A PUBLIC ONLINE (ZOOM) LECTURE SERIES HOSTED BY THE CHAPLAINCY AT VILLANOVA COLLEGE, ONT

THE CITY OF GOD

A CONTEMPORARY READING OF AUGUSTINE’S POLITICAL VISION

with

Rev. Dr. Robert Dodaro, OSA

Chaplain of Villanova College (King’s City, Ontario)

Sept.–Dec. 2025, Tuesdays 10:30 AM – 1:25 PM (Eastern)

REGISTER FREE OF CHARGE HERE: https://forms.gle/qb6yrWzuNhduuNTD7 or EMAIL pablo.irizar@newman.edu

LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE

Sept 9 – Introduction to Saint Augustine

Sept 16 – Political Leadership

Sept 23 – Fear of Death and National Security

Oct 7 – Christianity and the Just Society

Oct 14 – The City of God and the Earthly City

Oct 21 – Church and State

Oct 28 – Public Confession and Statecraft

Nov 4 – Heroism in Society

Nov 18 – Christ and Justice

Nov 25 – Saints and Sinners

CONVENERS

Pablo Irizar (Vice President & Academic Dean, Newman Theological College) ˑ Anthony Dupont (Augustine Chair & Research Professor of Christian Antiquity, KU Leuven) ˑ Harry Schnitker (Senior Lecturer in Church History at St. Mary’s University, PhD program director at Maryvale Institute) ˑ Mateusz Stróżyński (Director & Professor of Classics at the Institute of Classical Philosophy, UAM) ˑ Paul Camacho (Associate Director at the Augustinian Institute & Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University) ˑ Richard Dougherty (Dean of Braniff Graduate School & Professor of Politics, University of Dallas) Edmund Stewart (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History & Collaborator of Tyrannica at the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, University of Nottingham)