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Zahm Lecture

2016 Zahm Lecture Podcast Now Available

cosmos-002The Garaventa Center has received many requests for access to the recent Zahm Lecture by Sister Ilia Delio OSF, “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters.” A downloadable podcast of that talk, as well as most of the other talks from recent years, is available in the Archives section of the  Center’s website at www.up.edu/garaventa. Follow this direct link for the 2016 Zahm Lecture, and while you’re there, check out Fr. Charlie’s weekly reflections on the Sunday Mass readings and talks by many of the speakers hosted by the Garaventa Center in the past three years.

2015 Zahm Lecture Features Author Tim Egan, Sept. 17

eganThe 2015 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 17, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Best-selling author Tim Egan, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, will present “Francis and Francis: How a Pope and Saint Changed the World, One Heart at a Time.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Egan, a resident of Seattle, is the Northwest correspondent for The New York Times and columnist for the NYT’s weekly “Opinionator.” In 2006, Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation’s highest literary honor, for The Worst Hard Time, a history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series “How Race Is Lived in America.”

The Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education was established in 1999 to honor Fr. John Zahm, C.S.C., an eminent Holy Cross priest/scientist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Zahm, superior of the Holy Cross in America when the University was founded in 1901, contributed counsel, money, and Holy Cross men to the nascent University. The Zahm lecture honors both his memory and the legacy of Holy Cross priests and brothers on The Bluff by addressing important issues surrounding American Catholic education.

For more information, contact Sarah Nuxoll, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

2014 Zahm Lecture Features Fr. Kevin Grove, C.S.C.

groveThe 2014 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 11, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Rev. Kevin G. Grove, C.S.C., will present “Memory, Desire and Searching for God.” His lecture is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public; refreshments will be served. The Zahm Lecture serves as the keynote for the University’s academic year.

Father Grove is a Gates Scholar and is studying philosophical theology at the University of Cambridge. Using resources from Scripture and the writings of St. Augustine, his presentation will explore two of the most important ways people attempt to describe how it is we can know and experience God: memory and desire. He is co-editor of The Cross, Our Only Hope, a collection of spiritual reflections of Holy Cross priests and brothers on their religious order, and is the author of You Have Redeemed the World and the recently published Basil Moreau: Essential Writings.

The Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education was established in 1999 to honor Fr. John Zahm, C.S.C., an eminent Holy Cross priest/scientist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Zahm, superior of the Holy Cross in America when the University was founded in 1901, contributed counsel, money, and Holy Cross men to the nascent University. The Zahm lecture honors both his memory and the legacy of Holy Cross priests and brothers on The Bluff by addressing important issues surrounding American Catholic education.

For more information, please contact Karen Eifler, eifler@up.edu, co-director of the Garaventa Center, which hosts the lecture.

Jud Newborn, Zahm Lecture

1aZahmLecture150Renowned author and cultural anthropologist Jud Newborn will deliver the Zahm Lecture, the keynote address for the University of Portland’s academic year, on Thursday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Newborn’s presentation, “Speaking Truth to Power,” is about heroes in the fight for human rights in the present day, and highlights the 70th anniversary of the student-led White Rose anti-Nazi resistance movement. His multimedia presentations, which include images, music, and dramatic readings, have been lauded by publications such as Lifestyles Magazine as having “dramatic power and a deeply felt passion that leaves his audiences both moved and exhilarated.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

The White Rose was the name of a group of students whose activities made up one of the few effective protest movements against Nazi Germany by German citizens. Newborn has written for both The New York Times and Jerusalem Post and helped build New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, serving as its founding historian and curator. He currently serves as Special Projects Curator for the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

The Zahm Lecture was established in 1999 to honor Rev. John Zahm, C.S.C., who, in his position as superior of the Holy Cross in America when the University was founded in 1901, contributed counsel, money, and Holy Cross men to the University. Previous Zahm lecturers include former Newsweek religion editor Ken Woodward, and science writer and Stonehill College professor emeritus of physics Chet Raymo. For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.