The Future of Fertility: The Impact of Gender Equality in the Developed World
Two participants in STI’s 2010 Whither the Child? Experts Meeting spoke at the University of Virginia on the relationship between
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.
Two participants in STI’s 2010 Whither the Child? Experts Meeting spoke at the University of Virginia on the relationship between
STI is pleased to support important research into family trends around the globe.
Fashion and Identity in a Cultural Key
Spanish-speakers can read a very complete review of Eva Illouz’s book Why Love Hurts. STI board member and academic leader
Michael Ignatieff lectured on “Imagining a Global Ethic” on April 19 at UVA, to kick off STI’s “Globalization and the
A new international report from the Social Trends Institute – “The Sustainable Demographic Dividend” – contends that the long-term fortunes
The Social Trends Institute has created a page on Facebook. View photo albums from our meetings, keep up with what
Harvard Philosopher and Astrophysicist Bob Doyle has published the book Free Will: The Scandal in Philosophy, crediting STI’s “Is Science
Leading scholars of fashion theory explored the importance of emotion to understanding modern fashion at the STI-sponsored Fashion and Emotions
STI sponsored the symposium Equality, Freedom of Conscience and the Common Good, held at Lincoln’s Inn in London from March
STI’s Is Science Compatible with Our Desire for Freedom? experts meeting is now available to watch on YouTube.
World-renowned physicists, neuroscientists and philosophers gathered in Barcelona to shed light on the important question posed by STI’s latest bioethics
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