Arts & Minds Fall 2020

Dominican University Stay Tuned for
Performing Arts Center &
St. Catherine of Siena Center ARTS & MINDS
THE PODCAST

FALL 2020 9.17.20

YOU WILL BE MARILYNNE
FOUND ROBINSON

Songs and Scenes BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF
Amidst Uncertainty

11.14..20

Oct.14

ENTREPRENEUR
SPEAKER SERIES

Diverse Entrepreneurs Siena Center Fall Series

Steven Rogers COMPASSION
ACROSS DISTANCE

Caring for Our Sacred and
Interconnected Community

Dominican University Performing Arts Center
& St. Catherine of Siena Center 2020 | 2021

Dear Friends,

This season of Arts & Minds programming is unlike any other, offering what we can online
and postponing concerts until it is once again safe to gather in large numbers. That said,
I believe that our virtual offerings are of the same high quality and relevance as those
presented face-to-face in previous seasons.

Events bridge academic disciplines and community interests. From a conversation with
best-selling author Marilynne Robinson to original work from our theatre arts department,
and topics ranging from racism to the environment to diversity in entrepreneurship, you are
invited to engage with some of today’s brightest minds on some of today’s toughest topics.

Please join us for these special programs. I look forward to seeing you online! In the
meantime, stay healthy.

Donna M. Carroll, President

MINI-COURSES

Explore these opportunities to study with excellent faculty, engage in lively discussion, and come
away with a richer understanding of the contemporary world.

Introduction to Interfaith Save the Date:
Leadership
JEFFREY D. SACHS, PhD
Anthony Suarez-Abraham
March 3, 2021
8-week online class runs asynchronously
from Sept. 13 to Nov. 7, 2020 Professor Sachs is
a world-renowned
Presented Online economics professor,
bestselling author,
$50 innovative educator,
and global leader
Albertus Magnus Society Mini-Course in sustainable
development. He will
Disease and the Problem of Evil address the topic of
his recent book, Ages
Stephen Meredith, MD, PhD of Globalization: Geography, Technology,
and Institutions.
Thursdays, October 1, 8, and 15; 6–7:30 p.m.

Presented Online

$50

Visit events.dom.edu/siena-center or call Rachel Hart Winter at (708) 524-6607

This season is made possible by generous support from the Helen Brach Foundation. Our season is dedicated to
Dr. Peggy Sullivan (1929-2020). A longtime friend and patron of the Siena Center, Peggy was a regular attendee and
participant at Siena events. She was one of the first individual major supporters whose gifts enabled the Center to
attract renowned speakers. Her vision thoroughly animates our work and her presence will be missed as we begin
our seventeenth year of programming.

SIENA CENTER FALL SERIES

COMPASSION ACROSS DISTANCE

Caring for Our Sacred and Interconnected Community

Our world remains in a precarious and profoundly altered state as the COVID-19 pandemic
continues, and as we acknowledge the vast implications of centuries of systemic injustice. Our lineup
of esteemed authors and scholars will illuminate a more just and humane path and help activate us
to work toward a more equitable and anti-racist society moving forward.
The St. Catherine of Siena Center of Dominican University examines critical issues of church
and society in light of faith and scholarship. The Center calls together a wide community of faith
committed to deepening insight into the role of the Christian in today’s world.

Living with the Past God’s Manhattan Project:
The Ultimate Human
Marilynne Robinson Experiment

Thursday, September 17, 7:00 p.m. Douglas Hertler

Presented Online Sunday, October 4, 4:00 p.m.

Free, registration required Presented Online
Suggested $10 donation
Free, registration required
We are delighted to welcome Marilynne Suggested $10 donation
Robinson via a virtual lecture. Robinson is a
novelist, essayist, and educator renowned for We are living in prophetic times. The call to
her contributions to both literature and religious form a more perfect union is piercing the hearts
discourse. Her New York Times bestselling of the multitude, as a nation, as a planet, as
novels, such as Gilead and Housekeeping, are the graced offspring of a most loving God. Yet
treasured around the globe. Robinson will join there remains profound resistance, violence,
us just days before her highly anticipated novel, and hatred in so many of us. What are the
Jack, is released on September 27. During this roots of this existential and destructive fear that
challenging time, we are honored to spend an is gripping the world? Is it possible to discern
evening discussing how we ought to live in this individual meaning and coherence amidst such
moment aware of the past, yet attentive to the chaos? Join us to discuss these ideas with
future. Douglas Hertler, a playwright, actor, retreat leader,
and professional NYC tour guide.

Anti-Racism, the Catholic Church,
and the Sin of White Supremacy

Tia Noelle Pratt, PhD and
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, PhD

Thursday, October 22, 6:00 p.m.

Presented Online

Free, registration required, suggested $10 donation

Join us for a conversation about the Catholic Church, anti-racism,
and the need for transformative action today. Dr. Pratt is a sociologist
specializing in systemic racism in the Catholic Church and how that
racism impacts African-American Catholic identity. Dr. Pratt is also the
curator of the #BlackCatholics Syllabus. Dr. Hill Fletcher is a professor
at Fordham University and a constructive theologian whose research is
at the intersection of systematic theology and issues related to gender,
race, and religious diversity. Her most recent book is The Sin of White
Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity
in America.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS LECTURE

Vulnerability, Interconnectedness, and
Rethinking What It Means to be Human

Daniel Horan, OFM, PhD

Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.

Presented Online

Free, registration required, suggested $10 donation

Over the centuries we have come to learn a lot about what it means to
be human from various sources including the natural and social sciences.
However, our Christian theological tradition has not always kept pace. The
recent coronavirus pandemic has further challenged our assumptions of
collective human invulnerability, as well as social and environmental progress,
raising new questions regarding how we ought to think about what it means
to be human. Dr. Horan is the Duns Scotus Chair of Spirituality at Catholic
Theological Union in Chicago.

BOX OFFICE

Event registration can be done online at
events.dom.edu

For questions, call (708) 488-5000
or email [email protected]
The onsite Box Office is closed
for the Fall semester.
Please email or call us.

Dominican University Performing Arts Center is partially funded by the Oak Park Area Arts Council, in partnership
with the Villages of Oak Park, Forest Park and River Forest, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

UNIVERSITY EVENTS

ENTREPRENEUR SPEAKER SERIES

Diverse Entrepreneurs:

An Open Dialogue about their
Challenges and Opportunities

Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 6:00 p.m.

Presented Online

Free, registration required. Registrants will
receive a link to view a live stream of the event.

At the Entrepreneur Speaker Series, today’s
innovators share their entrepreneurial journey, life
lessons, and success stories. Steven Rogers,
a former Harvard Business School professor,
author, and entrepreneur, will facilitate an open
dialogue with a diverse panel of experts.

THEATRE ARTS

YOU WILL BE FOUND

Songs and Scenes Amidst
Uncertainty

Saturday, November 14, 2020, and
available for a limited time.

Presented Online

Free, registration recommended.
Donations for local theatre artists encouraged.

YOU WILL BE FOUND, Songs and Scenes
Amidst Uncertainty is a revue from theatrical
works exploring themes of loss, change,
discrimination, faith, gratitude and hope.
Dominican students and alums express what’s
on their minds and hearts as they traverse
this unsettling time and contemplate their
futures and the future of live theatre as an art
form. See website for registration link and
performance details.

Coming Soon

ARTS & MINDS THE PODCAST

This fall, Dominican University will enter the podcast universe with content ranging from some
of our live events to new programs created exclusively to share online. Join us as we expand our
mission to participate in the creation of a more just and humane world to a broader platform and
explore today’s important issues through the lens of Arts & Minds.

Join the email list to receive details about the upcoming launch date

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2020 | 2021

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