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2022: And It Was Very Good

2022: And It Was Very Good

'And It Was Very Good': On Creation

Fall Conference | November 10–12, 2022 | University of Notre Dame

In the created world, Pope Francis writes, we are able to perceive "a grammar written by the hand of God" (Lumen Fidei 55). If creation is a language, what can we discern regarding the creator? For its 22nd annual Fall Conference, the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture invites submissions that explore the many facets of the created world and the act of creation, including questions of cosmology, teleology, natural ends, natural law, the Imago Dei, creaturely status, ecology, stewardship, cocreation, recreation, redemption, and more.

The de Nicola Center's annual Fall Conference brings together the world’s leading Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, in fruitful discourse and exchange on the most pressing and vexed questions of ethics, culture, and public policy today. The Fall Conference convenes more than 100 speakers and 800 guests annually for wide-ranging conversations that engage the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition from a variety of disciplinary points of departure, including theology, philosophy, political theory, law, history, economics, and the social sciences, as well as the natural sciences, literature, and the arts.

Submit a Proposal

The de Nicola Center welcomes 500-word proposals for both papers and panels via the online portal below. Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length; panels are 75 minutes total. Submissions must be received by July 17, 2022; decisions will be announced by August 15, 2022. Questions or concerns? Email fallconference@nd.edu.

To Register

Conference registration will open in mid-August.

Past Conferences

Find information regarding past conferences and lecture videos at the links below.