Episodes

  • Illuminating the Catholic Imagination with Katy Carl
    Feb 26 2025

    Collegium Institute student fellows Rachel Fischer and Sophia Silva talk with Katy Carl, the former editor of Dappled Things Magazine (a Collegium imprint). She is now spearheading Luminor, a new literary series with Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire project. Join us as we discuss Katy’s career, evolution, and vision for contemporary Catholic media and discourse.

    Check out Word on Fire's new publishing imprint, Luminor, here.

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    45 mins
  • Sr. Blandine Lagrut — The Anscombean Daemon
    Jul 3 2024

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Blandine Lagrut, a consecrated sister of the Chemin Neuf Community, who teaches philosophy at the Facultés Loyola Paris and is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Lorraine. Join us as we discuss Sr. Lagrut's research on the ethical thought of G.E.M Anscombe and how it connects with her scholarly and religious vocation.

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    59 mins
  • Recovering the Lost Art of Dying with Lydia Dugdale
    Mar 17 2023

    Student fellow talks with Dr. Lydia Dugdale about her new book, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. Dr. Dugdale, M.D., speaking from her own experience caring for dying patients, invites us to recover our sense of our own finitude and reconsider what it means to die well.

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    43 mins
  • Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman
    Feb 24 2023

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. Ryan J. (Bud) Marr, Associate Provost of Mercy College in Iowa and director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and associate editor of the Newman Studies Journal, about his new book, Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman.

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    24 mins
  • Kate Soper - Post-Growth Living: On the Good Life
    Feb 10 2023

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Kate Soper, philosopher, author, and professor emerita at London Metropolitan university, about her 2022 book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, which proposes a new understanding of the good life that delinks prosperity from endless growth.

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    56 mins
  • Joshua Stuchlik — On the Principle of Double Effect
    Jan 27 2023

    Collegium Institute undergraduate fellow talks with Dr. Joshua Stuchlik, Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and assistant editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, about his new book, Intention and Wrongdoing: In Defense of Double Effect.

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    27 mins
  • David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson —Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture
    Jan 13 2023

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. David Deavel, associate professor of Theology at University of St. Thomas, and Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine university. Join us as we discuss Dr. Deavel and Dr. Wilson’s collection, Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West.

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    46 mins
  • Nate Anderson — Learning from Nietzsche in the Digital Age
    Dec 31 2022

    Collegium Institute staff and students talk with Nate Anderson, deputy editor at Ars Technica and author of In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, about what we can learn from Nietzsche in the 21st century.

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    31 mins