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Inspirational Leadership - Encouraging Values in Business

Dr. Gabor Csepregi
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 7:30 - 9:00 am

As business leaders it is up to us to lead by example. Encouraging the entire team to play a positive role in ethical values makes every business stronger.
Join Dr. Csepregi in a lively discussion on how philosophy and ethical imagination contributes to creative and effective leadership.

Dr. Csepregi is President of Dominican University College, a published author and two-time Olympian. He has written extensively on education, art and sport.

Winter 2008 Philosophy Exam Schedule

Click here for the Winter 2008 philosophy exam schedule.

Book Launch
Wisdom, Law, and Virtue
by Lawrence Dewan, O.P.

L'incontournable fidélité
by Marie-Thérèse Nadeau, CND

Thursday, April 17, 2008, at 7:30 pm

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Le problème de l'unité ou de la pluralité des formes substantielles: Ses origines antiques, sa formulation médiévale, son contexte contemporain

Public Lecture
With François Savard
March 27, 2008 at 1h30 p.m.
Room 202

You are invited to an Ordinary Session of the Laboratoire de la pensée antique, médiévale et de l’âge des découvertes. During the Session, Mr. François Savard will present a paper on Substantial Forms, an important and controversial subject in Philosophy of Nature. The paper includes the results of Mr. Savard’s research on the subject. Note: In order to facilitate the participation of English speaking attendance, Mr. Savard will introduce several summaries and explanations in English.

Forward Thinking Speaker Series
Business and Governance - An Ethical Perspective

Dr. Jim Mitchell
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7:30 - 9:00 am

In the past, business and government were seen as separate worlds; today, many of the same issues of personal and institutional integrity arise in both domains.
Dr. Mitchell will discuss how these two communities can learn from one another to promote and improve ethical conduct in any organization.
Dr. Mitchell is a former senior public servant who now provides policy and strategic advice to government through his firm, The Sussex Circle. Click here for more information about the Forward Thinking Speaker Series.

Passing of Father Gilles-Dominique Mailhiot, O.P. (1920-2008)

The President of the Dominican University College regretfully announces the passing of Father Gilles-Dominique Mailhiot, on Monday March 3rd, at Ottawa's Montfort Hospital. Father Mailhiot was Regent of studies and President of the Dominican College from 1960 to 1988.
He will be exposed as of Monday March 10 in Ottawa's Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church. Funerals will be held on Wednesday March 12, at 11 am.

Round Table
Ethics in International Development and Advocacy Campaigns

Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 7 pm
With André Gingras, Secretary of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, André Bourassa, Consultant in International Cooperation and Organizational Development, and Maxime Allard O.P., Vice-President of the Dominican University College.

Click here for more information.

Human Rights Protection in Canada: Past Achievements, Current Challenges

On Thursday March 13 2008, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin , Chief Justice of Canada, presented the history and development of human rights protection in Canada, as well as current challenges and future directions in human rights law.

Click here to read the full lecture.

Le pari personnaliste : perdu ou gagné? Modernité et catholicisme au 20e siècle

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Professor E.-Martin Meunier

See French section for details

Call for Papers

The College will host an International Conference on Human Rights during the Fall of 2008, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Send proposals to:
International Conference on Human Rights
Dominican University College
96 Empress Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1R 7G3

Dominican University College Student Conference

The eigth Annual Dominican University College Student Conference will take place on February 29th and March 1st 2008. Click here to have more information about the call for papers.

Propaganda and the Faking of Credentials

Thursday, February 28 2008, at 7:30pm
Professor Randal Marlin, Carleton University
Albert the Great Hall

Click here for more information about this conference.

À la défense des droits humains: l’Ordre dominicain aux Nations Unies

Thursday February 7, 7:30 pm
See French section for details

Forward Thinking Speaker Series
Organizational Ethics - A REAL Possibility!

Dr. Stephen Maguire
Thursday, January 24, 2008
7:30 - 9:00 am

Ethical principles arise in every area of human activity - including large organizations. Choices of values at this level have a direct effect on individuals, families, nations, minorities and other species. Join Dr. Maguire as he unveils the secrets to making organizational ethics a reality for every business.

Dr. Maguire founded the Certificate Program in Organizational Values and Ethics at Carleton University. He provides advice on organizational ethics to the private and public sector. Click here for more information about the Forward Thinking Speaker Series.

Annual Book Sale and St Thomas Aquinas Feast

Saturday January 26, 2008
The Feast will begin at 10:30. Mass will be celebrated at 11 o’clock. A cocktail reception and a festive dinner will follow.

The library of the College will host a major used book sale between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm in room 201.

Regis Lecture Series
Saint Thomas as an Example of the Hellenic Heritage

Lawrence Dewan, O.P.
Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Albert the Great Hall

New Certificate "théologie, éthique et santé"

The Faculty of Theology is happy to offer a new certificate program in Theology, ethic and health as of September 2008 (in French only).

Click here for more information.

Schedule Changes for the Winter Semester

Philosophy
PH 2631 Existential Philosophy will be given on Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
PH 3640 Philosophy of Law will be given on Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Theology
TH.E 321D The Church and its Institutions will be given on Monday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Christmas Holiday and Start of Winter 2008 Session

The Dominican Unversity College will be closed from December 22nd to January 1st. The winter session will start on Wednesday January 2nd. Offices will open on that date.

A Merry Christmas to all!

The November 2007 Issue of 96Empress is Now Online

The latest edition of 96Empress, the Dominican Univesity College Alumni Bulletin, is now online. Read about the Leslie Armour Tribute Concert, Student Centered Teaching and a new Center for Human Rights at the College.

Click here to read it

Benefit Concert
A Tribute to Leslie Armour - a Success

The College presented a concert featuring Julian Armour, Cello and Andrew Tunis, Piano on Friday, November 30. This concert was a tribute to Leslie Armour, one of Canada’s pre-eminent Professor’s of Philosophy, in recognition for his commitment to the College and the students that he teaches.

Julian Armour, Leslie Armour's son and accomplished cellist, along with pianist Andrew Tunis, performed a special concert from masters such as Robert Schumann, Lennox Berkeley, Frank Bridge, Glen Stewart Morley and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

The concert was a success with over 225 people attending and a touching and humourous tribute to Leslie Armour, payed by Professor Elisabeth Trott from Ryerson University.

Listen to Julian Armour's interview on CBC's All in a Day radio show here.

Job Offer: Financial Services Officer

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Clocks, Machines and Automata in the XVIIth c.

Symposium on November 16th and 17th
Albert the Great Hall
Click here for the program

Art and War symposium

Friday, November 9, 2007
A reflexion on art and war to commemorate Remembrance Day.
Click here for the program

Pierre Allard Honoured

Last October, Professor Pierre Allard, S. M., of the Faculty of Theology, has received the very prestigious Jean Thorn Canon Law Award of Merit, offered by the Canadian Society of Canon Law.
The College congratulates Professor Allard for this official recognition of his years of work and devotion.

Following the footsteps of Saint Paul

Organised trip to Turkey and Greece, from May 3 to 21st 2008.
Organised by the Dominican University College
and guided by Michel Gourgues, O.P. New Testament exegesis professor, assisted by Darren Dias, O.P.

For more information, click here (in French only)

Philosophy Students Visit Senate

The Honourable Noel Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate offers the course Introduction to Human Rights at the Dominican University College this semester. Students had the opportunity to visit the Senate for a class on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and its entrenchment into the Constitution in 1982.

Autumn Alumni Feast

October 13, 2007
This year, the Alumni Feast is being moved to October to coincide with the beginning of the school year and to take advantage of the beautiful autumn weather

4: 00 pm Welcome
4:30 pm Round Table Session on Applied Ethics – With Prof. Jean-François Méthot, Prof. Didier Caenepeel.
5:30 pm Aperitifs
5:50p m Vespers
6:15 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Informal Conversation

Please respond to this invitation before October 4, 2007 by e-mail at the following address: info@collegedomincain.ca

The Ontology of Divine Love

David C. Bellusci
Ph.D. Oral Defence
Friday, October 5, 2007 10:30 am, Room 202

Automn Alumni Feast

Comment je suis redevenu chrétien

Jean-Claude Guillebaud, journalist and author
October 21, 2007 at 7pm.
click here for details

Jean-Claude Guillebaud is a writer, publisher and has been a reporter and war journalist for French newspapers "Sud-Ouest", "Le Monde", and "Le Nouvel Observateur".

AECDO Elections

The Student Association elections will be held Thursday, September 20, at 4:30 pm, in Albert the Great Hall.
For more information, visit the College Forum

Calls for Papers

Clocks, Machines, Automata, Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, November 16 and 17.
Natural Law & Applied Ethics, November 2 and 3 2007
Click here for more information

Modifications to evening philosophy course schedule this Fall

Click here to obtain the revised schedule.

Fall Evening and Saturday Courses in Theology

The Faculty of Theology will offer stimulating 1 credit evening and Saturday courses this fall. These courses are open to regular students and people interested in expanding their knowledge in theology.

Fall Evening Courses
The Abraham and Sara Story, Walter Vogels, M.A.
Confessing sexual sins. Towards a theological perspective on a practice, Maxime Allard, O.P.

Saturday Courses
Are you becoming a Mystic?, Louis Roy, O.P.
Psychology and Theology, Pierre Allard, S.M.

Fall Evening Courses in Philosophy and Ethics

This Fall, the College will offer new evening courses as part of its new ethics and general philosophy programs. These courses will be offered to regular students and professionals currently involved or interested in ethics.

Fall evening courses:
Mondays, 7:30 pm - PH 1011 History of Ideas: The rise of Ancient Civilizations, Mark Nyvlt
Tuesdays, 7:30 - PH 3668 Ethics, Security and Terrorism, Chris McNaught
Wednesdays, 7:30 - PH 2868 Introduction to Human Rights, Senator Noel Kinsella
Thursdays, 7:30 pm - PH 3669 Ethics and Economics, Frank Peddle

September Public Lectures

Bible et histoire : quand l’archéologie bouscule les croyants
September 16, 2007, 7:30 pm in French only
By Jean-Michel Poffet, O.P., Director of the École biblique de Jérusalem

L'Eucharistie fait l'Église
September 27, 2007, 7:30 pm in French only
By Loraine Caza, CND, ex-Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Dominican University College

Une Nouvelle phase du mouvement oecuménique
September 28, 2007, 7:30 pm in French only
By Catherine Clifford, Faculty of Théologie, St Paul University, Ottawa

Clic here for more information

The May Issue of 96Empress
is Now Online

The latest edition of 96Empress, the Dominican Univesity College Alumni Bulletin, is now online. It contains the latest news about the College and in-depth articles by professors on their research projects. Read the bulletin online here.

Alumni
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Summer courses offered in Quebec and Tracadie

in French only
See French version for details

New Student-Centered Philosophy Workshop

Offered September 2007
Next Fall, the Philosophy Department will be offering a new student-centered philosophy workshop. In this original teaching environment no instructor will be present but a faculty member will act as a member of the group to place his or her expertise at the disposal of the students and facilitate the discussions. The student group will determine course content and organization will in conformity with the students’ own questions and concerns.

For more information please click here

New College Forum on the Web

The Dominican University College community can now take advantage of a new online Forum. This virtual meeting place will allow students, teachers, staff and alumni to discuss issues such as events, peer help, transportation and even classified. All are invited to register to this Forum.

Martha Nussbaum: une philosophie de la vulnérabilité

Public Lecture by Denis Cerba, O.P.
Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 pm.

Amy Gordon Awarded Canada Graduate Scholarship

Dominican University College student Amy Gordon was awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarship, offered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This $17,500 scholarship was offered to only 30 applicants in philosophy throughout Canada this year.

Amy Gordon, from Marmara Ontario, will be completing her Bachelor with honor in Philosophy this year and will be starting her M.A. in September 2007. The subject of her research will be sorrow.

Despite the fact that sorrow is a fundamental human question, it has rarely been the object of serious philosophical analysis. Without seeking to provide extrinsic meaning to sorrow, Amy Gordon would like to formulate a positive discourse on sorrow from the aspect of a rational consciousness or reflexivity in the subject. The research will draw on the work of five authors, namely, Aquinas, Descartes, Nussbaum, Smith, and Spinoza.

Fra Angelico, peintre prêcheur

Thursday, March 29th, 7pm
See French for description

Speech: Going Public With It

Saturday, March 24 2007
More and more, radio and television ask “professional” philosophers, theologians and persons in religious studies to intervene. Newspapers also offer more space to discourses with religious overtones or about religion originating from philosophers, theologians and other specialists of religion. Blogs are full of them too. Without forgetting the classroom which is also a public space. For a day, professors of the Pastoral Institute, of the Department of Philosophy and of the Faculty of theology of the Dominican University College will exchange their thoughts on the stakes of these interventions and the effects these have on the construction of these discourses. Schedule

Public Information Session on the New Programs in Ethics

Wednesday, March 14, 6 pm
The College will host an information session on the new ethics programs that will be offered as of September 2007. Jean-François Méthot, Director of the Department of Philosophy will present the new programs in ethics. Ethics teachers will also be on hand to answer questions from the public. A guided tour of the College will be offered to participants. The information session will be held at the College, at 96 Empress Avenue, Ottawa. For more information, call (613) 233-5696, ext 206, or e-mail at info@dominicancollege.ca

Job Offer: Academic Services Secretary

Full time position.
For more information, see description and deadline

Lawrence Dewan, to present Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University

Lawrence Dewan, O.P., philosophy Professor at the Dominican University College has given the lecture St. Thomas and Form as Something Divine in Things on February 25, at Marquette University of Milwaukee (Wis). Jacques Maritain, Werner Jaeger, Paul Weiss and Etienne Gilson, as well as other distinguished thinkers, have given Aquinas Lectures in the past.

Annual Student Conference

March 2 and 3, 2007.
Alumni Public Lecture by Yves Bouchard
Thursday March 1st, 7:30 pm
L'argument sceptique du point de vue analytique

Over 30 papers will be presented on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd.

Student Association Spaghetti Dinner

Fundraising Event
Saturday March 10th
Click here for more information

Job Offer: Academic Services Secretary

See description and deadline

Oscar Boelens Research Fund Research Assistantship

See description and deadline

Dominican University College Bursary Ceremony

On January 31st, the Dominican University College Foundation offered over $60,000 bursaries for excellence.

Recipients of the Regent's Bursaries for Excellence are : Amy-Elise Gordon, Martin Ford, Rachad Khadiz and Daniel Bhookum

Congratulations to all!

Reading St Thomas Aquinas Today: A Brief Initiation

February 2nd, from 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Free admission
See Events section for details

St Thomas Aquinas Feast

Saturday, January 27, at 10:30
Students and alumni are invited to this annual gathering. Come mingle with your friends, old and new, to celebrate St Thomas Aquinas Day. The gathering starts at 10:30, followed by Mass at 11:00, a reception at 12 and the traditional lunch at 12:30.

Notice: new rules for late or postponed payment of tuition fees

Please see the Cost of Studies page for more information about these rules.

The November Issue of 96Empress
is Now Online

New course in January

Les sources philosophiques de la mystique chrétienne
Prof. Guy Lévesque

See French section for details

New Ethics course in January

In January, the Department of Philosophy presents Prof. Wendy Hamblet, Research Professor at the DUC. She is the author of The Sacred Monstrous, Reflections on Violence and the Human Communities (Lexington Books, 2004). The course will be held on Wednesdays, from 19:00 to 22:00.

Themes in Contemporary Ethics: Justice, Truth and Violence: a study of challenges to global peace
Professor Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., C.C.C. Reg., S.A.C. (Dip)
This course introduces the student to major philosophical methods of inquiry into moral questions. These methods of inquiry will then be rigorously applied to issues of contemporary relevance—the problems of truth, justice, violence, war, terror, civilization, good, evil. The course focuses upon the “truths” encoded in cultural and political tradition and communicated in media products. It critically appraises the Western worldview and theories of subjectivity from the standpoint of their underlying logic and moral messages, and assesses the ethical productivity of that worldview in configuring behaviours within society and at the global level. Our aim will be to resolve, as far as is possible, the paradox of the gap between the lofty ideals of human beings and the fact of the bloody history of the human species.

Annual Student Conference

March 2 and 3, 2007.
Call for papers deadline, January 31st
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Lecture
Le mystère de l'Incarnation dans les représentations de l'Annonciation

Thursday, December 14th, 7:30 pm

See French for information

Today! United Way Used Book Sale

Thursday, November 16th, 2006, from 10:30 am to 7:30 pm

Book and fresh cookie sale in the cloister.

Romantic Novembers
a success at the College

On November 9th, 150 spectators came to Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church to see pianist Arthur Ozolins perform works by Ravel, Chopin and Latvian composer Darzins.
In a convivial athmosphere, and with a great deal of humor, the virtuose charmed the public with his scenic presence and perfect mastery of the piano works. He also offered the audience two works from Mozart and Liszt.
This second concert of the Romantic Novembers Series continues what will certainly become a regular rendez-vous for all music lovers in the region.

Don't miss the coming concert!

International Forum
Religion, Culture and Peace: an Ambiguous Relation

November 8 to 11, 2006

To celebrate Remembrance day, the Dominican University College will hold a 4-day forum on the theme Religion, Culture and Peace: an Ambiguous Relation. Internationally renowned lecturers such as Philippe Coppens of the Centre for the philosophy of Law of Louvain in Belgium, Michael Schuck, of Chicago’s Loyola University and Bill McSweeney of the Dublin University, will present thoughts on the relation between religion war and peace. The forum will take place from November 8th to 11th at 96 Empress Avenue, Ottawa. For more information, call (613) 233-5696, ext 206.

Free admission. Suggested contribution: general public $30 (Forum and concert, $50), students: $15 (Forum and concert, $20)

Forum Program

Benefit Concert
Romantic Novembers
Arthur Ozolins plays Ravel and Chopin

November 9, 2006 at 8 pm.
Saint Jean Baptiste Church, 96, Empress Avenue, Ottawa
Admission: 40$; students: 15$
Reservation : (613) 233-5696; info@dominicancollege.ca

Employement Opportunity: Agent ou agente des services académiques

Employement Opportunity

Regis Lecture Series
Aquinas and Religious Passions

Thursday, October 26, at 7:30 pm

See Events section for more information

Colloque Lonergan
Convictions, conflits, communautés :

Saturday, October 28, from 9 am to 3 pm.

See French Events page for more information.

New publication - La foi en dialogue

By Louis Roy, O.P., Professor at the Dominican University College Faculty of Theology

Book Launch at the College, October 19th, 2006 at 7:30 pm.

See the French section for more details

New Publication - Form and Being, Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics

By Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Professor at the Dominican University College Departement of philosophy

Book Launch at the College, October 19th, 2006 at 7:30 pm.

The latest volume in the Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series contains thirteen essays by Lawrence Dewan on metaphysics, the vision of reality from the viewpoint of being. While they take the form of interpretation of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, they are meant as a contribution to perennial philosophy, truth that transcends particular cultures and eras.
The distinctive contribution of this volume is its focus on the role of form among the various items in the ontological analysis. The most prominent Thomistic metaphysician in the twentieth century laid great stress on the role of the act of being. Dewan's essays present what is essentially the same picture, but in a way that emphasises the continuity between Christian philosophers and their predecessors in ancient Greece.

United Way Used Book Sale

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Opening lecture at 10:30 am, book and fresh cookie sale from 10:30 am to 8 pm in the cloister.

Book donations
If you wish to donate books for the United Way Book Sale, please bring them to the Dominican University College Library by November 9th, 2006.

Book Launch - The Clever Body

By Gabor Csepregi,
President, Dominican University College
University of Calgary Press, 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006, 7 pm at the Dominican University College.

In Western civilization, we have come to regard the body as an instrument or a machine that responds to external challenges but does not have a life or creativity of its own. Thanks to some of its inherent capabilities, however, the living body can act in a highly intelligent and creative manner. All of us have noticed from time to time that our body can move naturally, without any conscious effort; it can adapt to new situational demands and propose unexpected solutions. While skiing or rock climbing or sailing, we may have abandoned ourselves to our bodily timing and responsiveness, our acute feeling for new solutions. In The Clever Body, Gabor Csepregi describes in detail the nature and scope of these innate abilities - sensibility, spontaneity, mimetic faculty, sense of rhythm, memory, and imagination - and reflects on their significance in human life.

Public Lecture
Métier: artiste missionnaire
Gaston Petit

September 28, 2006 at 7:30 pm
See French for description

New Publication - Vérité et mensonge, la part des choses

By Marie-Thérèse Nadeau, Dean, Faculty of Theology.

Book Launch at the College, October 19th, 2006 at 7:30 pm.

See French for details.

Alumni Association

Dominican College alumni, help us stay in touch! The Dominican University College Alumni Association will hold events to encourage networking among all former students. Please fill out the form located on the Alumni Association's web page to allow us to update our database.

Library Catalogue Online

The Dominican University College Library catalogue is now online. Come discover the great philosophy and theology collections housed in the library at 96 Empress. Complete translated and original language works by philosophers and theologians, periodicals, reference books, it is a great wealth of information that is now accessible to researchers worldwide.