BALTIMORE–Adam Gopnik, award-winning writer for The New Yorker, will deliver the 2018 Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 6 p.m., at Loyola University Maryland’s McGuire Hall(Andrew White Student Center, 4501 North Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 21210).

Free and open to the region’s academic and religious communities and the general public, the lecture is titled, "Believing Without Belief, Spirituality Without Team Spirit: Thinking about Tolerance in the Twenty-First Century."

“This topic is extremely timely given the current divisiveness in our country,” said Mark Osteen, director of Loyola University Maryland's Center for the Humanities, which annually hosts and sponsors the Cardin Lecture. “Gopnik’s lecture will provide a lively forum for discussing the nature and limits of religious tolerance and belief.”

Gopnik joined The New Yorker staff in 1986 and has won the National Magazine Award for Essay and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

He is the author of several books, including his latest, At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrival in New York, a memoir in which Gopnik shares his experiences moving from Montreal to New York in the 1980s. His other titles include The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food; Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Through the Children’s Gate.

A regular broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Gopnik also wrote the article on American culture for the last two editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. In 2012, the French government named him a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. He has received honorary doctorates from McGill University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Gopnik’s lecture will be followed by a kosher reception.Registration is required by visiting loyola.edu/cardinlecture. For questions, call 410-617-2973 or email advevents@loyola.edu.

About the Cardin Lecture
The Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture was established in 1986 by the Jerome S. Cardin family to foster exploration of topics in the humanities pertinent to the Jewish and Christian traditions, particularly in the area of Jewish-Christian relations. Notable speakers have included Chaim Potok, His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler, Cornel West,Taylor Branch,Stephen Greenblatt, Susannah Heschel and Robert Alter.