Events
Upcoming Events & Courses
Featured 2023 Events
Ongoing Seminar: Anscombe on Action and Ethics
February 22 | April 4 | May 7
Three Spring Sessions
February 22, 2023: Dr. John Peter DiIulio (Penn): “On Just Promises”
April 4, 2023: Prof Graham Hubbs (Idaho): “Anscombe’s Ethics of Money”
May 7: Dr. Paul Musso (Penn): “Anscombe on State Authority”
What Is (Human) Life II Conference
Thursday & Friday, July 13-14, 2023 | University of Pennsylvania
Session: “Reconsidering Human Agency and Intelligence in Age of AI”, featuring Professor Stake Ake (Drexel University) and Jesse Couenhoven (Villanova University)
Faculty Colloquium on "Cultivating the Art of Being Human: the Challenge and Opportunity of ChatGPT” featuring Professors Amy Sepinwall (Penn) and Weimao Ke (Drexel)
Friday, April 21, 2023 | University of Pennsylvania, Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics (133 S. 36th St), PCPSE Room 625
It’s here: AI has burst into higher education in ways that no longer seem possible for non-specialists to ignore. New interfaces like ChatGPT4 raise very significant practical questions relating to academic integrity and job displacement, to be sure. But they also provide an opportunity to revisit more fundamental questions about the ends of college education and the traits constitutive of a human life well-lived. This informal colloquium draws together faculty of diverse disciplinary trainings, backgrounds, and commitments to venture outside of our ordinary discourse communities and build intellectual friendship while discussing questions of broad scope for our university community.
This Friday afternoon colloquium will feature two discussion sessions, each of which will open with brief remarks, followed by a reception. Here is the schedule:
Coffee & Light Refreshments Available starting at 2:40pm
Session #1: 3:00: Amy Sepinwall (Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, Penn): Becoming Human Again: What Social Insights Might AI Advances Offer to Us Here?
Session #2: 4:15: Weimao Ke (Professor of Information Science, Drexel): Engaging with AI as an Educator: New Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Mentorship
Friendship, Faith, and Philosophical Revolution with Prof. John Berkman (University of Toronto)
Friday, April 14, 2023 | 9:30 – 10:30 am | University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections | Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor, Seminar Room 627
A Perry-Collegium Initiative event
Collegium Institute, PRRUCS, & Penn Philosophy Present: Friendship, Faith, and Philosophical Revolution; an Anscombe Archive Exhibit & Presentation, with John Berkman (University of Toronto)
God and the Multiverse with Dr. Deb Haarsma
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 7:30 pm | Penn Newman Center (111 S. 38th St.)
A Perry-Collegium Initiative Event
Collegium Institute & PRRUCS Present: “God and the Multiverse” with Dr. Deb Haarsma, Astronomer and President of BioLogos.
The Ethics of Killing with Joshua Stuchlik
Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 12-1:30 pm | University of Pennsylvania, Irvine Auditorium
Collegium Institute and the Penn Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society present: “The Ethics of Killing: Ansombe’s Contribution to Understanding Murder”, featuring Joshua Stuchlik, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas.
Reading Newman in the Third Reich with Prof. Helena Tomko
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | 7:30 pm | Penn Newman Center
Collegium Institute & PRRUCS Present: “Reading Newman in the Third Reich”, an evening conversation with Prof. Helena Tomko, Professor of Literature at Villanova University in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the White Rose Student Resistance.
Medical Humanities on Wellness & Spirituality with Dr. Philip Gehrman and Dr. Thomas Kolon
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Collegium Institute and the Penn Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society present: “Medical Humanities on Wellness and Spirituality”, featuring Dr. Philip Gehrman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Thomas Kolon, Chief of Urology Division at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Law & the Human Person, A History of the First Amendment with Prof. Sarah Barringer Gordon
Monday, January 30, 2023
Collegium Institute & PRRUCS Present: “Law & the Human Person: A History of the First Amendment”, featuring Prof. Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at Penn Carey Law School.
The Lost Women: Recovering the Other English Catholic Literary Revival with Profs. Bonnie Lander Johnson and Julia Meszaros
Thursday, January 12, 2023 | 12 pm ET on Zoom
The Penn Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, Collegium Institute, and Dappled Things present: “The Lost Women: Recovering the Other English Catholic Literary Revival”, an Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative conversation featuring Professors Bonnie Lander Johnson (Cambridge University) and Julia Meszaros (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland).
Sample of PRRUCS – Co-Sponsored Courses
AMES 335 Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Relations in the Middle East
ASTR 007 The Big Bang and Beyond
COML 200 Mythology
ENGL 359 Belief in the Age of the Enlightened Cosmopolite
FOLK 025 Magic, Science, and Religion
HIST 201 Tolerance, Then and Now
HIST 201.601 Scriptures in World History
HIST 234 The Catholic World: Medieval to Modern
HIST 313 Religion and Society in the Iberian World
HIST 325 Religion in American History
HIST 415 Seventeenth Century Intellectual History: Origins of Modernity
HSSC 001 The Emergence of Modern Science
HSSC 301 Science and Religion
LEAD 400 Global Leadership and Problem Solving
MUSC 150 Introduction to Global Music/ Thinking Globally about Music
PHIL 010 What is Life? A Philosophical and Scientific Exploration of Nature
PSCI 240 Religion and Public Policy
PSCI 275 Muslim Political Thought
PSCI 298 Spirited Debate
RELS 002 Religions in the West: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
RELS 107 Religion in Philadelphia
RELS 010 Religion in Public Life
RELS 111 Religion and Secular Values: Hip Hop Culture
RELS 133 Introduction to Christianity
RELS 144 Persian Mystical Thought: Rumi/ The Foundations of Islamic Mysticism
SAST 163 Introduction to Hinduism
SOCI 300 Religious Life at Penn
STSC 313 The Universe: Historical Inquiries in Physics, Philosophy, and Religious Belief
In addition to these special events and for-credit courses, PRRUCS also supports a variety of programs for University of Pennsylvania students through the PRRUCS-Collegium Initiative, including Food for Thought, Faith & Reason, Medical Humanities Fellowship, Philosophy of Finance Fellowship, Legal Humanities Fellowship, and more.