Le Moyne College Calendar

Please join us at the Humanities Research Seminar, showcasing the scholarly work of the Le Moyne faculty, This event will feature the Rev. Charles Oduke, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of philosophy.

Dr. Oduke will address the implications of dowry on the burial dispute of a Luo woman named Veronica, as a way of illustrating the far-reaching effects of the dowry system. The paper utilizes Bernard Lonergan’s Transcendental Method, derived from his cognitional theory—experiencing, understanding experience, judging the understanding of experience, willingness to act informed by the judgment of that understanding, and finally, intellectual, moral, and religious conversion. In our efforts to raise consciousness about dowry, we can transpose the method into an invitation to engage in the following five imperatives: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be willing, and be loving in our discourse on dowry and its long-term implications.