The Myser Initiative on Catholic Identity annually brings professionals who exemplify in their life and work the values and principles inherent in the Catholic Identity of St. Catherine University.
Past Myser Lecture Featured Speakers
Year | Featured Speaker | Lecture Title |
2021 | O. Carter Snead | "What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" |
2021 | Christiana Zenner | "'Water is Life': Fresh Waters, Ethics, and Decolonial Values in a Pluralistic World" |
2018 | M. Shawn Copeland | "Compassion and the Suffering God" |
2017 | Kathleen Norris | "Spiritual Practice and Social Justice" |
2016 | Kristin Shrader-Frechette | "Working for Environmental Justice: What Love Looks Like in Public" |
2015 | Elizabeth Johnson | "Is God's Charity Broad Enough for Bears?" |
2014 | Joan Chittister | "Going Forward with Hope and Courage: The Role of the Public Thinker in Church and Society" |
2013 | Cathleen Kaveny | "Prophecy, Civility, and Truth" |
2012 | Carolyn Woo | "Common Good, Uncommon Excellence" |
2011 | Jill Ker Conway | "Physical and Spiritual Geography: The Inner Climate of the Mind" |
2010 | Therese Shroeder-Sheker | "Music, Spirituality, and Palliative Medicine: Contemplative Musicianship in the Care of Dying" |
2009 | Bryan Hehir | "Catholic Identity: The Roots, the Relevance, and the Realization of the Idea" |
2008 | Elizabeth Johnson | "Seeking the Living God: Nourishing Faith and the Living Traditions" |
2007 | Lisa Cahill | "Bioethics and Seeking the Common Good" |