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Please join us for an end-of-semester celebration of our graduating seniors! This is one of Beatrice Institute's signature events: an undergraduate colloquium spotlighting our graduating seniors that brings together our community in celebration of what these students have accomplished. Come hear what our Christian Studies Fellows have been working on this year: short stories, poetry, essays and provocations, meditations and musings. Following the presentations and Q&A, we will have dinner and toast our graduating fellows. This is a celebration you don't want to miss!

Presentations will happen on the 5th floor of the Cathedral of Learning with a dinner reception to follow at Aria Persian Cuisine & Turkish Grille (272 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213)

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Beatrice Institute’s Spring Salon asks the question: What constitutes human thriving, and how would these general prescriptions apply to those without the security of basic needs?

When many of us consider the homeless community here in Pittsburgh, very often we are led to think of a monolithic problem. Although we might recognize upon reflection that many of those who live on the streets are there for different, nuanced, complex, individuated reasons, our approach to the question can become uniform and directed at survival: shelter, food, clothing, warmth, medicine, etc. Very seldom are we encouraged to think about the needs of those living on the streets as needs of thriving not simply surviving.

Four panelists — representing different mediums, fields, traditions, and historical epochs — will investigate these questions and discuss what thriving on the streets looks like and how it is possible.

We will meet in the John Knox Room at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

Tickets are $15 until April 5th, after which they will be $20. Food and wine provided!

If you are interested in the inspiration for this salon, read presenter Brent Robbins' piece in the Post Gazette from 2022. 

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Join Beatrice Institute in attending the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto. More information here.

We will gather for a lecture before the performance.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

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Dr. DeMasi will be leading fellows on a tour through the "Rembrant, Vermeer, and Monet" exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, exploring the question, “Why the Fine Arts are Essential to the Good Life?”

This is technically an HGL seminar but will be open to any fellow interested (and can count as a seminar make-up!)

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

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Join us for an afternoon of conversation and local food at the beautiful Garfield Community Farm in the Garfield Neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We'll be discussing the intersection between Christian theology, foodways and food distribution, and Christian hospitality. The meal will include small bites and locally made sourdough crust pizza from the kitchen at Spirit Lodge, prepared on the farm's wood-fired oven.

This will be a low key, informal gathering. Please wear comfortable clothes so that you can participate in a farm tour that will be part of the Miller Youth Institute at Pittsburgh Seminary's presentation and information session on its annual Summer Fellowship for Undergraduates Program.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's first encounter with the flesh and blood Beatrice who would become la donna gloriosa of Dante's mind. In the chivalric mode, Dante fell in love with Beatrice at the age of nine, and throughout his life and career, he would revisit the importance of this encounter. Beatrice dies at a young age, and Dante makes her his guide through Paradise in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. Of course, Beatrice's role in The Divine Comedy inspires our own Beatrice Institute.

To commemorate this anniversary, we are reading the entirety of The Divine Comedy in a year. The goal is to take a slow, ruminating walkthrough of this text — often hailed as the greatest work of imagination in the Western world — and to come to terms with Dante's grand synthesis of the cosmos and the human heart. Reading only six cantos every two weeks, we will aim to finish Inferno and half of Purgatorio this semester and the other half of Purgatorio and Paradiso in the Fall Semester.

We will meet in person every other Wednesday at 10:30 am. Books will be provided.