Assumption College Announces New Lecture

Worcester, MA—Assumption College announced today that the College's Ecumenical Institute has established a new annual lecture in honor of Blessed Marie-Eugénie Milleret, the founder of the Religious of the Assumption, a world-wide congregation of women and their associates. The close collaboration between Marie-Eugénie Milleret and Emmanuel d’Alzon , the founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption, continues today in the common endeavor of the women and men of the Assumption family at Assumption College.

The Milleret Lecture joins the d'Alzon, Klein, and Flanagan Lectures in the annual program serving the College and Worcester area communities. It will take place each year on or close to March 10, Marie-Eugénie's Feast Day. The inaugural Milleret Lecture will take place the evening of March 14,
2002, in Hagan Campus Center Hall. Professor Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University has agreed to speak. The topic will be "The Challenge of Islam in the United States."

The other three lectures in the series are scheduled as followed:

Bishop Flanagan Lecture: Karl P. Donfried: "Nurturing the Beloved Community: Ecumenism in a Time of Ambiguity" on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 7:00 p.m . in Hagan Campus Center Hall.

D’Alzon Lecture: Peter Augustine Lawler: "Does Human Nature have a Future" on Thursday, November 8, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. in Hagan Campus Center Hall.

Rabbi Klein Lecture: Rabbi David Dalin: "Pope Pius XII and the Jews" on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. in Hagan Campus Center Hall.

For more information on the Ecumenical Institute, please contact Marc LePain at (508) 767-7127.