Something you may want to attend if you can: the 17th Life and Learning Conference of University Faculty for Life, being held from the afternoon of Friday, June 1st, through Saturday evening on the campus of Villanova University just west of Philadelphia. People who go tell me that it's the place to be for serious intellectual engagement with the wide range of life issues.
The UFFL is a very impressive group — many of its members teach at universities at which a pro-life position marks one out — and the speakers include our contributing editors Anne Barbeau Gardiner and William Saunders, and Frank Beckwith and Rachel McNair, who've both written for us.
It is an academic conference, though I'm told the papers are generally accessible to the non-academic. The papers range in subject from “The Texas Advanced Directives Act: Futility and the Denial of Due Process" and “We’re All Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis over Theoria in the Culture War” to "Abortion, Infanticide, and Euthanasia in Arabic Literature” to “The Influence of Religiosity on Contraceptive Use and Abortion in the US” and "The Effect of Pro-Life Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion Among Minors."
The website does not say when registration closes, but I suspect it may be soon, given that the conference starts in eight days. I assume it's the sort of thing those of you who live nearby can drop into and register upon arrival.
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