Veritatis Splendor

Our Speakers Series will return in the 2024-25 school with six new speakers. Please refer to the schedule of events below. 

Dr. Dwight Lindley

A Christmas Carol to Re-Enchant the World
November 19, 2024 in the Sojourner Truth Auditorium

Event starts at 6 PM with a reception in the Old Narthex, Siebenthaler Campus

Followed by the talk at 7 PM in the Sojourner Truth Auditorium, Siebenthaler Campus

About the Speaker

Dr. Dwight Lindley is the Barbara Longway Briggs Chair in English Literature at Hillsdale College . He teaches courses in the Great Books, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and has published essays and articles on Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, and others. He lives in Hillsdale, Michigan with his wife Emma, and their nine children. 

About the Veritatis Splendor Speakers Series

Through the Veritatis Splendor Speakers Series (Latin for “Splendor of Truth”), CLASSICAL will be inviting nationally recognized speakers to address thought-provoking topics related to our mission of promoting moral character and civic virtue through a content-rich education in the classical liberal arts and sciences. The aim of the speaker series is not merely to deepen the knowledge and involvement of CLASSICAL’s immediate school community, but also to educate and engage the community at large.

2024-25 Veritatis Splendor Speakers

Nov. 19, 2024 – Dr. Dwight Lindley – A Christmas Carol 

Jan. 28, 2024 – Dr. Jordan Wales – Artificial Intelligence, the Human Person, and Education 

Feb. 25, 2024 – Dr. Wilfred McClay – The Great American Story 

March 8, 2024 – TBA – 

Previous Veritatis Splendor Speakers

Dr. David Whalen – Character and Virtue: Learning to Love What’s Right

Dr. Stephen Smith – Love and Fire: Education of Soul in Dante’s Divine Comedy

Dr. Larry Arnn – The Renaissance of American Classical Education

Dr. Jeffrey Lehman – Quadrivial Pursuits: Why Classical Education Needs the Quadrivium

Dr. Stephen Smith – Why Everyone Should Study Shakespeare

Mr. Andrew Zwerneman – The Confidence of Culture: Seeing What the West Frees us to See

Mr. Patrick Whalen – The Role of the Body in Education

Dr. Daniel Coupland – Education and the Cultivation of the Moral Imagination

Mr. Antonin Scalia – What My Grandfather Taught Me About the Constitution

Location: Sojourner Truth Auditorium – 170 Siebenthaler Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45215