Speaker: Dr. Angela Franks
Thursday, November 12 | McCosh 28 | 5-6:15pm
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Angela Franks, Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, whose talk will explore contemporary technocracy by means of an analysis of artifacts in general and digitalization in particular. Digitalization is so compelling to us because it imitates our higher powers of reasoning. Franks suggests that this imitation tends inexorably to target the woman for objectification.
Angela Franks, Ph.D., is an award-winning theologian, writer, and mother of six. She serves as associate professor of theology at the Catholic University of America and as a Heritage Foundation Academic Prize recipient for 2026-27. She served as the president of the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2025-26. Her book Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self from the University of Notre Dame Press won a Research Expanded Reason Award in 2025 from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, in collaboration with the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. Her latest book is The Epiphany of Being: Trinitarian Analogia Entis and the Transcendentals in Hans Urs von Balthasar, with Word on Fire Academic.
This lecture will be recorded.
