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