, October 11; at that point this link will no longer be active. Robinson’s lecture will be published (with the Zahm and UP affiliation […]
Marilynne Robinson to offer Zahm Lecture, Sept. 11
Renowned author and Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson will present the 2019 Zahm Lecture, “Wisdom and Knowledge,” on Wednesday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m., in the Chiles Center. Robinson will touch upon the roles of wonder, grace, and imagination to explore intersections and disconnects between knowledge and wisdom in this lecture that is free and […]
2018 Zahm Lecture, Sept. 12
Thomas Landy will present the 2018 Zahm Lecture, “A Guide to College in 8 Contradictions,” on Wednesday, September 12, at 7:15 p.m. in Buckley Center Auditorium. The talk is sponsored by the Garaventa Center, and is free and open to the public. In his talk Landy asks, at a time when people have extraordinary access […]
2017 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education, Sept. 6
The 2017 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Wednesday, September 6, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Christine Firer Hinze, PhD, Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham University, will present “Against the Grain: Could Zeal for Solidarity be UP’s Gift for our Fractious Time?” The Zahm Lecture is free and […]