The Lin Great Speakers Series
The Lin Great Speakers Series is presented to the public as a community service. The lectures are made possible by an endowment established in memory of Shu-Chi Lin by his widow, Mrs. Chang Le-Chiao Lin, and their son, Vincent Lin, Ph.D., a St. Mary’s alumnus and former faculty member.
Upcoming Lin Lecture Speakers
This fall, the lectures of the Center for Catholic Studies will reflect on the question, how can we flourish while facing challenges and difficulties in our world today?
Beyond Burnout Culture
Featuring Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D.
Author, The End of Burnout
Wednesday, Sept. 11
7 p.m. | University Center, Mengler Conference RoomWe work and work and work and do not get ahead. Worse, work can take over our lives. This is what happened to Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D., so he quit his job and sought out a better way to live. In this talk, he will share what he learned. Drawing on his book, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, Malesic proposes that we should ground our working lives in human dignity, compassion for workers and a greater emphasis on leisure as a meaningful activity. He will show how these ideals are rooted in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and manifested in communities of Benedictine monks and religious sisters.
Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D., is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, America, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, The Guardian, The Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been recognized as notable in The Best American Essays four times and in The Best American Food Writing. His latest book, The End of Burnout (University of California Press), was selected as a best book of 2022 by Amazon and the Next Big Idea Club. It is being translated into 10 languages. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious studies from the University of Virginia and teaches writing at Southern Methodist University.
About the speaker
For more information, contact the Center for Catholic Studies at centerforcatholicstudies@stmarytx.edu.
The Eucharist, Miracles and the Shroud of Turin
Featuring Scott French, M.D.
Board-certified Emergency Physician
Tuesday, Oct. 8
7 p.m. | University Center, Mengler Conference RoomRecent research has demonstrated that the secular world belief that faith and science are incompatible, as well as relativism, has had a devastating effect on our children. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an even steeper rise in despair and suicide among our youth, and now has become a crisis. Drawing on his work on the medical/scientific evidence that the Eucharist is the living blood, body, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, French will talk about how the Eucharist, Eucharistic miracles and the Shroud of Turin can help us navigate the problems we face in our culture today.
Scott French, M.D., is a practicing board-certified emergency physician who noted the rapidly increasing rates of depression, suicides and other behavioral disorders among our youth. In the process of searching for a solution, French was able to view the Shroud of Turin in 2015. This spurred a search for the full truth, and ultimately led Scott to The Rev. Robert Spitzer’s Magis Center in 2015, where he subsequently became a volunteer and board member.
About the speaker
Interfaith Friend, Interfaith Kin: Reflections on Fratelli Tutti
In his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis stresses the idea of fraternity as the basis for good inter-religious relations. But what does it really mean to call the Religious Other my brother or sister? How does that affect interreligious dialogue and cooperation? Can a broader vision of human kinship help us to heal the various divides — interreligious, interracial, intercultural, interpolitical — plaguing America today?
Speaker:
- Rita George-Trvrtković, Ph.D.