Jesuit education, but for the brief blip of a late Gutenberg Moment from 1930 to the present, has been characterized by sound, by the voices of prelection, recitation, declamation, and theatrical performance. Yet, an irony underlies this realm of voice – it was all held together by language learning totally governed by Latin’s preservation in print. Nonetheless, instruction and assessment were dominated by vocal exchange. The rhetorical education Jesuits strove to impart has a strong oral residue. Such emphasis on rhetorical education may again prove to be eminently useful and relevant in the education of youth. This lecture seeks to describe the long transformation in Jesuit education from orality to literacy and how Jesuit education might return to an emphasis on an aural-oral world with renewed focus and relevance. 

Eutopos conferences

This year we want, with humility, to opne up paths that help us to find places, people and ways of living that are good and able to transform. In order to do that, in the first trimestre od the year we present three conferences on three topos in which goodness and what is good can be revealed: university, the word and study of the classics and temporary architectures as a result of community engagement. With this, we eant to help show that eutopia and the quest for the places where goodness reveals itself is a more promising path than utopia, where the revelation of goodness is eternally postponed.