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Curran Center Events: Spring 2013

	"The Making of a Black Catholic Saint: Henriette DeLille and the Subversive Power of Love": Inaugural Biennial Lecture celebrating Black Catholics in the United States. Sunday, April 14th, 3:00 PM, 12th Floor Lounge, Lincoln Center Campus, Columbus Avenue and W. 60th Street Presented by M. Shawn Copeland, Professor of Theology, Boston College
	An Evening with Catholic Novelist Alice McDermott Author of Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and After This, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Monday, February 11, 6:00 PM Reading and Conversation Refreshments Will Be Served
	Lecture and Conversation with Timothy Radcliffe, OP Fr. Timothy Radcliffe is a major figure in global Christianity and the former Master of the entire Dominican order. Warm-hearted and creative, Radcliffe's work focuses on reconciling divisions within Catholicism and putting Catholic tradition and the world into substantial dialogue. His bestselling and award-winning book, What is the Point of Being a Christian? has been lauded as a thoughtful, learned, hopeful, and accessible case for the meaning and importance of Christian life in the contemporary world. Lecture: "How Can Christianity Touch the Imagination of Our Contemporaries?" Tuesday, February 12, 5:00 PM, Tognino Hall Faculty & Grad Student Seminar: "Where Do Theologians Belong in the Church: The Center or the Edges?" Wednesday, February 13, 3:00-4:15 PM Undergraduate Conversation: Wednesday, February 13, 1:30-2:30 PM Co-Sponsored with the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education and the Department of Theology
	“On Pilgrimage:” Ancient Religious Practice Meets Contemporary Spiritual Journey along El Camino de Santiago de Compostela Wednesday, February 20, 7:00-9:30 PM, Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library Screening of the 2010 motion picture “The Way,” starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, followed by reflections and discussion with Fordham students and faculty who have personally experienced preparing for and making the month-long El Camino de Santiago, or “Way of St. James,” pilgrimage. Sponsored by Medieval Studies
	“Family Pain, Family Grace, and the Tender Quest to Tell Our Stories Truly: Notes from an Irish Catholic Memoir" Wednesday, March 6th, 6:30 pm, 12th Floor Lounge, Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus, Columbus Ave & W. 60th St. Presentation by James T. Fisher, Fordham Professor of American Catholic History, author of On the Irish Waterfront. Fisher’s forthcoming memoir traces his experiences with faith, family, and cognitive difference as an Irish Catholic son, and now as a father. A powerful story-teller, Fisher reflects on his quest to discover and tell his own story amid the poignant pain and grace of family life across three generations.
	Film & Panel: “A Question of Habit: Images of Catholic Nuns and Sisters in U.S. Popular Culture” Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 6:00 PM; Tognino Hall, 2nd Floor Duane Library, Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus Film Screening and Conversation with Bren Ortega Murphy, Professor of Communications and Women’s Studies, Loyola University Chicago), writer/producer/director. This 2011 documentary http://www.questionofhabit.com film examines the depictions of Catholic nuns and sisters in contemporary U.S. culture. Narrated by Susan Sarandon, the film contrasts these popular images with the lives of actual women religious, both historical and current, drawing on interviews with women religious, cultural critics, historians and artists including: Sr. Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide), Robert Orsi (Madonna of 115th Street).