Last Updated: June 27, 2006

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Sponsored Lectures

In addition to our many conferences and ongoing lecture series, the Center has brought a number of distinguished speakers to the University of Notre Dame since its founding in 1999.  Below is a list of these speakers.

• "The Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference"
  March 10-11, 2006
  * Several of the lectures from this conference will be available on video and audio soon.

• "The Edith Stein Project: Redefining Feminism"
  February 10-11, 2006
  * Several of the lectures from this conference will be available on video and audio soon.

• "Anticipating Narnia"
  Rev. Charles Gordon, CSC
  University of Notre Dame Department of Theology
  December 8, 2005

• "Western Images of Islam, Islamic Images of the West: An Interfaith Inquiry"
  Benjamin Alexander
  Franciscan University of Steubenville
  Friday, November 4, 2005
  

• "Business as a Calling"
  Michael Novak
  American Enterprise Institute
  September 16, 2005
  
  
• "What Can Philosophers Learn From the Tradition?"
  Alasdair MacIntyre
  Jean-Luc Marion
  Charles Taylor
  April 30, 2005 at the University of Chicago
  
  
• "God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America"
  Naomi Schaeffer Riley
  Ethics and Public Policy Center
  February 13, 2005
  
  
• "Stem Cell Research Myths: Getting the Science and the Ethics Straight"
  Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
  National Catholic Bioethics Center
  January 13, 2005
  
  
• "Restoring the Culture: Life and the Pursuit of Happiness"
  Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J.
  Gonzaga University
  March 1, 2004
  
  
• "Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog:
  Reflections on the Metaphor of 'the Space of Reasons and the Space of Causes'"
  Simon Blackburn
  Cambridge University
  September 12, 2003
  
  
• "The Good Life: Faith, Hope, Love"
  Laura Garcia
  Boston College
  Dallas Willard
  University of Southern California
  April 4, 2003

• "Winter Rain in Aristotle's Physics II.8 (198b17 - 199a8):
  Elemental Teleology and the Role of Phusis "
  Margaret Scharle
  University of California, Los Angeles
  October 29, 2002

• Janne Haaland Matlary
  "Intervening for Human Rights or the National Interest?
  Security Policy Post September 11 in Europe and the US"
  University of Oslo
  July 2, 2002

• "Jewish Metaphysics at the Founding"
  Michael Novak
  American Enterprise Institute
  October 16, 2001

• "An Artist's Perspective: John Paul II on the Genesis of Human Relationships"
  Joseph Rice
  Catholic University of America
  February 22, 2001

• "The Legacy of Pope John Paul II"
  George Weigel
  Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
  February 8, 2001

• "Saint Alphonsus De Liguori and Visions of Justice"
  Hamish F. G. Swanston
  University of Canterbury
  Co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society
  September 27, 2000

• "Thomist Ethics in America"
  John Haldane
  Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs
  University of St. Andrews, Scotland
  July 17, 2000

• "Disability, Ethics, and Trinitarian Theology "
  Hans S. Reinders
  Willem van den Bergh Chair
  Free University
  Amsterdam
  May 30, 2000

• "Nihilism in Popular Culture"
  Thomas Hibbs
  Boston College
  December 2, 1999

• "Distinguishing Intention from Foresight:
  What is Included in a Means to an End"
  Christopher Kaczor
  Loyola Marymount University
  December 2, 1999

• "Being Human: Science, Knowledge and Virtue"
  John Haldane
  Director of the Center for Philosophy and Public Affairs
  University of St. Andrews, Scotland
  November 10, 1999

• "The Social Origins of Morality"
  Robert Nozick
  Harvard University
  September 17, 1999

• "Ethics in Journalism"
  Ted Koppel
  Nightline
  September 17, 1999