Past Events
To Live is to Change: Newman on Growing Up Well (2025 Annual Newman Lecture)
Join us for an evening lecture on Newman.
Songs of Innocence: An Exploration of Childhood (Food for Thought)
Join us for the Spring 2025 Food for Thought!
All-American Socrates: The Intellectual Legacy and Teachings of Dr. Michael J. Sugrue (Inaugural Sugrue Lecture)
Join us virtually for the Inaugural Sugrue Lecture featuring Penn Professor John J. DiIulio Jr.
The Mystery of Human Life? On Biological Development and the Continuity Problem
Join Collegium’s Magi Project for a lecture on the scientific and philosophical definitions of human life.
The Great Lawgivers: Law and Justice Through the Ages (Spring 2025 Legal Humanities Fellowship)
Join the Spring 2025 Legal Humanities Fellowship.
Is There a Catholic Case for a Second New Deal?
Join our friends at Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) for an upcoming event at the Penn Club of New York cosponsored by First Things and America Media.
St. Nicholas Day Party
Students and faculty are invited to join Collegium for our St. Nicholas Day party.
It’s Not About the Laughs: Improving Health Equity Through Medical Improv
Join us in a lecture and workshop on improving health equity through medical improv.
Science as a Path to Wonder: From the Darkness of Space to the Light of Christ
High school students and teachers are invited to join us for our Fall 2024 Young Catholic Leaders Initiative workshop.
Gold Mass for Catholic Scientists
Join Collegium Institute for the Fall 2024 Gold Mass for Catholic Scientists.
Symposium Series: Civic Friendship
Penn students are invited to join us for the second Symposium event of the year on Civic Friendship.
Defining Death in a Technological Age: The Scientific, Moral, and Philosophical Debate about the Legal End of Life
Collegium Institute's Magi Project is pleased to invite you to an evening lecture by Rev. Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. on defining death.
Civil Obedience? Law and the Common Good
Penn’s Perry-Collegium Initiative presents a Legal Humanities Special Event that will examine a newly-published book by Professor Daniel Mark of Villanova University.
Young Alumni Meetups: New York City and Beyond
Young Alumni are invited to attend a Collegium meetup in New York City, or express their interest for further events in their own cities!
Beasts of Burden? Rethinking Animals as Friends, Food, and Fellow Beings (Food For Thought)
Join Collegium Institute for dinner and discussion about the animal kingdom on Wednesdays evenings this fall.
Liturgy, Culture, and Consciousness: Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock
Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things for the Fall 2024 Global Catholic Literature virtual seminar on Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock (1931).
A Symposium on Courtesy and Humility: Dante on The Forgotten Virtue of Friendship
Join Collegium Institute, Villanova, and Eastern for the first of three Symposium Series events this year.
Anscombe Unboxed: On Natural Theology
The Anscombe Reading Group is an opportunity for scholars, students, and interested readers of Anscombe to come together virtually three times during the Fall and three times during the Spring to discuss Anscombe's philosophy.
Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen Holy Mass with Medieval Music
Join Collegium Institute for a Mass commemorating the Feast of Saint Hildegard featuring a schola delivering a rare performance of the medieval saint's famous 12th century liturgical compositions.
Christ & The Common Good: A Catholic Humanism Series on Faith and Politics
Collegium Institute invites you to learn more about and apply for “Christ & the Common Good: A Catholic Humanism Series on Faith and Politics,” the Fall 2024 Catholic Humanism Fellowship.
"True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church" Special Event
Join Collegium Institute and the Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute for a Fall Special Event and Reception.
Fall 2024 Medical Humanities Fellowship
Indicate interest here for the forthcoming Fall 2024 Medical Humanities Fellowship.
“Sentencing: Trials in Literature” Fall 2024 Legal Humanities Fellowship
Collegium Institute invites you to learn more about and apply for “Sentencing: Trials in Literature,” the Fall 2024 Legal Humanities Fellowship.
Fall 2024 Philosophy of Finance Fellowship
Indicate interest here for the forthcoming Fall 2024 Philosophy of Finance Fellowship.
Food For Thought: They're Out to Get You
Join us for dinner on four Wednesday evenings as we explore conspiracies from all sides – the objects, subjects, believers, and consequences.
Collegium Open House
Kick off the start of the school year with Collegium’s Fall 2024 Open House.
Socrates on College: An NSO Preceptorial
Imagine if, after a sabbatical of some 2400 years, Socrates reawakened as your academic advisor: what wisdom might he have about how to go about getting an “education” here at Penn? In this NSO Preceptorial, we will reflect together on some of Plato’s writings on the conditions and ends of learning. Whether these issues have long bothered you or you’ve never considered them before, please join us for a convivial first seminar with Collegium at Penn.
Flourishing & the Good Human Life: The Search for a Theoretical and Practical Synthesis
Join Collegium Institute’s Magi Project for a keynote lecture by Kristján Kristjánsson on Thursday, July 25.
What is a Good Human Life?
Join Collegium Institute’s Magi Project for our third annual summer Magi Conference.
Eudaimonia: Philosophical, Theological, and Psychological Perspectives
Join Collegium Institute and Lumen Christi Institute for this summer Magi seminar and conference.