Events

In partnership with DACRA and the Miami Design District, Cluny is hosting a gathering of writers, artists, and entrepreneurs in conversation with one another about the interplay of art, literature, and technology in the spread of ideas and the formation of culture.

That evening, there will be a semi-public reception and literary reading at The Moore.

Cluny’s annual conference will convene at the Catholic University of America to bring together people from a variety of disciplines to discuss the dynamics of cultural, institutional, artistic, technological, and personal conversion.

More info about speakers and how to attend is coming soon.

‟He who sits alone and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, and seeing. But there is one thing against which he must continually fight: that is, his own heart." - Abba Anthony

Cluny is hosting a silent evening in Manhattan.

Come and sit in silence. Free and open to the public.

1.19.25. NEW YORK, NY. 6PM-12AM.

This December, Cluny hosted its first Writer-in-Residence, novelist Joshua Hren. Joshua spent a week on Lake Michigan at a Cluniac property to finish his new manuscript, The Hôtel-Dieu.

Cluny Journal launch party at Russian Samovar. Featuring readings by Ariana Reines, Michael Clune and August Lamm, and a solo performance by Haela Hunt-Hendrix (of the band Liturgy). 

Cluny Journal reading at Almost Corner Bookstore, in collaboration with The DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts and Pidgin Edizioni. Featuring readings by Honor Levy, Gabriel Smith, Walt John Pearce, Jordan Castro, Catherine Foulkrod, Sara Verdecchia and Antonio Francesco Perozzi.

Cluny's first private Encounter brought together thinkers, entrepreneurs, academics and clergy for a discussion about Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, culture, faith, and science—kicking off with a private tour of the Swiss Guards’ barracks and a lecture by Liz Lev about art, the Vatican, and the scientific revolution.

The group then went to the Pontifical North American College, where they talked about New Atlantis, drawing parallels to modern issues related to the role of technology, political philosophy, and technology in the emergence of the antichrist in history; the grounds of morality; the Scientific revolution; and more. The conversation continued over a five-course meal at Ristorante Velando, touching on AI, Catholicism, physics, and history.

The apostle Paul wrote in the twelfth chapter of the Letter to the Romans: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

The 2023 NOVITATE gathering drew inspiration from the ideas of the French social theorist René Girard. Conferring on the centennial year of his birth, the conference hosted a full day of presentations, panels, and dialogue, concluding with a dinner banquet to honor his legacy. The question of conformity—which Girard’s mimetic theory explores—lies at the heart of many of the important personal and societal questions in our world today involving institutions, politics, education, civics, media, and much more. We explored Girard’s core ideas in the context of Paul’s exhortation to “Be Not Conformed” to the pattern of the world.

Speakers included Peter Thiel, Brandon Taylor, Walter Kirn, Alexandra Winokur, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Andrew McLuhan, Hollis Robins, Jon Askonas, Ross Douthat, Tara Isabella Burton, Katherine Dee and more.