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"Only the Lover Sings": Augustine and the Radical Necessity of Poetry

  • Kansas Ballroom 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS, 66045 United States (map)

University of Kansas

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Kansas presents a lecture by Prof. Patrick Callahan of the Humanitas Institute titled “‘Only the Lover Sings’: Augustine and the Radical Necessity of Poetry.”

Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union | 1301 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045

Thursday, April 29

7:00 PM

This event is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Patrick Callahan is director of the Humanitas Institute and lecturer in philosophy at Wichita State University. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.

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