One of the highlights of Regent Summer Programs is our free Evening Public Lectures. This series always features a wide range of professors and topics, and this year is no exception. All lectures will be streamed online, so invite a friend and join us! The New...
Events
Visual Communication in a Digital Age
Emily Downe will contribute to this Culham St Gabriel’s Trust event on why innovation matters for today’s teachers of religion and worldviews. This event on May 12th at 7pm GMT features a conversation with Emily Downe and Jason Ramasami on how animation and...
Character and the Professions (conference)
Recent events have revealed the importance of character in leadership as well as the widespread lack of trust in our institutions. The professions have a special opportunity and obligation to promote personal integrity and to advance social trust. On March 18-20,...
A Conversation About ‘Jesus and the Disinherited’ with Dean Luke Powery & Dr. Walter Fluker
As part of its Duke Chapel Reads series, the chapel will host online conversations about the book Jesus and the Disinherited by the theologian and minister Howard Thurman as a way to address contemporary issues of faith, race, justice, and love. Through the reading...
Education, Enhancement, and the Pursuit of the Good
Being human in our technological age requires not merely technical skills but—more importantly—intellectual capacity to navigate a rapidly changing philosophical milieu. Join us this winter for our online lecture series, Human Flourishing in a Technological Age, to...
Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age
Parents naturally worry about the future. They want to prepare their children to compete in an uncertain world. But often, argues political philosopher and father of three Matt Feeney, today's worried parents surrender their family's autonomy to gain a leg up in this...
A Desperate Cry for Justice
Seeking a truly human path to racial justice with Anika Prather, professor, Howard University, Eugene Rivers, Pentecostal minister, and Jacqueline Rivers, director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, moderated by Jonathan Liedl, journalist...
The Core of Our Humanity
An online dialogue on the Encounter theme with Paolo Carozza, professor of Law and Director of Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the University of Notre Dame, and Charles Taylor, philosopher and professor emeritus, McGill University The events of the past...
Town Halls on “Traditioned Innovation”
Author Richard Beck will be in conversation with Cornelius Williams as we explore how we can renew traditions and practices from the past in order to improve on the present and make progress towards the future. Dr. Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of the Department...
New York Encounter 2021: When Reality Hits
Broadcast live from New York City Available online to everyone, wherever you are An annual three-day public cultural event in the heart of New York City, offering opportunities for education, dialogue, and friendship The 2021 edition will be online, available to...