April 2013: "Advancing a Culture of Life: Pro-Life Argument in the Coming Generation"

"Advancing a Culture of Life: Pro-Life Argument in the Coming Generation"

Catholic Center, New York University

April 5-6, 2013

This conference is free and open to the public.

Friday April 5:

1:00 pm: "Human Being and Human Personhood: Are They the Same?"

David Novak (University of Toronto)
Respondent: Rusty Reno (First Things)

2:30 pm: "Rethinking Unplugging: Another Look at Thomson's Violinist"

Angela Knobel (The Catholic University of America)
Respondent: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)

4:00 pm: "Defending Life in Law, Politics, and Culture: Strategies
for the Future and Reasons for Optimism"

Carter Snead (Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame)
Respondent: Yuval Levin

Discussion

5:30 pm: Mass at the Catholic Center

Celebrant: Fr. Allan White, OP

Saturday April 6th:

10:00 am: "St. Augustine: a Non-dualist Anthropology for Life"

Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University)
Respondent: Anna Halpine (World Youth Alliance)

11:30 am: "Who and What Are We and Can We Know It?: Personhood and the Prolife Future."

Francis Beckwith (Baylor University)
Respondent: Ryan T. Anderson (Heritage Foundation)

1:30 pm: "Myths of the Sexual Revolution"

Mary Eberstadt (Ethics and Public Policy Center)
Respondent: Ashley McGuire (AltCatholicah)

Discussion

A flyer for the conference can be seen here.

This symposium is co-sponsored by:
The Thomistic Institute, Washington, DC
Center For Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame University
First Things, The Institute for Religion and Public Life, New York, NY