Lecture

Damian Tarnopolsky's most recent book is a collection of linked short stories, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster. He is also the author of a previous book of short fiction, a historical novel, a play that takes place at a doctoral exam and, most recently, a chapbook called "A Friend to Words." His work has been recognized by nominations for several awards, including the Journey Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, and the Commnowealth Writers' Prize, and Every Night... was awarded the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Book Design of the Year Prize. He teaches at the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab at the University of Toronto. 

Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator based at Renison University College. He is the author of the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. His academic monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience won Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and the American Studies Association's Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. He is working on a novel.

Father Tim Uniac is a member of the Congregation of the Resurrection, founding Congregation of St. Jerome’s University will speak on his recently published book “Mary Magdalene: A Resurrection Disciple”.

The Last Shall Be First: Equity and Mercy in End-of-Life Care for the Forgotten

Fr. Dr. Matthew M. Durham, D.Min. Executive Director,Hospice Palliative Care & Community Development, Saint Elizabeth Foundation

Anne of Austria's Surgeon: François Gendron, the 17th-century Jesuit Mission to the Wendat, and the History of Medicine

Micah True, Professor of French and Folklore, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Alberta.

Joel Thiessen, Professor of Sociology, Ambrose University and Director of the Flourishing Congregations will speak on the topic "Planting Seeds: The Catholic Parish in the Religious Transmission Ecosystem" as part of the our 2025-2026 Lectures in Catholic Experience series. 

Colleen Dulle, Associate Editor at America Magazine. "Struck Down, Not Destroyed Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter". Colleen will be our first speaker as part of our 2025-2026 Lectures in Catholic Experience.

Paul Bramadat from the University of Victoria
Yogalands: In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World

Kevin N. Flatt from Redeemer University
"What If There Is No Such Thing as Religion? Implications for Secularization Theory,"