University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC

Thomistic Institute Chapter Leaders from the Carolinas and Georgia are invited to attend a Symposium hosted by the University of South Carolina!

Students will have the opportunity to come together socially, intellectually, and spiritually during this two-day event.

This Symposium is for TI Chapter Leaders from the Carolinas and Georgia.

Lecture Schedule:

• The Intellectual Life by Sr. Anna Wray, O.P. (The Catholic University of America) | 9:30 AM on Saturday, October 26

• The Moral Life by Prof. Michael Krom (Saint Vincent College) | 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 26

• The Spiritual Life by Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P. (Thomistic Institute) | 2:00 PM on Saturday, October 26

About the speakers:

Sr. Anna Wray, OP 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.  When time permits, Sister enjoys the occasional trip that allows her to speak to (and with) others who share her loves.

Prof. Michael Krom started reading Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae shortly after his conversion at the end of college. Upon learning about Flannery O’Connor’s “hillbilly Thomist” habit of reading Aquinas every night, he started studying two articles a day and completed the Summa while in graduate school at Emory University. As a professor at Saint Vincent College, he saw the urgent need for collegians and seminarians to receive a solid foundation in Aquinas’s philosophical theology. In 2020, he published Justice and Charity:  An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought (Baker Academic Press), and teaches a Thomistic philosophy course each fall. In addition to continuing work on the moral, economic, and political topics covered in the book, his current research is on the influence of monastic spirituality on Aquinas; he is working on a monograph tentatively entitled Aquinas Among the Benedictines.

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP is a Coordinator for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He has served as a parochial vicar at St. Pius V Church in Providence, RI, as well as an adjunct professor and assistant chaplain at Providence College. He originates from Columbus, OH, studied architecture in Virginia and Switzerland, and practiced in the DC area before entering the Order of Preachers in 2013. He was ordained a priest in 2020 at the Dominican House of Studies during the quarantine. In his work with the Thomistic Institute, he has given talks on the virtue of penance and the use of metaphor in Scripture. He often travels the country visiting Thomistic Institute Campus Chapters, leading seminars that help students grasp Thomistic concepts. Additionally, he coordinates the TI's intellectual retreat programming, which affords students time to pray and integrate into their lives Thomistic theology and philosophy.  

For further information, please contact Ms. Emma Jones at ejones@dhs.edu.