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For the latest installment of the Women�s Dorm Talks on the California campus, presented a discussion titled �Raissa Maritain�s Adventures in Grace,� about the life of the French poet, philosopher, and wife of famed Thomist Jacques Maritain.

Speaking to a group of women in St. Bernard Hall, Dr. Rosato � an adjunct philosophy instructor at St. John�s Seminary and the wife of TAC tutor Dr. Drew Rosato � focused on Mrs. Maritain�s conversion, first from Judaism, then to atheism, and finally to the Catholic faith. �It�s a particularly dramatic and moving conversion story,� said Dr. Rosato. �Lent is coming up, and who doesn�t pause at the beginning of Lent and reflect on conversion, and on the re-conversion of hearts, and how God moves our hearts and asks us to return to Him?�

Dr. Rosato�s presentation was the fourth of this year�s Dorm Talk Series, which Resident Assistant Maura Collins (�18) organizes for the women of the College. The year�s other featured speakers have been:

• Jen Dunlap (�03): �Feeling Great and Staying Healthy in College�
• �Senior Girls on Tap� (seniors answer underclasswomen�s questions on a wide range of topics)
• Susanna Emerson:  �Pray, Hope, Don�t Worry, and Other Things I would Tell my 20-Year-Old Self�

Now in their fifth year, the Dorm Talks typically consist of a 45-minute presentation, refreshments, and a question-and-answer session that has, on occasion, run well into the night. The next event is scheduled for March 18, when tutor Dr. Andrew Seeley will speak about J.R.R. Tolkien.