On November 7-8, 2013, Washington & Lee University School of Law hosted a conference marking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The conference, Roe at 40: The Controversy Continues, http://law.wlu.edu/lawcenter/page.asp?pageid=1620, was largely organized by Sam Calhoun (a member of the UFL Board). The conference was co-sponsored by University Faculty for Life, ACLU of Virginia, Virginia NOW, the […]
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The July edition of the ProVita Online Newsletter of UFL is now available! It includes: A recap of the 2013 conference in San Francisco, An essay on the academic discipline of history and pro-life scholarship by Keith Cassidy, Information about the 2014 conference at Fordham in the Bronx, News and and recent scholarship about UFL members, Upcoming […]
The Francis Lewis Law Center of the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, VA, is sponsoring a symposium called Roe at 40, The Controversy Continues, Nov. 7-8, 2013. Among the keynote speakers will be Caitlin Borgmann is a professor of law at CUNY School of Law, and Michael Paulsen is a professor of […]
Frank Beckwith summarizes some of the points he made in his talk at the Evangelium Vitae conference in Rome (June 15-16) in this The Catholic Thing essay, “Positivist Mentality and the Gospel of Life.” In it he looks at Pope John Paul II’s diagnosis of the intellectual conditions that lead to a Culture of Death in […]
The Board has confirmed that the 2014 “Life and Learning XXIV Conference” at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus in Bronx, NY. Mark your calendars now to join us June 6-7 in the Big Apple! More details will be posted on our website and blog as they develop.
In Rome at the Vatican this weekend the Holy See is presenting a “Day Celebrating Evangelium Vitae,” Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical on life issues. UFL board member Frank Beckwith is one of the presenters at a panel called “The Gospel of Life and the New Evangelization.” In an interview with Vatican Radio Beckwith […]
If you are in the San Francisco area, please join us at the 2013 UFL “Life and Learning” Conference. Registration is available from 12 to 5 p.m. at the University of San Francisco Fromm Hall in the Commons. Here is the conference schedule: Friday, May 31st, 2013 2:00 – 2:15pm Conference Opening and Welcome – (Fromm Hall, […]
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G.E.M. Anscombe Conference at Oxford
One of the great pro-life philosophers of the 20th century was analytic philsoopher G.E.M. Anscombe, of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The Anscomber bioethics Centre and Blackfriars Hall at Oxford are sponsoring a conference called “The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe.” It will be held Friday 27th and Saturday 28th September 2013 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford […]
The Thomistic Institute NYC will be hosting a conference in April called “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. Tentative Schedule: Friday April 5: 1:00 pm: David Novak (University of Toronto) Respondent: Rusty Reno (First Things) […]
Call For Papers and Presenters Honoring Patients’ Treatment Choices at the End of Life: New Tools, New Challenges, New Limits Hamline University School of Law, Saint Paul, MN, November 8-9, 2012 The Health Law Institute at Hamline University and the Hamline Law Review seek proposals for presentations and papers for our all-day fall CLE/CEU Symposium […]