SPRING 2025 EVENTS

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  Multiple Dates

  Wed, Mar 26

  Graduate Students Book Club

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  Austin Institute

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  Mar 26, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

  Austin Institute , 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Join Professor John Greil, a law faculty member at UT, for an exclusive discussion of Josef Pieper's book "Leisure: The Basis of Culture." This event is specifically for graduate students and will take place during Lent.

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  Multiple Dates

  Wed, Mar 26

  What's Good About (and What Is) Marriage?

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  Austin

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  Mar 26, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  Austin, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Join us to explore whether the family—a lasting union of a man and a woman open to life—is essential for a thriving community.

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  Fri, Mar 28

  Lunch Talk with Dr. Anna Moreland "Thomas Aquinas on the Scope and Limits of Forgiveness"

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  UT, Robert Rowling Hall 5.402

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  Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

  UT, Robert Rowling Hall 5.402, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Dr. Moreland will examine Anna Karenina through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas on the theological virtue of charity.

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  Multiple Dates

  Wed, Apr 02

  “Being Human: Graduate and Undergraduates reading seminar”

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  Austin Institute

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  Apr 02, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

  Austin Institute, 3298-3200 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  In this reading group, taking our cue from the volume, we will explore what it means to be human. We will look at some of the great statements on the basic objects of human desire, whether it makes sense to desire perfection, and whether it makes sense to want to be immortal.

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  Thu, Apr 03

  "Is It Rational to Believe? Why Unbelief Is Irrational"

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  Austin Institute

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  Apr 03, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  Austin Institute, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Is it rational to believe in revealed religion? Many skeptics argue that the diversity of religious claims undermines any confidence in knowing which one is true. Others suggest that since everyone thinks they are right, no one can be.

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  Multiple Dates

  Wed, Apr 09

  What's Good About (an What Is) Marriage?

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  Austin

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  Apr 09, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  Austin, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Join us to explore whether the family—a lasting union of a man and a woman open to life—is essential for a thriving community.

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  Thu, Apr 10

  Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and the Truth of the Human Person

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  UT, Robert Rowling Hall 3.406

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  Apr 10, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

  UT, Robert Rowling Hall 3.406, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Perhaps the most fundamental themes in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov are the struggle to disclose the truth of human nature and the way in which social life must be rooted in the truth of what it is to be a person.

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  Multiple Dates

  Thu, Apr 10

  "The Good Life" Fiction Reading Group

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  Stumberg Hall

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  Apr 10, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

  Usually described as "Italy’s greatest novel," The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together. You do not want to miss it!

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  Fri, Apr 11

  Getting Away With It? The Natural Consequences Of Moral Wrong

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  Garrison Hall, 0.102

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  Apr 11, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

  Garrison Hall, 0.102, E Mall, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  Don’t miss this panel discussion featuring professors Dr. J Budziszewski and Dr. Scott J. Roniger, who will explore whether it is truly possible to avoid the natural consequences of wrongdoing.

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