Lecture/Literary
Fairfield offers a vibrant array of lectures and literary events by some of the world's most respected thinkers, authors, and scholars.
Free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
In addition to individual academic lectures presented throughout the year, Fairfield University sponsors two major lecture/literary series annually. The Open VISIONS Forum - a lively and engaging series featuring today's trendsetters in the worlds of art, film, literature, media and politics and The Inspired Writer Series - a distinguished author lecture series sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
2012-13 Academic Year
Dr. Stefan Pryor: "Urban Educational Reform"
Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Dr. Francine Cardman
The 12th Annual Anne Drummey O'Callaghan Lecture on Women in the Church
Center for Catholic Studies
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: "Out of the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews"
The Annual Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Msgr. Stephen Rossetti: "Why Priests Are Happy"
Center for Catholic Studies
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Dr. Alan Cooper: "Do Jews Believe in Original Sin?"
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Jo Yarrington: "The Falling Edge: Iceland, Venezuela, Bhutan
A Discourse on Place as a Destination"
Robert Wall Award Lecture and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
6 p.m.
Shara McCallum, poetry reading
Winner of the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012
6:30 p.m.
DSB Dining Room
Free and open to the public
Contact Dr. Emily Orlando
Stephen Schneck: American Catholic Citizenship: 2012
The 19th Annual Christopher F. Mooney, S.J. Lecture in Theology, Religion, & Society
Center for Catholic Studies
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012
8 p.m.
The Crossing the BLVD projectJudith Sloan and Warren Lehrer of EarSay
Monday, Nov. 5, 2012
6 p.m.
Rev. Tom Lucas, S.J."From Space to Place: The Landscape of Jesuit Higher Education"
Center for Catholic Studies
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012
8 p.m.
"The Elusiveness of God in a Wary Age", Paul Crowley, S.J., Santa Clara University
The 2013 Bellarmine Lecture
Center for Catholic Studies
Wednesday, Feb. 13,
8 p.m.
"Age to Age: Generations of Faith"
A concert event with Steve Angrisano, Dan Schutte, and Curtis Stephan
Center for Catholic Studies
Friday, Feb. 15,
7:30 p.m.
Dr. Rebecca Alpert: "Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball"
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
7:30 p.m.
"Facing Jewish Identity Through Images, Style, Color and Content", Audrey Flack
The Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Monday, March 4
7:30 p.m.
Theater Performance: The Visitor
Stage reading of the play, The Visitor, by Carol K. Mack
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Tuesday, March 19
8 p.m.
"When Catholics Change Their Minds about Faith: Disaffiliation and 'Deconversion' in the Church Today"
Patrick Hornbeck an Tom Beaudoin, Fordham Univ.
Center for Catholic Studies
Wednesday, March 20
8 p.m.
"Understanding Israel and the Middle East," Bob Simon
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies
Thursday, April 4
7 p.m.
7 p.m.
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service, Allen Bell
Speaker: Son of Aron (Bielski) Bell, whose resistance to the Nazis was the subject of the film Defiance.
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Wednesday, April 10
4:30 p.m.
"Opening Your Eyes to This Place"Judith Dupré
Wednesday, April 10
6 p.m.
"Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love", Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, Fordham Univ.
The 7th Annual Commonweal Lecture
Center for Catholic Studies
Wednesday, April 17
8 p.m.
"Today's Catholics, Tomorrow's Church"
Special lecture hosted by Religious Studies students
Wednesday, April 24