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IMAGO DEI AND THE ALGORITHMIC SOCIETY

Christianity & the Common Good at Harvard University

IMAGO DEI AND THE ALGORITHMIC SOCIETY

Thursday, October 9 & Friday, October 10

Harvard University

Tyler VanderWeele (Harvard University)

Rosalind Picard (MIT)

John Kim (Karamaan Group)

As artificial intelligence (AI) encroaches on every dimension of the human experience—from how we work and learn to how we connect and make decisions—this global conference will bring together leading theologians, ethicists, technologists, and practitioners to explore themes foundational to Christianity and our understanding of human flourishing in the algorithmic age: 1) What does it mean to be human?; 2) What does it mean to learn?; and 3) What constitutes good community and loving relationships?


Space is limited and registration is required. Register at the link below. Inquiries should be addressed to ccg@fas.harvard.edu.

"SACRED ARTS" IN THE CHRISTIAN CONTEXT AND IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS

Aletheia Lecture on Catholic and Eastern Christianity

"SACRED ARTS" IN THE CHRISTIAN CONTEXT AND IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS

Thursday, October 9

5 PM Reception, Sackler Building 'Living Room'

6 PM Lecture, Sackler 004

Dr. Peter Bouteneff

Dr. Bouteneff teaches courses in ancient

and modern theology and spirituality at

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary,

where he is Professor of Systematic

Theology and Kulik Professor of

Sacred Arts. He has written and

edited multiple books including

‘Beginnings: Ancient Christian

Readings of the Biblical Creation

Narratives’, ‘Arvo Pärt: Sounding

the Sacred’, and is the founding

director of the Institute of Sacred Arts.

THE WORLD OF EFFICIENCY AND THE WORLD OF LOVE: CENTERING RELATIONSHIPS AND STORIES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Presented by the Northeastern University Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, Service, the Department of Religion and Philosophy, and the Health, Humanities, and Society Program

THE WORLD OF EFFICIENCY AND THE WORLD OF LOVE: CENTERING RELATIONSHIPS AND STORIES IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Wednesday, October 15, 6 PM

200 Ell Hall, CSDS Sacred Space, Northeastern University

Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD

Health care, the agrarian writer Wendell Berry once commented, is where the “world of love” enters a “world of efficiency” marked by

“specialization, machinery, and abstract procedure.” This is certainly true of mental health care, where people who feel stressed and dehumanized within our productivity-oriented culture all too often find themselves treated like machines that need to be fixed or “recharged” for further production. Most religious traditions, however, resist the reduction of people to machines and offer broader perspectives that can inform whole-person practices of mental health care. In this lecture we will consider one such perspective, Thomas Aquinas’ medieval Christian account of human beings as wayfarers on a journey, and unpack how this image of human beings as wayfarers informs mental health care practices that prioritize relationship, storytelling, trust, and love over technological symptom reduction.

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