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2013: The Body and Human Identity

The 2013 Fall Conference, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Body and Human Identity,” was held November 7–9, 2013, and examined what it means to be a human being and to respect the human body. Watch video recordings of the presentations using the links below.

Featured Presentations

• “Age-Retardation, Life-Extension, and the Relation Between the Generations,” Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University; response by Daniel Sulmasy, University of Chicago
   
• “What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain,” Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame
   
• The DeNicola Family Colloquy: “Understanding Persons: Materialism, Idealism, or...” featuring Charles Taylor, McGill University, and John Haldane, Saint Andrews University
   
• “Is It Safe to Talk About Bodies and Souls?” John Finnis, University of Notre Dame, Oxford Univesity
   
• Machine/Human Interface
   
• The Capacity to Generate: Social Life and Institutional Implications
   
• Human Rights and Bodily Integrity
   
• Food and Drink
   
• Mental Health is Not Simply the Absence of Mental Illness
   
• The Thinking Heart of Man
   
• Property and the Body
   
• Jerusalem vs Athens
   
• Plato and the Body
   
• The Resurrected Body
   
• “Marriage, Catholicism, and Public Policy,” featuring Ryan Anderson, Joseph Bottum, Sherif Girgis, and Charles Reid

Past Conferences

• 2013: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
• 2012: Exploring the Many Facets of Justice
• 2011: Radical Emancipation
• 2010: Younger Than Sin
• 2009: The Summons of Freedom
• 2008: The Family
• 2007: Dialogue of Cultures
• 2006: Modernity
• 2005: Joy in the Truth
• 2004: Epiphanies of Beauty
• 2003: Formation and Renewal
• 2002: From Death to Life
• 2001: A Culture of Life
• 2000: A Culture of Death