The annual lecture was established to commemorate the life of Dr. Michael Keenan, the first dean of STM, who served from 1975-1985. It features leading intellectuals and leaders in various fields.

 

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About our 2024 speaker (no relation to Dr. Michael Keenan):

James F. Keenan, S.J., is the Canisius Chair, Director of the Jesuit Institute and Vice Provost of Global Engagement at Boston College. A Jesuit priest since 1982, he received a licentiate and a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has edited or written over 25 books and published over 400 essays, articles, and reviews worldwide. In 2003 he founded Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC) an international network ethicists and subsequently hosted three international and six regional conferences. Today CTEWC has its own book series and is a live network of over 1000 Catholic ethicists (www.catholicethics.com). In 2015, he wrote University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield) and in 2022, A History of Catholic Theological Ethics (Paulist Press).  In 2023 Georgetown University Press published The Moral Life, His D’Arcy Memorial Lectures given at Oxford in 2022.  In 2019 he received the John Courtney Murray Lifetime Achieve Award from the Society of Christian Ethics and from 2020-2021, he was President of the Society of Christian Ethics.

 

 

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/theology/people/faculty-directory/james-keenan-sj.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Keenan

 

 

Event Details

When:
Time:
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM CST
Location:
Fr. O'Donnell Auditorium
File:
Lecture poster

Contact

Laura Mitchell