Please join us on September 19th in the second floor of Decio Faculty Hall for our annual lecture, delivered this year by Michael D. Hurley, Professor of Literature and Theology at Cambridge University. Professor Hurley's title for the lecture asks an old question: "Is Poetry Divinely Inspired?" — but given his cross-disciplinary orientation in philosophy and art history, as well as theology and literature, his will be a new and wide-ranging inquiry.
We will also host two informal lunches at noon on the 19th and the 20th with Prof. Hurley in the Department of English Conference Room, 235 Decio Hall, at which all students and faculty will be welcome after sending an RSVP to Romana Huk. On the 19th, we will (over pizza) be discussing R&L's recent special issue on John Henry Newman which Prof. Hurley co-edited (and which is available for perusal in the Department of English). And on the 20th at noon, over box-lunches from Au Bon Pain, we will throw open the conversation to any topic the lunching group desires — including the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins and G. K. Chesterton, figures about whom Prof. Hurley has thought a great deal. Please contact Romana Huk if you'd like a box-lunch ordered for you.
One further informal moment of chatting with Prof. Hurley will take place on game day, Sept. 21st, at noon in the Department of English Commons. Light-lunch nibbles and beer (for those of age) will be on offer—a kind of academic tailgate! If you have no way of entering Decio when it's locked, email Romana Huk your arrival time and she or one of her graduate students will let you in.
Originally published at religionandlit.nd.edu.