Faculty Summer Seminars

Since the summer of 1998 the Center for Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University has sponsored faculty summer seminars. The point of these seminars is to engage the Seton Hall faculty in interdisciplinary dialogue on issues of humanistic and religious import. The seminars have succeeded in deepening the sense of academic community among the participants. At the end of each seminar each of the participants is invited to write an article on the topic of the seminar from the point of view of his or her own discipline. These articles are collected and are published for distribution to the university and beyond. These seminars have been very well received. One faculty member spoke of it as "the best faculty development experience" she has ever had. It is our conviction that these seminars have over time had a very enriching influence on the research and teaching of our Seton Hall faculty.

The topics of and facilitators for past seminars are:

2008
"Kierkegaard and/or Catholicism: A Matter of Conjunctions"
Professor William Cahoy, Saint John's Univerisity

2007
"Post Modernism and Contemporary Thought"
Father Thomas G. Guarino, Seton Hall University
       
2006
"The Call of Two Cities: Citizenship and Christian Identity"
Professor Jeanne Heffernan, Villanova University
       
2005
"Augustine on 'Reading Culture'"
John Cavadini, Chair Department of Theology, Notre Dame University
       
2004
"What the Wind Said: The Call of Poetry"
Poet Paul Mariani and Professor John Wargacki       

2002
“Religious Horizons and the Vocation of the University"
Professor Patrick Byrne, Philosophy Department, Boston College
       
2001
“The Core of the Core: Reflections on the Core Curriculum”
J. Michael Stebbins, Director of Gonzaga Institute of Ethics, Gonzaga University
       
2000
"Spirituality and the Academic Vocation"
Professor Elizabeth Johns, Chair of the Department of Art History,
University of Pennsylvania
       
1999
 "Divine Madness: Exercises in Appreciation"
 Professor Jerome Miller, Chair of the Pilosophy Department, Salisbury State University
 
 1998
 "Wisdom and Knowledge"
 John Haughey, S.J., Professor of Social Ethics, Loyola University in Chicago