A conversation with Josephine Quintavalle, of the think tank Comment on Reproductive Ethics
In 1994, Josephine Quintavalle founded CORE (Comment on Reproductive Ethics), an international think tank that deals with the problems related
STI organizes and sponsors experts meetings of some dozen scholars from a variety of disciplines to study and debate specific issues of current social significance. The conferences are held over a two-and-a-half day period at any one of a number of prestigious universities around the world. They are developed under the oversight of an Academic Leader – a professor expert in the field under consideration. The Academic Leader defines the topic to be studied, poses the principal inquiries, identifies and invites the best thinkers on the issue – representing different disciplines and nationalities, directs contributions, leads discussion and oversees the resulting publication.
In 1994, Josephine Quintavalle founded CORE (Comment on Reproductive Ethics), an international think tank that deals with the problems related
Understanding Modern Humanitarianism: Conditions, Consequences and Critical Concerns will be held in Barcelona from January 8-10, 2015 under STI’s Culture
A new AEI-IFS Study offers data to support claims that growing up with both parents leads to greater wealth, and
“Reimagining a Global Ethic” by Michael Ignatieff, was recently published in the journal Ethics and International Affairs. Ignatieff opened STI’s
Family sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox gave the following interview to La Vanguardia’s Lluis Amiguet. It appeared in the newspaper’s “contra”
Professor Gisin has been awarded Switzerland’s highest scientific distinction.
From September 24-26, the Catholic University of America School of Business hosted a conference titled “Liberty and Solidarity: Living the
Glasgow Political Theory Professor Christopher J. Berry reflects on the growth of Asian burgeoning consumerism. He participated in the STI
Interview with W. Bradford Wilcox, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and Director of the National Marriage Project
A molecular biologist and a moral theologian at Providence College, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., participated in STI’s Experts Meeting “Focus
This article summarizes and analyzes the social harms of pornography as considered in “Los costes sociales de la pornografía” (Ed.
STI founder Carlos Cavallé shared this interview with IESE’s magazine Seven Days, in its July 21, 2014 edition. Professor Cavallé
Interview on occasion of an STI experts meeting that took place in Barcelona last May 3 to 6. Yale media
The World Family Map 2014, released this month in the US, suggests that the family contexts of caregiving deserve attention
Some 20 journalists and sociologists have gathered in Barcelona to debate ‘the crisis of journalism reconsidered: cultural power.’ Academic Leader
San Francisco Philosophy Professor Thomas Anthony Cavanaugh explains the practical applications of Double Effect, citing some of the theory’s implications
The main insights of the STI experts meeting on Care Professions are to be published by Palgrave in May. Editors
Interview with Craig Iffland, who has actively organized the Double Effect meeting alongside Academic Leader John O’Callaghan.
STI’s first Experts Meeting at the University of Notre Dame is scheduled to begin Thursday. The meeting will explore the
The Executive Committee held a 10th Anniversary meeting in New York on October 24 to assess The Social Trends Institute’s
The meeting, held at Balliol College at Oxford, explored how the changing media environment created by proliferation of media platforms
Sociologist Brad Wilcox, who heads up many STI Family Branch projects, published an article in “The Atlantic” this week.
The Linacre Quarterly has published Dr. David Albert Jones’ review of the book “Is This Cell a Human Being? Exploring
LSE Professor Elliot Green chaired a session at LSE on March 11, 2013 to present some of the issues treated