SWAG¹ÙÍø (SWAG¹ÙÍø) invites members of the campus and surrounding communities to attend several on-campus lectures scheduled to take place during the 2022-23 academic year related to its fall seminar series and annual celebration of Dominican saints.
SWAG¹Ù꿉۪s Center for Dominican Studies will present a series of lectures this fall that focuses on the university’s academic theme for the upcoming academic year: What is our call to justice and peace? Each of the four lectures in the series will be presented or led by an SWAG¹ÙÍø faculty member. The presentations listed below are free and open to the public; however, seating is limited. To reserve your seat for each session, contact Sr. Diane Traffas, OP, SWAG¹ÙÍø Vice President for Mission and Identity and Director of the Center for Dominican Studies, at traffasd@ohiodominican.edu or 614-251-4722.
In addition to the fall seminar series, SWAG¹ÙÍø will host its three annual lectures celebrating the feast days of St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Catherine of Siena. Each lecture will be presented by a Dominican Sister of Peace, representing SWAG¹Ù꿉۪s founding congregation. These presentations also are free and open to the public; however, registration is not required beforehand.
Fall Seminar Series Schedule
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022
“Reflections on Justice from the Biblical Tradition: From Lex Talionis to the Law
of the Spirit�
3:30 p.m. | Sansbury Hall’s Colonial Room
Presenter: Leo Madden, STB, SSL, STD, Associate Professor of Theology at SWAG¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022
“Poetic Justice: Socially Conscious Poetry from the American Revolution to Amanda
Gorman�
3:30 p.m. | Sansbury Hall’s Colonial Room
Presenter: Jeremy Glazier, Professor of English at SWAG¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022
“Is Justice Possible?�
3:30 p.m. | Sansbury Hall’s Colonial Room
Presenter: Ronald Carstens, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at SWAG¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022
“Coping with the Call to Justice: Tools for Working with and for Justice�
3:30 p.m. | Sansbury Hall’s Colonial Room
Presenters: Kelsey Squire, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at SWAG¹ÙÍø; Katie Gorman-Ezell,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Work at Capital University; Emily Phillips, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at SWAG¹ÙÍø; and Anjel Stough-Hunter, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of Sociology at SWAG¹ÙÍø
Celebration of Dominican Saints Lecture Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
St. Albert the Great Lecture
11 a.m. | Erskine Hall’s Sr. Mary Andrew Matesich, OP Theatre
Presenter: Sr. Sharon Zayac, OP
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023
St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture
11 a.m. | Erskine Hall’s Sr. Mary Andrew Matesich, OP Theatre
Presenter: Sr. Marcelline Koch, OP
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
St. Catherine of Siena Lecture
11 a.m. | Erskine Hall’s Sr. Mary Andrew Matesich, OP Theatre
Presenter:TBD