Monday, January 22nd
6:30 - 8:00pm ET
Join us for this online lecture on human flourishing by Prof. Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University.
Many empirical studies in the social and biomedical sciences focus narrowly on individual outcomes like income or subjective feelings of happiness. Prof. VanderWeele, however, contends that human well-being or flourishing includes a broader range of conditions and outcomes, including sets of goods produced by and within communities. In fact, new empirical research indicates that participation in religious communities yields a range of health and well-being outcomes including longevity, mental health, happiness, meaning in life, marital stability, and others. Online registration is available here.
This lecture is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation, and it is cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought, Collegium Institute at UPenn, Fons Vitae at Duke University, Nova Forum at USC, and the Kateri Institute at the University of Michigan.