Past Events
Resurrection of Beauty: How the Interior Life of the Artist Can Shape Our Daily Life with Sarah E. Maple
Join us for our Fall Ars Vivendi event featuring theologian and artist Sarah Maple.
Collegium Institute x The Catherine Project: 2026 Philadelphia Seminar
Members of the public are invited to join us for this exciting seminar collaboration with the Catherine Project.
"The Scarlet and the Black": Catholic Humanism Movie Night
All are welcome to join us for our first Catholic Humanism movie night.
Get Thee to a Nunnery: Women Religious in American Literature from Longfellow and Hawthorne to Flannery O’Connor (Fall 2026 Global Catholic Literature Seminar)
Join us for the Fall 2026 season of our virtual Global Catholic Literature series.
Engineering and the Good Life: A Professor’s Perspective (Fall 2026)
Join us for the fall semester’s Engineering and the Good Life Fellowship.
Law as a Liberal Art: Classics of Legal Thought (Fall 2026 Legal Humanities Fellowship)
Undergraduates, graduate students, and law students are invited to join us for the Fall 2026 Legal Humanities Fellowship.
Philosophy of Finance (Fall 2026): Wealth of Nations at 250: Adam Smith and the Moral Foundations of Markets
Join us for the fall semester’s Philosophy of Finance Fellowship.
Christ & The Common Good: On Faith and Politics (Fall 2026 Catholic Humanism Fellowship)
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to join us for the Fall 2026 module of our Catholic Humanism series.
Do We Not Bleed?: Philosophizing the Body in the Digital Age (Food For Thought)
Join us for the first Food For Thought module of the Fall 2026 semester.
Medical Humanities Fellowship (Fall 2026)
Join us for the fall semester’s Medical Humanities Fellowship.
Graduate Student & Young Adults BBQ
Join us and our friends at the Penn-Drexel Newman Center for a welcome back barbecue.
Collegium Institute Open House
Join us for our 2026 Open House where we will celebrate the start of the new academic year and unveil our 2026-2027 programs.
Socrates on College (2026 NSO Preceptorial)
First-year students are invited to join us for our 2026 NSO preceptorial.
How is Religion a Virtue for Democratic Society? (2026 Catholic Philosophical Tradition Seminar)
Join Collegium Institute for this Catholic Philosophical Traditions seminar on how religion is a virtue for a democratic society.
Catholicism and the Common Good
Over the course of three days Catholicism and the Common Good, the sixth annual summer seminar of the Collegium Institute’s Young Catholic Leaders Initiative, will reflect upon the three necessary societies stipulated by Catholic Social Teaching—the family, the polity, and the Church.
A Study of Pope Leo's First Encyclical
Join Collegium Institute and St. Patrick’s Church for a reading group discussion of Pope Leo’s first encyclical.
Passion and Death in Nero's Rome: Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis (Summer 2026 Global Catholic Literature)
Join us for the Summer 2026 season of Global Catholic Literature.
Venom & Grace: François Mauriac's "Vipers' Tangle" (Faith in Fiction Summer Reading Group)
Join us for our summer reading group on François Mauriac’s classic novel.
Alumni Weekend Sunday Brunch
Join us on Alumni Weekend for a brunch event in partnership with the Penn Newman Center.
Medical Ethics in the Catholic Tradition (Winged Ox Event)
Join us for our Winged Ox event on medical ethics in the Catholic tradition.
2026 Annual Spring Soirée
Join us as we celebrate the end of the academic year and our 2026 graduates at our Annual Spring Soiree.
Anscombe’s First University Lectures: What Anscombe Learned from Wittgenstein (Annual Anscombe Lecture in Ethics)
Join us for the 2026 Annual Anscombe Lecture.
Translating Christianity: Catholicism and Late Imperial China
Join us for this Evangelization in East Asia special event on Catholicism in the Late Imperial China.
“Can and Should the Human Rights Project be Saved?” Collegium Institute 2026 Annual Penn Club of New York Reception
Join us for our Annual Penn Club of New York Reception.
The Art of Dating
Join Collegium Institute and Thomistic Institute for a special event on the art of dating.
The Role of Narrative in the Cultivation of Virtue in Medicine (Spring 2026 Medical Humanities Lecture)
Join us for our Spring 2026 Medical Humanities Lecture on the role of narrative in cultivating virtue in medicine.
Contemplating Love and Death in Athens and Jerusalem (Symposium Intellectual Retreat)
Join us for our annual Intellectual Retreat on Villanova’s campus.
The Drama of Catholicism: Church History as Tragicomedy (Spring 2026 Young Catholic Leaders Initiative Workshop)
Join us for the Collegium Institute Young Catholic Leaders Initiative’s daylong Spring workshop The Drama of Catholicism: Church History as Tragicomedy at the University of Pennsylvania Newman Center from 9am to 3pm on Saturday, March 21st.
My Roman Empire: The Philosophy of Obsession & Desire (Food For Thought Spring 2026)
Join us for our Spring 2026 Food For Thought module on the philosophy of obsession and desire.
"Your God Is Too Small": Spring 2026 Magi Lecture
Join us for the Spring 2026 Magi Lecture.