Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies

Prayer Breakfast
2018-10-11 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Chicago) | Dugan Gorges Conference Center, 3100 McCormick, Wichita, Kansas, 67213
Join the Newman University Community at the Annual Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, October 11th at 8:00am. The program will feature song, scripture, and fellowship from our students, staff, faculty and alumni.
All are welcome.
To RSVP: http://newmanprayerbreakfast2018.eventbrite.com?s=85850281
Questions: Email Monica at borgerm@newmanu.edu

The Abolitionist and the Border Ruffian: A Conflict Between Higher Law and Secular Law
2018-09-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Performance Hall, 3100 McCormick Ave, Wichita, KS, 67213
A presentation by Gary Jenkins.
All are welcome to this open event.

About the presenter:
Gary Jenkins retired from the Kansas City Police Department in 1996 after a 25-year career. Gary attended the UMKC School of Law and graduated in 2000. He was admitted to the Missouri Bar and he continues to practice law today. He is a Board member of the Kansas City Police Pension System and The Jackson County Historical Society. During the past 10 years, Gary produced three documentary films. Negroes To Hire: Slave Life in Antebellum Missouri in 2009; Freedom Seekers: Stories From the Western Underground Railroad in 2012; Gangland Wire in 2013.
Mr. Jenkins authored John Brown and The Last Train in 2007, The Immortal 10: A Story From the Kansas Underground Railroad in 2017 and Leaving Vegas: How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos in 2017
Additionally, Mr. Jenkins created a Smartphone app titled Kansas City Mob Tour. This app utilizes maps, text, photos and video to conduct the user on a tour of famous Kansas City mob sites.
Mr. Jenkins produces and co-hosts a true crime podcast titled Gangland Wire Crime Stories.

Lunch and Learn: Dr. Stephen Barr
2018-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
Join the Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies in a Lunch and Learn featuring Dr. Stephen Barr. Dr. Barr is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and will be speaking about the partnership of faith and science.
Lunch will be provided. RSVP: Click Here.
Questions, please contact Monica Borger borgerm@newmanu.edu

Summer Symposium: Newman's View of Education
2018-08-13 - 2018-08-15 | Roths Alumni Center
Summer Symposium this year will feature of the theme of “Newman’s View of Education”. The 3 day conference will feature Bud Marr, President of the National Institute for Newman Studies, who will give 2 presentations. The rest of the conference will consist of workshops and discussion time around Newman’s idea of educating the whole person. The Conference is open to all faculty and staff.

Questions: Contact Josh Papsdorf or Monica Borger.

Florovsky Week
2018-07-10 - 2018-07-14
Eighth day Institute presents:
Florovsky Week: returning to the sources for christian unity
July 10th-July 14th

A Discussion of Ideas
2018-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
Come join the discussion of how The Gerber Institute can further engage in meaningful discussion around Catholic intellectual tradition and thought.

Newman University Lit Fest
2018-04-12 19:00 - 20:00
Newman University and the Gerber Institute present the keynote speaker for the 19th Annual Lit Fest: “Magic Happens: A Celebration of Harry Potter”. Travis Prinzi will be speaking on Saving Dumbledore: Moral Imagination and Forgiveness in Harry Potter’s Death.
Travis Prinzi is an author and speaker on the intersection of fantasy and politics, myth and culture in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels. John Granger, the ‘Hogwarts Professor,‘ has said, “There is no more insightful commenter on the Harry Potter novels than Travis Prinzi.”
Has been a featured speaker and led panel discussions at multiple Harry Potter conferences and has lectured on everything from Harry Potter to religion to education to hit TV shows like The Office at university campuses and libraries in the United States and Canada. He authored Harry Potter and Imagination a year after the final novel was released. He collects and edits the best in Harry Potter scholarship, having edited multiple volumes, including Hog’s Head Conversations and
Harry Potter for Nerds volumes 1 and 2.
Prinzi holds graduate degrees in education and theology from the University of Rochester and Northeastern Seminary, and he’s done graduate work in Family Therapy at the University of Rochester. In his Muggle life, he maps people’s hearts when they’re not beating properly. He lives in wine country in the Finger Lakes with his wife Tyanna, daughters Sophia and Lily, sons Jack and Ethan, and their dogs Casper and Stella.
Thursday, April 12th
7:00 PM
Jabara Theatre

Newman University Prayer Breakfast
2018-03-15 07:30 - 08:30 | Dugan Gorges Conference Center, 3100 McCormick, Wichita, Kansas, 67213
Join the Newman Community and the Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies for the 2018 Prayer Breakfast. This year’s Prayer Breakfast will once again feature our students, staff, faculty and alumni in Raising Our Voices in Solidarity.
The Breakfast will start at 7:30 am with the presentation starting at 7:45 am and ending around 8:30 am.
To RSVP: Click Here.

How Faith Relates to Health Care Provided at Guadalupe Clinic
2018-03-12 12:00 - 13:00
Join the Gerber Institute for the next Lunch and Learn in the series of how healthcare and faith are intertwined.
Jane McGuire, Director of Nursing at the Guadalupe Clinic, will share her story about how her faith relates to the health care provided at Guadalupe Clinic, and how her faith has played a part when working with patients in her career.
March 12th at noon. Location TBA.
Lunch will be provided. RSVP: Monica Borger borgerm@newmanu.edu

Catholic Anthropology & The Application to Therapeutic Practice
2018-02-15 11:50 - 12:50 | Roths Alumni Center
The Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies welcome Fr. Joe Tatro as he presents “Catholic Anthropology & The Application to Therapeutic Practice.”
Fr. Tatro is a diocesan priest who is currently assigned to Catholic Charities of Wichita, Cana Counseling. Fr. Joe received his undergraduate degree from Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, his Masters of Divinity from Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD and his M.S. from The Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS) in Arlington, VA. He received his doctoral degree from IPS. Fr. Joe has been a Catholic priest of the diocese of Wichita since 2000 and has served as an Associate Pastor, Pastor, Associate Vocations Director, Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, and University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry. Fr. Joe is interested in developing strong therapeutic relationships to enhance his work in psychological assessment, couple and family work, and individual work with adults and adolescents.
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP: borgerm@newmanu.edu or 316-942-4291 ext 2422

Feast of St. Brigid Celebration
2018-02-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Roths Alumni Center
The Gerber Institute would like to invite Newman faculty and staff for a celebration of Catholic tradition and culture on the Feast of St. Brigid, February 1, from 3-5pm in the Alumni Center.
We will learn a bit about St. Brigid’s life and the celebration of the saints in Catholic tradition. Along with that, we will discuss St. Brigid’s vision of a lake of beer in heaven, and, in honor of her Irish heritage, we will share some Guinness and other Irish treats.

Encountering the Sacred in Healthcare
2018-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
Dr. Donna Ewy will be speaking on Encountering the Sacred in Healthcare from a Catholic perspective and seeing Catholic health care as a sharing in the healing ministry of Jesus. Her talk will be on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 from 12:00-1:00pm in the Alumni Center in Dugan Library on the Newman campus.
Dr. Ewy is a graduate of KU Medical School and is licensed in Family Medicine and in Hospice/Palliative Medicine. She has worked in family medicine since 1997 and hospice since 2001. She is currently the medical director at the Catholic Care Center and of Good Shepherd Hospice.
Dr. Ewy is alum of the Newman Masters in Theological Studies program and is currently pursuing a MA in Bioethics from Loyola University Chicago.
Lunches will be provided with a reservation. Please contact Monica Borger (borgerm@newmanu.edu or 316-942-4291, ext. 2422) to RSVP.

WWND: What Would Newman Do?
2017-11-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
Academic excellence or Catholic identity? How to balance those two goals is the central debate in Catholic higher education today.
We will discuss that debate during November’s Lunch and Learn on November 29, 2017 in the Alumni Center. Dr. Joshua Papsdorf will give a brief report on current trends in the debate drawn from a recent conference on Catholic higher education in America. Along with that report, he will open the discussion by proposing that our namesake’s vision of Catholic education can serve as a framework for addressing that debate here at Newman.
Please RSVP to reserve a lunch by contacting Monica Borger at borgerm@newmanu.edu or 316-942-4291, ext. 2422.

Finding Meaning in Suffering
2017-10-24 12:00 - 12:50 | Roths Alumni Center
A Lunch and Learn Presentation by Father Tom Welk, Director of Education and Pastoral Care at Harry Hines Memorial Hospice.
It’s about living, not dying, chaplain says of hospice care
October 24th at 12:00pm-12:50pm in the Alumni Center at Newman University.
Lunch will be provided. To RSVP: borgerm@newmanu.edu

New Developments in the Bio sciences and Bioethics
2017-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Performance Hall, 3100 McCormick Ave, Wichita, KS, 67213
A presentation by Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia and director of the Center’s National Catholic Certification Program in Health Care Ethics. This presentation will address issues dealing with human cloning, 3 parent embryos, human/animal chimeras, gene editing technologies, and human embryos.
All are welcome to attend. The talk will be in the Performance Hall, located on Newman University’s Campus.
Questions? Contact Monica Borger at borgerm@newmanu.edu or 316-942-4291 ext 2422.

Living Authentically: Appreciating the Gift of Fertility in an Increasingly Hostile World.
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
A Lunch and Learn presentation by Becky Knapp, Program Coordinator of NFP for the Office of Marriage and Family Life.
Lunch will be provided. To RSVP: email borgerm@newmanu.edu

Cardinal Newman Lecture
2017-03-19 19:00 - 20:30

Lunch and Learn
2017-03-08 12:00 - 14:00
Showing of tape by Pranitha Timothy, Director of International Justice Mission followed by discussion

Roth’s Alumni CenterRSVP: borgerm@newmanu.edu

St. Bakhita’s Feast Day
2017-02-08 12:05 - 14:00
Bakhita was a victim of trafficking herself and is the patron saint of people who are trafficked

Mass Wednesday, 12:05 PM St. John’s Chapel
Prayer Service Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12:30 PM Mabee Dining Center

Viewing of the movie “Sold”
2017-02-01 18:00 - 20:00
The movie follows a young woman who risks everything for freedom after being trafficking from her mountain village in Nepal to a brothel in India.
(please RSVP to borgerm@newmanu.edu by Wednesday January 25th)

Viewing of the movie “Sold”
2017-01-30 11:50 - 13:00 | Roths Alumni Center
