These gatherings bring faculty together from across disciplines at Duke for the purpose of allowing Catholic perspectives to enter into conversations among diverse fields. Over a meal and with a guiding theme and text, faculty members engage with questions and topics to which the Catholic intellectual tradition can both speak and be engaged with in a challenging and rigorous manner.

The primary goal is to provide a forum that pushes back on the increasingly fragmented landscape of academia today, which often prizes specialization over dialogue and skepticism over trust, all of which comes at the expense of the wisdom that can be sourced in all disciplines and brought into conversation with Catholic thinking.