Gonzaga University’s Faith and Reason Institute and the Whitworth University Weyerhaeuser Center of Faith and Learning will present a series of lectures titled “Faith, Film and Philosophy 2013: ‘Of Fairy-stories, Fantasy and Myth” beginning in October.
A special preview event to the series will be a screening of Guillermo del Toro’s breakout film “Pan’s Labyrinth” at 7 p.m., Sept. 25 at the Bing Crosby Theater. The screening is part of the Professor Series, a series of films specially selected and presented by local professors and part of the Spokane International Film Festival 2013. Admission to the film is $7 for adults, $5 for students. After the film, Gonzaga philosophy Professors David Calhoun and Brian Clayton will offer comments and lead a discussion about what this fantasy says about the real world and who we are as moral agents, according to a press release.
The series includes the following lectures Oct. 9-11, which are free and open to the public:
- 7 p.m., Oct. 9: “Darwin Goes to the Movies: A Naturalistic View of Filmic Imagination” by Gonzaga philosophy Professor Richard McClelland. Location: Wolff Auditorium, Jepson Center for the School of Business Administration at Gonzaga.
- 7 p.m., Oct. 10: “Bedazzled, The Devil, and Freedom” by Katherin Rogers, professor of philosophy, University of Delaware. Location: Robinson Teaching Theatre, Weyerhaeuser Hall, Whitworth University.
- 7 p.m., Oct. 11, “The Metaphysics of Elfand” by Michael Foley, associate professor of patristics in the Honors College at Baylor University. Location: Wolff Auditorium, Jepson Center at Gonzaga.
