Queen’s University

The Thomistic Institute at Queen’s University presents a lecture by Prof. Raymond Hain of Providence College titled “The Catholic Imagination in J.R.R. Tolkien and Flannery O’Connor.”

132A, Queen's School of Medicine

Wednesday, February 5

7:30 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker: Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral philosophy in the Thomistic tradition, as well as topics in applied ethics (especially bioethics and the ethics of architecture) and connections between philosophy and literature. As part of the Humanities Program, he directs the Providence College Humanities Forum and the Providence College Humanities Reading Seminars.