Events
Be Still and Know: Aquinas on Contemplation
A lecture by Sr. Anna Wray, O.P. (The Catholic University of America)
When:
April 29, 2022 | 5:00 PM PDT
Chapter:
University of California, Berkeley
Location:
UC Berkeley Newman Center
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Sister Anna Wray is a native of Connecticut and a member of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia of Nashville, TN. Sister received her PhD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, having written her dissertation on Aristotle’s account of the activity of contemplation. Sister is an assistant professor on the faculty of CUA's School of Philosophy in Washington, DC, where she regularly teaches courses in rhetoric, philosophy of religion, and philosophical psychology. She is also an adjunct professor for Aquinas College, where she teaches metaphysics and epistemology to her sisters in formation. Her research and conversational interests include imagination and attention in human agency and speech, the effects of technology on human agency, and form as function and unifying activity.