OTHER PROGRAMS

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.

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.

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.