Welcome to the Siena Center Wiki! Below you will find a list of upcoming events and links to pages of books and articles centered around the subject matter of these events. The Siena Center is grateful to our colleagues in the Rebecca Crown Library for creating this outstanding resource. Enjoy!
ENVISIONING GRACE: THE SACRAMENTAL IMAGINATION IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Biblography of Children's Literature: This companion piece to our series was created by Dominican University faculty members Janice del Negro, assistant professor of Library Science and Therese Hogan, associate professor of Special Education and director of Special Education Programs.
International Film Festival
Monday, September 14 through Thursday, September 17, 2009 / 6:30 pm / Priory Auditorium
Monday, September 14 Babettes Gæstebud (“Babette’s Fest,” Danish,1987) with Sr. Kate Dooley, OP and Dr. Richard Calabrese
Tuesday, September 15 Ponette (“Ponette,” French, 1996) with Dr. Laura Burch and Dr. Elizabeth Jeep
Wednesday, September 16 El Laberinto del Fauno (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” Spanish, 2006) with Dr. Lisa Petrov
Thursday, September 17 La Notte di San Lorenzo (“The Night of the Shooting Stars,” Italian, 1982) with Dr. Veena Carlson
Gertrud Mueller Nelson
Hidden in Plain Sight: Imagination and the Discovery of Grace
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 / 7:00pm
Dan Anderson and Chad Rohman
Irony and Mystery: Writers of the South
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 / 11:30 am – 12:45 pm / Springer Suite
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Priory Auditorium
Sr. Clemente Davlin, OP and Tonia Triggiano
Dante’s Sacramental Imagination
Thursday, October 29, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Bluhm Lecture Hall
Patrick McCormick
Advent Program: It’s a Wonderful Village: Bedford Falls as the Promised Land
Sunday, December 6, 2009 / 1:00 pm / Priory Auditorium / Families welcome!
Monday, December 7, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Priory Auditorium
Robert Hanning
Prudential Penitence
Thursday, February 18, 2010 / 7:00pm / Bluhm Lecture Hall
Kathy Heskin and G. B. Starr-Bresette
Lent Program: Smoke Signals: Fire and Reconciliation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 6:30 pm / Priory Auditorium
Paul Mariani
“What the blind beseeching eye has found”: Poetry and the Sacramental Imagination
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 / 7:00 pm / Priory Auditorium
Colleen Carpenter Cullinan
St. Catherine of Siena Lecture: Okapis by Moonlight: Sacramental Witness in Women’s Writing
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 / 7:00 pm prayer, Priory Chapel / 7:30 pm Lecture, Priory Auditorium
Janice Del Negro and Therese Hogan
A Well-Told Tale
Sunday, May 16, 2010 / 1:00 pm / Priory Auditorium
HEALTH, HEALING AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT: RELIGION AND SCIENCE IN CONVERSATION EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE ALBERTUS MAGNUS SOCIETY OF THE SIENA CENTER
Richard Woods, OP
Wellbeing: Expanding Horizons in Health, Faith, and Medicine
Thursday, September 24, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Priory Room 263
Margaret Pasquesi, MA, CM-Th and Tony Pedersen, CM-Th
Music-Thanatology: Blending Art and Science at the End of Life
Thursday, October 22, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Priory Room 263
Hugh McElwain
Neurotheology: Looking for a “Both/And” Theory of Brain and Consciousness
Thursday, January 21, 2010 / 7:00 pm / Priory Room 263
Kelly Bulkeley
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Human Health
Thursday, February 11, 2010 / 7:00 pm /Priory Room 263
Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, Ph.D.
Spiritual Issues in the Care of the Dying
Thursday, March 18, 2010 / 7:00 pm / Priory Room 263
Alejandro Fernandez L. Ac. MSOM, NMD and Tim Sperduto
Seeking Clarity on Eastern Medical Techniques
Thursday, April 22, 2010 / 7:00 pm / Priory Room 263
SPECIAL EVENTS
Tom McGonigle, OP
Mazzuchelli Lecture: Samuel Mazzuchelli: Model of Dominican Service
Thursday, November 5, 2009 / 5:00 pm / Eloise Martin Recital Hall
Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
Albertus Magnus Lecture: Deep Incarnation: Prepare for Astonishment
Thursday, November 19, 2009 / 7:00 pm / Priory Auditorium
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP
Caritas et Veritas Lecture: What the Saint and Poets See (Maybe): Human Life as Sacrament
Thursday, January 28, 2010 / TBD