Wyoming Catholic College’s theology curriculum

Peter Kwasniewski of Wyoming Catholic College draws our attention to that college’s theology curriculum. He writes:

Dear Thomistica.net,
Recently Wyoming Catholic College has posted on our website the revised theology curriculum our students will follow during their four-year B.A. in Liberal Arts program.  Readers of Thomistica.net will no doubt find compelling the curriculum’s rootedness in Scripture and Tradition, and its rich selection of classic readings in the Fathers and Doctors, Popes and Councils, from St. Peter and Nicaea I to Benedict XVI and Vatican II.  The guiding principles are profoundly Thomistic and St. Thomas himself is featured in seven of eight semesters.

To locate the theology curriculum on our website, go to the home page (www.wyomingcatholiccollege.com), select the feature button “Academics,” choose the second item “Catalog,” and in the little box under “WCC Catalog,” choose “Theology Curriculum” followed by Go.

Good luck to Peter and the faculty at this great new enterprise.

Notre Dame: CARA Summer Latin Scholarship

Interested in working on your medieval Latin?

The Medieval Academy generously supports the study of medieval Latin by funding two scholarships through CARA which may be used for course work at the University of Notre Dame during its summer session.

The application deadline of April 25 is approaching. Please alert potential students at your institution about this program and encourage them to apply.

Two students (graduate-level or qualified undergraduates) taking "Medieval Latin" or "Paleography" for credit will be awarded full tuition scholarships. Scholarship applicants must be student members of the Medieval Academy. To apply for one of these scholarships, please send a letter of intent, two letters of recommendation, and a transcript to the address below. The deadline for Summer 2006 is April 25, 2006.

CARA Summer Scholarships
Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629

Course descriptions are available, as is information about summer registration, application fees, housing, etc. If you need further details, please feel free to contact:

Roberta Baranowski Assistant Director
Medieval Institute University of Notre Dame
715 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-8304 (telephone)
(574) 631-8644 (fax)

The Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: Schedule

Sponsored by the Marquette University Department of Philosophy (website), Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI).

Fall 2005 Schedule:

• September 16-17, 2005: The Third Midwestern Conference in Medieval Philosophy.
• November 5, 2005, 2-3:30 pm: Aquinas and the Arabs: A Text Seminar. Richard C. Taylor on Thomas Aquinas: In 4 Sent, d.49, q.2, a.1, Resp. See texts. Location: Alumni Memorial Union 131
• November 10, 2005, 6 pm: Josep Puig Montada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Ethics and Politics in Averroes. Location Alumni Memorial Union 254. Also: Friday, November 11, 2005, 2:00 pm: "Necessity, Possibility and Potency in Averroes." Location: Alumni Memorial Union 227
• December 3, 2005, 1 pm: Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University, "A Man for All Reasons: Maimonides’ Account of the Ritual Commandments." Location: Alumni Memorial Union 313

Spring 2006 Schedule:

Forthcoming…

Call for Applications

The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy invites applications for the presentation of a paper in Ancient or Medieval Philosophy at a meeting of the Seminar on Thursday, March 30, 2006. (Due to a very active Spring term in the Marquette Philosophy Department, at present it appears that the seminar will have to be scheduled for March 30. 2006.) For the Winter/Spring term there will be one award. The presenter will be reimbursed up to $500 maximum for travel, room and board expenses only. In most cases this amount will cover all expenses for presenters from North America although applications from elsewhere are welcome. Past participants have come from the US, Canada, England, Israel, Italy and Finland. Deadline: December 1, 2005. Decision by December 20.

The presenter, as well as any visiting scholar, is welcome to make use of Marquette University’s Library which houses one of the finest collections of philosophical materials on Ancient and Medieval thought in the Mid-West. Available electronic resources include: Patrologia Latina; CETEDOC; Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; Past Masters; International Medieval Bibliography; Index Thomisticus; Philosophers’ Index; Index Islamicus; Encyclopaedia of Islam; Encyclopaedia Judaica, and many others (see listing).

Marquette University Faculty Participants:

• Owen Goldin (Ancient)
• Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics)
• John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism)
• James South (Late Medieval & Renaissance)
• Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology)
• Richard C. Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic)
• Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion)
• David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas)

and others from Marquette and other regional universities. Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included:

• Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute)
• Alfred Ivry (New York University)
• Thomas Williams (University of Iowa)
• Eugene Garver (Saint John’s University)
• Patricia Curd (Purdue University)
• Cristina D’Ancona (Università di Padova)
• John Sisko (College of William and Mary)
• Jeffrey E. Brower (Purdue University)
• Mary J. Sirridge (Lousiana State University)
• Richard Tierney (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
• Kenneth Seeskin (Northwestern University)
• Ruth Glassner (Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem)
• Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan University)
• Ray Weiss (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
• Hye-Kyung Kim (University of Wisconsin at Green Bay)
• Lorraine Pangle (University of Texas at Austin)

Application Procedure

Send a précis of the proposed presentation with cover letter and cv. Applications from advanced graduate students are welcome but must include a letter of support from the student’s dissertation director.  NOTE: E-mail applications are preferred. Submit applications or requests for information to:

Richard C. Taylor
Department of Philosophy, Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA.
Email: mistertea@mac.com
Alternate email: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu
Telephone: (414)-288-5649. Fax: (414) 288-3010

NEH Summer Seminar 2006: The Seven Deadly Sins

Want to learn cool stuff in a cool place, and get paid for it? Read on.

The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages

An NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers at Darwin College, University of Cambridge (17 July - 18 August 2006 [5 weeks] see web site here.).

This seminar will examine the cultural construction of moral thought in the Middle Ages using the categories of the Seven Deadly Sins, critically review recent scholarship on the sins, and make maximum use of the unique manuscript, research, and human resources available in Cambridge. The seminar will seek to deepen the participants’ appreciation for the ways in which the conception of morality in the Middle Ages was a response to varying cultural factors, and will make the study of the sins available for inclusion in the participants’ regular college instruction. The format of the seminar will combine individual presentations, guest lectures, and excursions to manuscript collections in Cambridge and to illuminations of the sins in St Mary’s Church, Hardwick (Cambridgeshire) and churches in Hessett and Stanningfield (Suffolk).

The Seven Deadly SinsThe seminar will be directed by Richard G. Newhauser, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Trinity University (San Antonio) and will feature lectures by the following faculty:

• Richard Beadle, Department of English, University of Cambridge
• István Bejczy, Department of History, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland
• David Ganz, Department of English and Classics, King’s College University of London
• Miriam Gill, Department of Art History, University of Leicester
• Nigel Harris, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham
• Sylvia Huot, Department of French, University of Cambridge
• Ed Peters, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
• Siegfried Wenzel (Emer.), Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

This seminar means to attract participants from a wide variety of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Participants will receive a stipend of $ 3,600. DEADLINE for applications: March 1, 2006. For information and application materials go to the web site.

The International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria

Peter A. Kwasniewski, Dean and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria, reminded me recently that “the International Theological Institute offers one of the most rigorous Thomistic theological formations available at a pontifical institute. We grant the STB and STL, and in the future hope to grant the pontifical doctorate as well. Courses for the last two years of the STB program are almost entirely treatises from the Summa theologiae.” The impressive and detailed overview can be found here.

Two Medieval Academy fellowships to the summer Latin program at Notre Dame

The Medieval Academy of America, through the Committee on Centers and Research Associations (CARA), offers 2 summer fellowships to students studying Medieval Latin or Paleography at the University of Notre Dame. The fellowship covers tuition for one course for credit. Applicants must hold student memberships in the Medieval Academy.

Application details are available at: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/programs/summer.html.

Medieval Institute at Notre Dame offers summer courses (languages, paleography)

The Medieval Institute is pleased to offer summer courses in medieval languages and paleography to graduate students and to qualified undergraduates from Notre Dame and all across the country. Offerings are also available in other fields. While in summer residence, students have access to the bountiful resources of the Medieval Institute and its renowned library.

Most summer courses run from mid-June to the beginning of August, an ideal time to enjoy the luxury of uninterrupted study in the pastoral setting of the Notre Dame campus. Participants in the summer program benefit both from the expertise and commitment to their disciplines that our summer faculty members bring to their teaching, and from the smaller enrollments and shorter, concentrated duration of most summer classes, which also permit sustained and frequent contact between student and teacher. While graduate students, especially, find the summer program to be an ideal opportunity to acquire the skills they need for their programs, these classes also appeal to others imbued with a love of the Middle Ages.

Medieval Latin and Paleography, both seven-week courses are taught by Frank A. C. Mantello, professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America. Several other language courses are also offered at Notre Dame by both the Medieval Institute and the University’s Summer Institute in Ancient and Medieval Languages.

The Medieval Institute has the privilege of offering two CARA scholarships for summer Latin or paleography study, thanks to the Medieval Academy. See the application details.

Applicants for the summer session at Notre Dame should consult http://www.nd.edu/~sumsess/ for information regarding tuition, fees, housing, and registration.