THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT: A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT HILTON PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, 3-5 August, 2017 Suggested Themes: It is said that the American system of constitutional, democratic self-government presupposes a virtuous people; it is unsuitable for any other. When…
THE FUTURE OF RELIGION: RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD? HILTON PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, JULY 21-23, 2016 John Paul II--philosopher-poet-Pope--forged a grand new synthesis unmatched since Thomas Aquinas’ Summa. It is timely, then, to ask how and why John Paul’s vision of…
FREEDOM & VIRTUE: Re-Inventing Free Institutions in an Era of Globalization HILTON, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, 6-9 August 2015 In a postmodern era that brackets God and perceives all values and norms as equally subjective, social bonds have attenuated. Already…
DOES GOD PLAY DICE? Randomness & Divine Providence HILTON, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, 31 July - 3 August 2014 Can randomness and divine Providence be reconciled within a larger theoretical framework that could shed more light on some of the…
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES: THE NEXT 25 YEARS HILTON, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 1-4, 2013 The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary of modeling interdisciplinary integration of the liberal arts with a call to explore the relevance of interdisciplinary…
BRAVE NEW WORLD? GENETIC ENGINEERING & HUMAN DIGNITY HILTON, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 2-5, 2012 Genetic engineering poses a challenge equal to AI’s “transhumanism” in its implications for human dignity and the very notion of what it means to be…
THE FIRST FREEDOMS: MIHAJLOV'S QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS HILTON, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 4-7, 2011 The times call for a re-assessment of Mihajlo Mihajlov's life, work, and legacy, whose significance reaches well beyond Tito's Yugoslavia, the Balkans, and…
