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Chesterton Institute Online Conference: "Chesterton Goes To The Movies" - Seton Hall University

G. K. Chesterton at work The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University, is pleased to announce a special event on the theme of "Chesterton goes to the Movies" a conversation with Dr. Jorge Iglesias and Dr. Dermot Quinn.

Moderator: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, Director, G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture. The event will be streamed online on Thursday, September 23, 2021 from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (New York Time) via Teams.

About the conference
G.K. Chesterton was a writer, not a film actor (although he once took part in an eccentric cinematic adventure with George Bernard Shaw, both playing cowboys). Even so, he would have been the first to recognize that cinema can be an excellent vehicle for exploring some of the themes that inspired his work and, indeed, for bringing to life some of his stories. In this online conversation, Dermot Quinn, editor of The Chesterton Review, and Jorge Iglesias, its film reviewer, examine some movies that, in their opinion, exemplify Chesterton's way of looking at the world.

We invite you to join us for this conversation. Please click here to join the event.

About the speakers
Dr. Jorge Iglesias is Professor of English at Lone Star College. He holds a BA and an MLA from the University of St. Thomas, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He has taught at Rice University, the University of Houston and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Since 2018, Dr. Iglesias has been the Film Reviews contributor to The Chesterton Review.

Dermot Quinn, D.Phil. is Professor of History at Seton Hall University and Editor of The Chesterton Review. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1986. He has written extensively on Chestertonian themes, has authored three books The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life (Rutgers University Press, 2004)(winner, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance, Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2005); Patronage and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850-1900 (Stanford University Press/Macmillan, 1993) and Understanding Northern Ireland (Baseline Books, Manchester, UK, 1993 and many articles and reviews in the field of British and Irish history.

About the sponsors
The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture is located at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Founded in 1974 by Father Ian Boyd, C. S. B., its purpose is to promote the thought of G. K. Chesterton and his circle and more broadly, to explore the application of Chestertonian ideas in the contemporary world. The Institute’s work consists of conferences, lecture series, research, and writing. The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, has been widely praised both for its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. The journal was founded by Father Ian Boyd, C. S. B., and is edited by Dr. Dermot Quinn, includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself, but on the issues close to his heart in the work of other writers and in the modern world. It has devoted special issues to C. S. Lewis, George Bernanos, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring, Christopher Dawson, Cardinal Manning, the Modernist Crisis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Fantasy Literature, and a Special Polish Issue. The Chesterton Review also publishes one annual issue in Spanish and an annual supplement in Portuguese and French.

For information about the Institute or The Chesterton Review please contact [email protected] – website: www.shu.edu/chesterton.

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