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  • Special Events Calendar 2011-2012

    For more information about these events, please contact the Center for Dominican Studies at (614) 251-4722. Most events are free and open to the public, but registration is requested. If a fee is required, make checks payable to "Ohio Dominican University" and send to the Center's attention. Registrations (and fees, if required) must be received at least 3 days prior to the event. Thank you.

     

     

    October 5: Founders Day 100th Anniversary

    8:30-10:30AM Brunch in The Catherine of Siena Room

    11:00AM Mass, Christ the King Chapel

    7:00PM Concert: Transforming Lives through Scripture and Song, Fr. Jim Marchionda, OP and members of the ODU Family

     

    November 3      

    Life of the Mind Lecture  

    Fr. Brian Pierce, OP, Promoter of the Nuns for the Order of Preachers, Contemplative Prayer: Source of Transformation, 7:00PM, in the Colonial Room 

     

    November 15      

    Albert the Great Lecture 

    Sr. Lisa Zuccarelli, OP, PhD., Celebrating Science, 11:00AM-12:20PM in the Matesich Theatre.  

     

    November 29

    Special Public Lecture 

    Mr. John Allen, columnist for National Catholic Reporter, The Future Church, 7:00PM in the Matesich Theatre 

     

    December 1      

    Panel Discussion on “The Good Society,” the culmination of a student paper contest about different perspectives on what makes for a good society. 3:30PM-5:00PM in the Colonial Room 

     

    January 26

    Aquinas Convocation  

    Sr. Patricia Connick, OP, Ph.D., Assistant Principal, Dominican Academy, NYC, Converging Theology and Science to Transform the Modern World, 10:30AM in the Matecish Theater 

     

    February 16       

    Life of the Mind Lecture  

    Sr. Margaret Mayce, OP, Representative for Dominican Leadership Conference at the United Nations in New York, Eradicating Poverty: What is Our Role?, 7:00PM in the Colonial Room 

     

    March 21

    Special Public Lecture 

    Ms. Zeni Fox, Ph.D., Professor of Pastoral Theology, Seton Hall University, Emerging Lay Leadership in the Church, 7:00PM in the Colonial Room 

     

    April 26

    Catherine of Siena Celebration 

    6:00PM Solemn Vespers 

    7:00PM Lecture 

    Sr. Patricia Walter, OP, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Catherine of Siena: Transformed for Service to Humanity