December 1, 2022
“Genes and genesis: Seeking Clues to the Meaning of Life and Our Universe” featuring evolutionary biologist David Haig (MIT) and philosopher William Lane Craig.
November 4, 2021
“What Does COVID Mean for Us and the World?” featuring Frank Snowden (Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History & History of Medicine, Yale University | Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University (2008-2011)) and John Nwangwu (Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Yale University | Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, Southern Connecticut State University | Consultant under the World Health Organization).
June 17, 2021
“What is Human Nature? Moral Challenges for Genetic Engineering Research Today” featuring George Church (Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School | Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and James Sherley (Adult Stem Cell Biologist and Founder and Director of Asymmetrex, LLC).
May 27, 2021
“How Does Music Help Us to Flourish?” featuring Indre Viskontas (Neuroscientist and Operatic Soprano | Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco | Professor of Sciences and Humanities, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) and Awet Andemicael (Theologian and Operatic Soprano | Associate Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor Adjunct of Theology at Yale Institute of Sacred Music).
Jan 27, 2021
“God and the Human Mind” featuring Tania Lombrozo (Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology | Director, Concepts & Cognition Lab | Princeton University), Jordan Grafman (Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Director, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab | Northwestern University) and Justin Barrett (Founder/President, Blueprint 1543 | Editor, Oxford University Press Handbook for Cognitive Science of Religion).
November 12, 2020
“The Art and Science of Beauty” featuring Prof. Richard Prum (William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, Curator of Ornithology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) and Makoto Fujimura (internationally renowned artist, award-winning author, public speaker, and arts advocate).
September 30, 2020
“What Matters Most: Living and Dying Well in the Age of COVID” featuring Lydia Dugdale (Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University) and Mary O’Brien (Director of Clinical Training for the Yale graduate program in clinical psychology and the Director of the Yale Psychology Department Clinic).
July 22, 2020
“Intellectual Humility” featuring Marcelo Gleiser (Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy, Dartmouth College) and Cullen Buie (Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation).
February 13, 2020
“From Division to Dialogue: Should Religion Have a Voice in the University?” featuring Nicholas Wolterstorff (Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale) and Harry Lewis (Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard).
April 2, 2019
“Science & the Good Life at Yale: An Interdisciplinary Discussion” featuring Professors Laurie Santos (Psychology, Yale) and Miroslav Volf (Systematic Theology, Yale).
Oct. 24, 2018
“After Darwin: Evolution & Human Dignity” featuring Professors Kenneth Miller (Biology, Brown Univ.) and Gunter Wagner (Evol. Biology, Yale).
Sept. 25, 2018
"Multiple Truths: Reality, Perception, & Belief" featuring Psychologist Tyrone Cannon (Yale) and Philosopher Michael Della Rocca (Yale).
April 24, 2018
"The Character Gap: Building Character at Yale," featuring Professor Christian Miller (Wake Forest Univ., Philosophy) and Molly Crockett (Yale, Psychiatry).
February 20, 2018
"Conscientious Machines: Will AI Solve for the Human?" featuring Yale Computer Science Professor Drew McDermott.
December 6, 2017
"Blameworthy Machines: Neuroscience & Human Free Will” with Prof's Peter Tse and John Pittard.."
September 27, 2017
''Balancing Professional Aspirations with Mental Well-Being and Spiritual Development” Presented by Prof's Janet Lydecker, Mary O'Brien, Fred Sigworth and Barry Wu.
September 20, 2017
"The Fertility of Doubt: Lessons from Junk DNA." Presented by Yale Prof. Fred Sigworth and cultural critic John Seel.
April 18, 2017
"Human Genomic Engineering: What will it take to stay Human" Presented by MIT/Harvard Prof. George Church and Stem Cell Researcher and Asymmetrix Founder, James Sherley.
Feb. 6, 2017
"The Road to Character at Yale: Can Virtue be Taught?" Presented by NY Times Columnist David Brooks and Yale Philosophy Professor Shelly Kagan.
Feb. 24, 2016
"A Global Lab: Religion Among Scientists in International Context." Presented by Rice University Professor of Sociology Elaine Ecklund and Rivendell Senior Fellow Frederick Schneider.
Sept. 30, 2015
"Hard Science: Has Quantum Theory Made Us All Postmodernists?" presented by Dartmouth Professor of Physics and Astronomy Marcelo Gleiser and Yale Research Scientist Norman Chonacky (Yale, Applied Physics).
Feb. 11, 2015
"Big Gods: Do We Need Religion to Thrive?" presented by Prof. Ara Norenzayan (Univ. of British Columbia, Psychology) and Prof. Margarita Mooney (Yale, Sociology).
Oct. 16, 2014
"Science vs. Scientism" presented by Prof. Ian Hutchinson (MIT, Nuclear Engineering) and Prof. Laura Manuelidis (Yale, Neuropathology).