Feb. 1 and 13, 2024: Feeding the Hungry, Caring for Creation
Join us on February 1 & 13 for this two-part Zoom webinar on fighting global food insecurity in an era of environmental challenges. Our panelists include:
For more information and to register, please visit: https://collisinstitute.org/publicevents.
Jan. 27, 2024
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Jan. 22, 2024 Public Lecture: Tyler VanderWeele
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.
Wednesday Jan. 31, 2024: Free Film & Discussion
Join us for this award-winning, hidden gem of a short film that offers the haunting memories of a young Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, who for 50 years did not speak about his 4-year Nazi imprisonment or the unspeakable human acts of violence he witnessed until a debilitating stroke finally prompted his courageous testimony in the only way he could.
November 10, 2023 Seminar
Join us for a special seminar on:
"Bare Life, the Resurrection of the Body and Evangelium Vitae (1995) with Gavin Flood"
Although with different methods and evidentiary resources, traditional Catholic doctrine and the modern sciences of genetics and medicine both teach the special dignity and fragility of human life and the inherent care and justice due each human person. Both traditions of learning, however, have failed to stem the ever darkening distemper of our secularist age that routinely delimits personhood while wildly raging against life itself. How humanity entrapped ourselves in this sad, secular cul-de-sac and how we might begin to consider the philosophical, theological and political resources needed to find our way out is precisely what this seminar discussion aims to ask.
Interested participants are asked to register to ensure a seat and to read two common texts. EVERYONE is invited to attend—including “just listeners.”