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
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The DeNicola Family Colloquy: “Understanding Persons: Materialism, Idealism, or...” featuring Charles Taylor, McGill University, and John Haldane, Saint Andrews University
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“Is It Safe to Talk About Bodies and Souls?” John Finnis, University of Notre Dame, Oxford Univesity
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Machine/Human Interface
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The Capacity to Generate: Social Life and Institutional Implications
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Human Rights and Bodily Integrity
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Food and Drink
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Mental Health is Not Simply the Absence of Mental Illness
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The Thinking Heart of Man
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Property and the Body
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Jerusalem vs Athens
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Plato and the Body
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The Resurrected Body
- “Marriage, Catholicism, and Public Policy,” featuring Ryan Anderson, Joseph Bottum, Sherif Girgis, and Charles Reid
Invited speakers included:
- Ann Astell
- Margaret Brinig
- Derek Brown
- Farr Curlin
- Rev. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C.
- H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
- Don Howard
- William Hurlbut
- Adam Keiper
- Robert Kennedy
- Jonathan Lear
- Reggie Littlejohn
- Paul McHugh
- James McKenna
- Anthony Monta
- Melissa Moschella
- Candida Moss
- Darcia Narvaez
- David O’Connor
- Gretchen Reydams-Schils
- Most Rev. Kevin Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne–South Bend
- Elizabeth Schiltz
- Abe Schoener
- Andrea Simoncini
- Lorenza Violini
- John Waters
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