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Found in Translation: Tolkien and the Redemptive Work of Language

University of Kansas

A lecture by Prof. Patrick Callahan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Thursday, November 30th

6:00 PM

Divine Nine Room of the Kansas Memorial Union

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as well as Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. 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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