"The Council of Trent and Michelangelo's
Last Judgement"
Presented by
Rev. John O'Malley, S.J.
Department of Theology
Georgetown
University
Thursday, March 15, 2012
3- 4:30 p.m.
Bent Hall, Room 277 A/B
Reception Immediately following in the President's Room
(formerly the Faculty Club) next to Carnesecca Arena
Rev. John O'Malley, S.J., is an internationally
known scholar of religious culture in early modern Europe,
especially Italy. He has received best-book prizes from the
American Historical Association, the American Philosophical
Society, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference and the Alpha
Sigma Nu fraternity. His best-known books include The First Jesuits
(Harvard University Press, 1993) and What Happened at Vatican II
(Harvard, 2008). He also has edited or co-edited three volumes in
the "Collected Works of Erasmus" series (University of Toronto
Press) as well as The Jesuits and the Arts (Saint Joseph's
University Press, 2005). Fr. O'Malley has received fellowships from
the Guggenheim
Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned
Societies.
A past president of the Renaissance
Society of America and of the American Catholic Historical
Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American
Philosophical Society and the Accademia di san Carlo, Ambrosian
Library, Italy. He holds the Johannes Quasten Medal from The Catholic University of America
for distinguished achievement in Religious Studies and has received
several honorary degrees. In 2002 he received the lifetime
achievement award from the Society for Italian
Historical Studies and in 2005 the corresponding award from the
Renaissance Society of America.