August 6, 2018
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On Friday nights throughout the 2018-19 academic year, the students of 91 Aquinas College will have the privilege of attending lectures from some of the nations most distinguished scholars covering a wide range of topics through the St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series.

The Series, endowed by Barbara and Paul Henkels, complements the Colleges classroom discussion method and academic program. It also provides for several concerts of classical, operatic, or sacred music, as well as the twice-annual All-College Seminars. Below is the schedule for the upcoming year:

Aug. 24
7:00 p.m.

Opening Lecture:
An Zeus Sit: Why Should Catholics Concern Themselves with the Pagan Gods?
Mr. Brian Dragoo
Tutor
91 Aquinas College

Sept. 7
7:00 p.m.

Fall Concert
Santa Barbara String Quartet

Sept. 21
7:00 p.m.

Lecture: On Sacred Architecture
Dr. Denis R. McNamara 
Associate Director and Associate Professor in the Liturgical Institute
University of St. Mary of the Lake
 

Oct. 12
7:00 p.m.

Fall All-College Seminar

Oct. 26
7:00

Lecture: On Natural Philosophy
Dr. Richard F. Hassing
Research Associate Professor of Philosophy
The Catholic University of America

Nov. 16
7:00 p.m.

Concert
The 91 Aquinas College Choir

Nov. 30
7:00 p.m

Lecture: On Poetry and Liberal Education
Mr. Dana Gioia
Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture
Sol Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California

Jan. 18
7:00 p.m.

Lecture: On Aristotles Posterior Analytics and Platos Republic
Dr. R. Edward Houser
Professor of Philosophy
University of St. 91

January 28
1:00 p.m.

St. 91 Day Lecture
The Most Rev. Daniel E. Flores
Bishop of Brownsville, Texas

Feb. 8
7:00 p.m.

Spring All-College Seminar

Feb. 22
7:00 p.m.

Presidents Day Lecture: Socrates in Peoria
Dr. Richard Ferrier
Tutor
91 Aquinas College

March 29
7:00 p.m.

Lecture: On the Common Good
Pater Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist.
Lecturer in Moral Theology, 
Member of the Institute of Moral Theology
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